Woah, that's so wild that you found my video AND watched AND ended up being in it! Thanks so much for sharing :D

I did this drive early on a Saturday so not as many people around.

Yep, this was an early Saturday morning before seeing homes in the area with my clients! I grew up here and lived here most of my life, it's astonishing how much changes (and stays the same)! Hilarious comment about the green - if you're not already halfway in the intersection before it turns you usually get beeped at 😂

I live in Malden but I walk to Melrose center all the time to get coffee, eat a meal, or just enjoy the beautiful Victorian homes. There really is a great little town and the fact that the commuter rail has two stops and the orange line is just a few minutes away is pretty great too!

@@asknavarro Nice I am from the area too and have spent a lot of time in both cities

Awesome! Let me know if any of your old neighbors need an agent 😎🤙

@@asknavarro I also recommend checking out Wakefield and Reading if you haven't already. Both are nice towns with nice downtown and common areas.

I have and agree! It's not downtown but I love Cibo and Red Sugar for coffee and Thai food respectively! I'll add those towns to my list for videos.

Thanks Sammy!

@@asknavarro I subscribed

Thanks for the sub 🤙

Believe it or not, there are some even smaller roads in Salem but I didn't hit them in this video. Definitely common in these colonial towns! It's beautiful but the parking can be a challenge 😅

​​@@asknavarro Lol yep those towns and city's back there are notorious for that stuff. There are still the old cobblestone roads in several city's there too. That is also pretty cool when you think back to how old those roads are. Personally? I'm glad ? I wasn't around in the old horse and buggy days lol. Talk about a rough ride huh? I sure miss the great Red Lobster plates at the old shanty's back then too. A plate with a whole red lobster with fries and coleslaw? In Salem back in the 80s was? About $8.50. bet they can't do that anymore huh ? Lol

For sure, I can't imagine! 🤣

​​@@asknavarroIn close ? I've been blessed . I've actually lived in both coasts in my life. I also lived in my adolescent years for a few years in the Los Angeles area back in the 70s. I remember watching the old TV show ? Chips With Larry Wilcox and Eric Estrada. Officers Baker and Ponch. I've been on the old Pacific coast hwy. There too. But to be honest? Being a Yankee? My heart is really back in the Northeast. Anyway thanks a million for chatting and sharing.

@@vincentparlante6274 I left the Boston area for a while but couldn't resist coming back. Sounds like you've gotten to know a lot of great places :)

Glad it brought back some memories!

I just did a Salem video too, hope you check it out too!

@@asknavarro I will do that . Thank you

I believe so!

Glad you enjoyed it! Boston has and is changing landscape so quickly.

It's my understanding that both paid models are available on Zillow. Now you pay upfront for higher priority and then pay a referral fee. Either way, I find that the practice of connecting buyers looking for more information about a listing to an agent that bought an ad, not the actual listing agent, to be predatory and misleading to the customers. It's a shame our MLS's allow for that practice.

That's so cool, glad you happened to see this! How much has changed since you lived there and when was it?

Straight up. I’m born and raised in Idaho and finally got to visit Boston over the 4th of July in 2019. Toured the freedom trail and watched fireworks over the harbor. Safe to say it was a great trip and cemented my heart as an American forever.

@@sethlivingstone1999 Nice, You are a Patriot!🎆Cheers 🍻from Boston!

It's always been hard for me to leave Boston for long, just love all the old buildings and feel of the town!

Thanks for sharing your story, sounds like Boston will miss you! Chicago is great too, I have enjoyed all my visits there. Hope you get to visit again soon.

Thank you for your service!!

Самое интересное и своеобразное место на планете АМЕРИКА.

Didn't happen to be on this drive but I'll be sure to add it to the next one in Medford. Planning to upgrade the camera quality too so I'll capture it even better next time.

Great question and it's so important that buyers understand how their agents are compensated. This is a very long answer so I tried to break it in to a few parts: 1. Using a buyer's agent was never free; because they were rarely even paid out of pocket, buyers always just assumed (or were falsely told) their buyer agent was free - but do you know anyone that works for free? No way, that's crazy. In reality though, the buyer is paying for everything in the transaction - they're the ones assigning value to the property with an offer price and forking over the cash to pay for it. So while you may not have paid your buyer's agent in the past directly, it was still factored in to the sale price and paid out through the transaction at closing. The beauty of that way of doing things was that a buyer could easily finance that cost as part of the sale, especially since many buyers can't afford the extra cost out of pocket in cash at closing. 2. Sellers were never required to pay a buyer's agent's commission. It was and is certainly what agents recommend you do in order to attract more buyers; for the very reason I said in #1, so they can finance the cost of their agent, rather than pay it out of pocket. 3. Even if the listing brokerage doesn't offer buyer agent compensation, the buyer can put language in their offer to have the seller pay their buyer agent's commission as part of the transaction, allowing them to finance it instead of paying out of pocket. 4. Who pays for the commissions and where the money comes from is also kinda of a semantics juggling act. At the end of the day, if you want to hire an expert buyer's agent you can't expect them to work for free, right? Having a pro on your side when making the largest purchase your life is valuable and you can decide what and who you're willing to pay for that. A good agent will outline how they are paid before you even go see your first property, so you know what to expect and how to deal with any listings in which the seller has not already built in compensation for a buyer's agent. To be frank, buyer agents should dictate what they're willing to work for and come to an agreement with they client (the buyer) - it has nothing to do with the seller and what they're willing to offer. After all, a buyer's agent works for the buyer, why should the seller or listing agent get to decide what they make - they don't work for them! I hope this helped 😊

@@asknavarro it’s just hard to have that conversation with buyers who already have enough challenges in today’s market and the bidding wars and high demand and low inventory. What’s stopping them from going straight to a listing agent to avoid having to pay for a buyer’s agent?

Educating buyers and demonstrating the value of having an expert on their side has always been a vital part of the conversation. As service providers we have to demonstrate our value in order to justify our fees, that hasn't changed. I think it's just that it's been easy to skip over that part in the past, might not be as easy in the future.

@@asknavarro I feel this will hurt a certain section of buyers. It’s going to be interesting when working with VA or FHA buyers who already face limited funds to purchase a home. I wonder if we’ll need to revisit Fair Housing laws to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to purchase a home with the support of representation.

@jenniferhodgson7640 an agent can help their buyer write their compensation in to the offer without making it less competitive. The financing situation is then still same.

I love it here! 😊

Thanks for the feedback, best of luck out there ☺️

Mine too :D

Depends on the end goal of the video, for these tours I chose not to.

Yeah, hard to believe Malden has a sky bridge!

Thanks!

Thanks @talkinliveshow, glad you liked it!

Thanks for the correction! 👍

I've never been but I sure do believe there was a lot of inspiration taken when building these homes a couple hundred years ago.

@@asknavarro Medford, which is a suburb of Boston was founded as an English Settlement in the 17th century. It was founded by a guy from London by the name of Matthew Craddock. He never actually visited but he had some people come down from Salem, Mass. to start the settlement of Medford or ford of meadow along the Mystic River. This community was once a ship building community up until the 19th century. They built clipper ships for all over the word. This is also the setting where Jingle Bels was written in the 19th century by James Pierpont. They were also known a place for manufacturing of Rum.

Thanks for the history lesson Bobby!

@@asknavarro no problem. I’m a local born and raised here

I'm a Malden native but not a history buff! I had heard about the clipper ships, but jungle bells was a new one - love it!

Good thing I'm not a loan officer! 😉

Mefahd, depending on what part of town you're from 😂

SOMERVILLE guys say MEFFA'..........

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Meffa

Definitely on my list, I'll make sure to do that one asap! Thinking about doing a night drive in Boston too

Testable and duplicatable data collection says otherwise and cycles that cause such large changes are 100,000 thousands years long not decades. The global science community all has proven time and time again that we're directly impacting climate at an unprecedented level. It's hard to accept and frustrating to see but my generation and the next will have to deal with it the best we can. Hopefully the idea of improving the environment as a whole is an attractive enough one, regardless of how you feel about the topic of climate change, and we can all work together towards a healthier future. I mean who wouldn't want cleaner water, less pollution and safer weather? Hard to disagree with that goal, right? :)

Thanks Suzanne!

@@asknavarro, you’re welcome!!

Thanks Brian, that means a lot coming from the best lender around! 🤙

Thanks Shresth! I'm loving the process of creating these so I'm all set but thanks 🙏

@@asknavarro Sure alex let me know if you need any help

Thanks neighbor!! 😊

Thank you Fery! 🥰