Rod Rochowiak, the president of Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Premier in Washington, D.C., didn’t realize that attending a recent Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) event with a Vietnamese colleague would open up a new source of leads for his brokerage.
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