Episode 23: Find Your Dream Home in Mobile, Alabama with Patriotic Guest Oksana Leslie

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Nate Carver
Welcome to the latest episode of Between Two Doors. We are talking to Oksana Leslie out of mobile, Alabama. She is a real estate agent, with years of experience with the fantastic this past year. She recently disclosures biz 60 beer. Transaction.

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Nate Carver
Hey, I'm Nate Carver and welcome to Between Two Doors.

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Nate Carver
Hi, Oksana. How are you doing?

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Oksana Leslie
Hi, Martha. And hi, Nathan. The subscribers. My name is Oksana. I'm very, very mobile.

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Nate Carver
I was a crazy Russian realtor. Hey, so. So tell me, when did when did you become a real estate agent? And, what was driving that decision for you?

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Oksana Leslie
Well, first of all, I will say first, I will start from, like, backstory. How did I get to the States?

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Nate Carver
Okay, let's do that. Well, how did you come about being in the United States?

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Oksana Leslie
So, I came on that estate as a mail order bride when Soviet Union collapsed, Soviet Union collapsed. I realized I'm not part of this big community where we were brainwashed. Brothers and sisters.

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Oksana Leslie
And I realized that my citizen was back then and they decided to change the rules, that, rules that, now state language going to be not Russian but Uzbek. Everybody who travels by passport removes the currency and all this, stuff. So I am the most unique immigrant you've ever met because I'm half Russian, half Ukrainian, and I never lived in the actual Ukraine.

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Oksana Leslie
So, yeah. So I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and I got my education. I have a degree in Russian language and literature. I used to teach fifth grade rationality in Las Vegas. Then.

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Nate Carver
Okay.

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Oksana Leslie
So, I wanted to be a writer. I, loved reading and writing, and so, my friend, her American husband, they introduced me to the friend, and we started writing letters to each other, and they met and more school. He bought my tickets, he flew me there. We met. And you liked the job? I had the the fiancee visa and so on.

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Oksana Leslie
So he was like, you, my American Idol. You. So, But then my family, though my last name and Oksana and my my maiden name are Ukrainian. But my family never spoke Ukrainian. They only spoke Russian. So with my head, you know, Russian culture, I will feel like I'm Russian, so. But I don't really have relatives in Russia.

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Oksana Leslie
And, So in America, my husband passed away in 2008, 2007. He committed suicide. So when I got myself, Russian husband and I started to the YouTube channel, after publish my first book, because the publisher told me, oh, it's in Russian, like I found a publisher who will publish my book about my story in other states.

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Oksana Leslie
And she said, to advertise yourself, you need to become popular. And that's how I started YouTube channel. But I just didn't know, like I couldn't talk about my book all the time, you know, because it would be boring. And so I started making videos about life in Alabama, like, regular immigrants in Alabama. I think it's, Americans trying Russian food where I got my boys to come and then, interview with Americans, home improvements, real estate.

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Oksana Leslie
And one day I got the phone call from a subscriber who found me, and she said, listen, because my phone was on our printing page, I was running literally remotely business. I mean, my husband would go fix people's houses. So I will make a video how he's doing it to me. Helping, right? That Russian person from Ohio said, I want to buy real estate.

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Oksana Leslie
And I said, oh, he's my realtor friend. And he said, why not a real big following? At that time, I had 20,000 followers. And of course they all from all over the place Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Canada. But the just Russian speaking people who want to see a regular life of ordinary people in America, Alabama. And that's that's how give me idea to become, to get a real estate license.

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Oksana Leslie
The answer to your question. And so Alabama, my state with my first husband, we moved a little because he was bipolar. And, I didn't know that. And we just moved a lot. But I became a realtor on Alabama, and it's almost six years.

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Nate Carver
Almost six years. So from the time of the the USSR, Soviet Union collapsed in 91.

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Oksana Leslie
I came to America in 98. So I was here 26 years.

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Nate Carver
Okay. So by 98 you were here in the States, and now you're still doing your your YouTube channel, right? Yeah. What what is it? What's that? YouTube channel.

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Oksana Leslie
That's a YouTube channel in Russian. Oksana. Oksana, Alabama, USA.

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Nate Carver
Okay, so Alabama, USA, now you. So you've been here since 98. So are you still doing, the have those videos changed any as far as are you just still discovering new things as an immigrant in Alabama that are different or that you didn't? I don't I don't know, how about let's talk about food in Alabama? What was the thing you loved most or in the least that you tried or experience?

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Oksana Leslie
Well, American food I don't like I don't like, I don't like peanut butter. I don't I don't like peanut butter. I don't like oatmeal. And, but I like many things, like fried chicken and.

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Oksana Leslie
I, I cook a lot, too, so. And I like oysters. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Fish. Oysters. I like good steak. I got a minion, and, I'm a excellent cook, but, if I want to go out, I'm not. I'm never going to order spaghetti, because if I can cook it at home, if I can, I can make, Alfredo with shrimp at home.

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Oksana Leslie
You know, I'm not playing for free at the Olive garden. And the new foods. The new foods in Alabama Beach. I showed to my subscribers, and I learned how to cook it, and I made this, and I made videos, cooking and a little bit cooking at home in America. I made videos cooking oxtail. I made videos cooking frog legs, alligator, how to make a Russian chicken pot by using American pie crust.

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Oksana Leslie
So I have so I have like a large variety of things I like I like if you like what is a festival like a German sausage festival or friend like Mississippi Blues. They'll have the fair. Right. I go there and I just go there and make videos. What people have, how people in America and Alabama have fun, right?

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Nate Carver
So in your when did you when you did your first real estate transaction, were you helping a buyer sell a home on their or buy a home their first home maybe. Or were you helping a seller sell their home? Yeah.

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Nate Carver
If you can remember a few transactions.

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Oksana Leslie
Ago, I remember going on my first year, I had only two transactions.

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Nate Carver
Okay. In the first year you had two.

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Oksana Leslie
So. So yes. And, you just going to it's going to be a it was a Russian friend.

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Nate Carver
Okay.

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Oksana Leslie
Oh, cool. Who wanted to look at older homes and then she, she since I was running remodeling business, she wanted to know, how much it would be to repair plans or to do this or to do that. And then she realized it's cheaper for her to buy a new home, and, she found a new home. But she just sold them with, realtor because they looked at a bunch of older homes.

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Oksana Leslie
So she did it in a ditch like some other buyers do. They said, oh, I found new home. I'm going with new homes. They don't realize their realtor who whose time they've wasted, you know, not getting paid isn't going to be very insulted and upset. So. Yeah. So like, first new house transaction. Right. Yes. But my friend said like, oh, okay, I'm doing it.

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Oksana Leslie
You're going to be a realtor. And I didn't even know where the houses. But I helped your move. I, I remember I paid my boys. I have three boys up with my teenage boys at the time to be a mover. Like. Like I, I got my boys to move, and I bought big, nice food for everybody to share.

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Oksana Leslie
Because I was so happy and thankful that she, like, kind of, like, used me and didn't ditch me.

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Nate Carver
It's nice. So fast forward, you're, you know, now you're up to your 65th transaction has your has your why changed what you're doing? You know, why you're doing real estate, why you what you love about it. Have you seen any changes there from when you first got started?

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Oksana Leslie
In the first two years I only sold like two houses. Like first year was fixer uppers and, I started to do more. I got busy because since I was making lots of videos about Alabama House, beautiful, about the food, about nice places. Some people started to move in, actually. So they're like my first customer from California who moved here.

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Oksana Leslie
They bought a 400,000 mansion with cash.

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Nate Carver
Wow. And they found you through your pot, your your podcast.

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Oksana Leslie
They followed me for YouTube. So I live on YouTube for many years.

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Nate Carver
Yeah.

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Oksana Leslie
It really doesn't pay much money. But the point is especially like when you starting, you know, making it's like it's like you hobby, you think like, I like to do a lot to do montage. I do my own video montage. I have a program I use and I feel like deep inside since I used to teach and I'm a teacher.

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Oksana Leslie
And if you look at what Google I know so much, I've been through many situations I've been through from bankruptcies. My husband struck himself. I know how to like get food stamps and like I've been in many situations most people never experience.

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Nate Carver
Yeah.

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Oksana Leslie
And, so I share sometimes my experience. So I don't all I can show. I feel some things which happened to me in the past as, example of what's like expectations versus reality type thing.

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Nate Carver
Right. And so you've got a podcast that reaches a very broad audience.

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Oksana Leslie
Yes.

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Nate Carver
With like 80 plus thousand followers on it.

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Oksana Leslie
With the eight.

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Nate Carver
58,000. Okay. That's fantastic. That's fantastic. 58,000 followers. What in a they all know you're a real estate agent. What a wonderful way to keep in contact with, even because, you know, let's say you help somebody buy a home or sell a home and they they've got you on your podcast. You you've got a little mechanism there to stay in mind in, in their lives relationally growing, you know, your connection with them.

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Oksana Leslie
And I know some people with whom I didn't stay as a friend, but they moved because of me. They moved double up with them. I feel like I became ambassador of all of them, and I gave them happiness because I think a lot of them see warm climate. Some people move through Seattle from Oregon and they like, love the warm, the food.

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Oksana Leslie
And that's, not not the traffic and but they watch me. And so sometimes they watch my YouTube and they say, oh, I should go to Amazon Farm. Oh, I yeah, oh, like, I'm planning to make a video about like six awesome restaurants and like all over the bean to like, like some, you know, like love that it's cafe and like, crappy sushi and like, poor baby.

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Oksana Leslie
And it's going to be what you do about short explanations about, you know, this stuff. That's like so I planned some videos of it or I, I posted the video, free house tours and I still subscribers. I'm not a single child, so I would not put the addresses because I know they've been sold, but I was doing video for my home.

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Oksana Leslie
Yeah. So and so in that deal, subscribers guess which house I sold? So this way I get. And then when I do need to always get them engaged, if it was your house, would you change the color levels of what you do? What would you do? So never do. Just like how do you get people to think and give me ideas and and some people watch me from Russia or Israel and then we're going to move here.

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Oksana Leslie
But they can tell about me to some people who on forums or Facebook ask about what's the cheapest place to relocate. And they said, oh, contact Oksana. And some people actually, like started talking to me before they found me on YouTube because somebody on Facebook recommended me.

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Nate Carver
Okay.

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Oksana Leslie
Because somebody else was watching. Yeah.

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Nate Carver
Awesome. So tell me, any fun, memorable, crazy stories in real estate that in helping sell a home or helping somebody buy a home, is there something that stands out that was just like, hilarious to you?

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Oksana Leslie
Yes, I have two stories.

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Nate Carver
Okay.

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Oksana Leslie
And one alone was with you because, you are a beekeeper. And to me, it was really cool that, you know, just helped my customers to get the house for the loan. And my husband, my, customer was very happy. And then you gave everybody honey from your little bee farm. Yeah. So we have, I thought it was, like, awesome and unique experience that you could do something like that.

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Oksana Leslie
Usually when I do gifts, I give gifts. Usually my bookstore never got my books. I have three books and three books in English, so some that, like, I like to give my books. If I know.

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Nate Carver
People read books.

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Oksana Leslie
In Russian and three in English.

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Nate Carver
Oh, excellent. So. Okay, nice.

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Oksana Leslie
I'm working on another book, so. But, I need you.

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Nate Carver
To drop the titles.

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Oksana Leslie
Yes, yes, because it's going to make me be more responsible. It's going to be a, collection of short stories about my life, like as an immigrant in America and only funny stories. Only it could be like Oksana, Alabama, stand up comedian. Because some of stories already in my Russian book in like. But I thought, like, I turned to English, and, funny stories when I was like, made the, you know, like, mail order bride to up with American and then I married Russian guy and, home improvements.

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Oksana Leslie
And as a realtor, I have funny stories and, like, raising three boys. So I have all that. Yeah. And, you know, like, famous book go. And people been, you know, gone viral.

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Nate Carver
Everybody knows. Oh, yes. Yeah. So my.

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Oksana Leslie
Book is going to be a novel face and famous book going and do the crap.

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Oksana Leslie
So and I wanted to be a it's like I designed it to be like, it's going to be a pocket book so people can think of, you know, vacation and go to like, you know, just they can just read one story every day, like three legs. So it's going to be short and funny because to my knee, bad news everywhere, we need some more laughter in life.

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Nate Carver
You're right, you're right. If you make them laugh, you've got a friend for life. So.

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Oksana Leslie
So my goal is my awesome story and I will find a story. A lady came, she moved here and she brought me for 17 kids from California.

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Nate Carver
17?

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Oksana Leslie
Yes, she had them. She actually put them all in the like a big van, which was driving like a van. And they all were in the crates, to get to drive in like it would be opened. And they all were in the crates. They all wanted to get out. They they like being themselves and all that gets them.

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Oksana Leslie
So. But she actually rescued those kids. But, you know, sometimes you rescue a stray kid, you rescue, make sure kids get shot, sterilized, and then you let them go. But she just kept them. So most kids don't want to be touched. And, so all of you got to your house. I don't know how she's dealing with right now because.

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Oksana Leslie
So because I'm not I'm not I'm not staying in touch with some customers because it's too much craziness, like some things I cannot accept. And if I cannot accept.

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Nate Carver
Maybe 17 cats is,

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Oksana Leslie
Yeah. I like a lot of cool. I'm not going to call authorities and say, look, this is what's going on. You know, like, you know. So,

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Nate Carver
Did you help her buy a house or sell a.

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Oksana Leslie
House? I helped you to buy a house.

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Nate Carver
Oh, she bought a house for herself and her 17 cats. Well, that's got to be a record. Yeah, I don't I don't know anybody that has that many cats or that many have anything.

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Oksana Leslie
In the subdivision. And the in a subdivision. She couldn't.

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Nate Carver
Well.

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Oksana Leslie
Let them out. So they always stuck in like on the bottom floor was for cats and the mention of huge kitty litter. You have to change it like I wanted to go to buy a house in the country where she can let them run free. Sure sounds like a nice little storage and sleep there. No. Yeah yeah, yeah, it was, it was weird.

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Oksana Leslie
Just sometimes the realtor, you know, cannot say oh things, which is like.

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Nate Carver
Yeah, I'm so stupid.

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Oksana Leslie
You know, you just think, okay, so your decision solve my problem. Yeah, I love kids. I have four.

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Nate Carver
You have 14 cats. Okay? Not 17 though.

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Oksana Leslie
Not 17. And, I ended up with four kids because, like, one I found in real mother. She was followed me. We were like, looking at Fixer Upper. She was following me. She wanted me. She would just like. So I ended up taking you home. It was like, well isn't.

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Nate Carver
That what cats do? They. You don't own a cat. A cat owns you.

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Oksana Leslie
Yes. They choose you all like some different. They come to us and my boys brought the ghetto. Look what we found. It was, you know, here he is. Like a cat. Yeah, so?

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Nate Carver
Well, so, tell me if you any advice that you would give to a, homeowner or someone looking to buy a home?

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Oksana Leslie
Well, I think, like, everybody has to do the homework.

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Oksana Leslie
What? I realize a lot of people will try to ask, a realtor or is it a good idea? Or they try to schedule a appointment before going to see the area. I believe people in the in town that have to go drive and look at the area of themselves first in the morning and the in the evening, even out in the area, instead of asking a realtor and getting like another subjective opinion or no opinion at all.

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Oksana Leslie
There are good sites I like. One site is Greatschools.org. And in a great schools walk side you can put the address and see what schools the rating demographics. It's going to show you how many people or which race, how many counselors per students. You know, school you know you just like this number one. Number two, this stop spot, crime site.

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Oksana Leslie
I like to let people ask me, how about the area? What's the crime? I said, well, anyway, you put your spot crime and then it will show you, you know, if what happened? Robbery, assault, what happened in the area. So the more rural you go, if you buy a house far away from our houses, it's going to be less crime rate.

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Oksana Leslie
If you get into more busy areas, it's going to be higher crime rate. And so I always tell people get this side, get that side, do research. And Sometimes I just, you know, I just feel like because people, shouldn't just trust a realtor, you know, they should always do their own work. And some people, they just don't.

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Oksana Leslie
They just, like, not sure where to start, but I see, like, these two sides. It's a good thing to start. You know, the sort show on what the neighborhoods are.

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Nate Carver
Okay. What is the best way if you've got somebody that's looking to make, connection with you to buy a home or sell a home, how could they best get Ahold of you?

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Oksana Leslie
Well, there are several, ways I have, channel in English. It's a smaller channel, but I do only recently. Real estate videos on the Alabama homes. They can look something I have interview with lenders on it and with you as well. And, I, have, Facebook page. Oksana. Leslie. And, I'm on Instagram. Oksana, Alabama.

00:22:07:09 - 00:22:22:03
Oksana Leslie
And my phone number. I used to live in Pensacola, Florida. My phone number is easier to remember. That's why I never changed that, because it was easy for the boys to remember. It's 503242244.

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Nate Carver
(850) 324-2244. Pretty easy. All right. What do you love doing outside of real estate?

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Oksana Leslie
I have a part time job. I'm a immigration interpreter.

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Nate Carver
Okay.

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Oksana Leslie
I am a contractor, so I can log in and be on the computer all day. If I want. And, call gauge goals. I have this. This is how I look.

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Nate Carver
Oh. Yep.

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Oksana Leslie
Yeah. So. And, some of them, like Homeland Security, pretty much when people cross Mexican broad border and they in immigration jail, Russian speaking immigrants.

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Oksana Leslie
They, I translate their conversations with a nurse or with, immigration officer. Also, some calls, from banks. If somebody's calling a bank and they don't understand, the bank can get them to talk to with an interpreter. So Medicare stuff. So sometimes I do it full time if I don't have any real illicit activity. I have situations where I will just, you know, uncle, uncle, sometimes I do that.

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Oksana Leslie
Just do it 30 minutes a day, one hour a day. And sometimes schools, could be three hours. Could be 30 minutes. Ten minutes. Cool. And I really enjoy it. Shows me perspective how other people leave. So so that I love that. Yeah. And, Yes. And I love gardening, too. And, I it's a.

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Nate Carver
Favorite thing to grow in your garden.

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Oksana Leslie
Well, I have, exotic plants.

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Nate Carver
Okay.

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Oksana Leslie
Yes. I, and I have, exotic plants. So when I like my, one of my favorite is angel trumpet.

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Nate Carver
Okay.

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Oksana Leslie
And the flower and the flower of her bleeding heart. And, I have gardenia, oleander. So I have my own satsumas and,

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Nate Carver
Okay.

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Oksana Leslie
Yeah.

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Nate Carver
The satsumas orange. They're oranges. If you go to the grocery store, they're usually marketed as cuties at the grocery store. And, it'll go, you know, you buy a little bag of cuties. That's a satsuma. And, the. Are you, your your trees have those right now, don't they?

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Oksana Leslie
Yeah. We all the $0.08 almost. You see, we get frost, and you have to know before you have frost, you need to remove your fruit.

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Nate Carver
If there were frost plants.

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Oksana Leslie
Yes. So, and, yeah, but, we had, one year we grew, Filipinas, and, tomatoes and cucumbers and, I had blackberry bush, raspberry bush.

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Nate Carver
Tell me, what's your favorite thing about Alabama?

00:25:16:21 - 00:25:45:22
Oksana Leslie
My favorite thing about Alabama is, the people, I think, like, people are nicer. People nice. People, you know, you just, you know, just busy. I used to live in Atlanta, in Dallas, Alabama. My, that I like that. It's not really fast, fast paced environment. I don't think I can do fast paced when people don't have time for each other.

00:25:45:24 - 00:25:46:16
Nate Carver
Yeah.

00:25:46:18 - 00:26:04:08
Oksana Leslie
What I didn't like for long time in the South, I would not just embrace what I didn't like it to be, to say college sweetheart and and love. And it's like some girl who is like, would be my daughter. Like would tell me, sweetheart. And this makes.

00:26:04:09 - 00:26:05:06
Nate Carver
Me. Yeah.

00:26:05:08 - 00:26:07:00
Oksana Leslie
You like it? I don't want.

00:26:07:00 - 00:26:15:03
Nate Carver
You to go pump. You go get a tank of gas at the convenience store and the clerk will call you love or sweetheart or baby?

00:26:15:05 - 00:26:27:03
Oksana Leslie
Yes, yes. I could not know how I got used to it, but you used to. Yeah, yeah. And, so all my blood donor, I donate blood and then platelets. So I'm a VIP one.

00:26:27:05 - 00:26:33:22
Nate Carver
Yeah. Where do you donate? What do you did? Your donations. Blood donations that give this.

00:26:33:24 - 00:26:55:15
Oksana Leslie
Life south. We save a life south. He's on the west. Mobile. They have a whole building on Hillcrest where you can come anytime. If you feel like you have time and, relax and, like, do me. It's, my my moment where nobody talks to me like, not like when I want to, like, chill and.

00:26:55:16 - 00:27:04:01
Nate Carver
Yeah, literally. Well, you're plugging in to an Ivy, but you're unplugging from the world, so. Yeah. No banging bother you and people.

00:27:04:02 - 00:27:21:08
Oksana Leslie
My feel bad for people that to see. And for several years when we we were struggling with like you could might pull over to see us. I was on a group of risk while living groups. And so after his death, I got checked out in a in that. And then I realized I didn't get anything from him.

00:27:22:00 - 00:27:52:07
Oksana Leslie
I told myself I going to be a blood donor. Blood donor. And so sometimes like on and off, it's not like I do it every week or every month. If I had to do that. Yeah. The platelets and to me it's like to me it's like saving universe because when you donate blood, I look at it like this, you know, people can say, oh, I don't like this race or that race, although the religion or that religion, but on the blood level, pretty much just the old even.

00:27:52:08 - 00:28:18:07
Oksana Leslie
Doesn't matter if you like Mexican or Russian or, you know, Irish. If you dying in the hospital, you wouldn't give a flying reds behind whose blood is saving your life. And so when sometimes people like, you know, being racist or something, I'm thinking like ego, my blood when you about to die, you know, like, I'm like, so I feel like I'm a savior.

00:28:18:07 - 00:28:23:11
Oksana Leslie
And, that's the me for life especially. But.

00:28:23:13 - 00:28:24:07
Nate Carver
You know, I love it.

00:28:24:11 - 00:28:44:12
Oksana Leslie
My own humility, too, you know, when sometimes I feel like I want to feel righteous because I don't like when people call me on that kind of accent on the phone. And my mom says, mom, you have an accent. So I'm being hypocritical. Yeah. Like I hear people's accents. Like, I want America normal,

00:28:44:14 - 00:29:08:09
Nate Carver
All right, well, Oksana, from Uzbekistan to Mobile to thriving in the real estate industry as a real estate agent, I'm going to put all your links down below so that people can reach out to you. This was fascinating conversation, and it was great talking to you again. Any last words?

00:29:08:11 - 00:29:14:17
Oksana Leslie
Just, you know, I just want everybody to be healthy and to, you know, be optimistic.

00:29:15:16 - 00:29:18:12
Oksana Leslie
You know.

00:29:18:14 - 00:29:22:01
Nate Carver
Perfect. All right. Well thank you Oksana.

00:29:22:03 - 00:29:28:23
Oksana Leslie
Thank you Nathan. Bye bye. Bye everybody. Contact me. (850) 324-2244.

00:29:38:02 - 00:29:46:04
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