George Doulamis with Blankenship Group talks about his unique experience and transition from property management to real estate agent. George discusses how his experience as property manager helped him to get connections. George explains the importance of being forthright and maintaining the key communications skills with the clients and shows his strategies on how to sell a home. Lastly, he emphasized that a good agent should have innovative and creative ideas for selling a home, and why you should not be pushy to the clients, just wait and listen.



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George Doulamis can be reached at (561) 402-9123 and [email protected]



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Transcript



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Hello and welcome to another episode of Keeping it real the largest podcast made by real estate agents. And for real estate agents. My name is DJ Paris I am your guide and host through the show and in just a moment we're going to be speaking with Top Producer George dilemmas before we get to George just a couple of reminders first, actually this is a new thing we finally now have an Instagram account. I know it's embarrassing I have had social media experts on the show for like six years and off air they were like why do you not have Instagram finally we do and not only do we have an Instagram account we're actually doing some cool stuff with it. So I want everyone to grab their their device. Go check out Instagram and look up top agent interviews. That is our handle top agent interviews and every single day we post a short form video clip cold from one of our episodes and that has a short little take little tactic Tip of the Day. We do that every weekday although I think I missed yesterday but anyway most weekdays I have a new one there so top agent interviews on Instagram We are also on Tik Tok LinkedIn YouTube Twitter, Facebook, probably everywhere else but we post a post them everywhere so find us you can just whatever you know social media app you use search for keeping it real podcast hit that subscribe button. But the reels and the stories that we've been promoting the short form video clips have just gone gangbusters. I really wasn't expecting so many people to to really be drawn to that but it seems to be scratching an itch for our listeners. We are so grateful to you. So hopefully you can find some value there. So follow us on Instagram top agent interviews but you know what, that's the only thing I really wanted to get through today because we need to get to the main event my conversation with Georgia lamas.



Today my guest is George blomus from the Blankenship route, angle and Volkers in Destin and the 30 a corridor in Florida. Let me tell you more about George George was born in Massachusetts, 30 minutes north of Boston. Gosh, I love I love the Northeast. But aside from that he was he also he really grew up in Florida as a child but moved back to the Boston area as a teenager, parents were both blue collar and passed on their work ethic. Georgia unfortunately lost his father when he was 16. And this hurt but it helped him understand loss early in life. Soon after his father's passing, George began to work part time for his older cousin managing his apartment buildings. And eventually, George relocated to South Florida and worked for Ritz Carlton. This was a real education in the world of service and how to apply to anything he would do in his future endeavors. From there, George would relocate to Destin, Florida, the 38 corridor, short time spent a short time as a property manager which led to the transition to being a full time realtor. Now we're going to get into George's story because it really doesn't even stop there. But for everyone who is listening watching, I would like you to please right now. Go visit Instagram and follow George it's George dilemmas are II don't worry about spelling that. I'll spell it right now but it will also be in our show notes but it's George do you LAMISR e so again link to that in the show notes. Follow him on Instagram. George, such a pleasure to have you.



George Doulamis 5:05Yeah, I'm super excited. I can't wait to kind of tell my story, see if I can help out. Anybody will, wanting to listen, and it should be exciting.



D.J. Paris 5:13Well, I have the only time I've been to your area was back in high school where many people from my hometown, which is pure Illinois, which is like Central Illinois, would go down for spring break to Panama City. So that was the closest I got. And that's the last time I've actually been in that area. However, I have had several different people on our show from that area, the 38. area, the destin area, and oh my gosh, I cannot believe how much real estate transacts there, and the price points and just a whole nother world that is really down there. So I'm excited to hear about that. And how you. And also, by the way, highly competitive for anyone listening if you think your area is tough, which I'm sure is, oh, that area is because the price points are so high. There are a lot of agents who are fighting for that business. And George is one of the very successful ones down there. So we're excited to have George you on the show. But let's start at the very beginning. Like how did you get into real estate?



George Doulamis 6:12Yeah, good question. So like I said, you, you were nicely to describe my background, really, when it started was the Ritz Carlton, I started learning service. And then as I was there, I think that was postcrash back in like 11 or 12 when the economy was starting to come back and South Florida. I wanted to move on and manage manage properties, manage associations. So I ended up trying I ended up finding a job in Destin. It's funny when I got the phone call over the interview, I said with it, where the heck is Destin, Florida when I was in South Florida. We made the trip we loved it. Stay up for a weekend became property manager. Every weekend, though, I would get phone calls from agents. Hey, can you tell me everything about the association that condos? When



D.J. Paris 6:55you were talking to agents all the time as a property manager? Sure. Well, I probably



George Doulamis 6:58did what probably half your audience said, Oh, I



D.J. Paris 7:00can do this. If these guys are calling me. If these morons can do it, I can do it.



George Doulamis 7:05Exactly. So that's how the transition started did. I'd say for the first year and a half after I got my license probably like a lot of agents that listen to this. I was part time as I did my full time job. And then I just took the leap. That's how I got into it. I think having the experience of working a little bit real estate when I was younger, but that was more of maintenance. But collecting rent, this was the full time want to get the big listings like anyone else wanted to get the big commission checks, and just jumped into it.



D.J. Paris 7:35It's amazing. I you know, I was thinking as you were telling that story. I was going I'd read some of that obviously at the beginning, but hearing it you know really solidified what instinct I had, which you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, which often wrong. But this idea of working for such a white glove company like Ritz Carlton, I mean, this is top of the food chain, you know, right right there at the very highest level of service in the hospitality, and you know, vacation space. And I had a similar experience. When I when I graduated college, I went to work for Anheuser Busch right out of college. And again, different. Sort of I know those companies are seen differently, like Budweiser and Bud Light was predominantly the beers I worked on. And I don't think people consider that in the same Echelon as a Ritz Carlton or Waldorf Astoria, for example. However, from a sales perspective, they are at the top of the food chain, or I don't know if they still are, but they were. And I learned so much about perfection from Anheuser Busch. I know it's kind of a silly thing to say, because we don't think about those beers as being perfect beers. But there's a reason why they got to the very top. And it's not just because, you know, they're the marketing was great. I mean, the marketing is great, as well as Ritz Carlton, the marketing is great, too. But there is a level of service that you must have learned there that I would almost say you must have a servant's heart, which is I like an expression of temperament. Because you have been in the service industry for long and you've worked for some tough companies, meaning tough, meaning very demanding companies. And I just curious how that sort of,

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