When I called the municipality and they told me I wasn’t allowed to build a garage fronting onto Wordsley, I remembered that I can build as many 10×10s as I want in my back yard with NO PERMIT, so here we go! 

My never ending paperwork as a Broker and Realtor was made better this week knowing Nicky was in the backyard building away like busy beaver. I’ve been chained to the desk but can hear a faint hammer or saw going in the distance, motivating me to power through forms forms and more forms. 

Our backyard just happens to front onto Esquimalt Road, so I refuse to pay a commercial landlord a lease just like I refuse to pay a franchise to operate our brokerage. With hundreds of condos going in all around us here at the #artdecoesquimalt it makes perfect sense for us to erect our offices facing Esquimalt Road.

We’ll have street access to Esquimalt Rd. near Lampson St. and once the offices are done we’ll be removing the big laurel hedges to reveal Nicky’s handy work. We don’t need to hook it up to power as we’ll be running our offices from a solar generator. 

I had a meeting at ERC (Esquimalt Roasting Company) and used our Esquimalt Rd. entrance, snapping a before pic that makes me so happy. Always rather invest in my own property than someone else’s but it wouldn’t happen without Nicky Valinoti - appreciate you. 

What a great deal we got for our buyers for this house in the Tillicum/Burnside area of Saanich!

First time on the market in nearly 40 years this house was well maintained and un-messed with! Ready for some cosmetic updates but sporting some skookum bones and systems. Rare!

We negotiated a fantastic closing price for this HUGE house with 5 bedrooms, giant double garage!, separate suite area downstairs and full height 7’4” lower level!

Bonus? My buyers are serious gardeners and this giant lot is basically already an orchard with multiple fruit trees and lush perennial borders.

Who’s going to be helping rip up these carpets and paint out these walls?

Finding a home for this family was a treat, friends and clients for decades it’s been a true joy touring with two tradies and their 5 kids! I will miss them helping me opening the lockbox or catching lizards in the backyards. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Course I also brokered the deal - off to go cut some excess funds bank drafts so we can close this one quick!

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We’re removing subjects today and about to start another flip on a house in Saanich for our Buyers! 

Being a managing broker is a real treat, closing fast on this one because our conveyancer is beyond fastidious with her reports. Drafting up excess deposit bank drafts, a few reports being typed up and BAM! SOLD! That’s $2,950,000 in closings SO FAR this month of October! Yeeayyyah! 

Trading in my demo boiler suits for some boss broker suits and it feels GOOD. Germans have NO CHILL and casual dress in Germany is just being nude, so the transition to pant suits has been an easy one. Why wear heels that make me 6’ tall? Because it feels powerful. Because sometimes I work 7 weeks without a day off. 

Being a contract and conveyance expert also makes me feel powerful. Passport renewal? Green card? Immigration documents? EASY. I just survived my first 6 month long financial audit as the Managing Broker of my own Real Estate firm, NOTHING can phase me now. 

May I forever be on a financial calculator or in a suit with an extra tall inseam, filling out FORMS FORMS FORMS, closing deals, moving people. 

Broker Stack

Of the 44,000+ Realtors in the province, there are only around (apx) 1600 Managing Brokers. Sure it took years of experience and a huge 3hr written exam to become a broker but it was WORTH IT.

No franchise, no other company, not one other person took a peice of my hard earned commissions.

I’m about to write my Strata Management licence next month and will be rolling my UVic BA credits into a BBRE from UBC. Turns out I love self improvement as much as I love home improvements :)