Intro:
This is pod popular podcast for the people.
Matthew Maschler:
Welcome to the Real Estate Finder podcast. I’m Matthew Maschler, real Estate broker@realestatefinder.com.
Staci Garcia:
And I’m Stacey Garcia, also a real estate finder.
Matthew Maschler:
Hi, Stacy. How was your weekend? Awesome. All right. One of Stacey’s specialties is, uh, no HOA communities, no hoa boca.com. Uh, and you can spell no, either way, n o as in anti as in no h hoa boca.com, or K n o w bo no hoa boca.com, because you know a good way to know the HOA and know the rules of the hoa. So, so it’s a, a good double challenger. It works both ways, but, uh, Stacy specializes in, uh, no HOA communities. And, um, you know, one of the, I guess, I don’t know, advantages, I think of an HOA community. Uh, one of the benefits or amenities is that some of the, uh, communities are guard gated, and some people see that as a, as a benefit. Do you, do you see that as a benefit or, or do I
Staci Garcia:
I do see it as a benefit for others. I’m not a, I lived in, I grew up in a Boca West. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I’ve lived in guard gate communities and non-GI guard gate communities. I sometimes see it as a issue. It’s not, it makes life more difficult.
Matthew Maschler:
Sometimes. It can be a pain, you
Staci Garcia:
Know, and we talked about this, remember on the Sunday deliveries Yeah. And stuff like that. But also anyone can stop by. That’s a pro or a con. Right? Right, right. In the beginning, it was a con, I don’t want anyone stopping by. And I, and I like to keep certain people out. So I liked, um, living in Fairfield and having the gate. Uh, now I live in, uh, no guard gate. And actually I like that. Yeah. That’s where I’m at right now,
Matthew Maschler:
You know? Um, so my community is guard gated, and it’s not something I ever wanted, like when I moved to Florida. It’s just a lot of the communities are, and, uh, you know, what I love about it is I, I just love getting the alert on my phone that like, you know, if the pizza delivery man or Uber Eats is at the gate, I get like a two or three minute headstart. Right on. Oh, okay. The guy’s here get ready. You know, so, yeah. And or if I’m expecting a person, if I’m expecting a, a, a car service or a friend that’s gonna pick me up, I get, I get a, a, you know, a a little bit of a headstart, right. Uh, on, on that alert. And, uh, so, so that’s fun. So, um, so I got a call over the weekend on a, on a house that I, that I have listed. And, uh, the people wanted to, uh, come into the guard gate. They wanted me to let them into the guard gate, but they didn’t wanna see the house. They only just wanted to see the community <laugh>. So, so I had to explain to these people that the, the reason that these communities are gate is to regulate and control, uh, who comes in and out. And, uh, and
Staci Garcia:
That includes you,
Matthew Maschler:
And that includes you if you’re not interested in seeing the house, if you just wanted to drive by the community, I mean, I have no idea what they wanted. Um, or
Staci Garcia:
What, like, we just wanted to rob all the houses and we were using you to get Right. Thanks.
Matthew Maschler:
Not even run, like, you know, I get a violation if one of my guests runs a stop sign or speeds, I get a violation. So, so I’m, I’m taking responsibility for the person who wants to come into this community, uh, or, or my homeowner is taking responsibility for the person coming into this community. And, and Yeah. You know, you don’t wanna overthink it and think about all the risks, but if, if you have someone coming over, that’s fine. But if this person doesn’t even wanna see the house, and look, I respect that. They didn’t wanna waste my time and make a fake showing appointment
Staci Garcia:
And then cancel it
Matthew Maschler:
Or, or no. Or go through the house. Yeah. Right. But, um, but I don’t know how to explain it to ’em. And I’m like, you, you, you need to make an appointment, um, and be accompanied. Uh, you cannot just, I’m not gonna give you just free access to a com. I, when I sold in Stone Creek, I, I was in charge of the sales center, and I would get that a lot from people. They
Staci Garcia:
Wanna, well, they wanna see what they can’t normally see, cuz they don’t have any access. Right.
Matthew Maschler:
Right. And some people go to a one A and drive by the big houses. It’s, it’s, it’s fun for them. But they, they wanna get into a community and just drive around and look at the houses mm-hmm. <affirmative> and like, no. That, that’s why there’s a gate. So, uh, so, uh, no, you can’t do that If <laugh>
Staci Garcia:
Did you tell ’em? No,
Matthew Maschler:
Sorry, I, I, I told them No, I told them, you know, I said, if they would like, I would meet them at, uh, Lotus across the street, we could register them for the model homes, and if they wanna see similar communities, we can go into the other communities after I, I meet with them, uh, so I know who they are. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, and, you know, if they register at the, at the community, um, at the community center, then we’ll, we’ll know who they are. Then I can escort them and they can see the other community, the finished community that doesn’t have the sell center. I’d be happy to, happy to show them, but they said they already registered at Lotus. Ah. I was like, oh, there you go. Well, you should have asked them. Right? Right. You should have asked them. You know, and it’s not just because I’m not gonna get paid, which I’m not, I’m not a tour guide. Yeah. But, okay. If, if, if I could have registered em at Lotus, maybe they, they would’ve bought something at, at Lotus Palm, it’d be worth my time, energy, and effort. So they wanted to waste my time, energy, and effort and, uh, not use me, uh, as a real estate agent. They just wanted to be a tour
Staci Garcia:
Guide. I wonder, I mean, I know that I felt a little bit like that, and we talked about the Tour guide episode when we were doing a Stonebridge. Right, right, right. Um, but I wonder if people think, and which is completely legitimate, how am I gonna get to know the houses and the feeling for the neighborhood if I can’t get into the neighborhood? Right. Right. And how am I gonna know which agent to use? Should I be using an agent that lives in the neighborhood? Which a lot of people, I, I, I highly recommend that. Right? Oh, I, I don’t, or has lived there.
Matthew Maschler:
I, I don’t think living there is a, is a criteria. Just like, I don’t think someone who, you know, is a mechanic at a Mercedes shop has to drive a, a Mercedes, you know? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, you know, if you, if you don’t know what community you wanna live, just because someone lives in a particular community doesn’t mean they’re a good realtor. Know anything about real estate at the market, money finance or, or anything. And, you know, that’s not where I would hire a realtor based on, on, on where they live. No. Other, uh, you know, you don’t hire a divorce lawyer. Well, they’re happily married. How could they I
Staci Garcia:
Do. Yeah.
Matthew Maschler:
<laugh>. But
Staci Garcia:
<laugh>, I mean, like, listen, they’re happily married. They’ve never been through a divorce. Mm. I think I wanna go for someone that’s not happily married, that has a little bit of bitter in them, <laugh>,
Matthew Maschler:
You
Staci Garcia:
Know, they’re a little cutthroat.
Matthew Maschler:
What if they’re not even married?
Staci Garcia:
No. It’s just like this, if you’re a parent, you know that there’s parent issues mm-hmm. <affirmative> if you’d like. And when you’re dating, you wanna say, Hey, I wanna date someone that is the parent. Because they know that if I said to them right now is not a good time, I can’t talk, they don’t take it personal.
Matthew Maschler:
Right. I, I just, I just, uh, I I I hear you. But not every professional has to have my life experience in order for them to help me. That’s true. So, so anyway. Um, but yeah, so the gated community, you know, it’s, it’s gated for a reason. It’s gated for security. And no, you can’t just go in on a Sunday and drive around.
Staci Garcia:
There’s been times where I’ve gotten into a community to show, or for an appointment or whatever it is. And I’ve driven around because I’ve never been there before. And I did that in the Bridges. I showed, I think it was Seven Bridges I showed in, in Seven Bridges. And then I drove all around seven Bridges just to get a feel for it. So that later when someone asks me, what’s it like in Seven Bridges, I I, I wouldn’t be able to say it because I, how could I show a house and not know what the community’s like? Sure. So I do recommend that if you are an agent, or, um, if you are with an agent, you know, don’t just jump in and jump out of the community. There’s been a hundred times where I’ve told somebody inside the Oaks, once you leave the house, go straight to the clubhouse, check it out and drive around.
You know what I mean? Get a feel for the neighborhood while you’re in the neighborhood, because when you’re outta the neighborhood, you won’t be able to get back into the neighborhood. So, um, and, and that’s, that’s a big deal. When I did my listing for Fairfield, I drove all around Fairfield to see if anything changed since when I lived there. And then I took pictures of all of the amenities and all of that just to make sure everything was the way I remember it. And, um, and I kind of got a feel for the community, even though I haven’t been in the community for five years, so I wanna make sure I know what I’m selling. Uh, but once you’re out of the gate, you can’t get back in, you know? Right. So you really need to take advantage of that. And that happened to me with Boca West also.
I grew up in Boca West, but when I went back to see, um, a couple new listings a couple years ago, they moved the club from one end of the street to the other. Everything had changed. So what I remember is completely different than the way it is now. And I had to re custom and take a new tour, you know, to be able to say, this is what it’s like. Otherwise I’d remember it the way it was in the eighties, and everything was completely different in a whole other space. So, um, and, and new property is the same thing. You should go there and make yourself aware of everything that’s behind the gate while you have access to get in the gate. Because later it’s not so easy and someone asks you a question, you feel like, oh, I should know that, but I don’t, you know.
Matthew Maschler:
So, um, I have a new listing Okay. That I wanna talk about. It’s, um, an investment property. It’s actually a buildable, uh, piece of land on a one A in Deerfield beach. It’s a half an acre, uh, listed for $4.5 million. And, uh, right now there’s some, some units on it. There’s some, you know, that are being rented out at Airbnb or whatever. But, uh, but if, but it’s three, uh, parcels, uh, that together, uh, equal, uh, half an acre. So it’s, uh, ripe for development and for building. And if somebody wanted to, uh, build some townhouses on it, uh, there’s a, there’s a lot of money to be made in new construction in Deerfield Beach.
Staci Garcia:
It’s walkable to jbs. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> to, was it Flanagans there and Wells Rip?
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah. The whole, the whole, the whole thing. The little town is it,
Staci Garcia:
It’s seriously two minutes. You could walk there. It’s a great location. And, um, we were talking about what you could put on it. And it, the funny thing was somebody said, what can we put on it? And you said, depends on how big it is.
Matthew Maschler:
How, how many units can I build? That depends how big. It’s such a good, it’s a funny question. If I was building, I’d build one, right? <laugh>
Staci Garcia:
Massive. How many uniques can you fit on it? And you said it depends on how big, and I just started laughing cuz it was very funny. Um, yeah, you definitely could have amazing townhouses on it. Yep. And or high end luxury townhouses where you could park three levels, whatever. Um, right across from the beach, uh, it’s beautiful. I saw the video.
Matthew Maschler:
Yep, yep, yep, yep. And, um, um, what, I need to get a sign. I need to order a sign. Put a big sign out there. Yeah. That’s for sale with, should I have a picture of me on the sign? No, no, no. Picture of me. <laugh> phone number, email address, website. But no picture.
Staci Garcia:
I’m not sure. There’s not that much time. You come around the curve in Deerfield, you come around, it’s like an S-curve right. From Hillsborough. It’s an S-curve. You come around, as soon as you make that last turn heading north on a one A, it’s right there on your left. So there’s not much time to, you know, notice the sign you, you’ve, you gotta make it big and I guess put the most essential stuff on it. And if they people see your face, they won’t read the words. You know what I mean? Uhhuh, uhhuh, <affirmative>. But it’s a perfect location. It, it’s just, you don’t have much time as you’re coming around the curve. You come around the curve and then boom, there’s the spot right on the left. And it’s such a good location. Um, and the people that were staying there, you know, Airbnb, I’m sure they were like, this is awesome. You know? Right, right. Because it, it really is a good location, really great location. So, um, you don’t need a car. I mean, you obviously would have a car if you spent a couple million dollars on your townhouse, Uhhuh, <affirmative>, but, um, there’s, it’s a deep lot. So it goes from east to west and, um, there’s a lot of things you could definitely do with it. And there’s a vacant lot on it. So, um, there’s parking obviously, but you know, if you wanna go check it
Matthew Maschler:
Out. Right. One of, one of the three lots is, is perfect for the parking, um, for, uh, for, uh, whatever, uh, you want to build mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So if you know any developer, if you are or know any developers, uh, in Palm Beach County, this is ready to go.
Staci Garcia:
Or, or in Broward County. Oh, Broward County. Or in, or in, in South Florida, whatever
Matthew Maschler:
This is ready to go. Yeah.
Staci Garcia:
It’s a, it’s a great location. Um, I’m not sure that there’s that much property at all that you could build on mm-hmm. <affirmative> even, you know, necessarily, I’m not sure specifically about Broward County or Palm Beach County, but at all, there’s really, you don’t see many vacant lots, you know? Right, right. So, um, one is a vacant lot and two are, uh, income producing properties. But you could, you combine them all together, that’s what’s for sale. And you can build whatever you want.
Matthew Maschler:
Right.
Staci Garcia:
To some degree. But yeah, that’d be a really amazing imagine to just building one house. <laugh>. It would be like acaia.
Matthew Maschler:
I wonder if it could build a Wawa
Staci Garcia:
<laugh>. Can you, can you go commercial? I wonder. I don’t, I don’t know. There’s nothing over there like that. But, um, yeah, once, oh, that whole little area is very cute because it’s behind a lot of commercial stuff. So you could just walk over and have breakfast, lunch or dinner and then walk home. I would love that. Cuz I don’t cook Uhhuh <affirmative>, you know, so I could have coffee and then walk out and then have, you know, lunch and so forth. Um, that’s the kind of thing is I love in, we’re in Royal Palm Plaza, I would live above one of these shops, come down for coffee, go back up, come down for lunch, go back up. And except that I don’t really want people around me or making any noise, you know, but I like, I like the, I like the area and it’s very hidden. I wonder the people that have these offices up here, if they feel the same way, um, because it’s very cute. But yeah, that’s a great property in Deerfield. Um,
Matthew Maschler:
So, so
Staci Garcia:
I’m sure you’ll get a buyer.
Matthew Maschler:
So, um, if you have a sign recommendation company,
Staci Garcia:
I do. Not for me,
Matthew Maschler:
No. <laugh>,
Staci Garcia:
I have a sign recommendation company that you should not use.
Matthew Maschler:
I should not use. Yeah,
Staci Garcia:
Why not? I said I just had a sign installed and I never a complaint about vendors. I’m pretty, uh, easygoing. I’m very easygoing. And they put this sign for my West Boca listing on the curve cuz it’s a corner, um, property. It’s a corner residential property, uhhuh <affirmative>. And since it’s not necessarily facing a perpendicular to, to the street on the side of the house, or it’s not necessarily facing perpendicular to the street of the house that it’s actually on, it’s not exactly easy to read because it’s diagonal, <laugh> facing the corner, but the corner’s round. So, um, it’s a curve. A lot of people commented on my Facebook page cuz I, I saw, first I saw the sign sent by the, um, person who lives at the house. And I didn’t realize it was on the corner, so I’m like, yay, my sign was installed.
Finally, it took over a week, Uhhuh <affirmative> and, um, the listing’s already, um, active. So like, where’s my sign? And finally the sign arrives and then, uh, so it’s already late. And then, um, the sign company emailed me a picture of it. So the picture, in the picture, you can definitely tell that the sign is not at the front of the property. It’s on the corner. Right. It’s not on the side of the property either. It’s on the corner. So I’m not even sure if it’s on the actual property. <laugh> at this point. Someone will call me and say, your sign is on public property. You know what I mean? <laugh>, I mean, it needs to be moved. That happened to me once before also with the sign company and they had to move the sign. So, um, but when I saw the picture and I realized the sign is actually diagonal, it’s so when you stop at the, either way, let’s say you’ve had to stop at either corner since the, there’s a corner in front of the house and there’s a corner to the side of the house.
Either way the sign is diagonal. Right. You’d have to be turning the corner to read the sign. And so I wasn’t happy with it. I post, I, I, I was laughing uncontrollably laugh and I was delirious. And I, when I saw it, I couldn’t stop laughing. I’m like, this is the funniest place for a sign ever. If this was anyone else, I would blow them up and just crack up laughing. Uhhuh <affirmative>. But it’s my sign. And so I think other people would start laughing and go, oh my God, that girl is no clue. And that’s me. So, um, so I started laughing cuz it was me. It’s happening to me. And when things happen to me, I just crack up because it’s Murphy’s Law. So I posted on Facebook, I’m like, uh, I can’t stop laughing cuz my sign is something that I would make fun of for someone else.
And it’s actually me and everyone else. Underneath goes, is there something I’m missing? This is actually a good place for a sign. Cuz if you make the, if you make the turn there mm-hmm. <affirmative>, you’re gonna see the sign on both sides. Right. But it’s not a place where you would make a turn, number one, it’s the end of the development. And you’d be coming from down the street on the house where the house is coming down the street from the school or anywhere that you would be coming down the street from the beginning of the community. Right. The signs on the curve at the end of the street is not on the actual street. So anyway, I wasn’t happy about the placement of the sign. I wouldn’t recommend the sign company. And I’ve had a, a bunch of problems with the sign company and I, and the, the actual job is taking the sign from storage <laugh> and putting it in the ground.
Right, right, right. It’s not, um, rocket science. Listen, I, I spend so many times thinking that part of my job is difficult. None of the things that are in my job at all. My job description doesn’t mean digging a hole and sticking a sign in it. You know, that, um, that little machine like the, or the, but the manual one that you turn the thing digs out the grass and the dirt and you stick the sign in and then you put that stuff back so it’s stable and then you walk, you take a picture of it, and then you walk away. That’s the whole job. That whole job took one whole week. They didn’t build the sign, they didn’t print the sign. It’s all made sitting in their office. So I, and I paid for it. And um, and then if I want it moved, I’d have to pay for it again. And when I want it removed, I’d have to pay for that again too. It just bothered me. But some people said, no, it’s a great place that utilizes both corners. That would be true if the sign was,
Matthew Maschler:
If things were different, if
Staci Garcia:
The sign was a triangle. You know what I mean? Right, right, right. But since the sign’s facing neither direction perfectly, it’s actually facing diagonal. I think if I were across the street and I could read that sign, I would just laugh because it’s facing that way. But maybe that’s just me. And I’m, I’m not a perfectionist by any sense of the word. There’s nothing about me that’s o c d, Uhhuh <affirmative>. I would go over there and just twist the sign to make it square with either part of the street. But, um, I don’t think I have the energy to do it. But it’s, it’s, um, to me it’s comical. If anyone calls me and they saw I have to go over there today and put all my listing sheets and my business cards into the sign cuz I order it with the, with the extras. So it has, it says for sale on top of it with the rider. And it also has the area where you can put your own listing sheets. So you can grab a sheet and you can walk away and read about the house. Um, if it works, it works. And if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. So I guess we’ll tell by how many people stop and take a sheet. You know what I mean?
Matthew Maschler:
Oh, you, you have the little, you have the plastic sheet with the,
Staci Garcia:
With the flyer. I pay extra to get the, my business card, um, holder on there. And also I put the flyer sheet in there. So, and then I, I’ll print maybe a hundred of them in this case I’ll, I’ll print a hundred of them. I hate to waste paper, but people do take them. And I kind of gauge by how popular it is by how many sheets are left by the time I go to show it on, you know, whenever it’s Friday, let’s say.
Matthew Maschler:
Right, right, right.
Staci Garcia:
So if the thing’s half full, then everyone’s stopping. It’s not in a place where you would pass by, you know, this house is not a place you would pass by unless you were going home and there’s only one street after it. So, um, I just think it’s hilarious that the sign was put there. But that’s kind of like, um, neither here nor there, I guess people that are putting in a sign have get creative. You know what, you get creative with your job, you wanna enjoy your job. Every once in a while you twist a sign and put it in the ground in a different angle just for fun. Uhhuh <affirmative> and see what happens. <laugh>, there was a review section for this after I got it. An email says, your shine has been installed here as a photo. Please review your sign installer. And I was like, oh my god. One star. And I never do this, but I was like, one crush, star crush. I did. I
Matthew Maschler:
Said, is it public review or an internal
Staci Garcia:
Review? I don’t know. It was an email. It said, please review your installer. I put, gave him one star. And I wrote, this sign is not facing either street of the corner that it’s actually on, it’s on the corner diagonally. You know, I don’t even know what you, what angle that is. It’s not a 90 degree angle on either side of the house. It’s, it’s, it’s uh, 90 plus 45 <laugh>. So whatever that is, 1 35. That’s the angle that it’s on. Anyway, so, um, I gave him one star and said this took a week to, to install, which is crazy. And I missed a whole weekend. Uh, you know, that that just passed. I missed a whole weekend. And uh, and the sign is installed and such. You might as well just stuck it on the roof. It’s so
Matthew Maschler:
Stick it on the roof
Staci Garcia:
<laugh>. And then I pressed send and then I thought about it. I’m like, am I being really mean? And yeah, I am. You know, I’m never mean, my ex-husband will say I can be mean. But in this case, I thought, um, I guess I wanna prove, I wanna say something. You know what, I never complain about anything. And I do wanna say something. I never bash vendors. I think, uh, it’s really hard to own your own company and it’s really hard to be successful. And if some idiot comes along and bashes you and people said, you know, you don’t wanna do that. I never do it. I always think, you know what, let me give them the benefit of the doubt. Even if I got like food poisoning or something, I’d think, well, it’s probably something wrong with the food. How could they control it?
You know? But, um, in this case I was, and I, and I praise awesome companies constantly all the time. I’m like, use this company. I love them. They’re awesome. I will definitely refer companies that I use to everyone that I know on every social platform and in real life. But when it comes to a bad job more than once, and I, I’ve had this sign moved. I had the sign across the street from me. Uhhuh moved twice. I had the sign, same sign, you know what I mean? Same company. I had it in East Boca. Um, it was too close to the house. It wasn’t near the sidewalk. Like, you know, I needed seen by the rest of the street. Right, right, right. Um, and they do tell you exactly where do you want the sign. I’m like in front of the house <laugh>, but maybe I should be more specific cuz this one was not in, it’s in front of the house, but it’s on the corner. So, um, anyway, it sounds like I’m ranting over a, a small thing, but this sign caused me money.
Matthew Maschler:
Right. But you could, I mean you should really call the company
Staci Garcia:
And Well I did, I did originally call the company saying, cuz they, they know I don’t answer the phone. Mm-hmm. I called the company and I left a message and I emailed them. This was last week. I ordered the sign, I wanna say on Wednesday of last week. Today’s Tuesday, Uhhuh <affirmative>, it was installed yesterday. It took, uh, what, six days to get a sign in the ground. And when it said that your sign has been scheduled to be installed, it didn’t say for when. Like that’s a weird thing, you know? Yes. Oh. And I got an email that says, your sign will be scheduled to be installed later today. Like, it will be scheduled later today. <laugh> to be installed. You know what I mean? It’s,
Matthew Maschler:
Do you think they meant
Staci Garcia:
Maybe is not their first language. What the sentence said was,
Matthew Maschler:
Tell me the sentence again. Your signed is schedule to be you.
Staci Garcia:
Cause you’re gonna, you’re gonna crack up. It was a, it was like a dangling modifier, but it really said in real terms, it said, um, your sign later today, your sign will be scheduled to be installed. <laugh>.
Matthew Maschler:
So it was like later tell you,
Staci Garcia:
You know, I was like,
Matthew Maschler:
Wait, your sign, if it was your sign will be scheduled to be installed. Let is sched here,
Staci Garcia:
Here, this is yesterday ready.
Matthew Maschler:
Your sign will be scheduled.
Staci Garcia:
It says, good morning Stacy. The schedule gets made in the afternoon. Once you’re scheduled, you will get an email letting you know
Matthew Maschler:
Okay, once it’s scheduled, Uhhuh <affirmative>. And
Staci Garcia:
Then I never got an email letting me know mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And then my client, you know, the resident, he said, here’s your picture of your sign. It was installed. Right. Right. So I didn’t get an email. Then I got an email saying your sign was installed. Uh, or it just said sign order complete. So, um, but, and then that’s when I saw the picture. There was a couple, uh, communications between me and the sign company that said, we received your call about your sign. Thank you. And I was like, thank you. What? I didn’t get an answer regarding my call. Like, they don’t call you back. You know, there’s no a personal communication. I actually went to the location cuz I wanted to change my sign. And this is actually really, really funny. I went to the location because you know what, if at a sign company there’s a lot of new signs that I see, uh, for restaurants and stuff, they, they’re flags.
They’re coming soon. Right, right, right. Return, there’s all different, cool. Maybe I should get a different sign. You know what I mean? Yeah. Not be like everybody else. I like to be different. So I went to the actual place in Pompano and while I was there, I pointed to all this stuff and I’m like, and remember I texted you and I said, Hey, I’m in the sign place. Maybe I’ll get something cool. Right? I don’t know. I’m just trying to think out of the box to get some attention. And um, you were like, yeah, sure. Make sure it says signature real estate finder. Right. Uhhuh <affirmative>. And I said to the girl, okay, well I wanna tweak my sign and I wanna put something on it. And my my sign says actually signature real estate companies. That’s bad. Yeah. So my sign in my car says I was gonna switch the signs. It says, um, signature real estate finder and then it says me. But there’s no, what was missing from it? Something was missing from it. Uh, the broker, right?
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah. You have to have the brokerage name. Right. Signature Real estate finder. So not the broker, like the human being’s
Staci Garcia:
Name, but my signature real estate finder said Signature Real Estate or something like that. Yeah. And, um, and I, and I was laughing because if you make these signs for real estate companies all day long, wouldn’t you know that and say that to the person, oh, it needs to have your logo or it needs to have your brokers?
Matthew Maschler:
Well, they think if it’s, they didn’t realize that signature real estate companies was not correct.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah.
Matthew Maschler:
So it could it could look correct.
Staci Garcia:
I don’t know. And I’m, the reason I used it is because they already had my sign. They have my image and all of that. Right. Um, but, you know, you can’t assume. So, um, you know what happens with that. Right. Anyway, I I I just thought it would be the easiest thing to do while I was there and I looked at all the things that you could buy Uhhuh, <affirmative>, and I said to the girl, how much is that? I don’t know. How much is that? I don’t know. Everything She didn’t know. And none of the things I could just take home with me. Right. Because there was a book and you’d have to point in the book what you wanted and they’d have to order it. Let’s make it like, oh, you know what, there’s, this isn’t a real store, like a real store. You can buy something <laugh>.
Matthew Maschler:
I it’s a showroom.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. And I don’t like that. I’m not a showroom person. Uhhuh <affirmative>. I don’t window shop. So I went online after that and I made my own sign. This has nothing to do with the sign that I posted, but I am gonna bring my own signs to the property because I made my own signs at Alpha Depot online and had them printed and they come on a post and they’re not huge like the the one I have, but let’s say coming soon and you know, and so forth. But I ended up doing the job myself is what I wanna say, because the showroom person didn’t know anything and couldn’t do anything. So I didn’t mean to slam the sign company. I just, I don’t have a sign company to recommend. Um, Robert recommended a cool and I’ll go with them. I just, I don’t wanna do the job myself of the sign stuff. And they always say that you shouldn’t do everybody’s job. Right. Right, right. You should do the best thing you’re good at and then leave other things to other people. So the sign person should be doing the best job that they can do at installing a sign and I’ll do the best job I can do at selling a house. Right. Or listing it or showing it. So, um, that’s my science story.
Matthew Maschler:
All right, <laugh>. Well anyway, glad I said that. We needed a, uh, a sign. Yeah. Don’t use be listing. Well, uh, alright, so we need a sign BES listing. You know, it’s so funny cause so many of my listings are in HOA communities. Yeah. You
Staci Garcia:
Can’t use the sign,
Matthew Maschler:
Can’t, can’t even can’t put a sign up. I happen
Staci Garcia:
To love the, the, that part of it, of living in a no HOA community. I, I guess a little bit a sign. Yeah. I can put my sign up. I, I, I love my sign <laugh>. I love looking at myself. Not in the mirror or on a FaceTime call, but when my signs across the street, I just stare at Adopt the Window. You know, Uhhuh like in my neighborhood when I have a listing, if I, if, if I have a listing and I, my signs across the street, I could just stare at it all day. I’m like, that’s me. I’m on a sign. You know? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So, um, so I, I can see where you’d wanna put your face on a sign in Deerfield. You know, I, I see the draw of it, but, um,
Matthew Maschler:
Well, because they say attractive, um, people, attractive realtors sell property for more money. Really? So that’s why I want my, my picture up there blasted out or
Staci Garcia:
Attractive people make more money too. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and, and also everyone knows you’re a smile, so Yeah. You know, they say, oh, it’s Matthew ler, you know that. And, and you know what, if they like working with you, just like when I like see someone that I know mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I’m like, oh cool. It’s a listing by so-and-so. I’m definitely gonna wanna work with them if this works out. You know, I’m happy about that. So yeah, maybe you wanna put your face on it, but also make it so that you can read it real quick when you’re driving by. Cause she won’t have much time. And, and, and you know what, I don’t know, a sign expert is only an expert on signs. That doesn’t seem like that’s that complicated. It’s a sign. You know? So, um, I guess a lot of thought goes into it, but it’s not as much thought that you’d put into a logo. Right. You know, or anything like that. I just, um, placement of a sign is really important to me
Matthew Maschler:
And need, I need to update some of my logos.
Staci Garcia:
I, um,
Matthew Maschler:
And I need to ra and I need to and, and I need to rainbow them. Um, because like all, all through June last month, Uhhuh for pride, I didn’t rainbow any of my logos. Like next year I have to rainbow all my logos.
Staci Garcia:
Well I happen to like rainbows anyway. I
Matthew Maschler:
Do like rainbows. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I, I told Lindsay, I I I was at Disney World with the kids and, and uh, and uh, but I g i I had to give Lindsay a lot of free time. Like we just have met for breakfast and then,
Staci Garcia:
Oh, does she do anything? Yeah.
Matthew Maschler:
Let me know when you get back to the hotel. So I told her about this, you know, t-shirt I bought, it was beautiful. It was had all my favorite colors, red and orange, yellow, green, all my favorite colors. Gi Biff. And she’s looking at me going,
Staci Garcia:
She get a rainbow shirt. You bought
Matthew Maschler:
A fried shirt. Wow. I bought a Mickey Mouse shirt. You
Staci Garcia:
Know what, everything I have pretty much has a rainbow on it, but I just happen to like rainbows.
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah. So I, that’s why I wanna rainbow all my logos next year. Yeah.
Staci Garcia:
I think it’s, um, it’s, I, you know what I, I love, love, love in, um, key West, the, and they did it in Delray as well, but I haven’t seen it in person. But in Key West they have, uh, the street walk. The crosswalks are rainbows. And they’re gorgeous to me that they’re gorgeous. They make, they, they, they light up the whole intersection. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And it’s, um, as soon as I saw it, I’m like, oh my God, I love this. Not because of pride, just because it’s gorgeous. Every intersection should be
Matthew Maschler:
Pride’s good too.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. Pride’s awesome. And I’m, I’m, I’m an ally and I love gay people, but it and everybody else, but I love it cuz it’s so happy. It’s happy. So, um, when I saw that I thought, oh my God, it’s weird that it’s new. We should have done this a long time ago. It’s so pretty.
Matthew Maschler:
What’s New Rainbows? The
Staci Garcia:
No, the Rainbow on the street. The
Matthew Maschler:
Gay Pride parade’s not that new. No, no. It’s just that they changed it to Pride Parade.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. No, that’s not even the, I’m talking
Matthew Maschler:
About, I I sometimes call it the Gay Pride Parade. Uhhuh <affirmative>. And I get like nasty look smoke for my daughter and from, I’m like, no, no. You don’t understand. That’s what it was called for so many years. Like Yeah. All through the eighties and nineties it was always called the Gay Pride Parade. Right. And, and it was awesome. But that’s what it was. And then it just became Pride Parade. Cause it didn’t have to be gay, it could be anyone. Right. Yeah. So, um, just take So, so I had to relearn that. Yeah. But sometimes I like with my son, like he collects football cards and basketball cards. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I call them baseball cards. All of them I call all the, but they’re sports cards. Right. But I call them all baseball cards and I don’t mean baseball. I know what you mean.
Right. He, he, yeah. You know, it’s a football card and of course it’s a, of course it’s a LeBron James basketball card. It’s like, oh, they’ve got a pack of be of baseball cards. He got this great LeBron James. Right. And then they was like, dad, what are you saying? <laugh>? Like no, I, I call sports cards. Baseball cards. Baseball cards. Yeah. Like, so like, I, I didn’t know they changed it from the Gay Pride parade to the Pride Parade. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, it’s, I I, when I learned that, I was like, oh, that makes sense. Right, right. That’s awesome. Right. Yeah. So like when they, when they changed the name of Sierra Mist to Mist Twist. Oh really? It took me so long to learn that. Mm-hmm. And when I finally did, you know, what happened to
Staci Garcia:
Get rid of it,
Matthew Maschler:
They changed it back to Sierra Mist. Oh. I’m like, ugh. That was a whole waste of time.
Staci Garcia:
That’s funny. <laugh>. That’s why when I was younger, I have weird names for things. Anyway, Uhhuh <affirmative>. But I called all tissues Kleenex if Kleenex went out of business. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I still call tissues Kleenex, I don’t call them tissues. And people call toilet paper, bathroom tissue. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> toilet paper. I don’t call toilet paper, bathroom tissue. I don’t even call tissues. Tissues. Right. I call tissues Kleenex. And my mom always called tissues kleenex. And so I’ll tell ’em, the boys pass me at Kleenex. And they’re like, why do you do that? There’s a, it’s annoying to them.
Matthew Maschler:
Okay. So what do they call the little cotton thing that you put in your ear? She tips. But why do you do that?
Staci Garcia:
Because it’s
Matthew Maschler:
Q-Tips, but Q-Tips is the brand name. Just like Kleenex is the brand name.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah, I know.
Matthew Maschler:
Um, a lot of people call all tissues Kleenex. All cotton swabs Q-tips. I do all bleach. Clorox
Staci Garcia:
Do same.
Matthew Maschler:
Right. Um, all um, all vinyl tile linoleum.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah.
Matthew Maschler:
You know, there’s a all um, all coolers that you fill with ice and beer. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> coolers, um, ilo.
Staci Garcia:
Oh yeah, yeah.
Matthew Maschler:
Right. Um, I think less nowadays, but it used to always be an ilo. But uh, we used, I think we used to call ’em Igloo.
Staci Garcia:
I have a little shirt that says Don’t hate me because I’m a little cooler Uhhuh. And then it has a little cooler
Matthew Maschler:
On it. Cooler. But, um, lots of, in, in England they call, uh, vacuum cleaners. Hoovers. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> because it is brand name. There’s a lot of brand names that have become synonyms of the product. I, I think Q-Tips is the best example. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Absolutely. But yeah, it, it, it happens quite often. So, uh, Xerox Kleenex and, and the like. But um, yeah, toilet paper. I think they’d say bathroom tissue because toilet, you know, it’s not as nice a word. Word, you know, bathroom tissue.
Staci Garcia:
Right.
Matthew Maschler:
Well no, I call it toilet paper.
Staci Garcia:
There’s a lot of things that I say to my boys and, and I was just joking. Um, cuz some people, you know, I told you a long time ago, if their dad went to Miami, I’d say Daddy’s in Miami. And then, um, Raden used to say to me, when’s daddy coming back from your <laugh>? And you know, and I be like, he’s in Miami. I’m like, and Raden would say, I know. And he is coming back from <laugh> constantly. And so so it went on
Matthew Maschler:
And he wasn’t kidding
Staci Garcia:
You. No, no. He was completely serious. Yeah. And so it went on for a very long time. Uhhuh, we have tons of saying like that Uhhuh, um, he used to say to me, uh, I don’t wanna go out cause A, cause a cause instead of B, cause Uhhuh, <affirmative> because A cause was better than B. Cause
Matthew Maschler:
Oh, aching
Staci Garcia:
First. Oh. So first it was a cause and then
Matthew Maschler:
Cause a like if you listed reasons A, B and C, a.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. So, so if it was B cause
Matthew Maschler:
That’s your second reason why.
Staci Garcia:
Well he would, yeah, he would say, I go out cause he was listing stuff. He goes, I don’t wanna go outside
Matthew Maschler:
Expensive because, cause it slates
Staci Garcia:
No as little he could see because I’ve, I don’t wanna go outside because you know, he would say, I don’t wanna go outside because it’s raining. And also because, and then he would switch it to because
Matthew Maschler:
And then CCO and because,
Staci Garcia:
And then I was like, that’s hysterical. Yeah, I know. And then I was like, oh my God, I’m trying to figure out where A cause came from. Uhhuh. <affirmative> and then when B cause and C cause came, I was like, oh no, I know. There
Matthew Maschler:
You go. There you go. Yep. All right. So thank you for joining us on the Real Estate Finder podcast. Uh, if you live in an HOA community, want, um, and wanna sell your house, and we will sell it without a sign. If you live in a no HOA community, you want a big sign with either of our pictures, let us know <laugh>.
Staci Garcia:
And if you live in a, if you don’t live in any community and you wanna get in an HOA community, but you don’t wanna use us, then don’t call us.
Matthew Maschler:
There you go, <laugh>. Bye bye.
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