Eight questions to ask any Los Angeles real estate agent.

Yes. My record is public.

46 homes sold and 6 leased since 2020, from Doheny Estates and Santa Monica to Venice, Burbank and Long Beach. Each one is on my sales page with the address, the year and the closing price, straight from the MLS.

It gets its own film and its own website.

That is part of LAUNCH, the way I take a house to market. The film for 823 Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park drew multiple offers, and the buyer who won found the house through it and sent me a direct message.

Some homes sell before they are listed.

Owners tell me when they would sell to the right buyer, and buyers with a brief hear first. In 2026 a Westwood condo sold this way, with no sign and no listing.

“I’ve heard the pitch before with agents trying to get a listing but in this case it was true.”

A Santa Monica condo, and it still closed.

It had mold, no laundry, and an HOA that had not funded the balcony repairs California requires, so no lender would touch the building. Two buyers walked. The third paid $650,000 cash, and my sellers made every call knowing exactly where things stood.

Me, before anyone else.

Something changes on nearly every deal: an inspection, the appraisal, the lender, the other side. When it does, I call you with what it means and what you can do. The decision is yours.

I have pulled the permits myself.

In 2020 my wife Eliza and I built two houses on adjoining lots in North Hollywood, one for us and one for my parents, as our own general contractors. I read an inspection report as someone who has paid the subs.

People I have worked with for years.

When a deal needs someone, I make the introduction.

• /Builders who scope and price work before you commit
• /Eliza, an interior designer, for staging and remodel plans
• /A lender, escrow and inspection team I know well
• /Vetted agents across the country if you are leaving, with any referral fee disclosed in writing

I grew up around it, then ran restaurant wine programs.

My father sold real estate in Boston, and I was licensed at 19, the same day as him. Then NYU, and years running the beverage programs at Harlow and Ellabess in Manhattan before I came west.