Matthew Maschler:
Welcome to the Real Estate Finder podcast. I’m Matthew Maschler, real estate broker with the signature real estate companies in the great state of Florida. And with me, the co-host of the Real Estate Finder podcast,
Staci Garcia:
Stacey Garcia.
Matthew Maschler:
And Stacey, thank you for, uh, covering for me last week while I was away at Wrestl Mania. You did a great podcast. Thank you with you, uh, Jill and, um, and Lauren. And Lauren, uh, Lauren was our, um, on the other side of one of our deals that, that we did together. Well,
Staci Garcia:
Lauren’s also on another side, another person that’s on, uh, in a new deal that, uh, she’s the buyer’s agent. No, she’s the seller’s agent. And I’m the buyer’s agent
Matthew Maschler:
On a, on a deal that you’re actively working. Yes. And you closed the deal
Staci Garcia:
Today, but the, but you
Matthew Maschler:
Closed the deal today that you talked about last week. So you have two deals. You did two deals with her.
Staci Garcia:
No, Lauren, uh, closed the deal with Jill. With Jill
Matthew Maschler:
Previously. Okay. Jill did a deal with her, and now you’re doing a deal with her. Yep. That’s fantastic. I love when that, it’s really nice. Yeah. Uh, we should, uh, we should try to get her over onto the signature side.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. Well, she’s got her team, her,
Matthew Maschler:
She has her
Staci Garcia:
Team, but yeah, they’re really good. And Uhhuh, one thing I I really appreciate, it’s so much, and it’s really important, is a great agent on the other side. Yes. So today I noticed because, um, our deal is solid and we passed the inspection period, Uhhuh <affirmative>, that she marked it from active under contract to pending Uhhuh <affirmative>. And this is an agent that you can tell beside the fact that we like her and we met her and she was on the podcast, is that she’s keeping time with in real life. Right. With things as they go without me asking for anything at all.
Matthew Maschler:
And that’s why on the flip side, when it’s your deal and when it’s your listing, you, you know, you should be doing the same thing. Right? Right. When, when you get an, when you, when you get a, the, the, the, your listing is active. When you, when you get a signed offer, you should market active under contract. You, uh, you know, it’s, it’s, it, it, it’s, the other party will see it, the other agent will see it, and they will smile the way you smile. Right. And, uh, active under contract means you’ll, you’ll still show it and for, for, uh, for backup offers. But, um, now that the inspection period is over,
Staci Garcia:
It’s sheet of marked depending this morning, and I saw it was marked pending. That’s, that’s great. I appreciate that. And I didn’t say anything to her at all.
Matthew Maschler:
That’s great. Now, uh, one of the things I wanted to talk about today is on the other side. Right? Right. That’s an agent who, who, who does her job. And, and it’s always great to, uh, to work with agents who do their job. On the other side, we’re doing
Staci Garcia:
Dun, dun, dun
Matthew Maschler:
<laugh>. We’re dealing with an agent who, uh, awful is not doing his job. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, and you know, I’m, I’m reading through some of, some of the course I get this, sometimes we just have to vent here in the real estate find podcast
Staci Garcia:
<laugh>. It’s, it’s kind of fun, you know, in, in a needed necessary.
Matthew Maschler:
We have a lot of, uh, HOA communities here in Boca. And, uh, and Stacy specializes in the No Hoa, uh, communities, which, uh, that way you can avoid some of this HOA drama. And if you want a lot of HOA drama, by the way, little side sidebar here, here at the, uh, podcast studio, the pod popular, uh, podcast studio locations all over Florida and all over the us. Uh, one of the, one of the shows that records here, uh, crazy Rich Neighbors. Uh, so it’s a great little show to, uh, to hear, uh, some crazy stories about what happens in HOA communities. Uh, so big shout out. They just celebrated their 100th episode. That’s awesome. This is our 79th episode here at the Real Estate Find Podcast. But check out crazy Rich Neighbors. If you wanna hear some funny stories about HOA communities, uh, in South Florida, and congratulations to them on their 100th episode.
Okay. Back to us HOA community <laugh>. The, um, one thing I I have to always tell my agents is, uh, when you’re getting the HOA information, just talk to the HOA directly. Get current HOA information. Sometimes our sellers, uh, they don’t remember things accurately or, or, or exactly what the, what they are. And if, if the seller tells you that there’s no application process, you want to verify that with the hoa. So here’s what happened. Um, HOA community, when, uh, when our seller bought here 25 years ago, there was no, um, application process, um, which is so har hard to believe, cuz the HOA has to know the names of the people that live there. That should still be some kind of form. It could be just a form where you submit your name and address and phone number, um, and that’s the application. Maybe there’s no approval process. Right. But there’s usually an application process. It’s a big difference. Right, right. I
Staci Garcia:
Don’t think that was clear. I think that might just be the, the issue
Matthew Maschler:
Right there, that there was no approval pro, there was an application process, no approval set.
Staci Garcia:
Well, I put that there was an application.
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah, there was an application process. So, um, we’re dealing with a, with a, with a agent who, um, uh, seemed to believe that there was no application process and they, they did not apply to the hoa. And we’re, we’re writing them, you have to apply to the hoa, and the contract has provisions, and the buyer is required to apply to the HOA with, with the next number of days. And the, the buyer’s just refusing to, um, to apply. And they, they come up with this theory. It’s brilliant theory that since the seller did not have to apply 25 years ago, the seller should be grandfathered in under the no application rule. And this buyer shouldn’t have to apply. And I had to say to this agent, you’ve got to be kidding me. Yes. If the HOA makes a rule and, and the, the current residents are grandfathered in, um, for instance, all these communities that went from went to mandatory membership country clubs. Absolutely. Right. Um, the
Staci Garcia:
People didn’t have to apply
Matthew Maschler:
The, they didn’t, the people that lived there, when they made the application rule, and they, when they made the approval process, they didn’t have to all of a sudden get approved. Right. All right. They, they lived there already. They lived, they’ve lived there for 17 years. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, they’re grandfathered in. But the buyer, the buyer isn’t grandfathered in. The buyer has to follow the current rules. And I, and I said to this guy, by your logic, no HOA could ever change their rule. Right. Or raise their fee. Right. We just, one of the HOAs I live in, uh, just raised the, uh, price of how much you have to buy in, uh, to the HOA when you purchase your house. Now that you could make that rule just for, you know, that didn’t, I bought my house 15 years ago. I didn’t have to, I didn’t have to, I didn’t have to go back in time.
I’m grandfathered in. I didn’t have to pay that price. But the new buyer, the new buyer has to follow all of the rules. This, you are a new buyer. You were not a member, you’re not grandfather didn’t, you’re not, you weren’t a member of this hoi you are buying in now under the current rules. So these people that lived in these country clubs, right, they could live there for years and years without being a member. Their buyer must join. Otherwise they couldn’t make the rule of mandatory membership. Cuz everybody would theoretically be grandfather didn’t forever. Exactly. Under that logic. Nobody could ever, nobody could ever change anything. Change, change an HOA rule <laugh>. So, so I had to say to the guy, I could say, listen, you have an obli. And he wasn’t applying. He just wasn’t applying. And I think he wanted out of the contract. I,
Staci Garcia:
I asked, um, so your buyers are not interested in buying the house. I just wanna be clear, right. Because if that’s the case, I’ll move on. I, you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I’ll take the steps necessary to move forward. Cuz why am I wasting
Matthew Maschler:
My time? Were they in, were they enduring inspections?
Staci Garcia:
No.
Matthew Maschler:
Mm-hmm. Now, that’s another thing, by the way, during your inspection period, if you have a seven day inspection period, check out the HOA rules. If you don’t like the HOA rules, you can cancel the contract. Right. That is the point of the inspection. The inspection isn’t just to, um, the inspection isn’t just to inspect the house and the roof. Right. Check out if there’s open liens, check out the HOA rules, check out a lot of things, check out everything you want. Because once that inspection period is over, you cannot get outta the contract. Right. Even if you didn’t know there was an approval process, even if you didn’t know how much it was. And by the way, by the way, the m l s is not binding. If the MLS says that there’s no, that it’s $150 fee and it’s a $1,500 fee. Right. That’s on you, Mr.
Byer. That is not on the listing agent. You cannot rely, you cannot rely on the mls, Mr. Byer, you cannot rely on the MLS for anything. You join your inspection period. Look at the square footage. If the listing says 2,900 square feet and it don’t, and there’s only 2300 square feet. Right. You can cancel in your inspection period. If the listing says no HOA, and there is an hoa, you can cancel in your inspection period. Now, it’s harder if there’s no hoa, if, if, if the listening says no HOA and, uh, and turns out there is an hoa. Yeah. Because some of the obligations are in the HOA addendum. Right. Um, but I still don’t think you can cancel. If you f if you thought there was no HOA and you found out that there is an hoa, I still don’t think you have the right to cancel.
Um, it’s just that you don’t have the obligation to apply to the hoa, which is found in the HOA den in your, in your case, they signed the HOA denon. Yeah. So they were obligated to apply to the hoa. So I actually had to say to this guy, you have contractual obligation to apply to the hoa. Right. If you do not apply to the hoa, you are in breach of contract. And if you breach your contract, the sellers can go after you for the deposit. And not only can they go after you for the deposit, they can owe after you for damages, so please apply to the hoa. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, I guess I was a little too rough with them because customer, uh, or, or sellers said, told me I was a little
Staci Garcia:
Terrific. Really? I think it worked. It worked
Matthew Maschler:
Well. Oh, he fell in line <laugh>. Dear Hoa, please provide me all the information
Staci Garcia:
At 11 o’clock at night. I was getting bombarded with text and, and emails. Yeah. About please give me this, please gimme that. We need to apply.
Matthew Maschler:
He applied. And that’s what I said, Don, you have a contractual obligation and, and most people think they can lose their deposit. It’s more than that. For instance, if you were under contract to buy a house for seven 50, right. And, uh, and the market turns, and then you can only sell the house for 700. Arguably you could sue the buyer for the difference. Right. So it’s not just the, uh, just the deposit. That’s it. That, that’s that issue. Collecting judgment is, is is more difficult if, if there’s a deposit, at least, you know, you can collect the money’s there. Well, the money’s somewhere. But, you know, collecting on, on, on the larger cases is harder to do. But it is possible. So, um, so yeah. So, uh, it, it’s good to work with good agents. We want to, we want,
Staci Garcia:
It’s great to work with great agents. Yeah. It’s good to work with good agents and it’s absolutely painfully awful to work with horrible agents. Yeah. And so it, it, it ex it’s exhausting. I’ve done, um, several deals with less than great agents and also agents that just disappear. Right. And you end up doing their job and sometimes they say, Hey, um, you know what, can you change the off? Can you re can you write the off they started with, can you change it? Can you write, can you write the offer for on behalf of my buyers mm-hmm. <affirmative>, and then you’re doing their job. Why should they get paid for you to do their job? Like, I just don’t, I don’t get it. I end up doing their job so that my off my, you know, my listing will be under contract.
Matthew Maschler:
Your, it was your listing.
Staci Garcia:
Not in this situation, but in another situation. I wrote the offer.
Matthew Maschler:
You had a listing and you had a, a, a buyer’s agent say, can you write
Staci Garcia:
The offer?
Matthew Maschler:
Hey Stacy, would you mind, uh, writing that offer for me? Yeah. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Wow. Yeah. You know what’s interesting about that? What, there’s a lot of power in that first offer. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, there’s a lot of check boxes. Yeah. And, uh, you know, how much is that? For instance, if I was writing the offer Right. And it wasn’t my buyer. Yeah. Um, they wouldn’t have very long inspection periods. Yeah. Right. Did they, like, what did they give you all the terms deposits and everything
Staci Garcia:
Like that? There was a, a bunch of changes. And instead of making the changes, I said, can you just rewrite the offer? And she said, can you just rewrite the offer?
Matthew Maschler:
So she did make the original offer. Yeah. She made the original offer, but then she wanted you to redraft the offer. Yeah. With all the changes. Yeah.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. I could have changed anything I wanted by that point. Well,
Matthew Maschler:
That, well that’s, that’s, that’s a little scummier. Yeah.
Staci Garcia:
I’m not that way at all. Yeah. I wouldn’t, I really just wanted to get the, the deal
Matthew Maschler:
Done. When I used to practice law, when there was a change to the contract, they would highlight it in red or blue. Right. So in situations like that, when it’s, when, when you can’t track the changes Yeah. Then I get really nervous because what if they changed? Who’s gonna pay for title? Right. Or who’s responsible for one thing or another. Right. So it, it could be very difficult when you go, when you go through those, uh, when you go through those offers and checking out those terms after
Staci Garcia:
Multiple. That brings me to another question I wanted to ask you. So, go ahead. I had a, um, buyer who made an offer and they offered to, um, choose and pay title mm-hmm. <affirmative> and then, and everything was good with the, with the offer and they we’re gonna accept it. But at the last moment they decided, you know what, we’re going to choose our own title company and we’re gonna choose and pay title. The seller.
Matthew Maschler:
The, the buyer was the buyer was going, was going to choose and pay for the title. Yeah. Okay. And then as it was negotiated, the seller said, no, we want to Yep.
Staci Garcia:
So
Matthew Maschler:
They, with with no change to the purchase price.
Staci Garcia:
Nope. Everything else stayed the same. Okay. So we were actually paying less because we weren’t paying.
Matthew Maschler:
You represented the buyer. Yep. Yeah. So, so it’s a benefit to the buyer because they wouldn’t have to pay for title. Right. Right. So that could be a three or $4,000 benefit to the buyer, but maybe there was a reason they wanted to choose the title company. Right.
Staci Garcia:
Okay. Well, sometimes I, I, that was, I put in, cuz I have a routine now, so I feel like I, I’d like to work with the title company. Signature title. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I, we have a whole routine. Yeah. I go,
Matthew Maschler:
We had Greg on the show the other
Staci Garcia:
Day. Yep. Uh, and everything is so smooth with them mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And so, and they know me really well. They know you. They can text me and call me. Right. And I just was on the phone with them. You
Matthew Maschler:
Get paid quicker.
Staci Garcia:
I, I get paid instantly. Right. So, um, I had signature in there and then she, they changed it to a different title
Matthew Maschler:
Company. The seller did. Yep.
Staci Garcia:
Uhhuh <affirmative>. And then we were just gonna initial that change mm-hmm. <affirmative> and it would’ve been an, an executed contract. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And that’s how it went. Um, I completely blanked down and forgot about that later when I went to tell my buyer, just drop the check at Signature. You know, cuz that’s what
Matthew Maschler:
Right, right. Well, whoa, whoa, whoa. Two different issues. Yes. That’s who pays and chooses for the title and does the closing. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> that’s different than who the escrow agent is.
Staci Garcia:
Right. So remember, I, I messaged you. I said, oh boy, I made a, I made a mistake. I forgot to tell my buyer that the, on that first page, the escrow
Matthew Maschler:
And on the first page, who was it on? Who was the Es Who was the escrow agent?
Staci Garcia:
Title works. The, their, their title company.
Matthew Maschler:
The sellers.
Staci Garcia:
The sellers. Yeah. How
Matthew Maschler:
Did they Cause that was changed. They changed it.
Staci Garcia:
They wrote
Matthew Maschler:
It in, you wrote the offer with signature being the escrow agent. Yes. They changed it to Title Works. They changed both. They changed Title Works being the escrow agent. They also changed title works. Not, not, they didn’t, you don’t name the closing agent. They just, they changed to the seller pays and chooses. Yeah. Okay. So they they did, they they did both.
Staci Garcia:
Yep. Okay. So, uh, so then I got a little nervous. Maybe I got a, a little nervous cuz I get nervous when there’s change. And that’s things I’ve for forget. And, and I, I have like a routine. So any, any deviation from my usual routine, I start to overthink about they’re leaving the money with a company that I haven’t worked with yet.
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah. You don’t know who they are. Right. They may not even be licensed, so. Right. I mean, it’s the buyer’s money and Right. It could be a fgi. I mean it could be. Right.
Staci Garcia:
Well, this is Florida. Yeah, it could be. And I’ve been here a long time. Yeah.
Matthew Maschler:
So, you know, you know Joe, Joe title and <laugh> and, and with a, with a, with a fake office and Right. They come in deposit check. Well, so
Staci Garcia:
That, that was my question mainly. Yeah. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, how do you, like, is there some way to look up the title companies? Yeah.
Matthew Maschler:
Um,
Staci Garcia:
I, my first, my first uh, attempt is I ask my title company, Hey you guys, have you ever heard of, have you ever heard of Title Works? Have you worked with them? No. I’m like, oh God. Okay. Next person. I’ll ask you, have you ever heard of Title Works? Have you ever worked with them? You
Matthew Maschler:
Know? Yeah. Um, I’m sure these, I don’t know who, who regulates them. You know, it’s like, so like an attorney, you go to the Florida bar and you find them. Right. Right. A real estate agent. You go to the division of Business and Professional Resources. I don’t know where you would go to find, that’s a good question. Where’d you find the college agent? Right. If they are a scammer, you don’t wanna trust their website. No, of course. On, on who they are. Right. So I don’t know where you’d go. Um, would, I’d, you could certainly, you know, you could interview them. What, what I’d ask if I was interviewing them, I’d ask them, um, all, I’ll get technical here for you. Do you know the difference between a title agency and a title company?
Staci Garcia:
Well, we talked about it once, but I couldn’t rattle off.
Matthew Maschler:
So it’s like, um, right. Like car insurance, right. Or, or life insurance. You have an, you have an agent mm-hmm. <affirmative>, but there’s an insurance company that writes the policy. Right. There’s only like two or three insurance companies that write the policies. Right. Fidelity, Chicago, um, US title. Those are the, I think those are the three large title companies. Everyone else is an agent that writes policies for those companies. Right. So, you know, if you’re doing your due diligence, you wanna find out what, what companies do you write for. Right. Right. And, you know, do they write for Chicago title and then you contact Chicago title. Right. Um, so I mean, I don’t know what else, what other, it’s a good question. I want what steps can you take? Escrow agent? And that’s, again,
Staci Garcia:
It’s, it’s where the money is. Right? Everyone’s, yeah. We all get concerned through email whether you’re gonna wire, um, money to the wrong people. Right. And in the beginning, the whole, in the whole beginning of the transaction, when you’re supposed to put your deposit somewhere, I took your lead. You said, whenever I’m gonna do a deal, I would like to know where my money goes. I wanna pick my own escrow company. Right.
Matthew Maschler:
And as the buyer, you’re writing the offer. That’s what we said before about, about letting you know, Hey, Mr. Yeah. Hey, listing agent, could you, do you wanna write the well, is you gonna write the offer? Are you gonna put your absolutely escrow agent and mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, we, I have a deal right now that went south and my sellers want to go after the deposit money and the buyer chose the, the escrow agent. And it’s very difficult dealing with this escrow agency. They’re barely even answering the phone. They seem shady as all how, that’s
Staci Garcia:
What I mean.
Matthew Maschler:
Um, so yeah. And that, so that’s why I mean, first, first, that’s why as a buyer, as a buyer’s agent, you want the buyer to put, you know, name an escrow agent that you’re gonna be comfortable with. And that’s why, and that’s a service that Greg at Signature provides for us. Right. Greg and Ben. Um, because what they, you know, they know when we represent the buyer and we put them down as the, as the escrow agent mm-hmm. <affirmative> in Palm Beach County, when the seller chooses, a lot of times the seller doesn’t choose them. Right. Right. So there’s a lot of paperwork involved with them being the escrow agent. So they’re the escrow agent for signature, you know, as a, as a, as a courtesy, they’re hoping to get the title work right. But, you know, you could have plenty of deals as a buyer where they hold the, hold the escrow and don’t get the title work.
And then they, um, and then they have to, right. Then they send the, uh, the escrow, the the escrow to the, to the closing agent. But again, right. We do, we wanna do our due diligence on these, on these closing agents. Who are they? That is also why when I buy for my own account, right. I check, I check that the, that the buyer chooses and pays for title. It’s hard to convince my customers, right? Mm-hmm. <affirmative> to take that expense. For me, it’s worth it because I want to use my title agents and I, I tend to use, for my own personal deals, I tend to use Bob Schwartz. Yeah. Um, and then he’ll be the escrow agent if he’s gonna get the title at work. Right. He doesn’t want to bother with being the escrow agent if he’s not getting the title work Right. But, uh, but I’ll make Bob Schwartz the escrow agent, and then buyer chooses. And that way I know my money is safe. And more importantly, I know that my, my, my title is good. Greg Geffen. I, I have no problem with no question about, I would also use him. I just, I honor the longer relationship. There’s a lot of other ti great title companies out there. Eric Orner is great. Um, uh, Seth Huberman at Quaker State is fantastic.
Staci Garcia:
I like Quaker and at Quaker and I also like Pat Reve. Yeah. It’s not that, it’s just that the unknown, like title works was the unknown.
Matthew Maschler:
Doing it in-house, having the courtesy of being able to hold our buyer’s deposit is one of the reasons why Greg has earned the, being the default of, of, of, of our real estate agents, um, at Signature. Um, but yeah, it’s, it’s difficult dealing with, uh, title agent, uh, an escrow agent that you don’t know, and then they’re gonna hold a, a good amount of money. Um, or, um, or, or, or then doing the closing, imagine, you know, imagine if they men, if they were a scammer and either just ran away with a deposit Yeah. Or ran away with the, with the bank’s money. Right.
Staci Garcia:
But there’s a lot of, I get, um, being a member of, of the Boton Investment Club. I don’t know if you get, but I also get the, um, uh, wholesale, the wholesale, they’re not listings, but the wholesale alerts for, uh, properties. And, and a lot of them say, you must use our escrow. And if you have to use their escrow and your money is being held with them, then you’re wondering maybe if, like, I always think that what’s the angle? What’s the scam? These are unlisted properties that they’re offering at a discount and you have to put your money with your deposit in, with their escrow. And then I thought, I think, oh, no, forget it. I’m, I’m not interested. It kind of scares me away. But, um, I mean, they could be completely legitimate escrow companies. I just don’t know that I wanna put my money with someone I don’t know. And that’s just exactly how I feel on behalf of my buyer.
Matthew Maschler:
And then, and go back, still go back to the seller, say, and say, listen, you know, it’s fine. You can choose the closing agent. Right. You can pay for it and include the closing agent, but we want to, um, have our person be the escrow agent.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. Well, since this was already done mm-hmm. <affirmative>, I called the escrow company and I I gave them an interview, you know, I interviewed them Uhhuh <affirmative>, and they’re really nice. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, it’s not it, I just didn’t know them. Right. And when she, I said, your office is in Deerfield. And when she was saying how close it was to me, I was like, oh, you know what, maybe I’ll just drop by. You know, cuz I’m right. Great. And, uh, so essentially I, I could have a new ti Now I do this with inspectors too. Hey, if they’re really good, I, I make them my own, you know. But I have a really good title company, so I’m not looking for another one. But, um, now I have one on the list, you know, that I’m working with. If this deal goes well, they could be a backup. I don’t need one. But it’s nice to know that they’re legit. That’s how I feel about that whole thing. But it does make me nervous when you know that the money’s not with you. So, or with someone that you’re used to working with that you know, is reputable, especially in this in Florida, you
Matthew Maschler:
Know? Right, right. So yeah. So, um, could be worse stories about bad real estate agents and bad title companies. Right. You know, if I we’re gonna title this episode, bad Real Estate Agents and bad Title companies, <laugh>, but we don’t have any really, really bad stories. No, not
Staci Garcia:
Yet. Um, everything’s going well so far.
Matthew Maschler:
So if you have a bad title company story, please feel to, uh, feel free to reach out to us. Uh, Matt at Real Estate Finder, or Stacy with an I s T A c i mm-hmm. <affirmative> at Real Estate Finder. Tell us, uh, your, your bad, uh, real estate agent or bad, um, uh, title agent story, or, uh, maybe we’ll even get you on the, on the show. Um, so yeah. So to you, uh, good real estate agents out there, it’s a pleasure to work with you. I have to do a better job like trying to recruit them to come over to join the team. Awesome. Yeah. At Signature. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, you know, I, I did a good deal, um, with some good agents. Um, I actually sent them an email this morning. It was within Signature. It was a great one. Oh, good. A signature agent referred a deal to me.
Nice. Because it was too complicated for the her to handle. Uh, so I felt very flattered Awesome. That I got the deal. Uh, Jill and I, uh, listed the property mm-hmm. <affirmative> and, uh, Laurie Dubbo and, uh, um, like her name Katie Goldberg. Right. Uh, they represented the buyer. So we had a, uh, a signature, the signature deal. And that was always pleasant because, um, you know, not only are they very good to work with and Yeah. Very well trained. Um, you know, we have, you know, there’s, there’s the state rules and then there’s the association rules, but then there’s certain signature nuances. Right. Um, so we, we got each other. That’s cool. We, we understood each other. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So, um, so it was, you know, it was a, it was a tricky deal Yeah. In the first place, but, um, but it got done because of the level of professionalism involved on both sides.
So, oh, congratulations. So yeah, we’re, we’re gonna, uh, we’re gonna celebrate, uh, over at Luigi DeRoma next week. Oh, cool. Have a, uh, have a deal, uh, celebration dinner, um, because, uh, it was a client that I got through Luigi DeRoma. Right. Um, and, uh, and they’ve earned, uh, you know, there’s nothing wrong with, uh, spending my commission money at Luigi Dema <laugh>. I’m gonna be, uh, in a, a little, um, foreshadowing, uh, if you got a Luigi Dema gift card, uh, come holiday time. <laugh> <laugh>. There you go. That is why I am, I gotta buy a ho, you know, gift cards too somewhere, <laugh>. Yeah. And I like the, the ones with the 20% bonuses, but, um, but Luigi De is gonna, some people are gonna get some nice, uh, Louis g de uh, gift cards this holiday season. That’s awesome. So, uh, thank you to Louis Aroma.
That’s a big deal, huh? Yeah. Yeah. It was a, uh, a raw land developable land in Deerfield Beach. And, uh, and, uh, and it was good. We don’t do a lot of commercial, but, uh, but I told Jill to treat it like a house. Right. Do everything she would normally do if it was a house mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And, uh, after it was listed, uh, if she had any questions to, to ask me, that’s cool. And, uh, and then we, we listed it and we sold it. We put it on the, the regular residential mls, but we put on some of the commercial MLSs Co-star and LoopNet, and, uh, and it worked out really well. Um, and we just did it again. And we have a deal in Miami on a, on a office condo. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, it’s a ground floor of a condo building. Um, and it did the same thing.
And the other agent, she’s, she’s good, she’s good to work with. Right. But she’s a little prissy and demanding. Oh. So, um, and I know there’s links to my podcast on my email signature <laugh>. So, so if you’re, uh, we’re not talking about you. No, no. We’re talking about you <laugh>, we’re talking about you. But, um, um, even though, uh, I’m, I’m sure she’s not like I, I’m those enough that if someone emails me and their signature has a podcast, I’m those emails to listen. But yes, if you’re listening, if you’re representing the other side of my Miami condo, <laugh> office condo deal, uh, yes, you’re a little pristine demanding, but you’re a pleasure to work with. And if I had a choice between you and, and the guy that I’m working with, the guy that you work with or about, I wouldn’t say 99%, but 85% of most other agents, I would choose to work with you again in a heartbeat.
Yep. Just, uh, just not sure if you’re gonna get one of the, uh, post-closing solicitation, come join my team letters. Yep. Which I need to write. I’m gonna have, uh, artificial intelligence. Help me write that letter. Awesome. <laugh>. All right. Is that it for the show? Yep. That is it for the show. If you can’t get enough of me, check out the Matthew Mania podcast, uh, where we’re gonna be talking about WrestleMania 39 results. Um, today, um, this weekend we’re going over the edge to raise money for Give Kids of the World. So that’s very exciting. So we will see you next week here on the Real Estate Finder podcast. I’m Matthew ler, uh, real estate finder.com.
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