Episode 64: Audrey Rose on Finding Home on Alabama's Gulf Coast

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All right.

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If you're looking to buy
or sell a home in Gulf Shores, Alabama,

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I've got a wonderful real estate agent
that I want to introduce y'all to.

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Hey, I'm Nate Carver and welcome

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to Between Two Doors.

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Hi, Audrey

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Rose Stewart.

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How are you doing? I'm good. How are you?

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I'm doing great.

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It's a wonderful

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day, sunny outside,
and it's getting warm.

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And there's a lot happening
in the real estate world, as you know.

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And we're going to jump into it.

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And I am looking forward
to introducing everybody to you. And,

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anyway, let's jump in. Audrey,
tell me, let's talk about your story.

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You know,
people are meeting you for the first time.

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Who is Audrey Rose?

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Well, I grew up

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down in coastal Alabama,
so always on the water.

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My dad and brother actually are marine
diesel mechanics,

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so lots of boats in our lives.

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Lots of beach in our lives.

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And then as I grew up down here,
just like the area.

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But you know how kids are,
like when you grow up somewhere.

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Like, I gotta get out of this place.

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So, yeah, I have, moved to a couple of
different cities, New Orleans, Atlanta.

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Really far away. Pensacola.

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And I've just always realized that Orange
Beach and Gulf

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Shores are just really the best place
to live in the world.

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So I always came back and then bartending
for a while and love that.

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And,
now I'm transitioning into real estate

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so that, you know, bartending,
it's super fun and I love it.

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But also like,

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man, it's really hard on your body
and the hours aren't always so great.

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No.

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Yeah, neither is real estate, actually.
It's kind of a 24-hour job, but

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I get to sleep a little earlier.

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A little bit earlier.

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Hopefully you're not doing house
showings at 2 or 3 a.m., so. No.

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Not yet.

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Not yet. Good.

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Although, I guess if you're showing
a house on the beach at night,

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you can take them down to the water
and show them the bioluminescence.

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It's always a,
if you don't know anything about that,

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if you're listening to this,
the water down there is crystal clear.

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But at night all the, the,
I don't know what they are.

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The water lights up.

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It's fascinating. Anyway.

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All right,
so your, your coastal lifestyle,

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boating, fitness, bartending,
your beach life.

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You're living the dream?

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Yeah.

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Pretty much. That's kind of,
that's kind of

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My premise is, you know,
I love it down here so much.

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And I found so much joy
here in the community.

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And I'm like, you know what?

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Baldwin County, this county

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that I live in, is, I think, the fifth-fastest
growing county in the nation.

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Yeah. And there's a reason for that.

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And so, you know, people are coming, like,
they might as well have good guidance

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and be able to make good choices
on where they go

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and learn about these communities.

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And I feel like I can help them.

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And, And I don't try to make everybody
drink the Orange

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Beach and Gulf Shores Kool-Aid,
but it's just it's so good.

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It's it's pretty good.

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You know, you got,
the late Jimmy Buffett's sister, Lulu.

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That restaurant
right there on the Intracoastal.

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Anyway,
there's a lot of good stuff there.

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And then Margaritaville opening up right
next door like, well, pretty

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down the canal and across from the Wharf.
Yeah.

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So yeah,
that place is going to be amazing.

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What they're doing there, it's,
I think it's going to be their flagship.

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That's how they've, they've

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they're pitching it as if that's,
that's the flagship for that franchise.

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And so pretty exciting.

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Okay.

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So so what, what originally
pulled you into real estate?

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So kind of

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like I
said, I've been bartending for so long.

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And the funny thing
is, when I was, like, 20 years old,

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I bought the online real estate course
because I was like,

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oh, I there's something I could do
that's pretty interesting.

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And I saw so many people doing it
around me.

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But then, you know,
you get wrapped up in kind of

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like making money and 20 years old
who's really serious about.

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I wasn't serious about careers
or anything then.

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So I just got wrapped up into that.

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So I sat down with myself one day
and I was like, okay, bartending,

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I love it, but here are the cons to it.

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As I get older,
there's less time for families.

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Any holiday or any weekend.

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I'm always booked.

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Any time in the summer.

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I'm like, off days are off the table.

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And then in the wintertime, when tourism
dies down, the money sinks a lot.

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So you really have to plan and prepare.

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So I looked at bartending.

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I was like, well, what do I like about it?

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I like the money.

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I like that it's not an hourly wage
and my salary is based on my performance.

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And I love connecting with people.

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I like to make people feel at home.

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And I was like,
so what categories of work

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really tie into that?

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And I was like, well,

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I think real estate's a really good one,
so I still get to hang out with people,

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meet people to hear about their needs
and get to know them, build relationships,

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and then ultimately in the service
of giving them what they need.

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That's how I earn a living, you know?

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Yeah, kind. Of fits right in.

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Yeah.

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And you, you've probably have seen this.

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I got a good idea too, but, what has

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has there been anything
from your bartending experience

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that has translated
and benefited you as a realtor?

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Like,

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oh, I'm just thinking,

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in the bartending space, you're
going to meet all kinds of people, right?

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And then on the real
estate side, anyway, that's a

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random thought there, but

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I'll just imagine your clientele,

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probably pretty fantastic.

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Well, I mean, I think the ability
like in a bar setting scenario,

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you do kind of
have to read someone quickly and.

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Okay. Is there somebody I can cut up with?

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Is this somebody
who's a little more reserved?

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This is somebody

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who knows exactly what they want,
and I just need to get that done for them.

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Or is it
someone I need to take a little more time

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with and kind of ask some questions
and coach them through this?

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Is this somebody who

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maybe just needs to get out of the bar,
you know, like that times?

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Maybe we're just not ready for this.

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Neither of us.

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And so I think that that has helped
like the initial

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like getting to know somebody based off
of a first-hand experience, like quickly.

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And then also just like the building
of the relationships, you know,

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that it's like basically relationship
quick relationship boot camp is bartending.

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And then, yeah,
that's how you're a successful bartender

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is to make people feel welcome
and give them what they need.

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Sometimes they don't know what that is,
and you're supposed to figure it out.

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And I think it's exactly
the same in real estate.

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I think you're right.

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I think you're right.

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Let's see any,

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I'm going to look at my notes here.

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Yeah.

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So you do weight lifting training.

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Yeah.

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So where I'm going with this

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from your bartending experience,

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your weight training, a lot of discipline

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and both certainly in the weight
training for sure.

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And any, any

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I would, I would assume there's

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a huge benefit there
because now you're an entrepreneur.

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I mean you know, yes, a real estate agent,
but you're an entrepreneur.

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You are building a book of business.

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So some connecting points there for you
right.

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Yeah.

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I mean you can't tell from this shot
but I am pretty jacked.

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Yeah I know,
but I'm really grateful for bodybuilding.

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Because it did introduce
so much discipline in my life.

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Like it's.

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Yeah every day
I have a thousand little choices

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and it's a lot of little actions
that you're like,

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does it really matter if I do this or not?

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Does it really matter
if I get on this treadmill?

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Does it really matter
if I do 12 reps instead of 10 reps?

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Does it really matter if I eat 200 grams
of rice or if I eat these French fries?

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But after months and months

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of doing those little things, you're like,
wow, all this really mattered.

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And so that I think
is the same in real estate too.

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It's like, does it really matter
if I make these calls?

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Like, I don't know, I can just not call
the next five people on the list.

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Does it really matter
if I do and out of business

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card at event does, you know,
but at the end of the day and the planning

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and preparation for it too,
like if I go into my real estate office

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and I don't have a plan yet for the day,
which I have done a lot

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and still do, like, gosh, I didn't,
I didn't plan on prepare.

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So now I'm just
I spent my whole day preparing.

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Whereas if I plan ahead,
same in bodybuilding, I can execute.

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I just don't have to think about it.

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I can just execute that plan
and that's a lot more comes of it.

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Yeah. Yeah. So I love it.

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Let's let's talk let's shift
gears, talk a little bit about Alabama.

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Yeah.

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Specifically on the Gulf Coast

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for somebody who's never visited
the Gulf Shores or Orange Beach.

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How would you describe the vibe?

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Okay.

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Well, first of all, it's gorgeous.

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Like, and I'm a little spoiled
because I grew up here.

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I did not realize that all beaches
weren't, like, perfectly white sand.

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They're not.

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So that's the first time I saw one
that was like.

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It was, it was in Spain.

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Even so, like, not like I was going
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you know, Backwoods Beach or something,
but it was just like brown sand.

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And I was like, what is it?

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And so it's just so beautiful
because we have the coastline here and,

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and there is a good bit of tourism.

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But I think the thing that's different is
we have such a good permanent community

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here, too.

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Whereas when I go to Destin and 30A
and stuff like that, they have gorgeous

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tourism and coastline, but I don't see
a lot of permanent roots there, you know.

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So you're missing out
on the community aspect.

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And then up further into Baldwin
County, there's beautiful towns

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that are on like creeks and tributaries,

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with much more land and diverse,
like, like diverse

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plants, life and everything like that,
just smaller towns and everything.

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So it's very like it's small town,
but there are also little spots

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where there's so much growth
that you really have everything you need

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except for a Costco, which we are getting,
I heard.

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All right, what.
I heard we're getting one.

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I, I don't know when,
but I heard it's happening.

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And so you really have everything you
need.

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And also the tourism.

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I feel like it's a very laid back
tourism spot, too.

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There's not a lot of crazy spring breaks.

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There's not a lot of, like,
no MTV takeover type of situation.

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I think that's kind of died out.

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Yeah.

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So a lot of families, you know,
and then I think I find that

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a lot of families come down like kids.

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People who are my age
came out down on vacation

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as they were children
for years and years and years.

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And then now they're like,
yeah, we're going to move down here.

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And this is where
we're going to like plant our roots.

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And so and you can do that anywhere from

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Gulf Shores and Orange Beach up
to like Fairhope and Daphne

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and still enjoy
all the benefits of Baldwin County,

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because it really doesn't take that long
to get down to the to the beach.

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With the no.

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New the construction of the new Beach
Express and everything.

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It's, it's pretty great.

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And I just came from a weekend in Atlanta,
so I'm like, the traffic here,

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so good.

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So because.

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Yeah.

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Moved to Orange Beach way
better than Atlanta.

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So maybe.

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What would you.

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What's your perfect weekend?

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Oh, for me,
if I'm not working, usually I'll go.

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My parents live a little bit north of me
on a creek called Soldiers Creek.

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So I'll go up there.

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Or sometimes
they'll take their boat across

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and they'll meet me
at a restaurant down here

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so I don't have to drive all the way.

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And, we'll go out on the boat.

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There's live music literally everywhere.

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So you get food, live music, get some sun,

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either on the beach or the boat, and,
I just hang out, you know?

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Right up the road for me.

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The community center has a lot of

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festivals and the farmer's market
they started doing on Sundays.

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And so it's just a lot

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of good opportunities to go to events
and like, connect with the community.

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Yeah. So that's pretty good.

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That's a perfect weekend for me, son.

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Community. Family. Yeah.

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Right.

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So you have there's the Intracoastal
Waterway that goes through there.

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And so actually just south
is the Gulf of Mexico.

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And then you have, you know, the bays.

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So let's talk a little bit about boating.

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So people moving down the Gulf, you know,
you don't have to own a boat.

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But if you do and there's plenty of places
how far

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I'm thinking of,
the Wharf, right there.

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And there's plenty of other places too.

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But, if you got a boat,
what would you do with that boat?

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And in southern Alabama.

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Kind of depends on where you live.

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The neighborhood I live in.

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It's not an HOA.

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It's a covenant community.

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So you can volunteer to pay
to get in it or not.

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And there's boat, boat storage and a boat
ramp there.

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You can also in my neighborhood,
you can store a boat in your, like,

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yard area.

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But there's a lot of marinas
that have, like, dry

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storage and stuff, and they take the boat
out for you, put it back.

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A lot of condos
that are on the south side of the water,

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they'll have, boat access,
which is awesome.

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Like, so when you buy your condo,
this is your boat slip,

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so you have somewhere to put it.

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But other than that, there's,
like several really great marinas

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where they take really good care of you,
and they'll put it up in the storage.

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You want it out for the weekend,
and you just call them,

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let them know they bring it down.

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They'll even wash it off and stuff
for you, like, it's pretty sweet.

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And then if you don't have a boat,
you can get a friend with a boat or,

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or there's, there's a boat club
that you can join, which I've considered,

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but I'm like, I think I have a dad
with a boat, so I'm good on that.

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But the boat
club is cool.

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You can pay like a monthly membership fee,
and there's different tiers to it.

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So if you want bigger boats and stuff,
you pay a little more if you just want.

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Okay, we're just going to use this pontoon
or this little like center

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console boat,

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then you can do that and run them out
and take them out when you want to,

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which is kind of cool.

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Nice.

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So I see we're talking about real estate,
so people moving down.

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There would no longer be tourists
or visitors.

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They're going to be residents.

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Any hidden gems you want to clue them in on?

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Oh, wow.

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Let's see, as far as, like, restaurants

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on the Gulf Shores side of things.

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A little casual place, The Sloop.

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So good.

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It's technically a bar,
but it's during the day.

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You can always do.

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Kids come in until 10 p.m.,
families and stuff.

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There's an outside area
where they have live music.

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They have, like, the greatest
Philly cheesesteak I've ever had.

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And coming from somebody from Alabama,
maybe

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not a lot of weight to that, that,
but it is good.

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There's places like Big Fish
and Orange Beach,

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which is like a little nicer,
a sushi bar type of place.

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They have fabulous happy hour.

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Trying to think of all the places I go.

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Oops.

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All right.

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Audrey.

328
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So what might be some misconceptions
about moving to the coast?

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I think that the biggest one

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is, people think it's not possible

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like that.

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It's this big idea
that's totally out of reach,

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and they'll never be able
to afford a house here.

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They'll never be able to get a condo here
because it's just too much.

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It's growing a lot.

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But, I think, in Baldwin County,

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it's probably the most accessible,
like gateway to the Gulf

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that you're going to get in comparison
to Florida or anything like that.

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And there's constantly
I want to say constantly

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there are new developments
that are really like

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reined in and tracked by the city
to make sure we don't overwhelm ourselves,

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that actually have really great deals
all the time.

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I showed some town houses today that are

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well, they're listed at, like, $375,000.

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Right.

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Which that's the list price.

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So you could always go down from that.

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But in a couple of years from now,
if you buy it at that,

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there's no way that they won't be worth
like 450.

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You know, as long as there's no inevitable crash
or something like that, you know,

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and also there's

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just a lot of,
there's still a lot of land to,

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to where you can absolutely, like

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buy land, hold on to it, build it,
put equity into something

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like it's possible
to actually get into these places.

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And I did a series a while
back on my Instagram,

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on all of the listings
that were under $500,000.

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There were over, I think, 120 listings
between Orange Beach and Gulf Shores

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that were under $500,000,
which for a beach community is pretty big.

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Like that's a big deal.

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And so it's just I think it's way
more accessible than people think.

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For sure.

363
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Good move to move to the beach.

364
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That's everybody's dream. Yeah.

365
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I know. Gosh, right there.

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I mean, you're you're literally
you're a mile out from catching bluefin

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tuna or you just go in,
catch a largemouth bass and.

368
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Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying there's
all kinds of there's a lot of hunting,

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you know, if you're into hunting,
a lot of great opportunity there.

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And if you're not, there's,
you know, Mobile.

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The big city, if you will, is right there.

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It's close,
not too far over the other direction.

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A lot of a lot of historical,

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landmarks, Fort Morgan, Fort McCrae.

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So all of that from the Civil War
era stuff.

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So lots of history, lots of good stuff.

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Real estate investing.

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What types of buyers
are you seeing most right now?

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Right now?

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The market is kind of looking like luxury
listings are going quickly,

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and the very affordable
listings are going really quickly.

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And it's kind of the same people
that are buying them.

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So it's people who have

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the extra money.

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It's not this is a second home.
This is a second property.

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This is an additional investment
property for them.

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And they aren't really worried about it.

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Right.

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The chunky middle where like home buyers
who would be in the $300,000 to $600,000

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range, those people at this moment,
and rightfully so, you know,

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there's a war going
on. Gas prices are this or that.

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Interest rates are kind of, you know,
higher than they're always higher

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than we would like. But, right.

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So those people are.

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They're taking a little more caution
than just a buyer who can see a listing.

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I had somebody who was looking
at a condo down here,

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teeny-tiny little condo,
but just for Airbnb purposes, $150,000,

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I. So you just throw that, and
if you have the cash to throw on it, boom.

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It was like listed for maybe five days
before it went under contract.

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Yeah.

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So it's just kind of like that
kind of stuff is moving super quick.

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And then that.

403
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But then first time home buyers
are doing a really good job too, actually.

404
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With some of the builders
that are in the area that offer

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like buy-down incentives and better
interest rates and stuff like that.

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First time
homebuyers are doing really well.

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It's just it's
you just have to coach them through it.

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It's scary. And I get it, you know?

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So as long as they have a good helping
hand,

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a good person
on the mortgage side of things

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and a good realtor to kind of coach them
through and connect those two dots.

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That's right. Yeah.

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And so I've seen probably 6
or 7 friends of mine since January

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have gotten into their first homes,
which is really awesome.

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So good.

416
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Yeah.

417
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Tell you what, if you're buying a home,

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your team, it's a great realtor
like yourself,

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a great mortgage lender. I'm available,

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and a great insurance, partnership.

421
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That right there, those three,

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you know,

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you're going to have a clear mortgage plan

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to owning a home, whether it's, private,
you know,

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whether it's your personal primary
or investment or second home.

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That team will get you there, with a

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with a solid plan.

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Other market sets, you know,

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about what makes Gulf Coast area,

430
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unique?

431
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,720
Well, I mean, I think it's just

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it's pretty diverse as far as,
like, the topography of everything, right?

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If you want to live on the beach, you can.

434
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If not, you've got, like,
more rural areas and country areas.

435
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You got more developed areas like Daphne,
Fairhope or, Foley, like you said

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earlier with Mobile and Pensacola,
both of those are like 45 minutes away.

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So, yeah, close enough and far enough.

438
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And then our school systems are great
too, right?

439
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It's it's it's a fantastic area
to raise a family.

440
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And lots of opportunity
for small businesses

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and people who just kind of
want to get after it and hustle.

442
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Yeah.

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Even though a lot of people down here
come to retire and the hustle is off

444
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and they're done hustling,
it's also a really great place

445
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for young people to come
and really lay their mark on things.

446
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I know, especially for newcomers
who move from farther away

447
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or out of state,

448
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it doesn't take long for you
to get into the community

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and just have them wrap
their arms around you.

450
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Kind of, you know,
you're not going to be lost in the mix.

451
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Yeah, right.

452
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Long as you get out there
and you kind of join in.

453
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People are welcomed with open arms.
For the most part.

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It's really cool. Good.

455
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So what do you think separates
great realtors from your average realtor?

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In my opinion,

457
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I feel like it's probably the intention.

458
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And then the execution

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intention behind what you're doing
and the execution of it.

460
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Because there are so many agents
in this area,

461
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I think there's like 3500 agents
in Baldwin County,

462
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which in comparison to
our population is pretty high.

463
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,040
Yeah. Don't quote me on this.

464
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But the statistic was,
I think, like over 70% of those realtors

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only made one transaction
in the past year.

466
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So I think just
so that would be more execution, right?

467
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How many like how the number of sales,
the number of clients you have,

468
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what you're doing?

469
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Just to have the hustle in here
and actually

470
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go after it instead of thinking,
okay, this is just fun.

471
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And I get to show houses and I get to wear
what I want and it's going to be easy.

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And then,

473
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but I think what I this ones
that I've seen be most successful

474
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are those that actually care
about their clients like they do call

475
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,440
follow up,
not just because they saw a listing,

476
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,920
but because they wrote it down
when they were talking to them

477
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,840
one day that, hey,
your birthday's May 26th,

478
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,880
so I'm going to give you a fall
on your birthday.

479
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,600
Or oh, I remember you said something
about your kids concert.

480
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,440
I mean, she plays the elbow. Like,
what's going on with that?

481
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,520
You know, the actually being able
to connect and bond with people.

482
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:26,640
There are agents in my office
who have talked about how they reached out

483
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:31,600
to people in condos for years and years,
and one guy told me a story.

484
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,200
They said that somebody he called for
years just asked him for a favor

485
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,200
to find a phone number
of a business in town.

486
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,080
And he was like, it's something so simple,
like, well, you could Google that.

487
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,800
But instead he just found the phone number

488
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,960
of the person in town and gave it to him.

489
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,640
And then it wasn't next week, but a year

490
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,320
after that, the man came to
and he was like, I want you to be my agent

491
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,640
because you took the time to help me,
and you've been consistent the whole time.

492
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:02,040
So stories like that, like, yep,
it does matter if I make the call.

493
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,560
It does matter
if I send the birthday card.

494
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:09,160
And even if they can Google the answer,
I'll Google it for them, like, you know.

495
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,960
Yeah, well,
that's the thing I was interested in,

496
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,360
I guess when I discovered you,
if you will.

497
00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:18,320
You're you're disciplined,

498
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,840
you're doing you're consistent.

499
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:22,520
Clearly.

500
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,360
And so I kind of things
I wanted to capture as well

501
00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:27,600
why I invited you on the podcast.

502
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,400
And so I was like, where
if I'm going to talk about that, good.

503
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,400
I so tell me,
you know, we've talked a little bit about,

504
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,520
you know, helping people in building,
you know, building the life, that style

505
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,600
that they want to have down on the Gulf
Beach and Gulf Shores area.

506
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000
What does that mean to you personally?

507
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,160
To me personally, like I do,

508
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,360
I've fully I am one who's drank the kool
aid down here.

509
00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:55,200
I'm all about it.

510
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,760
I don't want to leave.

511
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,680
Like this is where I want to be.

512
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:03,760
So for me personally, it's,
like the Gulf Coast lifestyle is.

513
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,360
I'm involved in the community.

514
00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:08,520
There's several groups
I join and I love going out to events.

515
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,520
We have the Billfish
Classic was just this past weekend.

516
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,960
So that's our first
big fishing tournament of the year.

517
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,080
So all of the boats kind of line up
and they do the shotgun start

518
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,160
where they all go out to the Gulf,
and it takes a couple days

519
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,880
and they come back to the Marina and weigh
all the fish.

520
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,880
It's just a great time to come together.

521
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:30,440
There are just neighborhoods
that throw little parties

522
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,560
kind of together,
almost like block parties and poker runs.

523
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,120
There's just so much community
to be involved in.

524
00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:39,400
So being involved in that is like
the highlight of my life, being able

525
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,520
to go into a grocery store
and see like 3 or 4 people I know.

526
00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:47,720
Yeah, like there's
something sweet about that.

527
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,680
And then when you see a stranger, like,

528
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,880
because that energy is already there,
there really are not that many strangers.

529
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,240
So you get to connect with people
all the time.

530
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:58,800
I would love to.

531
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,320
I rent currently,
but the town houses down the road for me

532
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:06,160
or for sale and I'm like, that's exactly
where I want to be in the next two years.

533
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,440
And so get a townhouse there.

534
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,400
Maybe we get a golf cart. You know,
that's kind of.

535
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,640
Yeah, it doesn't have to happen
immediately, but it's a big deal.

536
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,120
It's a huge deal around here.

537
00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:20,600
And just to be able to do that,
and further down the road, I'm

538
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,800
fortunate to have a broker
who not only is coaching me through

539
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,880
like making a success
real estate business, but also and how to

540
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:35,520
create wealth for myself down here
to show it to for my clients and me alike.

541
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,360
To be like,
this is how you point out a good deal.

542
00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:39,720
This is how you know
if there's a good HOA in the building.

543
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,600
This is how you could actually make money
on a condo investment instead of

544
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,720
buying one that is crazy insurance
and you get a ton of special assessment.

545
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,440
It's always a headache.

546
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:54,800
So that's the goal for me,
is to get a couple investment properties,

547
00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:00,000
to have a house of my own,
to have a place, to share,

548
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,080
because I have family that lives

549
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,200
out of state and stuff to be like, oh,
you guys want to come down this weekend?

550
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,920
You can stay in this condo right here.

551
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,640
And they kind of pay for themselves.

552
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,080
And it just kind of
just evolves like that.

553
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,600
So that's where I look forward to,
like that's the lifestyle for me.

554
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,240
And hopefully I can afford to do this. And

555
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,040
you're chasing your dream.

556
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,440
So tell me,
what would you recommend to somebody else?

557
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:23,720
Just not quite pull the trigger on it.

558
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,640
Or they may feel stuck.

559
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,640
Not necessarily real estate
like in general.

560
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:29,320
Real estate.

561
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,320
What would you tell them to do us?

562
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,080
That's a big question.

563
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,080
So I was stuck for a really long time.

564
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,880
I would say until about two years ago,
a little over two years ago,

565
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,920
my life was like, super out of control

566
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,560
and all over the place unmanageable.

567
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,840
And for a while,
I'd really accepted that I was like,

568
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,760
this is just what life is like.

569
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,120
Like I'm always going to have problems.

570
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,560
I'm always going to be a little sad.

571
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,240
I'm always going to be stuck at a job
that I might want to quit, or just

572
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,840
I might fire me, you know,
like it's always going to be chaos.

573
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,600
And I think that by watching

574
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,720
a couple other people who came out of it
and I was a little curious, like, what?

575
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,240
What are they do?

576
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,560
And just kind of follow their example

577
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,120
and say, it was it's really scary.

578
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,880
But sometimes just taking a step
to change.

579
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:31,160
One major thing for me
was just the lifestyle that I was living.

580
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,800
I was like, that needs to stop.

581
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,560
So how do I do that?

582
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,720
So I quit doing some of those things
of that lifestyle.

583
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:43,080
And then I found people who were
in a community and joined in with that.

584
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,680
So whether that would be like church
or clubs in the community

585
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:51,040
or like just there's this group of girls
that walks around here

586
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,400
that's like the hot girl
walks or whatever,

587
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,200
joining into communities
that are positive too,

588
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,480
and then hanging out with people
that have done it before me

589
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,920
kind of made me switch
into the perspective of, oh,

590
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,400
it is possible for me
to break out of this.

591
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:07,320
Yeah.

592
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:11,800
And after watching and asking how other
people did it, I kind of just copycat it.

593
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,920
I got it and and I think that's.

594
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:15,040
Yeah.

595
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,040
But like, I, you know, I don't have
to figure it out all by myself.

596
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,520
Somebody else has done it and. Yeah.

597
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,200
And you know, so
and it just changed everything really.

598
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,840
And so now I felt so much more connected,
connected to other people in

599
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,600
my like in
my life is just kind of peaceful.

600
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:32,880
Even though today it's been like

601
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,760
running, running, running,
you know, it's all good.

602
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,960
And so I just think there's

603
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,800
a lot of gloom and doom,
especially with social media and the way

604
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,920
that the internet works and everything
to where the problems can seem massive.

605
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,720
But as long as I focus on
what's in front of me,

606
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,200
what I can't control and can't control

607
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,200
and just do what's best for me
and the people around me,

608
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,200
and those problems
start to get a little smaller.

609
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:01,680
Yeah.

610
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,640
And, you know, and then you solve enough
little problems that the bigger problems

611
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,280
you're like, oh, well, I did all this.

612
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,280
Of course I can tackle that, you know. So.

613
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:12,640
Right.

614
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:17,160
So post closing, what is it
that what's the one thing you hope your,

615
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,720
your clients take away
or have learned about you?

616
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,480
That's actually after the closing
I had just a couple weeks ago,

617
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,160
I wanted to do a little client interview
with, the people that I helped.

618
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,720
And so to see if they did this, or
I thought this, I would like for them

619
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:39,040
to think of me as someone
who just made their life easier.

620
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,760
I when they had a problem,

621
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,760
it got solved
and they didn't have to stress over it.

622
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,200
Somebody organized it, laid it out,

623
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,200
organized and solved their problems.

624
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,080
Like that's ultimately
the goal is to be like,

625
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,120
I don't know how we got to closing.

626
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,360
That was so weird. It just all happened.

627
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,560
But they didn't know it was me
the whole time.

628
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,400
I, you know, that.

629
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:03,960
A flawless closing.

630
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:04,440
Yeah.

631
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,440
And they're like, it just happened for us.

632
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,960
Well, are you ready
for some rapid fire questions?

633
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,120
It should be fun, I hope. Okay. Yeah.

634
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,720
All right, all right.
This is a couple of them.

635
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:18,200
So favorite place
to watch a sunset in Gulf Coast.

636
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,400
At the Icehouse Tap Room.

637
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,760
It's in Gulf Shores.
It's right on the lagoon.

638
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,120
And the sunsets are insane.

639
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,680
They always have live music, too,
so that helps.

640
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,480
All right. Beach day or boat day?

641
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,360
It depends on the boat, but beach day?

642
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,240
Beach day. All right. Yeah.

643
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:37,920
I've been on a boat that sank.

644
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:38,680
Yeah. That's.

645
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,400
Yeah, I agree with you.

646
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,320
Who's on the boat? That's it.

647
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:43,440
Yeah. Oh, gosh.

648
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,800
The Coast Guard came out.

649
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,080
the Coast Guard plane came out;
a boat came and got us.

650
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,000
It was awful. In a storm. It was great.

651
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,600
Everybody on the dock
said, don't go out there.

652
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:55,800
And we did.

653
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,200
Well, sometimes you got to figure it out,
you know.

654
00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:59,040
Yeah. That's right.

655
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,600
We learned something that day.

656
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:05,160
In the walk of shame
when we got back, back to the dock.

657
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:05,960
Okay.

658
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,560
Let's see.

659
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,560
Coffee or pre-workout?

660
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,280
Coffee? Coffee.

661
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:13,600
Favorite.

662
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,600
Favorite local restaurant.

663
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:18,360
Tough.

664
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:18,960
Oh, gosh.

665
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:22,600
Why is it so hard?

666
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,200
Okay, I know there's a lot.

667
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,480
There's a lot. Well,
and there's so many different genres.

668
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,000
If it's like midnight
and I'm coming back in town,

669
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,400
maybe from Atlanta,
and I need a cheeseburger, The Keg.

670
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,560
But that is like 100%.

671
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:35,040
Yeah.

672
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,000
That's the I'm telling you all,
if you don't know,

673
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,680
go to The Keg after midnight,
two and 3 a.m..

674
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,680
I'm telling you. It's so good.

675
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:48,800
Other than that, I would say coastal.

676
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:50,280
Let's do Big Fish.

677
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,280
Big Fish is my favorite for sure,
because right up the road.

678
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,280
Yeah. All right. Pre-midnight. Yeah.

679
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:57,480
All right. Pre-midnight.

680
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:58,400
Okay.

681
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,920
Dream vacation destination
besides Alabama.

682
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:03,440
Yeah.

683
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:08,280
I would really like to go to, Bali.

684
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,160
I feel like that would be
a really cool place.

685
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,840
That seems like when you get there,
everything's super accessible and cheap

686
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,120
and just a totally different beach
than what I'm used to.

687
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:18,120
Right on. Cool.

688
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:19,760
All right.

689
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,560
This would be a tough one.

690
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,920
Early morning workout or sunset cruise.

691
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,080
I mean, I have to do the early morning

692
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,400
workout after I have to.

693
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,040
Yeah. Let's be fair.
Your dad has a boat, so, you know.

694
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:35,560
Yeah.

695
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,120
All right, if you weren't doing
real estate, what do you think

696
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,880
you'd be doing?

697
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,880
I would probably be
if I wasn't in real estate.

698
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,120
I feel like I would have to be
in some sort of sales.

699
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,160
Something where

700
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,520
Or something
where I'm interacting with people.

701
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,200
So maybe like medical sales,
even though that doesn't

702
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:59,880
really interest me or,
something like that.

703
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:00,480
But I

704
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,000
never really looked at any other careers
after I decided real estate was the one.

705
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:08,000
Yeah, yeah, actually, I would like to be
an interior designer because every time

706
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,880
I get to go have a house staged, I'm like,
this looks really fun.

707
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,400
Like, yeah, yeah, let me use your money
to make this place cute.

708
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:16,760
Yeah.

709
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:18,760
There you go.

710
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,920
Yeah. Last one, one word to describe

711
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,920
Gulf Shores.

712
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:28,520
I would say home.

713
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,520
I want to say Paradise
because that's like, on my whole brand

714
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,360
and everything, and it is.
But for me, I'm like, that's home.

715
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,080
Yeah. There you go. Yeah.

716
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,320
All right.

717
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,800
Best ways people can contact
you are almost out of time.

718
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:47,000
So let's let's get some, some links
identified for people to find you.

719
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,320
Instagram. Audrey Sells Paradise.

720
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,080
It's pretty much.

721
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,360
Audrey Sells Paradise at gmail.com.

722
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,360
My phone number is always open,
but I get a lot of calls from telemarketers.

723
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,200
But I always answer, even if it's a
telemarketer, you know? So.

724
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,400
Yeah. All right.

725
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,480
Well.

726
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:07,320
Yeah.

727
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,320
AudreySellsParadise.com.

728
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:10,880
All right.

729
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,320
Yeah.
I'm going to put the links down below.

730
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,320
Wherever you all are
consuming this podcast.

731
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,400
I'll have all your links there.

732
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,920
So that way that people can,
can find you directly and,

733
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,480
we're, we're about out of time.

734
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,320
Is there anything I
should ask you that I didn't?

735
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:27,960
I can't think of it, but I've.

736
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:28,800
I'll think of it after.

737
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,600
Maybe we'll have a follow-up
podcast after this.

738
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:32,320
Yeah.

739
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:32,840
We'll do it.

740
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:33,400
We'll do it.

741
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,880
There you guys go.

742
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:36,880
There you go.

743
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:37,400
There you go.

744
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,600
I can't even speak. Real estate.

745
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:45,400
If you're looking to buy or sell a home
down in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

746
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,680
Reach out to Audrey.

747
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,680
She loves this place.

748
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:51,360
You can tell.

749
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,160
And, Audrey, thank you so much
for being a guest on Between Two Doors.

750
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:59,280
And, if y'all are looking for a lender.

751
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:00,240
My name is Nate Carver.

752
00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:02,360
Your Favorite Mortgage Guy. I'm here, and

753
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,360
we'll
put you a good mortgage plan together.

754
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,480
Thank you, Audrey.

755
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:19,800
Thanks, Nate.