Matthew Maschler:
Welcome to the Real Estate Finder podcast. I’m Matthew Maschler, the realestate finder@realestatefinder.com. And with me, the co-host of Real Estate Finder podcast,
Staci Garcia:
Stacey Garcia. Also a realestate finder with, uh, www.nohoaboca.com.
Matthew Maschler:
Man, when you just said www dot w oa Boca, I thought you were saying wwe e Oh, really? Sometimes I confuse WWE with wwe. W I
Staci Garcia:
Could see that happening. Yeah. How was WrestleMania?
Matthew Maschler:
Oh my goodness. WrestleMania was so much fun. I know this is the real estate funder podcast, but I just got back from, uh, wrestle WrestleMania weekend in, uh, Dallas, Texas. Um, if you wanna know more about it, check out the Matthew Mania podcast, um, where I talk about wrestling and other things personal in my life. Um, but we are gonna talk about WrestleMania right now, um, because I just got back from it, and I have WrestleMania on my mind. When you said www doa, I’m like the wwe.
Staci Garcia:
That would be actually pretty funny. So I saw that Logan Paul on, um, yeah. TikTok
Matthew Maschler:
On TikTok. Uhhuh <affirmative>.
Staci Garcia:
And so he’s a wrestler now.
Matthew Maschler:
No. Um, the WWE always since, since the very first, uh, WrestleMania, they’ve always had to have like some crossover mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, into the mainstream or into other, uh, places. They, they, they want to get WrestleMania on the news. They wanna get WWE on the news. Um, and, and WrestleMania, they, so they always bring in someone from the, uh, from other, uh, media or, or other sources just to, uh, to get attention. Do they
Staci Garcia:
Bang him with the chair and stuff like
Matthew Maschler:
That? Um, I don’t think Logan Paul had used a chair,
Staci Garcia:
But he did a split. I saw that,
Matthew Maschler:
Yes. Yeah. So, um, lo, so Logan Paul, uh, was a, was an attack team with a wrestler called The Miz, who was one of my favorite wrestlers. And, uh, if you guys watch Denny Reality TV show, he started In Real, in Real World, came outta reality television, and he had to become a very, very top WWE wrestler last year, MIS tagged with, um, tagged against, uh, bad Bunny. The, um, the, the, the rapper.
Staci Garcia:
Oh, is that a female? No, no,
Matthew Maschler:
It’s a guy. No. Yeah. Um, he Spanish. Okay. A Spanish language, uh, rapper. Um, he was in Miami a couple weeks ago. He’s great. Uh, bad Bunny. And so it was, uh, last year was, uh, bad Bunny and Redeeming Priest versus the ms, uh, and Logan Morrison. So this year, Ms. Teamed with Logan Paul, and, um, and they, and they do that. They want to get attention, they want to be in sports, and that’s why they had Rhonda Rousey in over the weekend. Right. She had a match. Um, and they’re doing it to get the attention and the spotlight on, uh, wrestling’s biggest night of the year. Uh, so it was Logan Paul in the Miz versus, uh, Ray Mysterio, that’s a wrestler that a lot of people have heard of. And he’s basically come out of retirement, uh, with his son. He’s been tag teaming with his son, uh, Dominic Mysterio, uh, as if Ray Mysterio is the guy’s name.
Like his first name is Ray <laugh>. Ray is Spanish word for King Ray Mysterio, the king of Mystery. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Uh, so his, his son Dominic is going as Dominic Mysterio. It’s like his as if Superman’s son was, uh, Steve <laugh>, Steve Mann, <laugh> Italian, Steve, man, Steve Mann. So, um, yeah, so Ray, Ray and Dominic are, they’ve been tag teaming. They, uh, and they were up against, uh, Ms. And, uh, and Logan Paul and I figure all right, either, either Dominic the son will take the, the loss or, um, or the Miz will take the loss if, if Logan Paul loses, they’re not gonna embarrassed Logan Paul. Oh. Um, and they, and they can’t have, is that how it works? We can’t have Logan Paul beat rapist stereo. That’s just, but he did. Oh, really? He did. Logan Paul, uh, it was a great match actually, Dominic, I’ve been watching him wrestle, and when, when he first came out, I thought he was terrible.
Um, it’s just, it was just pure nepotism that his dad’s very, my, and he’s wrestling with his dad, but he’s been training, and this, I’ve seen him wrestle live and on tv. I’ve seen him wrestle a bunch. This I think was his best match. And, and, and it was great. But, uh, Logan, so Logan Paul wins, um, Ray, uh, uh, David’s, uh, Ray Mysterio. Um, but then, uh, the Miz turned on, uh, Logan Paul with a skull crushing finale. Um, so, which is good because the internet wants to see, I mean, the internet wants to see Logan Paul get creeped. He, he was in a match, I think last year too, and people just want to, you’re paying this. Was he the one that turned into a boxer for a while? Jake Paul, that’s his brother. Oh, oh, okay. David and his friends actually drove to Tampa to see, to see that Jake Paul match Logan Paul might’ve had some boxing matches too.
Right. But I think Jake Paul is more of the boxer. Um, uh, but, and last time at WrestleMania, I think, I think people just wanted to see Logan Paul get beat up <laugh>. But, um, but it’s, it was fun. And then, uh, and then, uh, I was, uh, one of my friends, uh, uh, Mark Long is from Reality Show, so he knows the m Right. So after Ms gave that skull crushing finale, he celebrated with Mark Long. So I was on TV a little bit. That’s cool. Yeah. Yeah. So, and I was wearing a, his shirt. So was that the red shirt? Black and yellow? Oh, the Red shirt is, uh, the Maniac Club. It’s a Facebook group, about 3000 people that organize a tailgate before WrestleMania, but then, and, and raise money for, uh, for charity. Oh, that’s cool. Yeah. And that’s why I wear the Mania Club shirt when it sometimes when I know I’m gonna be on TV to represent that brand.
Right. Um, so yeah. So, uh, uh, Logan Paul, uh, won his match, but you asked about, uh, chairs. Yeah. Johnny Knoxville Oh yeah. Was at, uh, WrestleMania. And, uh, the thing about Johnny Knoxville was he’s been, um, competing with a, uh, a wrestler named Sammy Zane. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So Sammy, and they made a great story, and Sammy Zane crashed and quote, unquote, ruined the Jackass movie premiere. Oh. So they’ve been feuding in wwe e but they’ve also been feuding in the, in real life, in the, in the entertainment media. Right. With Sammy Zane going into the, and it, you know, it’s jackass, it’s funny, <laugh>, one of the bits, and I’m sure it’s not true, is that, um, to get back at Sammy Zane for, for ruining the premier, uh, they, uh, Johnny Knoxville, uh, published, uh, Sammy Zane’s phone number Oh, like on Twitter? Yeah.
And he was like, this is Sammy Zane’s phone number, <laugh> <laugh>. And they show Sammy z getting phone call after phone call taxi. He’s like, I have 6,000 voicemails. My phone won’t stop. And they show pictures of, uh, subway walls with Sammy Z’s phone number on it. It’s so, you obviously, you, you know, a little bit of celebrity and you get out there, their personal phone number. So it’s funny, you know, Johnny Knoxville’s very creative. So, you know, someone was asking me if, if, if the public is, um, they don’t like when these outsiders come in, Logan Paul, it’s good. And to watch him get beat up is fun. Um, and Johnny Knoxville, I mean, he gets it. It’s that same kind of entertainment I’ve been trying to figure out, like who get, who gets more exposure. Johnny Knoxville for his movie or wrestling being on mania or WrestleMania for having Johnny Knoxville.
Like who paid who, right. So, um, for that promotion, so did he win Johnny Knoxville? Yeah. So it was an anything goes match. What’s that mean? It means anything goes like the, like really? Yeah. Yeah. Jack Hammer, chainsaw, anything goes, I mean, like, you can go in the crowd and pick up whatever you go in the crowd. Um, and <laugh>, it was hysterical. Johnny Knoxville comes out with a fire extinguisher, blows it, it take it to Sammy Sammy Day was like, was doing well, <laugh> until the fire extinguisher blows it into his face. And then Johnny Knoxville opens up a box and a midget jumped out. Oh my God. Now the midget was taunting Sammy Z a little person, a little person. Well, apparently, I don’t know the jackass people, but his We man is part of Oh yeah. Of, um, and I saw him at breakfast that morning.
’cause I stayed at the TV hotel. Right. And I saw him at breakfast, and I’m like, I’m like, who’s that midget little person? I need to find who’s that? midget.com <laugh> to identify, like, it wasn’t like there’s that comedian Brad Williams. Right. But he had, uh, but this guy had, um, tattoos on the arm, so I knew it wasn’t Brad Williams. So I, I wanted to see like, it needs to be the app, you know? Who’s that? midget.com. So, uh, alright. Got this. What a, uh, male stripper. That’s who it was. No. <laugh>. Johnny Knoxville sent a male, uh, a male stripper into the ring. Really? Who starts dancing semi, he’s eight into the corner, and then the guy starts taking off all of his clothes. That’s anything goes right. Any anything goes. He had a bell stripper in the ring putting Sammy Zane into the corner, and the guy says to take it off his shirt.
He took off his pants. The guy was in the middle of his ring in just a g thong underwear. Oh, no. In front of how many people? 77,000. Holy god. Backing Sammy Zans. That takes a lot of balls as, uh, they had, um, a giant hand came out and slapped Sammy Zane. Oh my God. Then there was, um, this machine with a giant legged foot, so it was like an ass kicking machine. Right. And they, I dunno if it was the stripper or the midget that backed Sammy’s into that Correct. Correct position for, uh, Johnny Knoxville to press the button and the thing to come out and kick Sammy Zane in the balls <laugh>. And then he finished them with a giant mousetrap. I mean, some people, you, you know, someone asked me if people like this, if these outside, some people hate it. Yeah.
Someone I, someone else I spoke to said it was like one of the five WrestleMania matches ever. Just watching Johnny Knoxville kick Sammy Z’s as, and just the most creative jackass ways possible. And it was hysterically funny. Uh, yeah. So I had a great time at WrestleMania. It was a two night, it was two nights. It was Saturday night, Sunday night, uh, in Dallas. And, uh, you had Logan Paul, Johnny Knoxville, and Pat McAfee. Who’s that? He was a punter for the Indianapolis Cults. Oh. And he’s been working with the WWE as an announcer. So, uh, so he had a match as well. Did he
Staci Garcia:
Get off of the, uh, podiums kind of deal and walk in there as the announcer?
Matthew Maschler:
Well, so he is been a, they’ve been promoting this match for a couple of weeks. So he wasn’t announcing on the second day. Um, but he made a great entrance with, um, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. They walked him to the ring. That’s funny. Um, and it was just, it was, it was a, it was a lot of fun. So people really liked to see Pat McAfee, the fans love him. And, uh, so Pat McAfee came in and, uh, he was fighting, uh, Vince McMahon’s protege. Who’s that? Um, it’s, it’s a new guy. Oh, oh, Vince McMan is the guy that owns movie. No, I know who, yeah. So Protege and, and Pat McAfee won. So Vince McMahon got into the ring, and then they start fighting. So then Vince McMahon kicked Pat McAfee’s ass, and Vince Band’s like 77 years old, watching him do that.
And it was, he was so dramatic and like, like the idea of taking off his jacket to go and to fight the guy. And they’re like, you know, you, you just think he’s flexing. He’s not gonna get into the ring. He got into the ring kicks Pat McAfee’s ass. So then Stone Cold, Steve Austin comes in, who’s in his sixties, and he hasn’t wrestled in 19 years. He rest, he was, um, on the first night, and, uh, it was, it was billed as an interview. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, everybody was hoping it’d be a match with a, a young wrestler named Kevin Owens, who is great, but a real bad guy. And, um, Kevin Owens challenged him to a match. And he goes, I know your knees are bad, and I know, I know your back is bad, and I know you got a bad neck, but the rest of you’s fine.
<laugh> I said, wrestled in 19 years, and they had a, they had a match with chairs. Really? Yeah. And it, I mean, it was a brak with, uh, stone Cold Steve Austin versus Kevin Owens. They had a real match and with chairs, and it was, it was incredible. And Stone Cold obviously won. So he came back to the second day after Vincent mc kicked Pat McAfee’s ass. He came out to the rink to kick Vince McMahon’s ass. Right. So, uh, so it was just a complete mess Sunday night and hysterically funny, but watching a late, a guy in his late sixties kick a, kick a guy out who’s in his late seventies
Staci Garcia:
<laugh>, they’re probably both at the spot this
Matthew Maschler:
Week. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They’re good. They’re good friends. But they were enemies all through the, the nineties wrestling. Um, but it was, and actually I met, uh, uh, stone cold’s brother in, in the hotel bar the, the night before. So that was funny. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, and, uh, it was, it was, it was a real fun WrestleMania some of the, you know, not all gimmicky matches. There was some great matches and, uh, um, and, you know, it was, I just like it. I just think it’s a party. I have a lot of friends when I go there, friends that I haven’t seen in a year, friends that I’ve made friends with over the years. So, um, um, and that’s why I have that Matthew Mania podcast to get some of these stories out and, and talk about that. But I’m glad I got to, we weren’t planning on talking about wrestling <laugh>
Staci Garcia:
No. I, wrestling just fascinates me and a lot of people ask me about it ’cause I don’t know anything about it. Right. So when I saw, um, Jake Paul on, uh, TikTok, but mainly it was just unusual. Yeah. He was dressed up and then he flew into a thing, and then he did a split. And I’m like, is he a WrestleMania?
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah. So the split was, he was doing Ray Mysterio moves against Ray Mysterio. Gotcha. And, and he did great. He did great. I have a, uh, I have a couple good pictures of him. Um, so, and that’s why they bring in these outside people, you know, Ronda Rousey to get it on Sports Center and, and Logan Paul to get and the TikTok and to go exposure to go mainstream. Yeah. I met some talkers, um, and, and social media people I met, a guy came in from Spain mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And he has, um, a YouTube channel with, um, the most followers of any Spanish language wrestling YouTube channel. Wow. And I met a TikTok. I mean, they were in all in their early twenties. And I, I had a reflect on how old I was because I don’t understand what they do. Like
Staci Garcia:
I remember Twitter, <laugh>. Okay.
Matthew Maschler:
You, and, and, and they met because, uh, they were both having issues on their YouTube channels with, um, copyright, copyright issues, um, with some of the content that was on their YouTube channel. And I’m thinking these 21 year old YouTubers are probably smarter than most copyright lawyers <laugh>. Right. When it comes to defending, uh, uh, the right to use certain, uh, certain works. Um, but it, it was fascinating. And, um,
Staci Garcia:
How did they decide whether they’re gonna be good guys or bad guys?
Matthew Maschler:
Uh, same way the people who write Star Wars decides, oh, you know, you create a character, Darth Vader, you, you and I make him a bad guy. Some wrestlers are, are more naturally fit for a certain thing. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, like, you look at a guy like Andre the Giant who was always a bad guy, um, or, or Jimmy Superfly snooker, who was a bad guy if you, if you go back to Rh. Right. Um, but if Snooker is a bad guy and it, everybody likes him and everybody’s clapping for him, you can’t, you know, you have to turn into a good guy. Gotcha. Because you can’t be cheered. So, uh,
Staci Garcia:
So nobody likes the bad guys.
Matthew Maschler:
Well, so you can like a bad guy. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, but you have to boo ’em. Oh, right. So, um,
Staci Garcia:
So it would be in WrestleMania cheering for the bad guy, and they’d all go, no, you have to boo the bad guy. You
Matthew Maschler:
Have to. So, like, there’s a wrestler in N X T that I’m personally friends with, but when I saw him, and the N XT was Saturday afternoon, NXT is the, the minor league. Right. W owned by wwe. Their show, their show’s usually the night before WrestleMania. But because it was a two night event, their show was at 12 noon at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. Wow. On Saturday before WrestleMania, I watched, I watched a two and a half hour show. 12 to two 30. Right. And then went to WrestleMania for six 30 to 11. Wow. Um, for, uh, I watched a lot of wrestling Saturday. Um, so anyway, so, uh, it’s the first time I saw this guy live and we’re on tv. So he walks by me and I’m booing him, and I’m right. His face booing him. <laugh>, that guy, Sammy Zane on his, on his on, I was booing him on his way in. Um, and, uh, and he got into my face and, and we’re, I’m booing him and shouting at him. And, and they didn’t pick it up on the, on the broadcast. I was so bummed. ’cause I knew, I knew they didn’t pick it up. ’cause my phone melt.
Staci Garcia:
Oh, yeah. Everybody tells you when they saw you on tv. Yeah.
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah. So, um,
Staci Garcia:
Did they ever pick anybody outta the audience and just pull ’em up on the, um, whatever it is, the ring? If,
Matthew Maschler:
If they do, it’s an act. Oh, it’s, it’s, it’s part of the thing I was just talking about with a friend of mine, uh, Gronk was at WrestleMania, I think 2017. Uhhuh <affirmative>. And, uh, and his friend is a wrestler, and it was a battle Royal and ba and Yeah. The one of the bad guys got into Gronk K’s face. Gronk threw a beer at him who threw the beer first at him, remember? Um, and then Gronk jumps over the, the, the barricade goes into the ring, eliminates the bad guy. Oh. So that his friend can win the Andre the Giant Paddle Royal. So usually it’s, um, uh, part of the story, right. If that happens, um, unless it’s a relative, when somebody is celebrating after a win. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So Saturday night Stone cold, Steve Austin brought his brother into the ring. Oh. To celebrate with him. That’s why I saw his brother at the bar. That’s why I recognized him. That’s cool. And, and, and then his brother said he didn’t know that was gonna happen.
Staci Garcia:
Did he say it was the best thing ever?
Matthew Maschler:
No. ’cause these guys have had a long career, but, but, um, but yeah. But yeah. So called, went into the ring, went into the audience to grab his brother and come back in and celebrate him. That’s cool. So yeah. It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s fun. So, um, no, we should talk about real estate. Okay. Sorry. Otherwise I, that’s why I have a whole other podcast, uh, <laugh>. I don’t, I don’t know how you follow that with, uh, we’ll follow that with, um, you showed a, an interesting community this weekend while I was gone. I
Staci Garcia:
Showed a new product, which is the last probably we’re gonna say. It’s the last new construction community coming to Boone. And
Matthew Maschler:
It’s called until the next one. Well,
Staci Garcia:
Until the mall goes under <laugh> <laugh> or until another Go Golf course, um, goes under, which I doubt will happen anytime soon ’cause everybody’s coming to golf. But it’s called Lotus Palm and there’s gonna be Lotus Palm. Lotus Palm. Yeah. There’s a Lotus Palm in, there’s a Lotus,
Matthew Maschler:
Lotus and Dole.
Staci Garcia:
And that had 800. Oh no,
Matthew Maschler:
That Lotus is a Boca address, isn’t it?
Staci Garcia:
Is it a Boca? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So Lotus in North Boca, um, has 800 and something. 820 I think it is homes. This Lotus Palm will have 525 homes. Okay. And, um,
Matthew Maschler:
Where is it located?
Staci Garcia:
It’s gonna be on Glades Road, just west of the Turnpike. It’s gonna be very centrally located.
Matthew Maschler:
That’s a great location because to be able to be on Glades and get onto the turnpike in a minute, A minute or to the mall or mm-hmm. <affirmative>, anything to be unglazed like that, that’s great.
Staci Garcia:
Location. Yeah. Right in the center of Boca.
Matthew Maschler:
It’s just outside of the city limits. It’s the old, um, city golf course. Right.
Staci Garcia:
So it’s, um, not even, uh, pre-construction. Yeah. They’re just talking about what’s coming and it’s, um, it, it, it’s gonna be amazing because for the only reason that nothing else new is gonna be available
Matthew Maschler:
To have new construction on Glades Road, um, in one of these new construction communities is gonna be fantastic. Um, it’s going to sell out very, very quickly. So if you’re interested, if you wanna get more information, you can reach out to me or, or, or to Stacy. Uh, we, we have all the site plans. We have all the model information. And it’s Lotus Palm, not Lotus Palms.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. You can check it out online and then, um, reach out to us. I, I took two tours already. You can self tour also mm-hmm. <affirmative> and walk through there. But, um, I went there twice with two different clients and I, I really enjoyed it. The, of course the models are spectacular. And you’re not at the actual site. You’re only, you’re three miles north of the site where
Matthew Maschler:
It’s gonna be, the models are at the original Lotus site. So because there’s no, no building in the Lotus, in the Lotus Palm site and it doesn’t cost any extra to come in and use a realtor, um, you’re treated the exact same, probably better. Especially if someone knows that you’re one of my
Staci Garcia:
Customers. Yeah. I do wanna emphasize that. Um, a lot of people are going and walking in right off the street. That’s fine. But the people who are gonna get called first are the people who they call the VIPs. Yeah. So they’re gonna notify the VIPs right away that it’s time to come in and put down a $10,000 deposit. You might not actually win the lottery, which means they’re gonna take all the deposits for all the people that want a place in Lotus Palm in Boca. And then, um, around the end of May, they’re gonna draw 525 names, Uhhuh <affirmative>. And you might, you know, there could be 2000 people that put in $10,000 if you don’t actually get your name drawn. They hold onto it for a minute because then they’re gonna say, Hey to the first 525,
Matthew Maschler:
A lot of people do change their mind after new construction. I was, you know, or, or you know, they used to have people like camping out overnight or lining up mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So this will be a lot more orderly. But a lot of people do put down a deposit, uh, and then change their mind. So if you’re not called in the original
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. Don’t lose hope. Still choices. Exactly.
Matthew Maschler:
Also, and whether it’s me or Stacy or, or, or any agent, if you’re working with any agent and you just want to go into Lotus, uh, one day to just to take a look, um, the, your first visit is what establishes, uh, whether your your agent is gonna get paid or not. So this is a public service announcement for my industry. Call your real estate agent and go with them. Don’t think you’re bothering them. Don’t think that they don’t wanna hear from you. They want to hear from you. You’ve been working with them. It doesn’t cost you any extra money or, or, or affect you negatively. In fact, it, it’ll probably help you. Um, you don’t wanna let you know, you can, you know, tell your real estate agent, oh, we went into Lo Palm, we found something. Thank you so much. But call them if, if, if you like them and you like working with them, call them. They’d be more than happy to accompany you to that first showing at Lotus Palm. And then help you, uh, to the extent that you needed along the way. Um, I’m actually closing tomorrow on a, on a, on a house that I sold to, uh, someone in the original Lotus property. Right. Awesome. Um, but, but not, I’m not just saying this for me, I’m just saying this ’cause I hear it from other realtors all the time. Um, you, you’re not bothering your realtor when you say, Hey, can you take me to Lotus
Staci Garcia:
Po? Absolutely not. It’s actually interesting. And I don’t often get to go to new products. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I’m, I’m always showing. So, um, it was nice to see what’s coming and what could possibly be the last new community in Boca. And you have, you could even, if you go and then right away, call your real estate agent, they can go there and sign your form that you registered on within 24 hours, I believe. And they would get paid even though they weren’t with you. So keep it in mind. Don’t screw your realtor. Exactly. You know, but, um, yeah, there’s tons of different, um, options for models from, uh, two bedrooms with a den two, let’s see, five bedrooms with a media room and a six bedroom optional. And I, I just was really enjoyed checking out new products. So, um, if you, and you don’t, you know what, you don’t have to commit to it.
If you put down a check for $10,000 at the end of May, and you decide you don’t wanna do it, you can always get your money back. But if you did get chosen in the lottery, I look at it as a financial investment. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, if you have the ability, you then put down, I think 10% and they still aren’t gonna have a finished product until the end of 2023. So you have a whole year and a half until there’s actually a community ready for you. So you might have other plans, you might not be sure what you wanna do, but you’ll have a house, you know, that’ll be brand new. You can’t sell it or rent it out for another year once you move in. There’s,
Matthew Maschler:
There’s a one year hold period from closing.
Staci Garcia:
But it’s an investment that I, I guarantee you’ll pay you off
Matthew Maschler:
Because don’t guarantee,
Staci Garcia:
Okay. I don’t guarantee you that it’ll pay you off, but it, I suggest highly that you look into it, um, because it’s gonna be a brand new house. And it’s the only way you can get a brand new house right now in Boca is if you knock down an old house and build your own. So you can decide how you wanna do it. Do you want a new house in a new community that’s brand new, or do you want to knock down an older house and start fresh and, you know, everyone’s different, but if you wanna be right in the middle of Boca in a brand new community, this is your chance. So, so I wanted to make sure everybody knows about
Matthew Maschler:
That. Yeah. And GL Homes is an excellent builder. Uh, so if anyone has any questions about Lotus Palm, please feel free to reach out to us. We would love to, uh, help you. Um, so the next thing I wanna talk about on the show is, um, uh, when you make a deposit to your title company, um, it’s very weird title companies. They, they, they don’t like to accept personal checks because personal checks can, um, take time to clear. And they, they wanna make sure that they have good funds. So, uh, title companies, they, they always insist on a wire. And, um, and I, I just think it’s strange ’cause wires just seems so old fashioned nowadays. Like there needs to be a better system. Um, especially, and when you do send a wire up, you’re very, very careful that you check and double check all the wire instructions, confirm by voice with someone you know, works at the title company.
Um, because you don’t want to be sending, uh, infinity title, uh, uh, money when it’s really in, instead of Infin, infinity title group is infinity title, uh, solutions or something like that. Right. Get the wrong, send the money to the wrong company. ’cause it could be very difficult to get that money back. And uh, you know, I just, you know, the other day I was with a title company, I sent ’em a check and they were like, oh no, we won’t take your check. It’s like, you know, it’s a crime to cut a bad check. It’s
Staci Garcia:
Like point, lemme say what it’s like, it’s like going to the hockey game lately. They don’t take cash mm-hmm. <affirmative> not even to park. Right. So constantly, and I don’t use credit cards, so I, I always hesitate, I’m like, I gotta give my debit card to the guy at the parking lot Right. To pay to get in. And I hate that I would just throw him a 20 and I would have no relationship with this guy whatsoever. Right.
Matthew Maschler:
I don’t want proof or to remember this transaction at all ever again. <laugh>.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. I, I feel, well, you can pay through the app once you’re inside the arena. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and there’s, it’s a cashless building. But even just getting in and paying for, so now in advance, I pay for parking so that I don’t have to use a card at all. Right. But I don’t like the concept of you can’t tip anybody. I mean, you can, when you, when you go to pick up your stuff, you can add
Matthew Maschler:
This. That’s, that’s the hardest part about a cashless society. That’s the tip, is tipping, uh, the, the valley $2 on your way, on your way out of
Staci Garcia:
A, well, they show situation. Well show the, they show you the digital, you know, display. And they say, you know, do you want 10%, 20%, 30%, whatever? And it’s not as friendly as what it used to be. It’s kind of expected that you’re gonna click 10 or 20 or you’re not, if you wanna put notes tip, it’s not even, there’s not to write zero. Zero. Right.
Matthew Maschler:
And I don’t trust that the person I’m trying to tip is even gonna get the money. It’s
Staci Garcia:
Gonna, uh, that’s another thing too. I feel that way too. But
Matthew Maschler:
There was a venue, you know, everything at WrestleMania was cashless. So there was a venue that didn’t take Apple Pay. Um, so whenever it’s cashless, I try to use Apple Pay because again, I don’t wanna give out my credit card information or, and, um, and, uh, didn’t use Apple. I’m like, but those are your choices. Right? You’re choosing to go to cashless. You have to take the modern cashless, uh, payment options. You can’t choose to go cashless and then not take Right. Like, not take cashless options. It’s, that is a, and what do you, what do you do if you’re a teenager? What do you do in your twenties? I mean, I guess teachers have debit cards too, but, but not everyone,
Staci Garcia:
I just don’t like the idea that, like, my boys do have debit cards. They don’t have credit cards. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So now is it debit or credit, you know, when you’re out and about. And also, like even the guy that’s selling beer mm-hmm. <affirmative> the guy that goes beer, you know, as he’s walking around the arena where you’d normally throw five, didn’t take money, five bucks money. No, of course they don’t take any cash. So,
Matthew Maschler:
Um, you have to hand your phone all the way down the thing, your credit card to pass
Staci Garcia:
It. Yeah. You pass everybody down the aisle, gets your card, then passes the beer back, then passes the card back, then passes the electronic thing over. It’s really awkward and, and uncomfortable and yeah. I don’t know that he is gonna get the cash. I hope he does. But yeah, the whole cashless thing is, it’s awkward.
Matthew Maschler:
Alright. All right. The, uh, last thing or other thing I wanna talk about today is a little bit I wanna talk, talk about for sale by owners. Dispo. I’ve been meaning to talk about this for, for a while. Um, so growing up, uh, with my father, my father was, I’ll say frugal. He didn’t like to pay fees. He didn’t have to. Um, and that served him well in the, in the, in the stock market business. And when he started Day Tech online, it was about, you know, nine 90, $10 commissions, right? 9 99 commissions. ’cause the commissions in the, in the stock brokers business was very high. So in the real estate business, you know, he had, uh, worked hard to do a lot of deals for sale by owner and try to beat the realtor, uh, out of a commission. So I, I learned a lot of tricks on how to beat the realtor.
Uh, I, I ended up, um, going with the philosophy of if you can’t beat ’em, uh, join them. Um, and that, and that’s kind of one of the reasons I became a realtor. But when I lived in New Jersey, I, um, uh, before I moved to Florida, um, I, I bought and sold a lot as a first sale by owner, which I don’t recommend for a lot of people. Um, but for me it worked because I know real estate and I know negotiations. And I, and I was a lawyer and I knew contracts, and I knew all the different pieces that went into a transaction. Um, uh, so, you know, on another podcast I heard about all these plane delays with, uh, people like, um, sleeping in the airport. Um, because these people couldn’t take, take control of the, of the transaction. They couldn’t figure out how to book another flight to a nearby airport.
Or they, you know, you, you have to run out, out of choices when you end up sleeping at the airport. And you should never be in that situation where, all right, that’s it. We’ll just sleep on the floor. Like, right. Um, and, and, and the point of that podcast was you have to just kind of take control of the situation. So for me, I was able to do a lot of for sale by owners because I was able to take control of the situation. But I don’t recommend it for most people because it’s hard to take control of that situation and know all the different pieces. Um, but, um, I lived in Bayo, New Jersey, uh, when I met my wife and I sold that house, uh, for sale by owner. And I, I found a house, uh, in Marlboro, New Jersey that was, uh, listed for sale by owner.
Um, and, uh, I negotiated directly with those owners. And I, you know, I feel like I got a good deal on the house, but it was a fair deal for both sides. And, and I love that house. And I, I stayed in touch with, uh, my sellers. ’cause they bought a, a bigger house, uh, nearby with my money, new construction. Right? They locked in a new construction price, and then the value of the house was up. And they used that to pay for their bigger house. Uh, then I sold that same house in Marlboro, uh, for sale by owner. Uh, when, when I moved, when I moved to Florida. And, uh, person came to me unrepresented. Uh, and I thought, uh, how crazy this house was. Um, you know, it was bought new, it was sold for sale by owner, both sides. And then sold for sale by owner.
Again, both sides. Uh, and my buyer in Marlborough, um, either she was a real estate agent or became a real estate agent. So, uh, we’ve actually stayed in touch mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, and, uh, she hasn’t sent me any referrals, but I’m hoping one day, I mean, people in Marlboro moved to Boca Raton all the time, right? I bumped into her the other day at, um, in Miami. That’s funny. And, uh, and that was hysterical. The kids were, David says to me, how do you remember, how did she recognize you? Who, who’s this? Oh, when you were a baby. We sold her by, sold her the house in, uh, in New Jersey. Um, when I had that house, uh, listed for sale by owner, um, it was with a flat fee m l s company. Um, so they were able to put in the m l s for me.
And, and that was the first time I did that. Usually I was using flyers and things of that nature harder before the internet <laugh>. Um, so, uh, I got a lot of phone calls from real estate agents who didn’t have customers. They just wanted to get the listing. And I didn’t know that at the time ’cause I wasn’t in the industry, right. But I started hearing the same words and the same questions over and over and over again. And I kind of like memorized all the scripts, right? Of what real estate agents do when they call it for sale by owner. Um, and, and, and it had me cracked up, um, because in them, they’d, they’d ask questions like, well, how are you going to negotiate? I’d go, I’m a great negotiator. How are you gonna review the contracts? I’m a lawyer <laugh>, like, I’ll be fine with the contracts.
Um, you know, and I, I didn’t because they were scripts. They have all the responses to all the different objections, right? I wasn’t giving objections, I was just answering their questions. But it, but it happened over and over and over again. So I kind of learned that that was a, uh, a way that real estate agents, uh, got leads by calling for sale by owners and trying to, uh, trying to get, uh, the listings. So, um, so to my real estate agents out there that are listening, yes, call for sale by owners and try to get them the listings, uh, try to get their listings. Um, it’s a good way for real estate agents to, uh, to try to get to prospect because, you know, these people have their house for sale and to my for sale by owner, uh, owner for sale by owner owners or sellers out there.
Um, try not to get mad at the real estate agents that are calling you up for the listings. They’re just doing their job. And, and you kind of gotta admire that. You kind of gotta respect that, the, the, the, the hustle that they’re trying to, uh, that they’re trying to get to the listings. And then, um, in Florida, um, when I moved here in, in, at the end of oh five and oh six, I said, you know what, I’ve been buying and selling for sale by owners, swimming upstream, my whole, my, my whole life. Can’t beat ’em, join them. And I, and I got my real estate license. That way I could buy and sell. That’s how I started my career to buy or sell, uh, for my own account, uh, for my own place to live. Uh, my dad sold, bought and sold the book of West to move to St. Andrews. Um, and then I was investing, and then I was listing all the properties that, that I was selling. And so it wasn’t for sale by owner, it was for sale by owner. Right? Who else would it be for sale by, right? The renter can’t sell
Staci Garcia:
The house. What do you think about somebody that lives near a house that you’re selling mm-hmm. <affirmative>, you just sold it and they contact you and say, I don’t want you to list my house. But do you have any buyers that you turn down? Because one buyer obviously is gonna buy the house, and there’s a lot of other buyers that don’t get the house in this market. Do you have any buyers for me? If you do, I will give you 3%. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, but you’re not my listing agent.
Matthew Maschler:
So the, what that person has to understand is many of the buyers that came to me came represented,
Right? So, yeah, I have a list. I know 10 people that would buy your house because they, they would, they, they buy it my, this house, right? But eight of them had real estate agents, so there’s no room for me in that transaction, right? The two that didn’t have real estate agents, but there’s nothing special about your house. I could sell them any house in the world, right? And make the same 3% that you’re offering me. So you’re not offering me. Now, this, this was before today’s market, lack of inventory when there was inventory, Mr. Seller, Mr. I have a house, if you know anyone mm-hmm. <affirmative>, you’re not offering me anything, right? My, if I have a buyer, they could buy any house. And if I have a person that didn’t buy this listing and they’re represented by an agent, there’s no room for me in the, in the deal.
So, um, you know, what you have to find out from them is what are they hoping to gain by selling it from themselves? For some people, they’re trying to save on the, on the listing fee 3%. For some people they think they’re saving times. So you have to, but you really have to figure out what it is. It’s there, there’s something else besides money always involved. Maybe their sister or their friend did it successfully. So they’re trying to be as cool as their sister or friend, right? Right. Uh, but maybe there’s another issue. Um, maybe they have multiple real estate agent friends. They don’t want to insult one of them. So you have to have a real issue, right? Besides the listing fee, what is it? Right? Like, you know, I get you change your own oil. You don’t take it to Jiffy Loop. I get you make your own pizza on Wonder Bread.
You don’t go to Nino’s. What is it that you think you can do everything yourself? You cut your own hair. What is it that makes you think that you not, not what is it that makes you think you can sell your house? You can’t sell your house, cut your own hair, make your own pizza, change your own oil, right? Do your own nails. Um, right. You, you mow your own lawn, service, your own pool, you can do it all. But besides saving the listing fee, what is it about why you don’t want a professional to help you sell this house? And if you can find that out and offer a solution to them and be a resource to them, that’s what makes the connection. And that’s what’ll get you the listing.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. I agree with you there. Yeah.
Matthew Maschler:
Um, but yeah. And you know, I don’t have the hate of for sale by owners that other people in the industry do. People, it’s their house. They’re entitled to sell it however they want. Um, but like I said, we, we hire professionals to do all other thing, all other kinds of things for us so we don’t end up sleeping on the floor of the airport. Right. Um, and, and you know, I’ve never slept on the floor of the airport because I’ve always had a plan B or a plan C or, or a way to do it. It’s not just money. You can get the airline to put you up. Um, but it’s just knowing how and doing the work and being prepared. And if you know how and do the work and you’re prepared, you can do it. But I still use a travel agent because I need that resource. I need, I need that.
Staci Garcia:
Well, also a travel, your travel agent gets you a lot of benefits that most people can’t get on Expedia or anywhere
Matthew Maschler:
Else. Right? And if it’s just for booking a flight, no, but when it’s a cruise or a vacation or a package, there, there, there, there are, there are benefits and you don’t wanna be stuck in that airport. I mean, I was stuck in the Helsinki Finland airport and I didn’t have a plan, right? So at least I had my first phone call, right. To call my travel agent. And, and by giving them the business, right, by not walking into Lotus Palm alone by bringing my real estate agent with me mm-hmm. <affirmative>, right? By having my travel agent with me. Even if on this deal they got paid for an easy one on the hard deal, maybe they didn’t get paid for a hard deal, a hard one, right? Or, or one that got canceled ’cause of Covid. But to be able to have that resource, right.
You know, call me up and ask me 15 real estate questions. I’ll answer ’em all day. And then you walk into Lotus Palm without me, right? ’cause you don’t wanna bother me. Right? Then you had another problem and you called me Couldn, you had a problem. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, right? Happens all the time. Um, and look, the point of this podcast is for me to help you. I’m trying, I want to answer your questions and I wanna help you. I wanna make you either successful real estate investors or successful home buyers or successful agents. That’s my job. That’s my mission, that’s my purpose in this world. And that’s why I I, I rent this microphone, uh, to talk to you. I, I don’t have any, any resentment, but you know, the least you could do is walk me into Lotus Palm with you. Um, and you know, I’ll tell you wrestling stories if you, if you want, if you want to hear them, if you think I have no other purpose of being there, but you know, but look, sometimes you don’t know you had a question until you could talk things out loud. So if we could sit and look at the site plan and possibly look at the, you know, position on the street, position on the neighborhood, you know, ’cause I know what’s gonna happen in five or 10 years when you go to sell the property. And then we look at it in, well,
Staci Garcia:
That’s another thing. I was standing there with both clients two different days at the same exact place. And I had different questions Yeah. That I thought of. Yeah. So the first day I was like asking certain questions that my client didn’t ask, and he said, thank you for asking that. I didn’t think of it. The second day I asked different questions that I thought of, and the different clients said, oh my gosh, thank you for asking that. I didn’t even ask that question. And these are questions that, um, you don’t think to ask. ’cause they’re giving you so much information mm-hmm. <affirmative> that your mind is not. So one of the things that it always, um, it always, I always wonder when I drive around, and there’s a main street there, there, an east, west street, Palmetto, glades, Yamato plant more mm-hmm. <affirmative>, why would someone choose to buy a house that backs to any of those main roads, even 18th Street? Right? And because the, there’s a lot of traffic behind you and you hear, you actually hear the road noise, and maybe if you’re near a light, you hear accidents and so forth. Why would anyone choose to be on the corner with the backyard up against the street?
Matthew Maschler:
Well, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s a cost issue.
Staci Garcia:
Well, that’s the thing is one, you’re sitting here looking at, um, a whole neighborhood and they’re planning it out. Of course, they don’t wanna put people up against the street and they’re trying to figure out how to do it so that no one’s gonna have the worst possible lot. But there’s always gonna be the worst possible
Matthew Maschler:
Lot. And in the advertised price, that’s, that includes the lot, it includes the worst lots, <laugh>, the lots that, back to the lots that are gonna back to the turnpike, are the lots that are included in the advertised. If you Oh, you want this lot on the cul-de-sac that’s a little bit bigger that it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be a lot premium. What’s fascinating to me is those lot premiums when they’re new don’t seem to be that much.
Staci Garcia:
Right? Yeah. They’re not actually,
Matthew Maschler:
Like, sometimes it’s a $20,000, I don’t wanna say $20. It’s not a lot of money. It’s a lot of money, but sometimes on,
Staci Garcia:
On the selling part, but
Matthew Maschler:
On a million dollar house mm-hmm. <affirmative> that $20,000 can, can move you to the cul-de-sac or $35,000 might be able to move you to the cul-de-sac then from backing to Florida’s turnpike. Yep. And on a $2 million house, when you go to sell that, it’s
Staci Garcia:
A huge, huge difference.
Matthew Maschler:
More than 10 times. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, 35,000 becomes more than $350,000 difference back into the turn in this market, you can sell a house back, back to the turnpike. But 10 years ago it was very difficult to sell a house that backs to the turnpike. Yep. So, um, you know, so that’s another thing, at least if you’re going to buy that house at backs to the turnpike with me as your agent, at least I’m gonna give you that warning, you know, and maybe the sales center, um, they may try to minimize it or they may try to show you a buffer or something like that. But at least, and at least I will tell you the reality of what’s gonna happen and eh, you know, buy the house for 20, 30 years. Okay. Um, but, you know, if there’s a, and, and look, some, some people could be at the top of their budget. I get that. But at least that becomes a knowing decision. And, and, and, and you, and you have to truly understand that
Staci Garcia:
There was a couple that came down and, um, uh, Alana had them and she asked me to show for them, and I was showing them, and I remember we were standing out in the street and a plane landed and it landed basically right over the street. And the guy looked up and he said, wow, what happened with that? Like, it was an accident. I said, we’re in the flight path. We’re gonna be every day, all day long. Planes are gonna land directly over your head. And he said, where is that in the M l s? I said, it doesn’t actually exist. And he said, why doesn’t it exist? Why isn’t there a line in the m l s that says that you’re on the flight path or you’re on the takeoff path with the landing pattern? And I said, well, actually, it could change it.
If the wind’s reverse, then you’re on the takeoff and, you know, the whole, the whole platter, the pattern would reverse. So I know where it is, and we’re standing directly under it. And he said, well, then I would never wanna live on this street. And then I said, well, then you’d never wanna live on this street, this street. You know, and I named a whole bunch of streets. Right. And he said, um, I don’t understand why that’s not, uh, said. Like, it’s, it’s, it’s not written, it’s not spoken about. No one talks about it. Of course, I’m gonna mention it because if, if, let’s say this guy buys his house, the first thing he’s gonna be able to do is walk outside and not enjoy his outside. Right. There’s a plane over his house every 15 minutes. You know, so there is a lot that a real estate agent could tell you, especially if they live right nearby,
Matthew Maschler:
But sometimes the real estate agent doesn’t know. Right.
Staci Garcia:
Well, that’s true too. But once you, you know, I’ve lived here since 1986. Yeah. There’s not much. I don’t know. Right, right, right. So, um, so yeah, we were standing there and he’s like, uh, I’m so glad you told me. And, but quite a, this changes like the dynamic, where are we gonna go that we don’t hear the plane all the time? Right. Well, I call it planes, trains and automobiles here. Right. Because you could either be near a train, near a plane, or near the highway mm-hmm. <affirmative>, whether it’s the turnpike or 95, or you could go all the way out west, be with the frogs in nature, but
Matthew Maschler:
You could still be all the way out west and back to 4 41 or you
Staci Garcia:
Yep. True. Or you could be west of 4 41 and be with Nature <laugh> still. Right. Right. Or you could be all the way east and the beach, and you’d still hear the helicopters or the planes that have the flyer. So it really, you, you choose the battle, but this one person said it should really be in the m l s, there’s a whole bunch of things that you could add to the m l s.
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah. I, I mean, I don’t think that, you know, one, you know, we don’t like to disclose just things that are things that are annoying about this listing. Right. <laugh>, like, we’re not the, there’s mandatory disclosures. You don’t have to mandatorily disclose airplane noise. Right? Yeah.
Staci Garcia:
But it wasn’t my listing. Like, so
Matthew Maschler:
Where actually, maybe, maybe do I wonder airplane
Staci Garcia:
Airplane noise?
Matthew Maschler:
If, if, if it’s some, if it ma, if it affects the value of the real estate, it’s, and it’s not easily apparent. Well,
Staci Garcia:
There’s a whole
Matthew Maschler:
Might have to
Staci Garcia:
Close out. Well, there’s a whole, um, row of houses in my old neighborhood that were up against the train. Yeah. But the train stopped whistling while we lived there. Uhhuh <affirmative> on purpose, we fought it and the whistle ended at 11:00 PM and would start again at 6:00 AM Uhhuh <affirmative>. So that was something that everybody in the neighborhood was so happy about. Right. Right. And if a train whistle didn’t, ’cause it was a new thing, if a train whistle did go off and the, this did happen actually, um, when Remy was a baby, the train whistle went off and the first word that he ever said was Train. Train. And yeah, in the middle of the night, all we heard on the monitor was train <laugh>. And I was like, oh my God. It talks,
Matthew Maschler:
I lived on Railroad Street in Long Island when I went to law school and about once an hour, and the train would come by and, and the house like shook a little bit mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And one of my friends says, my friend Bruce says, man, how can you live here? Bruce lives in the basement. Uh, you know, he rented the basement of somebody’s house. And I’m like, Bruce,
Staci Garcia:
You live in the basement. Your
Matthew Maschler:
Laundry’s in my washing machine. <laugh>, your lunch is on my barbecue grill and your ass is in my swimming pool <laugh>. And you’re telling me how can I live here instead of a basement? I love that that train comes by. I smile because if that train wasn’t there, I could not afford this place.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. Well, and then actually after a while, you don’t notice the train.
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah. And again, and, and 11 to six, it was, uh, it, it didn’t even run. Oh, it didn’t even run it. The train, uh, ended in Huntington and I was in Next Station passed that. I was in Green Lawn. So they didn’t actually connect the train to, to go, um, in the middle of the night. Gotcha. So, so that was, uh, that, that was grateful. And most of the, and most of the days I was at school mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Right. So if I got home from school at three o’clock, you, so the train went off at 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Okay. I can live with five or six trains.
Staci Garcia:
Well, it, that’s actually happening down in downtown Boca with Bright Line. Yeah. So you’re either really happy that, that the train, the passenger train now exists because you can jump on it and go work in Miami for really cheap. Right. And you don’t have to drive and, and pay for gas or fight traffic.
Matthew Maschler:
I can’t even took those to Orlando
Staci Garcia:
Or, and, or that, uh, or you’re really upset that there’s a train, you know, right near you that travels really, really fast and comes by every, I don’t know how, at least every hour. So, and some people are really happy about it because it’s, you know, you’re almost in a metro. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, but, and some people are not. So I guess it, you know, the people that are not happy about it will move and the people that are happy about it will move there because they need to use the train and they don’t wanna drive.
Matthew Maschler:
Right. Right. Right. So, um, so are we, we’re still for sale by owners or are we
Staci Garcia:
At I don’t, do you have anything to add?
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah, no. Um, so that’s it. If you are, if you’ve been selling your house, uh, for sale by owner and, uh, you have not had success, um, feel free to give us a call and we can, we could probably explain to you why, um, and, and, and help you. We’d love to help you and if you’re coming to Lotus Palm or any new, any other new construction or if you wanna know anything about the, um, thing, when people complain about, uh, road noise, I, I like to say, well, most houses are on roads. Right. You can’t get to the house without, without a road. But, um, you know, but it, but it’s in, but it’s interesting, um, you know, all of these issues, uh, I used to do with my new real, with new real estate agents, I used to drive them to the train tracks in Boca. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, and I used to show them the house across the street, and I used to say that house sold
Staci Garcia:
Absolutely
Matthew Maschler:
Right. So don’t tell me the house can’t sell because it’s in a flight path. The house can’t sell because it’s across the street from a train. The house can’t sell ’cause of this or that they sell. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> maybe at not a, maybe at a different price point. Maybe there’s, uh, other things that has have to be done, but every house sells. So, um, so yeah. So don’t tell me that it can’t sell ’cause of
Staci Garcia:
Trade. Yeah. And, and there’s a, there’s a large contingency of people with a fountain in their yard and, uh, hurricane windows. And that was prior to, you know, fountains being cool and hurricane windows being common, you know, so, you know, to eliminate the noise that people have already done things to make it so that you don’t hear that sort of thing. Or even the houses were built with the whole side of the house that faces the road with no windows. Uhhuh. <affirmative>. So it almost eliminates the fact that you even know that there’s a road back there. But, um, it’s, I feel like it’s good to know and that you wouldn’t know if you were just, um, going around on your own, looking at places from Zillow, you know, and that, and, and where I, where I show and where I usually focus, the people are looking at, um, places online, and they have no agent because I work for no h o a, so all of the people are driving around. They just pull over on the side of the road and start looking at houses and knocking on doors, and there’s no guard gate and there’s no one telling them to stop. So, um, but it, but it is, it would help. I feel like it would help those people, you know, if they’re trying to save money, it would help them a lot if they didn’t, basically they’re doing is, they’re saying, we have all the money in the world. We’re knocking on your door, Uhhuh. What’s, what’s the price for you to get out?
Matthew Maschler:
How, how much would it take? <laugh>? And we’re seeing a lot of that in
Staci Garcia:
This. So there’s no negotiation on the seller’s side. They could just make up any number they want. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> because the people are in their driveway.
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah. And, uh, and let me tell you something. If you want me to go knock on someone’s door and ask ’em how much money <laugh> it would take to get them to move, I’m happy to do it. But don’t expect a bargain <laugh>. Right? Don’t expect a deal. Yeah. And Matt, I want a deal on that house right there that’s not for sale. Um, people have asked me for that before, and, uh, that’s not how this is done. <laugh>. Okay. So that’s our time. Uh, plus I’m super tired from this weekend. I bet. Um, but, um, we have some, uh, couple of very interesting, uh, shows coming up for you in the next few weeks. Um, planning on getting, um, Ben Schachter in the broker of Signature real Estate companies. Um, I want to, I’m gonna do an episode on some alternative investments in, uh, watches. Nice. Um, and then also, uh, the Garden Cemetery. We’re gonna get those people on, uh, the show in a couple of weeks, uh, to talk about, um, uh, real estate on a very, very small, small,
Staci Garcia:
The alternate real estate
Matthew Maschler:
Buy. Yes. Small, permanent, um, but very, very small pieces of, of, of property. Uh, thank you very, very much for joining us on the Real Estate Finder podcast. Uh, shout out to, uh, our producer Brian Howie for the day, uh, for some, uh, great suggestions. And, uh, if you wanna make your own podcast, contact Brian over at, uh, pod populi. Uh, with offices growing to every city in America by the end of the decade,
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