I got my license at 19. My father got his the same day.
Most agents fall into this business. I chose it on purpose, side by side with the person who taught me the whole job before I ever wrote a single offer.
Not a typical real estate résumé.
The Service Ethic
Years in New York restaurants, beverage director at Harlow and Ellabess, my own wine business, and a sommelier certification. It shows up less in wine talk and more in how your deal gets run.
The Background
A degree from New York University, a byline at Rolling Stone, and a cocktail in The New York Times. I also build, so I know what a house is made of as well as what it's listed at.
The Origin
I grew up in downtown Boston, where my dad had a long career in real estate. I got licensed at 19, the same day he did. Not a fallback career. A decision we made together, on purpose.
The Work
First-time buyers through public figures who need discretion, and sales in the Bird Streets and Doheny Estates, where positioning and negotiation separate a good result from a great one. Builders, architects and designers already in my phone when your deal needs them.
I treat your goal as mine. Not as a deal to close.
I work all over Los Angeles, at every price point, from a first condo in Culver City to a hillside home above Sunset. I don't specialize in a zip code. I specialize in doing the job right, wherever the deal is. For sellers, that job has a name: LAUNCH, the system I built to create demand before a home ever feels available.
A deal doesn't end when the offer gets accepted, and I don't disappear the moment it gets complicated. Inspections, appraisals, financing surprises, the hard conversation with the other side, that's the actual work. I stay in your corner through all of it, and I tell you the truth even when it's not the update you wanted.
A lot of my clients become friends. I take that as proof the approach works, not as a coincidence.
I trained in hospitality before I ever sold a house.
There's a difference between service and hospitality that most of this industry never learns. Service is getting the technical stuff right: the contract, the comps, the timeline. Hospitality is how all of that makes you feel while it's happening. Plenty of agents are fine at service. I was trained to care about the other thing.
That shows up in specifics, not slogans. I remember the wine you ordered, the way you like to get updates, the house that fell through last year and why it still stings. I write it down and I use it, because knowing a detail is nothing. Acting on it is the whole point.
And when a deal goes sideways, and they all go sideways eventually, you hear it from me first. I own whatever part is mine and I fix what's fixable before you have to ask twice. That's not a tagline. That's the training.
Bylines and press
- The Wall Street JournalQuoted on One Beverly Hills
- The New York TimesCocktail recipe, created at Dell'anima in the West Village
- Edible ManhattanAs beverage director at Harlow, Midtown
- Arizona Foothills MagazineThe Rose Petal, created at Ellabess in the Nolitan Hotel
- Rolling StoneGear and audio guides, 2020 to 2022
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