Your Guy!

First things first. Have a terrific and Safe Memorial Day Weekend. Thank you to all our troops and you or any of your relatives who have sacrificed to make our nation safe. Second, the new April 2024 housing stats are out (single family home inventory up 37.8% in PBC compared to April 2023) along with interest rates dropping below 7%. Check it out here. Now, on to the Journal…

Would you like a Starbucks to start your Sunday morning? For Free! Dark roast? Latte? Frap? Bacon, Gouda & Egg Sandwich? Well, if you do me a solid, and another guy a solid, I’ll do you one. Basically a 2 for 1. All you have to do is provide me with your favorite guy. In return, a $5 gift certificate is all yours.

See, the worst 2 words in the English language can be “Your Guy!” Your Guy is always followed by an explanation point! The reason why it’s so bad is that you were trying to do a good deed in providing a name and then you’re blamed if they don’t like them..

We have an excellent Echo approved vendor page already but with hurricane season approaching, it’s time to tweak it. Plus, I figure if you provide the name, and they end up being “eh”, then I can blame it on you. “Wasn’t me, it’s that Victoria. She sold you out for a Caffè Americano…!”

Now to qualify, I’ll give a list of categories. No repeats. For example, if you recommend Friends of Bats in the Bat Removal category and they are already on the list, then no coffee for you. We will also have to check them out. But figure how much they will appreciate you. Everyone loves a referral.

So, here is what you have to do to earn your free cup of Joe……

We need your favorite vendor. Some type of contact information. Name, email address, etc.. Send me an email at [email protected]

The vendor needs to be located in Martin, Palm Beach, or St. Lucie County as we do business in all three. No national firms. We are looking for locals.

Certain categories we are sound on. We are not looking to add Lawyers, Mortgage Brokers, and Title Insurance agents. My wife, Veronica. is an LMHC, so none of those as she is the best. You can check out are current categories here. ECHO Approved Vendor Page

We love local service providers. Handymen or Handywomen, AC contractors, surveyors, impact glass installers, etc… Can also be your local tutor, housekeeper, beekeeper, you name it. It can’t be a store or restaurant or retail type business. Think more for the home or local services related to the home.

If a contractor, they must be licensed.

Since it’s a freebee, I have to go over the terms and conditions in small print.

Limit to 1 gift certificate per family. Meaning, if you and your sweet little boy, Zeek, both give a the name of an awesome landscaper and painter, only Zeek will get the gift certificate.
If someone already gave the name of a provider, you lose.
If you give a dog trainer and person who will raise and lower your flag, only one counts. If not, someone could provide 2,000 vendors and poor ECHO would be in the hole for $10,000. * But feel free to give lots of names. Your vendor will be grateful and maybe even give you a cup of Joe!
ECHO agents and ECHO employees – We have free coffee in the office and our Eggs Benidict Sales Meeting on Tuesday. Plus, you give us people to put on all the time. No extra Starbucks for us.

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Jeff Lichtenstein, originally from Chicago, got his start in the home furnishings textile business where he traveled over 35 weeks a year selling fabrics. After the family business was sold, Jeff moved to Florida and became a real estate agent. Today he is the owner and broker of Echo Fine Properties, a luxury residential brokerage voted best brokerage of the year. Jeff manages a non-traditional model of real estate that mimics a traditional business model. Echo has 80 agents, an average of one million dollars per transaction and over 500 million in annual sales. Between traveling for work and annual family trips to national parks with his wife and 2 now adult children, Jeff has visited 49 states. He is also one of the few Chicago White Sox fans you’ll ever meet. Some publications he has been quoted in.

Author of business & leadership book How Making a Sandwich Can Change Your World – The Amazing Success of the PB&J Strategy – Available to Buy Now!

Feel free to ask him a question directly at [email protected] including a complementary valuation of your home.

Posted in Open House Blog, Real Estate Tips on May 25, 2024 at 5:48 am.

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