August 8, 2008 BBJ: Where have all the realtors gone? Play video

(NECN) - Realtor numbers are down in Massachusetts as more real estate brokers abandon careers that were once lucrative.

Lisa Van Der Pool of the Boston Business Journal tells us what some of those former realtors are doing now to make a living.

She says that some are renewing their license and work on the weekends to stick around for the next housing boom.