Fred Glick, a Broker, Real Estate Realist, and Founder of Arrivva, holds a stellar track record with over $2 billion in residential transactions while grounded in a lifelong passion for real estate. René Pérez Jr. is an adept Broker and Pricing Savant, who specializes in strategic problem-solving and long-term growth.
Join them in the We Fixed Real Estate podcast by Arrivva, where they share expertise and insights about the dynamic real estate landscape. Arrivva, a leading real estate and mortgage brokerage, caters to buyers, sellers, and mortgagees with love, integrity, and a transparent fee structure. Featured in the Wall Street Journal, Arrivva is transforming the real estate landscape, one happy client at a time.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- Dive into the rising inventory and how local history and innovative marketing strategies, like seller interviews, are crucial for navigating this complex real estate market
- Discover why it’s essential to assess not just the property but other aspects like its neighborhood, potential problems in the area, and noise levels
- Learn practical tips for assessing noise levels in the property and how to use tools to make informed decision
- Insider advice for condo buyers when dealing with property and neighborhood issues
- How interest rates and inventory changes affect buying strategies
- Insights on buyer behavior and how to strategize timing for listings
In this episode with Fred Glick and René Pérez Jr.
Join Fred Glick and René Pérez Jr. of Arrivva as they delve into critical considerations before purchasing a home.
In this episode, Fred and René discuss real estate red flags, highlight rising housing inventory trends, emphasize the importance of evaluating property surroundings, and offer practical advice on assessing noise levels and potential disruptions. They also discuss the nuances of condo living, innovative marketing strategies, and new security measures for home buyers and sellers. Tune in for valuable insights and expert guidance when buying a house.
Resources mentioned in this episode
- Fred Glick on LinkedIn
- René Pérez Jr. on LinkedIn
- Arrivva
- Valley Village Homes
- Arrivva Properties
- Zillow
- Redfin
- KENMIC K132
- Once Upon a Coconut
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
[00:00:00] Drew Thomas Hendricks: We’re on We Fixed Real Estate. And we see René! René’s got his traditional black shirt. We’re going to go past fashion and talk about real estate. We’re going to dive deep, right?
[00:00:09] Fred Glick: Thank God.
[00:00:10] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Thank God. You’re right. Thank God.
[00:00:12] Fred Glick: But you know what? We do need new t-shirts.
[00:00:15] Drew Thomas Hendricks: We do.
[00:00:16] Fred Glick: We do. We absolutely do. I’m thinking the word context with the bird.
[00:00:21] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Yeah. You were mentioning that.
[00:00:23] Fred Glick: Something, some kind of a mix of the website
[00:00:26] Drew Thomas Hendricks: I like that. And thinking about context. I was thinking about Southern California in the context of land versus Northern California. And at least in my area, I’m seeing an increased inventory on my street.
There’s been about four or five houses that’s been on the market for months.
[00:00:43] Fred Glick: What price range are you in?
[00:00:46] Drew Thomas Hendricks: About 1.1 to 1.3 million.
[00:00:51] Fred Glick: That’s interesting because that’s a market where you’d have more buyers because price is lower, but also they could qualify for Fannie Mae financing. They don’t have to put 20 percent down and do a jumbo.
So there’s a lot of programs that opens up. Interesting.
[00:01:13] Drew Thomas Hendricks: There’s also a lot of programs, but my area is been like the last to go up over a million. Like we were in a, when I first bought the house 14 years ago, they said a house will never sell on your street for more than 500,000. So there may be there’s a little bit of a perception that a house on my street will never sell for over a million and a lot of people are trying to push that boundary.
[00:01:34] Fred Glick: Remind everybody what town are you in?
[00:01:36] Drew Thomas Hendricks: I’m in Vista, California, just east of Carlsbad and east of Oceanside.
[00:01:41] René Pérez Jr.: Question, Drew. If you were told like this house the place where you’re buying will never go above 500. Why did you still say, “Hey, you know what? I’ll buy it anyway.”
[00:01:52] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Because it’s a quarter acre of borders at a cactus farm.
It’s got this like awesome sloping hillside with this huge huge, like I’ve got a 500 square foot big room that overlooks this entire like garden that I’ve got. So for me, it was all about the house. And I thought that appraiser was full of shit, actually. Cause that was a very naive statement.
[00:02:18] Fred Glick: You get 10 appraisers in a room, you get 42 estimates. I mean, so, is what it is. I just came up with an idea for micro content for sellers. We do a podcast. And it’s basically going through the multiple listing service with the owner and the owner talking about the property. So we have a new listing that we did, and I’d like you to, we’ll send it to you and maybe you can chop it up into micro content for us.
And we can push that out on social media.
[00:02:51] Drew Thomas Hendricks: That’d be great. That’s promoting the property.
[00:02:54] Fred Glick: Yeah. Cause you can get the pictures from our from our website, which is valleyvillage.homes.
[00:03:07] René Pérez Jr.: Homes.
[00:03:08] Fred Glick: Right. Thank you. Valleyvillage.homes.
[00:03:11] René Pérez Jr.: Because the whole idea is, you know, we spend so much time browsing Zillow, Redfin, and that doesn’t really tell the story of the house. Right? Like you’re right now, you’ve mentioned, you know, why you bought your house, you weren’t looking at it as an investment. You’re looking at about it, but the story that it’s, that I could tell about where you’re going to be living in. Right? And I think something that we do with our sales is we actually interviewed the sellers. And I mean, we sell a lot of houses. We don’t really see that from a lot of other agents. So a person,
I’ve never seen it, to be honest. A person buys a home. Well, not in the US, you know, I will say.
[00:03:52] Fred Glick: Really? Overseas? Where have you seen it?
[00:03:54] René Pérez Jr.: In Mexico and in Spain, in the UK. I mean, you get, you get the sellers and buyers together. Way ahead of time. Right? And even for open houses and things like that. It’s more seller-centric versus having an agent of sorts be in the middle of it. Because I mean, that’s like, it’s hard, right?
Because you don’t want sellers to get emotional or share too much.
[00:04:18] Fred Glick: It’s a fair housing nightmare.
[00:04:21] René Pérez Jr.: Sure, sure, sure. But at the same time that the seller really knows the most about the house.
[00:04:26] Fred Glick: Sure. They know the ins and outs and creeks and, you know, So I, you know, you have to go to the house twice first time is just “Oh, I love the paint and the furniture. My furniture look great in here.”
But you kind of think about your day when you, from time you wake up in the morning to the time you go to sleep at night. And even during your sleep periods. Can you imagine yourself in that house? How would you do it? That’s the best way to realize if a house is for you or not.
[00:05:00] René Pérez Jr.: It might be a little creepy. But I think one of the best things, what one could do is just stay in the car the entire day. I outside that the house that they might buy.
[00:05:12] Fred Glick: At least be in the neighborhood, like go shopping at the local supermarket.
[00:05:17] René Pérez Jr.: Here’s for the property that’s really important for you to realize where you’re going to be living, right?
There’s, let’s see, there’s a stop sign, four-way stops, aa three-way stop sign.
[00:05:27] Fred Glick: Right.
[00:05:28] René Pérez Jr.: And your house, you have the other end of the stop sign. Well, you know, when you’re going through the open house at 2pm, it might not bother you. But if it’s 8:30pm on a Friday night, you have cars with their headlight.
[00:05:47] Fred Glick: December.
[00:05:48] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Ah, right, going straight in.
[00:05:50] Fred Glick: Late December, yeah.
[00:05:52] Drew Thomas Hendricks: And I have that same, I have that problem at my house. I did look, I did drive by the house many times before I bought it and put an offer on. But there’s a stop sign just down the street, just two doors down from my house. So by the time they’re hitting, passing my house, they’re accelerating.
So I get a little more accelerating noise in the morning and at rush hour. Other than that, it’s dead, but it’s something I didn’t really realize until I bought the house versus if I was on the other side of the stop sign, they would be like decelerating.
[00:06:26] René Pérez Jr.: Exactly. So it’s something that you can miss and, and every street is different, right?
There’s some areas where like the noise will be more bothersome and also depends on how, how far out the house is. So if it’s like right to the edge, it’s like, okay, well then the noise is going to be more bothersome. The light is going to be more bothersome if there’s no fences. Oh, you might have to build a fence in front of the house for privacy.
It can also just be dangerous, right? Especially if you have small kids.
[00:06:53] Drew Thomas Hendricks: I wanna go back to the what would to the, everybody understands this value add. If you go to the Arrivva site and you look at your listings, you have those, the podcast of the client on the listing that people can listen to.
[00:07:06] Fred Glick: Yeah. There’s some clients who don’t want to do it. We understand.Privacy reasons. But the other thing we have on there is a website that will actually measure noise.
[00:07:19] Drew Thomas Hendricks: How loud?
[00:07:20] Fred Glick: It’s kind of a rudimentary algorithm, but it does pretty good. So you can always check that out.
[00:07:26] René Pérez Jr.: I hate it. I don’t think Fred realizes how bad that software is.
[00:07:33] Fred Glick: You know what? It’s rudimentary. As I said, it’s not detailed. Eventually someone will come up with an amazing site, you know, so.
[00:07:43] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Yeah, it doesn’t give you the exact but it gives you a good idea. Like you can see, like, yeah, for the loud.
[00:07:48] Fred Glick: See what you don’t see are the flight paths that are approved. That’s a great thing about it.
[00:07:55] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Talking about flight paths man I was down at my parents house the other day, I forgot. We were at the Liberty Station area in Point Loma, which used to be the Navy base.We grew up on the end of Point Loma, not in the flight path, but having dinner, it was amazing. Every 10 minutes, a plane, and it’s all condos down there. You just, I guess, just get used to it.
[00:08:19] Fred Glick: Yeah. It’s you know, Marina Playa Del Rey is a good example, right next to LAX. We had a client go under contract for a property that they eventually got out of because of the square footage issue among other things. They’re so close. I mean, they were literally a block away from the road you take that’s right next to LAX. So they were on the north side of the north side runway, which is the smaller the two runways. So it’s not as busy at night. But still you’re right there. Now I can imagine this make a great place for an airline crash pad.
[00:08:58] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Yeah.
[00:08:58] Fred Glick: I don’t know what that is. Airline employees, they live somewhere else, but they fly, they got to fly into where their home base because they’re flying out at seven in the morning. So they just have these places they paid monthly fee and you know, they’re all in the industry. It’s great income. If you can set one of those up, it’s usually the people in the Airline, like I had a woman who was a flight attendant who did a couple of those in Philadelphia years ago, right near the airport.
So, anyway, Playa Del Rey is more than that, and then obviously Marina Del Rey this way, or even Manhattan Beach, El Segundo right there. I mean, people live there.
[00:09:36] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Oh, yeah. You just get used to it. And you need to realize that before you buy the house.
[00:09:40] Fred Glick: It’s white noise, you know, but yeah, be aware of it, obviously.
[00:09:46] Drew Thomas Hendricks: So then there’s the case like going on in Carpinteria right now where a family bought a house right on Carpinteria Boulevard. I don’t know if you’re familiar with Santa Barbara, but Carpinteria is a street of main road.
[00:10:01] Fred Glick: It’s like main road between the beach and 101.
[00:10:06] Drew Thomas Hendricks: And a train goes by every day, about 10 bars. They bought the house and now are suing the city for noise, saying that they got to shut down the live music that has been there for 2030 years forever because it’s not a residential neighborhood.
[00:10:22] Fred Glick: Buyer beware sometimes, but sellers,
[00:10:26] Drew Thomas Hendricks: What advice do you give to your clients on figuring out the noise and having them like actually come to grips with understand the noise before they buy the house or the, or even the stop sign?
[00:10:37] René Pérez Jr.: A lot of our buyers, I mean, they know that they’re getting a quote-unquote better price or lower price because of that noise level.
You definitely see it on the level of people, on the amount of people that go to the property. There’s people that go on Google Maps and they realize that that house is going to be louder. So what we tell people is that you just have to go to the house. You have to go to the house and see it. Google Maps doesn’t tell the whole story.
The websites don’t tell the whole story. There’s things that you can do, like adding new windows. Right?
We’ve told people that they can add things like water fountains, which create a better and more soothing white noise. But the, the matter of the fact is that there’s, there’s still going to be, you know, vehicles.
And noise in those streets. So it’s something that you have to like, just realize that you’re not buying it as an investment. Just as like people told you like, “Hey, your home’s never going to sell for X price.” Well, it’s like eventually it will appraise, but it might not appraise as much as other properties. That’s just the reality of it. People are going to pay for location.
[00:11:48] Drew Thomas Hendricks: So one advice I have and I know a lot of people are very visual where they’ll walk in, they’ll walk into the open house, they’ll tour the open house, and they’ll be talking with their wife, they’ll be talking with their kids, and they really aren’t thinking of all the senses.
They’re just seeing the visual. They may see the smell, but they’re not
[00:12:06] Fred Glick: That’s actually the first time. Yeah.
[00:12:08] Drew Thomas Hendricks: If you got an outdoor patio where that’s going to be a good place to hang out, my advice is sit out there. Don’t talk to anyone for a few minutes and actually only listen. Close your eyes. Listen to what you’re listening to and block out the visual part or sit in the living room for a few minute.s And get a fair idea of what the ambient sound is like.
[00:12:29] Fred Glick: Totally. I sold a house to a buyer who is definitely in the flight path of San Jose airport just to the northeast of it. He knew it. It was in a cul-de-sac. It was a pretty basic house, but it was nice. Good garage. And they knew it.
I mean, I said to them probably three times, you sure? Have you been there? You know, blah, blah, blah. You know, some people just don’t care. Some people may have lived in a loud city environment anywhere in the world, and this is like heaven to them, you know? So, and it’s a good school district, too. That’s the other part of it.
[00:13:15] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Oh, yeah. No, it’s the sound. I mean, it affects everyone differently. The other unknown factor is in condos, where you need to kind of figure out what does the upstairs sound like if you’re buying a lower unit, is it?
[00:13:27] Fred Glick: Yeah.
[00:13:28] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Is the person above you, I mean, what is that going to be like when you have an upstairs?
[00:13:31] Fred Glick: Soundproofing between the floors.
[00:13:34] René Pérez Jr.: What you do is you go as a couple, and then you go tell the other person like, hey, go to the next floor up, knock on your door and ask them to stomp on the floor in two minutes.
[00:13:46] Drew Thomas Hendricks: That’s an insider’s tip.
[00:13:49] Fred Glick: When I sold years ago back in Philadelphia, I didn’t have to go to the units with people.
I mean, you just learn the building. You just know it. So that’s kind of a great thing that people can try to blog about.
[00:14:03] René Pérez Jr.: So as much as I hate HOAs, HOA actually have a solution for that kind of thing. So one thing that to look at in a condo is if the HOA has strict restrictions on changing the flooring to the property.
Usually, you want to have most, most of the time rugs are going to be quieter than a cardboard floor or any of them, we had a seller years ago that their floor was, it was a really expensive material. And I don’t know if you remember Fred. And it was for the San Carlos, San Carlos condo.It was not hardwood floor,
[00:14:44] Fred Glick: Laminate, maybe.
[00:14:45] René Pérez Jr.: No, but it was actually.
Let’s say laminate. Let’s say something composition. But In order to be able to change that from the carpets, they actually had to add a second layer. So that it was soundproof.
Yeah, and her unit was the only unit that had something different than carpet, because after that, the HOA actually restricted any changes to the floors because they were afraid of the noise level. Now her unit obviously was really quiet. It didn’t affect the lower floor. But HOAs do restrict a lot of that because they want to make sure that noise is not gonna be a factor.
So just, you know, look at HOAs that do have something about restrictions and ask the HOA if they have those restrictions because anyone complained about the noise or if you’re trying, they were trying to be proactive about it. So, because it’s something to be wary about, right? Did they make the rule because someone complained or did they make the rule because they wanted to make sure it didn’t happen?
[00:15:50] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Yeah.
[00:15:51] René Pérez Jr.: That’s where a lot of the research has to go to.
[00:15:53] Drew Thomas Hendricks: That’s interesting. Now, Fred, noise is the topic of today. I see the tennis court in the back, and I know that there’s been a lot of recent talk about now that pickleball’s all the rage has a very, very different sound than tennis court has. Whereas you’re hitting a tennis ball, it’s like a soft bunk. Whereas a pickleball is like a click, click, click, click with a much
[00:16:15] Fred Glick: Actually, people rent, they book, I think it’s two hour segments courts. And there’s some people book it for two hours and they play. Yeah, they play pickleball.
Nobody cares because it’s generically the lines are about the same. So.
[00:16:36] Drew Thomas Hendricks: But do you notice a different sound because I did, I can’t hear.
[00:16:38] Fred Glick: That click sound.
[00:16:39] Drew Thomas Hendricks: We can put it in the show notes, but I, there was, I think there’s a lawsuit and they’re trying to ban pickleball.
[00:16:44] Fred Glick: God, get over yourself people. This is okay. Let’s talk about something that’s really important in everyone’s life. I’m going to give you the best piece of advice you’ve ever gotten in your entire life if you own a condominium or plan to own a condominium. Look at me. Never, never under any circumstances get involved in condominium politics in any way, shape or form.
Okay. Here’s the problem. The people who run associations, a lot of them are people, this is the height of power. They’ve been dying for this power all their lives and they’re in charge. It is Karen city. Okay? Don’t do it. Just, you know, they come up with some crazy thing. You just talk to your neighbors and get rid of it.
You know, there’s enough people who have some common sense to vote, especially in the big condominiums. So,
[00:17:46] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Stay out of politics.
[00:17:48] Fred Glick: Stay out of the politics of condominiums. But do tell them they must comply with the Fannie Mae guidelines now for reserve requirements. Please, people, I beg you, because all you’re going to do is reduce the price value of your condo if you don’t get it because nobody will be able to get a decent mortgage Standing on the soapbox again and again. That’s good micro content. Condominium owners.
[00:18:20] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Pearls of wisdom now, I’m gonna go back to pickleball one more time. So what happens if the something like that, which is relatively the same sport that has a different type of noise, is there any the only thing you can do is really go to the condo board and complain like these people. Or do you suck it up?
[00:18:38] Fred Glick: Go to the management company. If you’re in a big building, if it really bothers you, but you know, leave these people. It’s a little noisier. Close the door.
[00:18:48] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Have you join a pickleball club?
[00:18:50] Fred Glick: No, I have right shoulder issues, so I’m done.
[00:18:55] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Yeah. What about you, René? Are you on a pickleball team?
[00:18:59] René Pérez Jr.: I don’t believe in pickleball. No, I think the real sport is tennis.
[00:19:05] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Yes.
[00:19:06] Fred Glick: Oh, I agree.
[00:19:07] René Pérez Jr.: Pickleball is because you can’t play tennis.
[00:19:10] Fred Glick: You’re absolutely right, René. You get older and people can’t play tennis, like they used to play tennis, it’s frustrating. It made older people more active and keeping them alive longer, which means they’re staying in their houses longer, which means there’s less houses on the market, which means you pay more money. You see how this works? Pickleball and real estate.
[00:19:34] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Keeps in your house longer.
[00:19:35] René Pérez Jr.: Well yeah, I mean, it’s the older generation who like it’s like because pickleball has a smaller court, it’s like people are calling to like change the tennis courts into pickleball courts. That’s ridiculous. It’s like, “Oh, okay, I can’t play tennis.”
[00:19:56] Fred Glick: Exactly. You can use it for both. It’s easy. It’s just, yeah. I don’t know. Again, that’s the politics. Yep. Never going to win. Stay out of it.
[00:20:07] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Tirade about pickleball aside, what’s the current market environment looking like, René, up in Northern California?
[00:20:14] René Pérez Jr.: So I think the problem is, I think a lot of people are, I think there’s a lot of buyers, new buyers into the market. I think there’s been enough of the, I think recently there’s been enough articles saying like, “Oh, interest rates are going lower.” And there’s a lot of articles saying that there’s more inventory in the market. And that has, I think, created a new wave of buyers and a new wave of buyers who think that price per square foot is a way to make a, make a bid. Right?
And the problem is, and I’m sure we’ve said it a lot of times is that price per square foot is more for commercial space or condos in which the buildings are identical. You can’t compare price per square foot on single-family houses that are completely different. You know, unless you’re doing, unless you’re doing the actual math again, it’s like, okay, this one has a pool and this one doesn’t have a pool and you’re, you’re actually using those metrics to really get into the motions of why you’re using the price per footage. It doesn’t work. And I think right now I’m on
[00:21:26] Fred Glick: Micro content.
[00:21:27] René Pérez Jr.: Yeah, we’re dealing with a lot of buyers who don’t want to follow the advice of being over-prepared, right? Because we, we guide them to be able to get a fully underwritten pre approval that can close in in 15 days.
Right? And because people hear stories that my friend did this, or, you know, I had a property under contract and we did it in 30 days and we had a mortgage pre approval. It’s like, yes, that’s possible. Absolutely. But we’re trying to make sure that there’s no reason for them to not take your offer. You want to be overprepared.
If there’s two equal offers, your offers has the shorter closing. So your offer is actually stronger, right? We want to make sure that you get a better deal. Maybe you offered less, but because you have better terms, which is a shorter closing time window, we’re going to take your offer. And that’s what you want.
And sometimes people think that we’re trying to be a little bit too protective of the way we were writing the offer. But it’s because we want to over, over-prepare you, right? We don’t want you to overpay for a property. And at the same time, like we don’t actually, we don’t decide who, how much a house is going to go for. The sellers aren’t really deciding that either. You have more than one buyer. Yes, there’s more inventory, but a lot of that inventory is either inventory where people obviously don’t want to be living in or there’s sellers that don’t want to sell out the, or that they’re selling it at the same time, renting it, right? So it’s not real inventory.
[00:23:02] Drew Thomas Hendricks: I want to go back to that price per square foot because that was brilliant and especially like in older communities like San Francisco, you’re out in the avenues, you drive down the street, every freaking house looks the same, but every house has like 100 years of history of updating, of not updating that you can’t really do a price per square foot, even though you’re walking down five identical houses.
[00:23:26] René Pérez Jr.: Yeah, no, exactly. And you, I mean, I think that the bigger issue with like a market like San Francisco, for example is not even the practical square footage pricing of what’s sold, but it’s about what’s listed, right? We have a lot of properties. I think that for by far most properties in San Francisco are listed at 999. It’s a listing that’s going to sell for 1.4, 1.5 million. That’s just in general, that’s we’re dealing with.
[00:24:01] Drew Thomas Hendricks: So you’re factoring in a 50 percent over asking?
[00:24:05] René Pérez Jr.: Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, there’s a, I should send some cool interior. Some properties, people are living here for decades and they, they make it their own. So it’s totally different than what you would expect from the outside, even if they look the same. How about SoCal, Fred?
[00:24:28] Fred Glick: Still here. Well, it’s interesting. We have a new listing up in valleyvillage.homes. Had the open house Saturday and Sunday. Saturday, three or four people. Sunday was kind of busy. It was just steady. Matter of fact, I’m just gonna do opens on Sundays now. And there was people walking through and staying there and looking and looking and looking, but the thing is, we know there’s at least three or four houses that are sort of kind of similar in the same ballpark.
So the question is, which one are they going to come back to.But always there’s new buyers and you know, this is in the Fannie Mae probable price range for somebody that can put less than 20 percent down. So that’s going to bring in more, more people. Remind me to put that in the MLS. Other than that, we were looking at a property in Marina del Rey.
This is interesting, where it was right on kind of the canals that are in the Marina that feed the Venice canals. And the view out of it, it wasn’t about the view, it was about the house. The house was really nice and all three story, plenty of garage, just modern ish. But it had a view of a place that was a beige.
Vanilla looking building, nothing nondescript with some gates. And so they asked my buyers asked the agent what, what is that? What’s going on? And she said, I don’t know. So I took a ride over there the other day. I drove right up to the building and it said city of Los Angeles, water pump facility.
It was a water pump. How did she not know that? Or how did, you know, how did she not want to find out about that? Because she could, she should be able to see that the view wasn’t that great. So, you know, now it’s like, okay, your price is, price is your price. And yeah, there was another one down the street that sold Fairly recently with basically the same view and they’re building next door.
I don’t know if it’s ongoing or they stopped or what’s going on, but that’s not going to really affect anything. You’ll get, you’ll lose some light on that side. And it still hasn’t moved. So,
[00:27:11] René Pérez Jr.: It’s only been on the market for like a week.
[00:27:13] Fred Glick: Yeah, I know. But if it’s that great and that price, you know, allegedly it’ll go.
[00:27:18] René Pérez Jr.: There’s less buyers for 3 million than for 1.5.
[00:27:21] Fred Glick: Oh yeah. Trying to think what the other stuff I’ve been looking at, there’s some stuff hitting the market that’s still, you know, I don’t know. In volume, it’s probably up a little bit and people are a little chill down here. It’s July and August. I mean, the months are just going to be great to go do other things rather than house shopping house.
Some houses will still be there in September. So we’re looking to list the property down in Costa Mesa. It’s like want to get it on the market, but do we want to get on the market or do we want to get on the market for somebody who’s here for the summer, maybe buy as a second home and they live in Minnesota the rest of the year?
I don’t know. Maybe it’s a good idea to get it, you know, on the market in August.
[00:28:08] Drew Thomas Hendricks: It is because a lot of people may want to get that moved in before the fall, before the winter. I can say anecdotally down here in Vista, Carlsbad area. My street’s about a mile long between the freeway and the next major street.
Last weekend, there was three estate sales on this, on my street. I live in an older, older area, so I have a feeling three new houses are coming to market.
[00:28:33] Fred Glick: Yeah. Boy, we should be doing postcards.
Oh, this poor people are going to sign whatever with their known commodity. Be safe unless the kids are in charge.
Anyway, speaking of selling, I want to show you a couple of things. We talked about this, I think at some point. We don’t use Supra lock boxes. Now, if you’re not familiar with Supra, most of California uses them and what they are is secure lock boxes that you need an app, but in order to get and register for the app, you must be a real estate agent.
So it’s, it’s a locked in system. We use what’s called code box. There’s different sizes of them. I got one of the smaller ones here. And the reason we use it is it takes a passcode that René or I have to actually tell somebody what it is in order for them to open the box. And we know who opens the box because we have their name.
So we can also let in buyers without an agent and, you know, after August 19th or whatever, when these new alleged rules come in, we don’t know what’s going on. The idea is that, hey, if you’re a buyer, you want to see our listing, great, send us your pre approval. And we want to have a picture of you and your driver’s license, make sure it’s you. I’m going to look into a system for that, but do you know any, Drew?
[00:30:12] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Not off the top of my head.
[00:30:13] Fred Glick: Well, security systems. Okay. Anyway. And then we’ll give you a code and let you know. So that’s going to get more people in with less hassles of having to go through an agent. And this is for a house that’s vacant or has staging, not if somebody’s living there, they won’t do that.
Even if they leave, we really don’t want to do that. It’s a little funky. We’ll figure it out. Anyway, so that’s the code box. So that’s for a seller. We want you to know this is something different that we do that’s better than other things that are out there. In San Diego, they have a different system. I forget the name of it. But it’s locked in with the agents. The other thing I want to show you, you should be carrying around and René, you probably have one of these. So there’s a listing that came online right now in West Hollywood. It’s a Spanish three bedroom townhouse. That’s very nice. Right at literally, the backyard was here and like right behind it here were power lines. It’s kind of creepy. So I went out and I bought one of these detectors. It was like 30, 40 bucks. This is the KENMIC K132. Yeah.
[00:31:52] Drew Thomas Hendricks: What is it?
[00:31:53] Fred Glick: Okay, it gives mehow much basically how much electricity is coming out of things like this computer.
So of course it’s going to be high. There’s a second field of measures, too, I forget. These are cool to have, to take around with you to open houses. You can get them on Amazon, I guess.
[00:32:16] Drew Thomas Hendricks: What do you do with that information?
[00:32:19] Fred Glick: Well, if you see that this electric thing is high from this thing, you don’t want to buy the house, possibly.
Oh, if you’re worried about that it’ll radiate your kids, yeah. Not good. So power me. I mean, that was a big thing years ago with the power lines and you know, Toll Brothers and the likes out suburban Philadelphia were building up against them and people were buying them and they didn’t care about the danger. And then I think there was a lawsuit about it. And they had to change the wiring methods and you know, it’s getting modernized, but still.
[00:32:56] Drew Thomas Hendricks: What is one of those little gadgets run?
[00:32:58] Fred Glick: It was like 30, 40 bucks. Yeah.
[00:33:01] Drew Thomas Hendricks: It’s something that’s important to you. That’s a very inexpensive investment.
[00:33:05] Fred Glick: We’ll find the Amazon link and throw it in the show notes.
[00:33:08] Drew Thomas Hendricks: Yeah. I’ll include my affiliate ID.
[00:33:10] Fred Glick: Go for it. Make the 14 cents. You deserve it.
[00:33:16] Drew Thomas Hendricks: I definitely deserve it.
[00:33:20] Fred Glick: Let’s start a campaign to do this so we can get him a new black shirt. I think that’s the problem.
[00:33:27] Drew Thomas Hendricks: I was trying to look nice today with my collared shirt. I am feeling a little out of place though. Yeah, that’s all right. Well, we’ve come full circle. We’re talking about clothing again. And coconut water. Full sponsor of We Fixed Real Estate.
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[00:34:02] Drew Thomas Hendricks: This has been the latest episode of We Fixed Real Estate.