Tampa Real Estate: Are You a Salesperson or a Marketer? http://www.hqpress.com/business/tampa-real-esta... Rapid growth characterizes The National Association of Realtors at present. Its membership has now swelled to over a million agents, from a minimum of 740,000 just a few years ago. The incredible run of real estate over the last five years is enticing hundreds of thousands of new agents. Most states, especially in Florida, are being swarmed with people taking the real estate challenge. At the same time the “churn”¯ in real estate, which refers to the number of agents failing and leaving the industry, has to be escalating as well. It is becoming more difficult to make a living in Tampa real estate.