Speaker 1 00:00:07 You are listening to the realestate podcast.ca, brought to you by jnc Toronto Real Estate Group.
Speaker 2 00:00:18 Hello everybody, and welcome to the very first, the realestate Podcast, <laugh>, uh, maybe I should say the realestate podcast.ca. That's where you can find us. Uh, my name is John, along with, uh, Cheryl and Nicole. We are your hosts. And, uh, we're coming to you direct from our offices, also known as the
Speaker 3 00:00:37 Shed
Speaker 2 00:00:37 <laugh> the shed, uh, in our backyard here in Leslieville in Toronto. So, um, welcome. This is kind of exciting, ladies. How are you feeling today,
Speaker 4 00:00:45 Nicole? How are you feeling?
Speaker 3 00:00:47 <laugh>? I feel a little nervous. Me too. We've got all this foam stuff everywhere and John Show. Keep looking at me.
Speaker 2 00:00:53 Gosh. Yeah. We've transformed our office into the studio today, uh, which makes me very excited. I love this kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 00:01:00 Do you wanna know how I'm feeling? How
Speaker 2 00:01:01 Are you feeling, Cheryl?
Speaker 4 00:01:02 I'm feeling tall because I'm wearing very high heels. 'cause Nicole is actually taller than me. Yes.
Speaker 3 00:01:06 Oh yeah. I'm also feeling kind of important with all this stuff in here, <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:01:09 Well, you are. How you feel.
Speaker 4 00:01:11 You are important, Nicole.
Speaker 2 00:01:13 So what we wanna do today is just introduce ourselves, uh, tell you a little bit about what it's all about and who we are. Uh, we are John, Cheryl, and Nicole with the J N C Toronto Real Estate Group. Our first episode, as you can see, is called What's it All about? Uh, although I also wanted to maybe call it Real Estate for the Masses because Cheryl's a huge Depeche Mode fan. Can you tell us a little bit about that?
Speaker 4 00:01:33 Music for the Masses with an album released in 1987 and made Depeche Mode, a household name <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:01:39 See, Cheryl does not just know about real estate, but she's also a music aficionado. Concerts being one
Speaker 4 00:01:44 Of her favorite things. Useless information. Hoarder. <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:01:47 We're calling it both now, right? We're calling it both. What's it all about? Don't Real
Speaker 2 00:01:50 Estate es We'll figure that out. It's really called What's it all about? We're
Speaker 4 00:01:54 Very fluid. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 2 00:01:55 So in the footnotes, it, well this is what the Real Estate podcast is gonna be about though is, is real estate for the masses. You know, when I started, uh, getting into podcasts, uh, about a year or so ago, uh, I looked into real estate podcasts and one of the things I noticed is that the vast majority of them were for investors or for realtors. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, like how to stay motivated and do lead generation, and you need a coach. And I saw that there was a real gap for real estate content and information for the general public, for the masses. And, you know, we all love talking about real estate. Um, we're in it every single day and our clients are always reaching out to us, engaging with us on Instagram, over the phone, face to face the old fashioned way. And, uh, we just get questions all the time about what's going on. So
Speaker 4 00:02:41 What's going on with the market, how it is to be a realtor, what's behind the scenes, pulling back the curtain. We wanna sort of share all of that to not just other realtors or investors, which I'm sure we will have some information for that as well. But for people that, uh, are just interested to know what our chats are like in the shed <laugh>. Exactly.
Speaker 3 00:02:59 I on a tangent that there's enough realtors that people are making podcasts just for realtors. Like it's not a niche group, right? Yeah. This is a big enough demographic Yeah. That we'll make a podcast just for realtors.
Speaker 2 00:03:09 Absolutely. Well, there's 70,000 of them that are Toronto real estate, um, gpa, board board members alone. So there's definitely not a lack of realtors out there. Actually, we went to a conference recently and someone said, uh, that was speaking at the conference that they got pulled over on the way to the conference and the police officer pulled him over and said, can I see your real estate license please? And he said, real estate license, don't you mean by driver's license? And the officer said, no, not everyone has a driver's license <laugh>,
Speaker 3 00:03:34 But outta
Speaker 2 00:03:34 The phone. Yeah. Um, so yeah, a lot of, you're probably wondering what goes into being a realtor, what goes into bringing a property to close successfully? So we're, we're just wanting to let you know today what the podcast moving forward is gonna be about. And we're gonna have a different topic every single episode. Um, and, you know, we're kind of looking to spread the word and give information from our perspective. Um, and Cheryl likes to say that we're going to
Speaker 4 00:04:00 Educate and entertain
Speaker 3 00:04:02 <laugh>. Definitely entertain,
Speaker 2 00:04:04 Yeah. And we will cover some of the basics with regards to investing. Um, people that are thinking about buying a property for the first time. Um, and, uh, of course we we're assuming that a lot of people that, uh, are just interested and there's so many people that love to talk about real estate, uh, will be tuning in, uh, on a weekly basis, maybe not a weekly basis. We're planning on hopefully doing this, uh, maybe two or three times a month, uh, time permitting. And, uh, the, the thing is, is we see some crazy shit every, every single day. Can I say that? Are we, are we gonna bleep?
Speaker 3 00:04:34 I think we decided we would bleep you. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:04:35 We'll bleep that out.
Speaker 3 00:04:36 It's fine. We have to bleep all of us at some point
Speaker 2 00:04:39 Every single day. We're seeing weird and crazy stuff. Um, and so what's the weirdest thing you've seen in real estate so far, Nicole?
Speaker 3 00:04:45 You know, I've told this story a few times. I never know where to put like, the emphasis in it, but, um, my most famous story is, um, there was a time that I was with a client and it was go direct, which means that we know there's gonna be someone in the unit. And thinking about the story, you know, it was really hard to find the unit. So we were pretty kerfuffle when we got there, which is what had us not really see all the red flags going on at the time. Lady opened the door in her house coat, which is fine. Uh, closed it said, hang on a second, open the door, let us come in. And we came into the unit. It was very dark, hard to see the unit, and we realized that we were in the middle of a, um,
Speaker 4 00:05:22 What seemed like,
Speaker 3 00:05:23 Uh, what what presumably could only be <laugh>. Yes. An orgy <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:05:30 So what happened? You just jumped right in? Or? Luckily
Speaker 3 00:05:32 It was a great client that I really like. He was nice. Um, but I felt this need to protect him, actually protect him from what? I have no idea, but protect him from the orgy. Make evil. Yeah. Both of us felt inclined to be super polite and still look around the unit. I don't know why, but like, do we turn the lights on? Do we not turn them on? We sort of turned them on and they're like, oh gosh. And turned them back off, looked around and decided it was not for us. <laugh>.
Speaker 4 00:05:53 Do you know? I know that story, so it didn't shock me to hear it. Of course. Yes. But the two things that stood out when Nicole was telling that story is she said, kerfuffle, we'd love your old timey sayings and house coat. Who calls it
Speaker 3 00:06:04 A house coat anymore? I dunno. <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:06:07 I think Nicole is like, what
Speaker 3 00:06:08 Is it? A dressing gown? 73 row a Rob, whatever.
Speaker 2 00:06:12 She's a 73 year old trapped in a 30 something year old body. That's for sure. Um, how about you, Cheryl? What's, uh, some of the weirdest things or,
Speaker 4 00:06:19 But before I say my weirdest thing, can I just go back to you were talking about who this podcast is for? Yeah. I truly believe that the major thing that we'll be finding is drawing people in, is that we're gonna give everyone who's listening a chance to peer behind the curtain, see what goes on in our day-to-day, what happens behind closed doors, and also get a chance to almost feel like they are sitting in this office with us. 'cause this is how we banter throughout the day, right? So it's going to be like we're putting ourselves out there for a short period of time, every however many weeks you decide to make us work.
Speaker 2 00:06:53 I also just wanted to use that opportunity to say that I'm super grateful that I get to work with the two of you because real estate can be an extremely lonely profession for single agents out there. The three of us together. Yeah. Seeing each other every day, talking about the experiences that we've had. We can commiserate, we can celebrate our wins. So, um, just a little love for
Speaker 4 00:07:12 Jay and guys, everyone listening. He doesn't ever tell us stuff like this. This is for our listeners. I
Speaker 3 00:07:18 Was also gonna say, we don't even ever yell at each other, but we just got yelled at about a microphone like twice <laugh> before this started.
Speaker 2 00:07:23 Sorry about
Speaker 4 00:07:24 That. Ladies, we just ignore the yelling. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:07:26 Actually, let's go back to some crazy shit. Crazy. I can I share my story? Yes, if you want. So we were looking at a property out in Oakville. Um, so this podcast, by the way, is mostly for Toronto and area, uh, real estate experiences. Um, so we were showing a property, uh, that could at best be described as a fixer upper <laugh>. Um, it was borderline condemned. Yeah. Uh, and so when we went in, there was no electricity. It was dark, there was dark stuff on all the walls. I I There was mold on the walls. There was, yeah. Cheryl didn't want to go in, but I'm like, I must check this out.
Speaker 4 00:07:59 And her client went in for a split second. Came
Speaker 3 00:08:01 Flashlight. Were you prepared? No. Was my phone. It was
Speaker 4 00:08:04 Daylight. It was daylight. It was in the middle
Speaker 2 00:08:05 Of day and I had my phone. Yeah. So, uh, and I went over to the kitchen and there was only one appliance there and it happened to be the fridge. And I made the mistake of opening it. And, uh, rats had eaten out the back of the fridge, um, to be able to get inside so they could use the fridge to make it its nest. So I saw a rat's nest and uh, Cheryl, uh, did a quick little insta story, uh, about,
Speaker 4 00:08:25 And I was standing outside after taking a few pictures. <laugh>. I'm like, no thanks.
Speaker 2 00:08:29 And one of our, our home inspector colleagues, uh, basically messaged Gerald and said, get the hell out of there. Is John still in there? 'cause that's active black mold. So Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:08:37 And if we can talk about you having to open this obviously not very nice fridge. Yeah, I
Speaker 3 00:08:43 Was gonna say that. Like, don't push the red button button. I didn't have
Speaker 4 00:08:45 To. Like, John sees the red button and he's like, look, look, look, and this is going to probably come up multiple times. You'll hear even in my Insta stories, click, click, click, click, click, click. I'm walking around any kind of property. 'cause John has to touch every single light fixture. <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:08:58 People love me for my curiosity. What can I
Speaker 4 00:09:00 Say? <laugh>? Um, the rat's nest too. We weren't even really a hundred percent sure that's what it was. Somebody else on my Insta story commented, oh yeah, that's a rat's nest. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>,
Speaker 2 00:09:09 Needless to say, we didn't offer on that property. Um, somebody did
Speaker 4 00:09:13 Buy it shortly after and I'm sure they tore it down.
Speaker 2 00:09:15 It was area more than anything. Yeah. Because, uh, you know, beautiful homes are selling for 2 million plus, uh, in that particular neighborhood
Speaker 4 00:09:20 Much more actually in that particular neighborhood.
Speaker 2 00:09:22 Uh, and then Cheryl, um, remember that time we were actually quite earlier in our career, we were showing a lease property.
Speaker 4 00:09:27 Are you trying to tell me what my craziest shit story is gonna be? Yeah. I could've come up with my own, you know. Okay. I will tell the one that you want me to tell. Okay. Uh, we were helping two young gentlemen find a lease. They were tenants and we went into this property. It wasn't go direct, so we weren't expecting to find anyone there. Open the door. And it was an absolute disaster, just a mess. Which we often do see in tenanted properties that, uh, the tenants don't take great care of it, but open pizza boxes. There were like overflowing ashtrays. A lot of weeded chicken
Speaker 2 00:09:58 Wing bones,
Speaker 4 00:09:58 Chicken wing, chicken wing bones on the floor. Yeah. Gross. It was really gross. Um, so we walked in, you could see the look on our client's faces, like, okay, let's just like walk over these dirty things on the floor. John opens the door and there is a guy, a gentleman sniping on the mattress on the floor. Was he naked? He wasn't naked, no. He
Speaker 2 00:10:18 Was in his under underpants underwear.
Speaker 4 00:10:19 So John was like, under pants. Oh. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Closes the door. He's like, no worries, whatever. He said, but he wasn't like, oh my God. He was like, sorry about that. You know, <laugh>. Yeah. I don't know if that was his voice. And then at the same time I was going into the bathroom where there was a poo in there. Yeah. Nobody flushed the toilet <laugh>. There was,
Speaker 2 00:10:38 There was a deuce remaining.
Speaker 4 00:10:41 Needless to say, our clients also did not end up wanting to rent that place. So
Speaker 2 00:10:46 For those of you that watch selling sunsets and think that that's what it all is, uh, you know, it's, it's not really that glamorous.
Speaker 4 00:10:53 There's so much wrong with selling sunset, but that's a, a story for another day. Ah, we should mention too that we are not perfect. We do not have all the facts. Much of this will be our opinion and our perspective. So that's
Speaker 2 00:11:06 Correct. And to that point, here's our disclaimer for the episode. The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.
Speaker 4 00:11:17 It's more than just our brokerage. It's,
Speaker 2 00:11:19 Yeah, it's our clients. We represent those entities, but, uh, anyway, um, and we do not profess to know everything. Um, the cool thing about realtors and being an agent, running a a group like we do, is we choose how to run our business the way we see fit. And every other agent out there and group out there will do it the way that they see fit as well. There's no, it's not one size fits all. We're, we're entrepreneurs at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 00:11:41 Yeah. And I think that probably will be an episode. Alright,
Speaker 2 00:11:44 So let's talk real quickly about who it is that we are. That's a pretty good segue. Um, Jane c Toronto real estate group. Uh, we're top 1% of Toronto agents for a number of transactions in dollar volume for the past three years.
Speaker 3 00:11:58 We do all sorts of transactions all over the city, all property types. We are buying, we are selling, we are leasing, yeah. <laugh>.
Speaker 4 00:12:05 We have a wide variety of clients. We help investors, we help first time home buyers, downsizers luxury buyers.
Speaker 2 00:12:13 And, uh, our group does about 50 50, um, for listings and buys. Um, there's usually a representation on either side of one transaction. So we're about half listings, half buys. Uh, and we do what about 50 or 60 transactions per year have done for the last three or four years. Cheryl, you'll probably have How many? Cheryl is the numbers and statistics queen. So if I get something wrong, she's always here to correct me, which I love. Well,
Speaker 4 00:12:37 <laugh>,
Speaker 2 00:12:37 I love it. I, I,
Speaker 4 00:12:38 By way that's a lie. That's a lie. Um, but you were also a, what's is that word?
Speaker 2 00:12:44 Embellisher.
Speaker 4 00:12:44 Embellisher and, um, bad a telephone. So, and I tell you guys, you can say that. I do tell you guys the numbers. Yeah. I'm constantly keeping you up to date on numbers. Can we say that?
Speaker 2 00:12:54 Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:12:54 Yeah. I mean, it's a true story. Is it not? I know, and
Speaker 3 00:12:56 It's a very true story.
Speaker 4 00:12:57 <laugh>, uh, 56 transactions last year. Um,
Speaker 2 00:13:01 So we see a lot, you know, and
Speaker 4 00:13:02 It is, it is probably like 45% purchasers and 55% sellers. So listings, we are a little bit heavier on the listing side and we list both condos and freehold homes. So yeah, we're really a little bit of everything runs
Speaker 2 00:13:18 Across board, well-rounded, runs the gamut. We like to say she's very well-rounded. Yes. Um, and if you can't tell already, Cheryl is extremely organized. She's the glue that holds the group together. <laugh>, gorilla Glue. Um, what's your, she's the stats queen, we call her. And she's nonstop on the m l s looking at statistics, trying to keep her finger on the pulse of the market. So would you
Speaker 4 00:13:37 Say I'm obsessed? Yes.
Speaker 3 00:13:38 Yes.
Speaker 2 00:13:39 Yeah. Hands down. Absolutely. Um, thank you for that compliment. What, tell us a little bit about your background, Cheryl.
Speaker 4 00:13:45 <laugh>. Well, I was born in Italy. I wasn't born in Italy. My mom was You're
Speaker 2 00:13:48 Half Italian.
Speaker 4 00:13:48 Oh, that you didn't mean my background.
Speaker 2 00:13:50 No, no.
Speaker 4 00:13:51 Um,
Speaker 2 00:13:52 Business professional.
Speaker 4 00:13:53 My professional background. Well, I went to school, university photography. <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:13:57 You did shut. No wonder You're so smart.
Speaker 4 00:14:01 I do not focus on photography. Uh, but my jobs have both mostly been in management or leadership. Um, a lot of organization that's needed customer service. So I take those skills and apply it to our business.
Speaker 2 00:14:14 Excellent.
Speaker 3 00:14:15 It should've been like a statistician.
Speaker 4 00:14:16 I mean, I feel like I missed a calling, but I also like people. So Yeah. Super boring, right? Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:14:22 No, super
Speaker 4 00:14:22 Boring. But I do love numbers. Math. Like math.
Speaker 2 00:14:25 Oh boy. This is the opposite of math. Math, that's
Speaker 3 00:14:27 For sure. Yeah. We want less than math, more than math.
Speaker 2 00:14:30 Uh, and Nicole, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3 00:14:34 So my background is horses, I guess in summary, in every way. That sounds
Speaker 4 00:14:39 Weird. <laugh> every
Speaker 3 00:14:40 Day for many days. Uh, I had a, um, an equine sales business. So a lot of buying and selling both in Canada and overseas. And then also a lot of teaching and training actually, that sort of was like the bread and butter of our business is doing a lot of, um, teaching, teaching people to work with horses and work with their horses. Horses you've sold 'em. The horses they want to sell.
Speaker 4 00:15:00 Yeah. Do you miss horses?
Speaker 3 00:15:02 <laugh>? No. <laugh> <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:15:05 Tell the horses that.
Speaker 3 00:15:06 Yeah. No, no. It ended in a, in a horses are tough, tough business. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:15:11 Yeah. And John, I'm gonna assume you want us to ask you the same question. Well, <laugh> <laugh>, Jonathan,
Speaker 3 00:15:15 I'm wondering, I've been wondering all this time, what is
Speaker 4 00:15:18 Your background?
Speaker 2 00:15:19 I don't make these notes for nothing, ladies. <laugh>. Uh, my background is actually fine art. Uh, I sold artwork, uh, for the better part of 20 plus years, uh, on cruise ships as a matter of fact. So, oh, I did that too. Yeah, you did that with me for the last about five years. So, uh, that was the organization for Yeah, fine art sales. So I did a lot of art, uh, lectures, art history, lectures. And I was actually an auctioneer as well. So we used to auction. Can you do some auctioning for us? No. Maybe in another episode we can actually talk about, uh, home auctions, which is starting to happen here in, uh, Canada. I
Speaker 4 00:15:50 Don't know, in Canada. I think that that isn't a long enough podcast.
Speaker 2 00:15:52 No, well, we'll we'll discuss that, uh, during one of the podcasts. Anyway. It happens a lot in Australia.
Speaker 4 00:15:57 Matter fact. Also, can you talk about the fact that you and Doug used to own a
Speaker 2 00:16:00 Business? Yeah. Okay. During, uh, one of the breaks between ships, which is, uh, you know, I think about four or five years, uh, my dad and I ran a production company. So we had a, a production company called, uh, the Vault Studios. As a matter of fact, that's Doug over on the mixing board right there. It's the family business is in production. So cool. Dad. Yeah, he's awesome. <laugh>, you might remember Doug from, uh, such eighties programs as, uh, he was the host of Thrill of a Lifetime, which is awesome. Uh, and, um, I think one of the reasons why I love to do the production aspect for real estate is because it's kind of in my blood and it's become a really, uh, great skill to have a, have differentiator
Speaker 4 00:16:39 For us as well.
Speaker 2 00:16:40 It is, it is. So we can do all of our marketing, videography, uh, editing, post graphics design all in-house. Uh, and we actually got known for a lot of our lifestyle videos a little bit earlier in our career that we would put together a little mini commercials for everyone. Yeah,
Speaker 4 00:16:54 Yeah. Which many realtors or most realtors don't do so.
Speaker 3 00:16:57 Exactly. So actually there's something else about who we are that I think is important. I was thinking about this the other day, and it's not in your notes, John. What's that? <laugh>. But you know, there are some people that have never met us before and don't know. But the dynamic as well. You and Cheryl are a couple. We are not everyone's gonna know that unless we see it. What
Speaker 2 00:17:11 I know. <laugh>, we're living in sin currently. We've been together for 12 years. Yes.
Speaker 4 00:17:16 We're partners in life and partners in business. Yeah. And something else that people don't know about us is if we put the three of our heads together, we create one superhuman,
Speaker 2 00:17:24 A full human being. Plus
Speaker 4 00:17:25 Yes. I would say it's a full human being house, but we're a superhuman. That's right. Superhuman. We are awesome.
Speaker 2 00:17:31 That's right. So
Speaker 3 00:17:32 Stuarts Mulley
Speaker 2 00:17:32 In a nutshell, if you wanna buy a horse, a house, or a Picasso, we are your team. Um, I just wanna just touch a little bit back about what it is all about. You did mention that we want to educate and Ed, uh, and entertain and
Speaker 4 00:17:45 We were talking about opinions.
Speaker 2 00:17:46 I know everyone has an opinion and I think the media has a lot to do with that. We're gonna be talking about where people get their information from.
Speaker 4 00:17:53 And when you say everyone, you mean the general public
Speaker 2 00:17:55 Absolutely. And realtors as well. Yeah, some cases. Yeah. True. Yeah. Um, you know, sensationalism sell, uh, people are gonna latch on to the market is down 50%. Is that price? Is that transactions, is that normal for this part of the year?
Speaker 4 00:18:10 I think what's missing very often with the media is that because they are not realtors and because they're trying to do a short story that is maybe clickbait the nuance of the real estate market and context that you need. As you were saying, is it, you know, 50% down in sales or is it 50% down in price? And it makes a huge difference. And then why is it, there's other layers that the media will never talk to you about, but obviously <laugh>. We know <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:18:35 I just wanna touch on one thing. You hear the word bidding war all the time. It is the most used and misunderstood term in Toronto real estate. Yeah. Uh, that's, that's a full episode of the, the Real Estate podcast.
Speaker 4 00:18:47 We'll do one on holding offers
Speaker 2 00:18:48 For sure. Yeah. Maybe next one. We'll, uh, we'll see about that. Just because nobody really knows what goes into the holding offer strategy.
Speaker 4 00:18:55 It is a strategy first of all. Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:18:58 Yeah. And it's not a bidding war. It's a blind auction process here in Ontario Real estate for the most part. And so, um, we'll cover a lot of that as well. We want to initiate intelligent and reasoned conversation about the real estate market. Uh, and we want feedback from our listeners. Yeah. Um, let's talk about, uh, some of the topics that we are going to, uh, to include. One of the themes as we go through each one of the episodes is what exactly does, uh, a realtor do? What goes into being a realtor, day to day? Uh, what goes into a transaction? 'cause no two transactions are the same. No two clients are the same. No two markets are the same. It can swing on a dime week to week. Um, it's very emotional
Speaker 4 00:19:35 Process. No two homes. No two homes are the same. Two homes. Homes are the same. They could be identical but not be the same depending on the market, depending on the seller, depending on the potential buyer. So yeah.
Speaker 2 00:19:44 So offer nights is gonna be a big one. Um, you know, things like open houses, people are wondering, should I do an open house, shouldn't I? Well, is it good to, what is an open house? Yeah. Is it good to sell the property? Is it just designed to, to get leads for a realtor?
Speaker 4 00:19:56 Do we really bake cookies? Yeah, exactly. <laugh>, why do you have to put your signs everywhere?
Speaker 2 00:20:00 Yeah. Are you allowed to put your signs out?
Speaker 4 00:20:02 Why do people leave their signs out for weeks? <laugh>, <laugh>,
Speaker 2 00:20:06 Uh, you know, home inspections renovations, I think is gonna be a fun one as well. And I, well, I want to get a, a contractor two in when we do, we are gonna have special guests. We know some Absolutely. Just to be,
Speaker 4 00:20:16 We do, I think staging and design will be a, a really fun topic. I think a lot of people because of the H D T V shows are really interested in that sort of, um, aspect of real estate. Yeah. And again, we should get a designer in or a stager in Oh, we know a couple of great stagers. It's very fun to have on a podcast. <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:20:33 <laugh>. And people wanna know, is it, is it worthwhile to stage a house? And, you know, we've, we've done an episode of, uh, the top five reasons to stage your home. Um, that's over on, uh, on one of our Instagrams, our, uh, G C Toronto Group Instagram. So, um, we also did a few different episodes of, uh, a little series Cheryl and I did called Real Life Real Estate. Uh, and so we have some video content to be able to share for you. And all of these podcasts will be put up on YouTube as well. We'll be able to overlay some, uh, some visuals of some past work that we've done. You know, precon precon, pre-construction, um, first time home buyers investing, um,
Speaker 4 00:21:06 Landlord and tenant issues is a really interesting one. I think that will, I think that it's unfortunate that we have such a big rental market in Toronto, and so many landlords and tenants don't know their rights. Correct. It's a show
Speaker 2 00:21:21 We'll bleep you out again. Yes.
Speaker 4 00:21:23 People
Speaker 3 00:21:24 Are very passionate
Speaker 4 00:21:24 About these topics too. It's very Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2 00:21:27 Because people get taken advantage of. Yes.
Speaker 4 00:21:29 And everyone has to, like, not everyone can own, but everyone needs a place to live. Yes. And even if you do own, you probably know lots of people who are renting. Yeah. So think of
Speaker 3 00:21:38 It as like the underworld of real estate leasing.
Speaker 2 00:21:41 Well, people need help to, to get accommodations. And, you know, that, that's another good segue into, um, the, the current politics about the, the housing crisis here in Toronto. Um, how to make it so that we can get more housing stock being able to develop as of Right. So this
Speaker 4 00:21:55 So serious, serious podcasts.
Speaker 2 00:21:57 More serious stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:21:58 And we will ask for feedback on what our listeners and, um, sphere want to hear.
Speaker 2 00:22:04 Absolutely. So, you know, our tagline is everything you ever wanted to know about real estate, but we're afraid to ask and there's, uh, nothing that will be off limits. Um, you'll be able to, uh, to submit episode ideas, ask questions at the end of the podcast, which is gonna be coming up shortly. We'll tell you where you can find us, uh, and submit these kinds of questions. Reach out and get in touch with us. Would
Speaker 4 00:22:25 You say our goal is to come from contribution, though? Like, we're not doing this to make money or get notoriety. We're doing it because we wanna have fun and we wanna share the information that's stuck in all of our brains. Absolutely. And just help people. A hundred
Speaker 2 00:22:37 Percent. We're
Speaker 3 00:22:37 Not getting paid. You guys aren't getting paid, right?
Speaker 4 00:22:39 No. No. Are you paying us <laugh>?
Speaker 2 00:22:42 This podcast is who's paying Doug. Exactly. Well, I'm gonna buy him a muffin after a
Speaker 4 00:22:46 Muffin. Exactly.
Speaker 2 00:22:47 Uh, so you know that, that one of the things that we talk about is, is coming from contribution and giving back. Uh, I know that, uh, a lot of podcasters, their end goal is to get sponsorship looking for paid sponsors. We are not looking for paid sponsors for the show. Um, instead we're actually gonna use this forum to promote and sponsor ourselves, uh, local businesses. So we're not taking any money from local businesses to promote them. Instead, these are local businesses, uh, owners that we know, uh, people that we want to support in our communities. And, uh, we've done this for many years now. Um, we love to give back. We've supported a lot of the local bia, namely the Riverside and Leslieville, B I A, uh, having production experience. Uh, I've volunteered to to shoot videos for, uh, a variety of different businesses and, uh, and a lot of charitable organizations. Um, we actually did set up a website you can head over to www.supportlocalgta.com to see a few of the dozens of videos that we've, uh, um, produced. And you can also submit your choice for deserving locals, uh, for featuring.
Speaker 4 00:23:51 You said that we've produced and we always do speak as a we, that we do everything together. This is our businesses. But shout out to you. It's not Nicole and I. No, it's
Speaker 3 00:24:00 A royal. We John did
Speaker 4 00:24:01 It. Yeah. Yeah. You film them, you edit them, you stay in contact with those business owners. We may meet them and get the free food that they give us down our face and, but
Speaker 2 00:24:10 We try to pay for 'em. We try to pay for it every single time, though. We're not here to get free stuff. That's
Speaker 4 00:24:14 Yeah, no, you're like talking to them and you're doing your thing and you're filming awesome videos. And Nicole and I are like, we'll get two burgers, please. <laugh>,
Speaker 2 00:24:21 Mind you, I did reach out to Eastbound Brewing very earlier in my career to offer to shoot videos for them because I was hoping they might give me a free beer. And they did, which is great. I gotta give a shout out. Shout out to Eastbound Brewing called They're Amazing <laugh>, uh, over in, uh, Riverside.
Speaker 4 00:24:35 And they came home stinking like beer. I was like, did you drink brown?
Speaker 2 00:24:39 No, I was shooting a video and supporting local <laugh>. It's working.
Speaker 3 00:24:41 It's
Speaker 4 00:24:42 Working. Speaking of, just drink for a second, if we can go back. You said you're gonna pay your dad in a muffin. If we can just say that's because your dad really enjoys muffins. That's especially from the St. Lawrence market. That's
Speaker 2 00:24:51 It. So
Speaker 4 00:24:52 Yeah, just wanted to give some con context there. <laugh>, that's it.
Speaker 2 00:24:55 So big shout out to Doug for engineering today's podcast. Thank you so much. Um, obviously we wanna hear back from you. If you have any feedback, we'd love to hear from you. Uh, you can find our episodes and our contact
[email protected]. All of our con contact information is there, our episodes.
Speaker 4 00:25:14 If anyone has any questions, comments, episode ideas, then check out the realestate podcast ca we wanna hear from you. We wanna like bring this as an environment where it's not just the three of us blabbering to each other. Yeah. But we're, it's what is that when you're collaborative.
Speaker 2 00:25:29 Thank you.
Speaker 4 00:25:29 Yeah, that's the word I was actually looking
Speaker 3 00:25:30 For. I wanna ask a question because Cheryl and I learn a lot of stuff on this podcast from John. Do we know what our next episode is?
Speaker 2 00:25:36 I'm leaning towards, uh, offer Nights and the holding Offers strategy. Alright, that's it for our first episode of the realestate podcast.ca. Uh, make sure you, uh, tune in to our next episode, uh, which will be on Holding offers the offer strategy here in Toronto. Uh, thanks so much and, uh, we look forward to connecting with you soon. Thank you. That's high. Fives all around. That's it for now. Bye.
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