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RealShare EXCLUSIVE: Farbman Tells RealShare Audience of Struggles, Triumphs

DEARBORN, MI-Burton Farbman, founder and chairman of a real estate company now run by his two sons, says a passion for real estate drove him to success.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on May 19, 2004

DEARBORN, MI-Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD, was both a “hindrance and a gift” says a prominent Detroit area real estate developer. Burton Farbman, founder and chairman of NAI Farbman, offered a glimpse Inside the Real Estate Mind—-his–during a special presentation as part of RealShare Detroit.

Farbman, 61, is retired from the business now run by his sons, David and Andrew, but he says there is nothing that he would have rather done with his professional life than sell and develop real estate.

In an hour-long discussion with Michael Desiato, editor in chief of Real Estate Media, parent company of GlobeSt.com, Farbman often struggled to keep control of his emotions as he told of being diagnosed at age 55 with ADD. It is a condition that he says hindered him–he dropped out of school after the 11th grade and lived with that secret for years–but also aided him as his mind raced to surround details of dozens of developments and deals his company would be working on at any given time.

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