Leigh Brown
Inman News
Matthews, NC, United States
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Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Tax Reform Is On Its Way
Jamie Gregory explains what's going on in Washington and how it negatively affects homeowners by taking away tax incentives. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: The Haters Gonna Hate, Hate, Hate
Ever have a client who's just the worst? Listen to the podcast as Sue "Pinky" Benson regales Leigh Brown with the story of a client who wouldn't quit. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: When A Seller Bares It All
The last thing you’d expect while trying to get a deal going is to be greeted by a homeowner at the front door — in the buff. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Young, Hungry And Learning
Clients often hesitate to work with a real estate agent who looks young and inexperienced. Alex Milshteyn, who was 18 at the time, confused a client when he showed up for a listing appointment. When he explained who he was, she promptly showed him to the door and never looked back. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: The foreclosure that became a love shack
As the son of a Realtor, George Wonica started off in the business at a young age, and 26 years later, he has a wide range of real estate stories. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: A hairy situation
In this episode, Leigh Brown’s guest, Tim Morgan, has a story that's enough to scare off any new real estate agent away from the profession. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Adventures in babysitting
Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. Sometimes the roles and responsibilities of real estate agents can be a bit fuzzy. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: One ‘yes’ can change your future
Listen to the full podcast to find out why persistence is key when it comes to pursuing the one “yes” that could change your entire life. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Learning the hard way
In this episode, Rosemary Buerger shares how her young clients had to learn a very hard lesson while selling their house -- it involves $10,000 in damage. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: A Real Estate Love Connection
In this episode of Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate, Melanie Schmidt shares the how the love story unfolded between her client and her daughter. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Don’t judge a book by its cover
“Don’t judge a book by its cover” -- a lesson Buddy West learned in a very humbling way when he was out showing a house to a man he severely misjudged. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Always check the freezer
Paula Monthofer and her clients did not anticipate what they found in the freezer that day, but it merited a very deep clean of the home upon purchase. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Needy Buyers Got You Down?
Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. Managing the relationship between developers and agents is critical. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: No Shirt, No Pants, No Open House?
Today’s guest, Karen Cruz, showed up to an open house to find a disaster area and a guy with no pants, but she found a way to get things done anyway. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Blood, sweat and maybe a few tears
Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. Sometimes, being a real estate agent means sticking it out for clients in the most dire situations. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: What’s that smell?
Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. Real estate agents help people buy, sell and lease their homes, but when do their services and responsibilities to the client end? A closing or a successfully sold property does not necessarily mean the agent's job is done. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Chase the dog or show the house?
Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. Chase after your seller’s dog running down the street, or show the home to potential buyers? No one really thinks they’ll ever have to make this choice with the exception of today’s guest, Chris Donaldson. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: 2 Buyers, 1 Home
Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. Having multiple customers at one time is part of the job in real estate -- but how about when you have two customers ready to make an offer on the same house? This is when things can get tricky, but not too tricky for guest Missi Howell. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: When wire fraud strikes at closing
Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. It's extremely important for those in real estate to stay vigilant at all times, especially in this day and age where technological crimes are at their peak. → Read More
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Responding To The Calls Of Those In Need
Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. Natural calamities happen when we least expect them to, and for Lumberton, North Carolina, it happened in October of 2016. → Read More