September 28, 2023 • 21 mins
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Meet Matt Koch, "the Bearded Realtor", with a background in criminal justice who used to work security at a nuclear power plant. I know it sounds like a character from a graphic novel, but that's our guest for you! From battling kidney disease to becoming a successful Realtor, Matt has a knack for resilience and reinvention. His authenticity and creative strategy make him a standout in the real estate industry. Don't miss out on the chance to learn how he leverages fun and engaging videos to create a high-level real estate sales machine.
Matt's journey is not just about selling real estate, it's about the metamorphosis of an individual who turned adversity into opportunity. He traded security and radiation monitors for Open Houses and Dream Homes! Buying his first house wasn't as smooth as you might think. Just as he was settling in, a kidney disease diagnosis forced him to leave his career in criminal justice. But that didn't stop him - he found a new path in real estate and flourished. Join us as Matt shares his personal journey and the often overlooked, multifaceted role of a Realtor. Ready for an inspiring story of resilience? Matt's got you covered.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, this is Brad Wiseman.
You're listening to Real Estateand you.
We are back in the studio andwe have guess what?
We have another realtor in thestudio with us today.
Well, the show is still calledReal Estate and you, so we're
allowed to have real estate inhere and we're realtors in here.
That's just good.
Matt Koch, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm fantastic, my friend.
How about yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I noticed you have a beard.
I sure do, yeah, and I heardthat you're called the bearded
realtor.
I sure am.
That's amazing, the beardedrealtor.
And we've known each other atleast two weeks.
At least two weeks, yeah.
So it's been great getting toknow you.
Yeah, likewise, that's the endof the show.
That was it.
That was it.
We're done Good to seeeverybody.
Yeah, that's it.
So, no, I'm super excited thatyou're here.
I met you a couple of weeks ago.
(00:41):
You were here to do somehelping out our agents.
You were here to serve,basically to talk about your
business.
You have a lot of interestingstories, I sure do.
You have your criminal justice.
You have your working at anuclear power plant, something
like that, right.
You have this medical thingwe're going to dig into, which
(01:01):
is pretty serious.
But the cool thing you're doingright now is you're doing real
estate at a real high level andyou're doing it different than
everybody else Always, alwayslooking to do things different.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, I mean the beard.
Yeah, the beard.
So did you always have a beard?
No, no, so you grew it just tobe a realtor.
Yeah, you could say that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Pre-requisite for realtor Must grow facial hair.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Must have a beard, that's right.
Must have a full tattoo.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh, I love and the tattoos are great.
But that's nothing differentanymore.
The beard is for real estate.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, 100%.
I mean, when I got in realestate six years ago, nobody
really had a beard like I did,nobody really had tattoos like I
did, or they were covered.
Yes, when I got in the business, I was like I'm not going to be
anybody.
I'm not, I want to be who?
I am had the beard, had thesleeve, short sleeve shirts all
the time, I mean this is who Iam.
My clients love that about me.
(01:53):
You know what?
Because you're real, I'm real,I'm a real human being.
I'm not trying to sell anybodyanything.
I'm not trying to be fake.
This is who I am.
This is what you get I lovethat.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
You know, and more and more.
I wish I would have been likethat.
When I first started in realestate, I had a ponytail down
the back of my back.
I could see that I was on.
You know, I was in music andthings like that, and I always
hid it.
Ok, I hid it Because I don'tknow if it was back in the early
90s to mid 90s where maybe itwasn't quite as acceptable or
whatever.
But I love that you're doingthat.
You know why you cannot connectwith people, which is what we
(02:24):
do in this business.
We connect, we connect, weconnect, we connect.
Yep, we connect.
They look at the person firstto see if they're real.
Yeah, and they listen to you,they watch your actions and it
doesn't matter what you wear Imean within reason.
It doesn't matter what you door what you wear.
If you're real and they knowyou're there to serve them, to
help them, that's it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Exactly, I 100% agree with that, and that's what it's
all about Buildingrelationships, connecting with
people.
That's exactly how I built mybusiness, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And it's working.
It's working.
Tell me some of the stuffyou're doing, then we're gonna
dig into some of your past.
Tell me some of the stuffyou're doing to set yourself
aside, besides the beard.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, well, besides the beard.
So I run a team.
I run a team with KarissaGarpsis where they catch Garpsis
Realty Group, primarily inLancaster, but we kind of go
everywhere.
Our biggest thing is we are.
It's all about media, it's allabout the video.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's all about marketing.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Anybody could sell a house in the last couple of
years.
I mean put a house on themarket.
It sells itself right.
Absolutely.
We wanted to do somethingdifferent.
We wanted to come in doing funvideos, not just through COVID.
There was videos out there.
It was just a walkthrough ofthe house Nobody's talking,
nobody's seeing anything.
I wanted to change that.
I wanna have fun with itbecause that's who I am as a
person and you do.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I've seen a couple of your videos and they are
definitely fun.
They're fun to watch, even ifI'm not looking for a house.
I'm gonna watch it just becauseit's fun.
That's fantastic.
There's one you're actually onthe toilet Now.
You were not really on thetoilet, you were sitting on the
toilet acting like you weretelling the camera person no, no
, no, no, not now, but that wascool.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, it was fun, it's real, it's engaging.
At that point, because we weredoing a lot of videos, we listed
a decent amount of houses, soeven we need to get more
creative and change how we'redoing videos.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And I was like well.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I haven't done that yet, so why not?
Let's do that.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And that's what we do .
You know what's cool, too,about that, and we tell our
agents this and we, you know, asfar as our training, you know,
what I like, too, is that youhad said before, just a couple
seconds ago, during COVID orright after COVID, basically you
could just put a sign in theyard and things were gonna sell.
Now, yes, you would run intothings where you need a realtor
negotiating things like that,but the actual agreement of sale
was gonna happen.
(04:24):
I love the fact that you didn'tget lazy.
Exactly, a lot of realtors gotlazy.
They were taking pictures atnight on their phones where
there's no lights on or there'sjeans that are still in the bed,
dirty, you know, and I thinkthat that is just.
That is not good.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's not good at all and we made it a point, you know
, during COVID and even movingforward, we haven't deviated
from the plan, and that'smarketing.
Our goal is to get as many eyesas possible on someone's home
and we do that through marketingand, honestly, we do it not
only to showcase their home butto get more listings.
Right, we wanna get morelistings.
How do you do that?
(05:02):
Everybody knows who the beardedrealtor is.
Everybody knows thecatch-garpless reality group
because of the reach on socialmedia YouTube, things like that
that people are seeing throughthese videos.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
What's your favorite social media source Like?
Is it Facebook, instagram?
What works for you?
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I would say it changes, but lately it's been
Facebook I've reached and ourexposure through Facebook has
just been it's just kind oftaking off the last couple of
months.
Awesome.
I've always enjoyed Instagramtoo, because Instagram is more
like reels and just pictureslideshows and that's not as
much verbiage.
Yeah, exactly, and I like thestory aspect on Instagram.
You do it on both platforms,but I feel like it kind of
started on Instagram Absolutelyand becomes a little bit more
(05:40):
interactive that way.
But as far as you know, ourbusiness engagement Facebook has
been better.
Yeah, yeah, Well, let's rewind.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Cool, let's rewind.
Let's go back a little bit.
You weren't always a realtor.
Then again we talked about this.
We were never a realtor frombasically high school, except
for me, actually.
You know what's funny aboutthat?
I started in real estate whenit was 22, in 1992.
So I am, I was pretty young tostart out with that so.
But then I was in music beforethat.
So you know, most people knowyou're never gonna make it music
(06:08):
, so you have to have somethingto go into.
So but go back now.
You were not.
So at a high school you go toschool.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Correct, so you went for.
I went for criminal justice soI stayed local.
I was born and raised inLancaster County.
Decided to stay local, I wentto a school called York Tech but
I went to the Lancaster campusand the reason why I chose that
school over you know I was goingto go to Shippensburg.
There was another one that Iwas looking at going to.
The cool thing about YTI isthey get you ready for the
police academy.
So, as a lifelong dream of minewas to be a police officer, I
(06:37):
could totally see him as apolice officer.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Hugo, right, that's right.
He looks like he's packing.
Right, he does.
Maybe you are Maybe you are.
That's fine and we're okay.
We're friendly with that, butno, so I can totally see you as
a cop.
Yeah, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, absolutely.
It's something I wanted to doas a kid.
I got involved, I did a coupleof camp cadets and you know
that's when you're younger youcan experience like a week of
what a police academy would looklike, and they bring in
different you know things thatyou could do Helicopters, dogs
and stuff like that.
So that was cool.
And then so I went to schoolfor criminal justice and the
cool thing about YTI was theywere getting you ready for the
(07:14):
next step, which is the policeacademy.
Okay, it was very regimented Ihad to wear a uniform, I had to
shave, I didn't have a beard,then you had to shave, yep, no
beard.
Do we have any pictures?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
of that?
Yeah, somewhere I was lookingon Facebook.
I don't think I saw anypictures without beard, you were
trying to find some huh.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yes, I was.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yes, I was that doesn't surprise me here, go get
a razor.
Yeah, that'd be bad, yeah,that'd be really bad.
Not good for marketing.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I need to insure this thing at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It's no longer just a beard.
Yes, exactly, it needs to beinsured.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's right.
So, yeah, I went to YTI,graduated with an associate's
degree in criminal justice andthen I worked for a private
investigation company for alittle bit, and primary role at
that point was I was undercoverin grocery stores catching
shoplifters.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It was fun.
It was fun.
I was in management for a lossprevention for a little bit, but
then I ultimately I got hiredat Three, my Island.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So you went into nuclear?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, I did a nuclear security at Three my Island for
a handful of years and I didn'tgo to police route.
It's one of those things thatthe economy had shifted at that
point.
It used to be that you can gethired at a police department.
They send you to the policeacademy while you're making your
salary.
It shifted.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
The market time shifted a little bit.
What year was this?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I graduated high school in 2007.
Oh God yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I knew you were going to say that.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
OK.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He'll go next time.
Can we have?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
an age limit for people who are too young, jeez.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He's old enough to be my child or young enough to be
my child.
I get that a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I think I'm actually the youngest person on my team
too, thinking about itUnbelievable.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
That's good, though there's nothing wrong with that
Good for you at all.
We'll talk about you later, butthat's OK.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And then I graduated from YTI in 2009.
And yeah, so I was going to goto the police route and I wound
up getting hired at Three myIsland, and I was like, ok, I'm
going to do this.
And it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That's a glowing experience.
Right, it is glowing, I like it.
I see what you do there.
I like that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So I did that for a handful of years, almost five
years, wow.
Through that process is when Idiscovered that I had something
called kidney disease.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, this is the part that I saw on your.
I was looking at your Facebookstuff and your social media and
it was weird.
All of a sudden I see thisYou're in a bed with a hospital
gown on and there's another guythere that's in a hospital gown
and says about the kidneys.
I guess he gave you his kidneys.
His name is Dave, I guess DaveGarpsis, what so how did you
(09:28):
figure this out?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, so the kidney stuff.
I went down for a physical oneyear, so every year I had to get
a physical.
We carried 40 pounds of gear,we had to respond to bunkers
during a contingency All thatfun stuff, I hear just thinking
real quick, with being in anuclear plant.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Did you think cancer?
No, because that would be myfirst thing.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I would think I'd have like a lump, something you
would think right away cancer,yeah, I get asked that question
pretty much every time I meetsomebody and I tell them, oh
yeah, I had a kidney transplantand we talk about it, they're
like, oh, did you get it fromthe nuclear?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
power plant?
Yeah, it's not that I know of.
Yeah right?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But I don't think so.
No, right.
No, I discovered it because Ihad to get a physical every year
and the one year I went down Iwas in my mid-20s and my blood
pressure was like through theroof and I remember my doctor
took my blood pressure like fourtimes because he's like this
isn't right, this can't becorrect.
So that's from the kidney.
Yeah, that's amazing.
So when you have kidney diseaseand I wasn't in kidney failure
(10:22):
at that point but when you havekidney disease, your kidney and
your heart kind of go hand inhand.
So typically people I meanthere's a whole bunch of
different diseases that causekidney disease specifically but
typically you either havediabetes or high blood pressure.
That's like the two indicators.
And I don't have diabetes but Ihad high blood pressure.
So, yeah, I wanted to have an.
I literally got disarmed, senthome and I never went back
(10:42):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, at that moment just talk about upside down,
right, completely upside down.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I literally just bought my first house, like a
couple weeks before that.
Wow, married or no, yet I wasyou were married OK.
And I wasn't sure what I wasgoing to do.
I was yeah, it was kind of wild.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
But here's the thing.
There's moments you know,obviously it's very surreal and
all these things go on.
Did you still think, oh my God,what am I gonna do for a living
now?
Or does your focus immediatelygo to holy shit, I gotta get
this fixed or I'm in trouble.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Oh yeah, for the first time in my life, because
growing up, like I said, Ialways wanted to be a police
officer.
I always wanted to get in thecriminal justice field somewhere
and I did that.
I became a nuclear securityofficer and for the first time
in my life I was like what?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
the hell am I gonna do with my life?
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
So I went through the process.
I found out that I had kidneydisease.
I had to get a biopsy of mykidney to determine what it was.
I had something called IgAneuropathy.
Long story short is I haveeverybody produces antibodies.
My antibodies become abnormaland they attack my kidney.
So my antibodies attack my body.
I don't know why.
Everything are just the kidneys, just the kidney yeah, so your
antibodies don't like kidneys.
(11:50):
They don't like kidneys, theyjust don't like kidneys and the
bummer thing about it is like Istill have that disease, Like
there's no cure for that diseaseGotcha.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So we have to be careful with the new kidney,
Exactly yeah, so, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So at that time I was diagnosed, wasn't sure what I
was gonna do with myself, and Iwound up getting hired for a
company called Clark Associatesand Lancaster.
I did a couple of years of justcustomer service, yeah, and for
the first time in my life Iactually got let go from that
job.
Oh wow.
And so I found myself for thesecond time in my show.
I'm only 34.
Yeah, I turned 35.
(12:22):
Next, I forgot about it.
I forgot for a second.
I turned 35 next week or nextmonth.
It's starting to affect yourbrain.
It is.
I'm getting up there.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Wait, wait he gets much first.
By the way, who the hell isthis guy right here?
I don't even know who you are,yeah, so you get laid off or you
get.
Yeah, I got, let go, let go.
Yeah, I got let go, wow it wasone of those things.
That's not a good feelingeither.
No, I played sports my wholelife and I've always.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I started working at a very young age, so I feel like
my work ethic has always beenpretty high, so to get let go
from something that wasn't usedto me.
That's definitely not goodBlessing and disguise, but I
wasn't used to it.
It was literally two monthsbefore my first daughter was
born.
Oh my gosh.
So I found myself for thesecond time in my life like what
the hell am I gonna do withmyself?
What?
am I gonna do with my life.
I have a criminal justicebackground, which I can't really
(13:07):
do that line of work anymorebecause of the kidney disease,
and I have a customer servicebackground and I didn't really
wanna work in a call centeragain because it was kind of
miserable.
So I can't picture you in acall center.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I could just see you striking up conversations with
them on the phone, like hey.
So what are you doing today?
Well, you know, yeah, all thetime.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah.
So yeah, a good friend of mine,a good buddy of mine that I've
known since high school times,we had gone up to Cigars
International.
It was like a Tuesday orWednesday.
And we got up to CigarsInternational.
We were sitting out on the deck.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I love it up there.
It's beautiful.
Yeah, you can look over and seethe mountain from the deck.
I go there with my father.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I can't have cigars anymore unfortunately, or I
actually don't drink anymoreeither, oh yeah.
I was gonna ask you though youcan't do either, no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I could have a beer too if I wanted to, but it's
kind of like well, it's a pointat that point, yeah right.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Because I can't really have more than that.
So, yeah, we were sitting atCigars International and it was
like a Tuesday, like a noon,drinking a whiskey, having a
cigar, and I looked at my buddyand I was like, so this is what
it feels like to be retired.
Yeah, Yup, and shortly.
I don't remember exactly whenit happened, but at some point
in that week time I came homeand I told my wife I was like,
(14:14):
hey, I'm gonna get my realestate license.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But why Did you know a realtor?
Did you see realtors?
Where did that come from?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You know I've always been fascinated with real estate
.
Even when I was working throughmy island, I've always been
fascinated with real estate.
I've always been fascinatedwith the architecture, helping
people that's just kind of what.
I'm wired that way andinvesting in real estate.
I always just thought that wassuch a cool thing.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, yeah.
So what do you think about itnow?
You still think that I love it.
I still do.
Hey, 31 years dude, I'm stilldoing it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I just can't, like I can't picture at this point in
my life I can't picture doinganything else.
Yeah, like I probably wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It's the ultimate serve.
It is Because, I mean, we allneed a home, we all need help
getting a home, most likely, andyou know, we have that cool job
of being able to do thatAbsolutely.
And it's funny because we don'tjust sell real estate, we
become psychologists, we becomefriends, we become helping you
know anything Absolutely.
It's amazing what we do.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
What's so great about it is and I tell people this
all the time, like I'm not asalesman whatsoever my job is to
help guide you through theprocess, one of the biggest
processes you're ever gonna haveto go through.
I'm gonna.
I'm here to give you theinformation, give you the facts
and guide you through theprocess Absolutely.
And through that process wemake so many friends.
I've been able to reconnectwith so many people from my past
life, whether it be at ThreamIsland, previous jobs, high
(15:32):
school, college, helping thosepeople buy and sell real estate,
and you're just buildingrelationships Like I've built so
many really cool relationshipsin the past couple of years.
I never thought that's whatreal estate would be about.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
So you're getting.
So referrals is that's whereyou get pretty much where you
get your business.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
A lot of our business comes from referrals, yeah
referrals, social media that'slike where I built my business.
Spending money on online leadsis not the way to go.
I never understood that.
Yeah, never understood that.
That's something we've everreally.
We didn't really when I was anagent on my own, I never did it.
When you have a team, do it alittle bit.
Yeah, just to give to the team.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Exactly, yeah, obviously, yeah, exactly.
That's amazing.
So things are going good withyour health, though.
Now they're, you're on and youstill, and the story I thought
that was interesting is theperson that donated the kidney
is actually your businesspartner's husband.
You got it, that's, and itdidn't, so which came first?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So the kidney came first and I'll tell you the
story about that.
So when I first got into realestate, I worked for another
company, another brokerage, andthat's the same brokerage that
they were at.
Oh, okay, and I went.
When I went through real estateschool, I was actually going
through school with my nowbusiness partner, carissa.
Her mom was going through it.
Oh, okay.
So I kind of met them throughthat.
I'm a huge Packer fan andDave's a big Lions fan.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Oh gosh, we always had a lot of banter.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So that was really the extent of our relationship
and we saw each other.
We said hi, talk, banter, andthat's it.
And I was only at thatbrokerage for three months, so
it's not like we were friendsoutside of real estate.
I, they, just we stall eachother and passing kind of thing,
and this is the guy, and thisis the guy.
This is the match, which iscrazy, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's crazy the fact that he meet, you know that this
person came into your life andthen, all of a sudden, that's
the match for the kidney.
It's just, and it's not easy tobe a match, right?
It's not?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And then even to back up one more for the first time
in my life.
Like I said, I got let go froma job, yeah, and I got into real
estate and my kidney failed onme earlier than what doctors
projected it to fail on me.
Okay, got it.
So, like I look at all thislike man, all this happened for
a reason.
Yeah, what a blessing.
In disguise, oh, absolutelyyeah, cause look at what you're
doing Exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Do you don't think you'd be in real estate if the
kidney thing didn't happen?
Obviously, probably not, isn'tthat crazy?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, probably Really crazy, cause I really did enjoy
working at TMI it was a lot offun.
Yeah, absolutely, it's like youknow, I played sports my whole
life.
And working at TMI, you're on acrew and you're with the same
people.
It becomes like a sports team.
Yeah, they're your guys andgirls.
You know it's a lot of fun.
Yeah, so I don't think so.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't think I would be.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Let's dig into real quick.
You're, you have a wife I do,sarah.
And then let's talk about yourkids.
You have three children, I do,and there are three girls.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
They are three.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, do you have a shotgun Girls?
I have a couple.
Do you clean them All the time,like on the front porch, all
the time?
You're going to need to do thatmore 100%.
Yeah, you're going to need toclean that more.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And maybe even a dog next to you.
Yeah, you know, like a, mydog's a big teddy bear.
I have a big golden doodle.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I used to have a German Shemmerdoodles.
Oh, you might want to go withlike more, like a pit bull or
like something more intimidating.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, yeah, moose is my golden doodle.
He's seven now.
So ages of the kids yeah, he issix.
Hmm, audrey is three, she'll befour in January and Emily is
the baby.
Emily is.
She's turning nine months heresoon.
Dude, you got your hands full.
I'm in trouble you are.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I'm in trouble, holy mackerel.
So where do you, where do yousee yourself before we wrap it
up?
Where do you see yourself goingthe next five years?
What, where?
Where does the real estate go?
Is there any hobbies?
Is there anything you want usthat you aspire to do besides
real estate?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You know I think about that sometimes.
I I love going to the beachthough so finding, you know, I
have a cabinet in the Poconosand I saw that keeps saying,
like man, I really want to get aplace at the beach, yeah, so at
some point when the team's kindof running itself, yeah, going
to the beach and just taking thefamily, having the memories,
having given the experience,absolutely I would be ideal.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
The Poconos thing I did see pictures of that and it
looks really nice.
It's a neat spot, yeah, butthat's awesome.
So well, I wish you the bestman.
Yeah, I wish you the best andkeep working hard.
Stay in touch, yeah, when wehave the name change of the of
the show, which we've been kindof teasing people with.
Once that happens, we'll haveyou come back cool, because we
want to have a lot of the peoplethat were on his guests on this
(19:34):
show to come in for the nextshow, too, sounds great, I'll be
there.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Great man.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I wish you the best of your health.
Awesome, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
All right, take care, buddy.
All right, there you have it.
Matt Koch oh, my gosh, I'lltell you you got to go see his
videos.
Where do we see your videos at?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You can find me on Instagram, facebook, youtube, if
you just type in the beard andrealtor on Google.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
You'll see him.
You'll see it because you're.
He's the bearded realtor.
There is no other exceptions.
Right, that's right, that's itAll.
Right.
There, you have it All right.
Check us out again nextThursday at 7 pm.
Thank you, you're welcome.
Thank you.
Hello, this is Brad Wiseman.
You're listening to Real Estateand you.
We are back in the studio andwe have guess what?
We have another realtor in thestudio with us today.
Well, the show is still calledReal Estate and you, so we're
allowed to have real estate inhere and we're realtors in here.
That's just good.
Matt Koch, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm fantastic, my friend.
How about yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I noticed you have a beard.
I sure do, yeah, and I heardthat you're called the bearded
realtor.
I sure am.
That's amazing, the beardedrealtor.
And we've known each other atleast two weeks.
At least two weeks, yeah.
So it's been great getting toknow you.
Yeah, likewise, that's the endof the show.
That was it.
That was it.
We're done Good to seeeverybody.
Yeah, that's it.
So, no, I'm super excited thatyou're here.
I met you a couple of weeks ago.
(00:41):
You were here to do somehelping out our agents.
You were here to serve,basically to talk about your
business.
You have a lot of interestingstories, I sure do.
You have your criminal justice.
You have your working at anuclear power plant, something
like that, right.
You have this medical thingwe're going to dig into, which
(01:01):
is pretty serious.
But the cool thing you're doingright now is you're doing real
estate at a real high level andyou're doing it different than
everybody else Always, alwayslooking to do things different.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, I mean the beard.
Yeah, the beard.
So did you always have a beard?
No, no, so you grew it just tobe a realtor.
Yeah, you could say that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Pre-requisite for realtor Must grow facial hair.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Must have a beard, that's right.
Must have a full tattoo.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh, I love and the tattoos are great.
But that's nothing differentanymore.
The beard is for real estate.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, 100%.
I mean, when I got in realestate six years ago, nobody
really had a beard like I did,nobody really had tattoos like I
did, or they were covered.
Yes, when I got in the business, I was like I'm not going to be
anybody.
I'm not, I want to be who?
I am had the beard, had thesleeve, short sleeve shirts all
the time, I mean this is who Iam.
My clients love that about me.
(01:53):
You know what?
Because you're real, I'm real,I'm a real human being.
I'm not trying to sell anybodyanything.
I'm not trying to be fake.
This is who I am.
This is what you get I lovethat.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
You know, and more and more.
I wish I would have been likethat.
When I first started in realestate, I had a ponytail down
the back of my back.
I could see that I was on.
You know, I was in music andthings like that, and I always
hid it.
Ok, I hid it Because I don'tknow if it was back in the early
90s to mid 90s where maybe itwasn't quite as acceptable or
whatever.
But I love that you're doingthat.
You know why you cannot connectwith people, which is what we
(02:24):
do in this business.
We connect, we connect, weconnect, we connect.
Yep, we connect.
They look at the person firstto see if they're real.
Yeah, and they listen to you,they watch your actions and it
doesn't matter what you wear Imean within reason.
It doesn't matter what you door what you wear.
If you're real and they knowyou're there to serve them, to
help them, that's it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Exactly, I 100% agree with that, and that's what it's
all about Buildingrelationships, connecting with
people.
That's exactly how I built mybusiness, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And it's working.
It's working.
Tell me some of the stuffyou're doing, then we're gonna
dig into some of your past.
Tell me some of the stuffyou're doing to set yourself
aside, besides the beard.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, well, besides the beard.
So I run a team.
I run a team with KarissaGarpsis where they catch Garpsis
Realty Group, primarily inLancaster, but we kind of go
everywhere.
Our biggest thing is we are.
It's all about media, it's allabout the video.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's all about marketing.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Anybody could sell a house in the last couple of
years.
I mean put a house on themarket.
It sells itself right.
Absolutely.
We wanted to do somethingdifferent.
We wanted to come in doing funvideos, not just through COVID.
There was videos out there.
It was just a walkthrough ofthe house Nobody's talking,
nobody's seeing anything.
I wanted to change that.
I wanna have fun with itbecause that's who I am as a
person and you do.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I've seen a couple of your videos and they are
definitely fun.
They're fun to watch, even ifI'm not looking for a house.
I'm gonna watch it just becauseit's fun.
That's fantastic.
There's one you're actually onthe toilet Now.
You were not really on thetoilet, you were sitting on the
toilet acting like you weretelling the camera person no, no
, no, no, not now, but that wascool.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, it was fun, it's real, it's engaging.
At that point, because we weredoing a lot of videos, we listed
a decent amount of houses, soeven we need to get more
creative and change how we'redoing videos.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And I was like well.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I haven't done that yet, so why not?
Let's do that.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And that's what we do .
You know what's cool, too,about that, and we tell our
agents this and we, you know, asfar as our training, you know,
what I like, too, is that youhad said before, just a couple
seconds ago, during COVID orright after COVID, basically you
could just put a sign in theyard and things were gonna sell.
Now, yes, you would run intothings where you need a realtor
negotiating things like that,but the actual agreement of sale
was gonna happen.
(04:24):
I love the fact that you didn'tget lazy.
Exactly, a lot of realtors gotlazy.
They were taking pictures atnight on their phones where
there's no lights on or there'sjeans that are still in the bed,
dirty, you know, and I thinkthat that is just.
That is not good.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's not good at all and we made it a point, you know
, during COVID and even movingforward, we haven't deviated
from the plan, and that'smarketing.
Our goal is to get as many eyesas possible on someone's home
and we do that through marketingand, honestly, we do it not
only to showcase their home butto get more listings.
Right, we wanna get morelistings.
How do you do that?
(05:02):
Everybody knows who the beardedrealtor is.
Everybody knows thecatch-garpless reality group
because of the reach on socialmedia YouTube, things like that
that people are seeing throughthese videos.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
What's your favorite social media source Like?
Is it Facebook, instagram?
What works for you?
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I would say it changes, but lately it's been
Facebook I've reached and ourexposure through Facebook has
just been it's just kind oftaking off the last couple of
months.
Awesome.
I've always enjoyed Instagramtoo, because Instagram is more
like reels and just pictureslideshows and that's not as
much verbiage.
Yeah, exactly, and I like thestory aspect on Instagram.
You do it on both platforms,but I feel like it kind of
started on Instagram Absolutelyand becomes a little bit more
(05:40):
interactive that way.
But as far as you know, ourbusiness engagement Facebook has
been better.
Yeah, yeah, Well, let's rewind.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Cool, let's rewind.
Let's go back a little bit.
You weren't always a realtor.
Then again we talked about this.
We were never a realtor frombasically high school, except
for me, actually.
You know what's funny aboutthat?
I started in real estate whenit was 22, in 1992.
So I am, I was pretty young tostart out with that so.
But then I was in music beforethat.
So you know, most people knowyou're never gonna make it music
(06:08):
, so you have to have somethingto go into.
So but go back now.
You were not.
So at a high school you go toschool.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Correct, so you went for.
I went for criminal justice soI stayed local.
I was born and raised inLancaster County.
Decided to stay local, I wentto a school called York Tech but
I went to the Lancaster campusand the reason why I chose that
school over you know I was goingto go to Shippensburg.
There was another one that Iwas looking at going to.
The cool thing about YTI isthey get you ready for the
police academy.
So, as a lifelong dream of minewas to be a police officer, I
(06:37):
could totally see him as apolice officer.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Hugo, right, that's right.
He looks like he's packing.
Right, he does.
Maybe you are Maybe you are.
That's fine and we're okay.
We're friendly with that, butno, so I can totally see you as
a cop.
Yeah, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, absolutely.
It's something I wanted to doas a kid.
I got involved, I did a coupleof camp cadets and you know
that's when you're younger youcan experience like a week of
what a police academy would looklike, and they bring in
different you know things thatyou could do Helicopters, dogs
and stuff like that.
So that was cool.
And then so I went to schoolfor criminal justice and the
cool thing about YTI was theywere getting you ready for the
(07:14):
next step, which is the policeacademy.
Okay, it was very regimented Ihad to wear a uniform, I had to
shave, I didn't have a beard,then you had to shave, yep, no
beard.
Do we have any pictures?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
of that?
Yeah, somewhere I was lookingon Facebook.
I don't think I saw anypictures without beard, you were
trying to find some huh.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yes, I was.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yes, I was that doesn't surprise me here, go get
a razor.
Yeah, that'd be bad, yeah,that'd be really bad.
Not good for marketing.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I need to insure this thing at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It's no longer just a beard.
Yes, exactly, it needs to beinsured.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's right.
So, yeah, I went to YTI,graduated with an associate's
degree in criminal justice andthen I worked for a private
investigation company for alittle bit, and primary role at
that point was I was undercoverin grocery stores catching
shoplifters.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It was fun.
It was fun.
I was in management for a lossprevention for a little bit, but
then I ultimately I got hiredat Three, my Island.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So you went into nuclear?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, I did a nuclear security at Three my Island for
a handful of years and I didn'tgo to police route.
It's one of those things thatthe economy had shifted at that
point.
It used to be that you can gethired at a police department.
They send you to the policeacademy while you're making your
salary.
It shifted.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
The market time shifted a little bit.
What year was this?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I graduated high school in 2007.
Oh God yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I knew you were going to say that.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
OK.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He'll go next time.
Can we have?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
an age limit for people who are too young, jeez.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He's old enough to be my child or young enough to be
my child.
I get that a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I think I'm actually the youngest person on my team
too, thinking about itUnbelievable.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
That's good, though there's nothing wrong with that
Good for you at all.
We'll talk about you later, butthat's OK.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And then I graduated from YTI in 2009.
And yeah, so I was going to goto the police route and I wound
up getting hired at Three myIsland, and I was like, ok, I'm
going to do this.
And it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That's a glowing experience.
Right, it is glowing, I like it.
I see what you do there.
I like that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So I did that for a handful of years, almost five
years, wow.
Through that process is when Idiscovered that I had something
called kidney disease.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, this is the part that I saw on your.
I was looking at your Facebookstuff and your social media and
it was weird.
All of a sudden I see thisYou're in a bed with a hospital
gown on and there's another guythere that's in a hospital gown
and says about the kidneys.
I guess he gave you his kidneys.
His name is Dave, I guess DaveGarpsis, what so how did you
(09:28):
figure this out?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, so the kidney stuff.
I went down for a physical oneyear, so every year I had to get
a physical.
We carried 40 pounds of gear,we had to respond to bunkers
during a contingency All thatfun stuff, I hear just thinking
real quick, with being in anuclear plant.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Did you think cancer?
No, because that would be myfirst thing.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I would think I'd have like a lump, something you
would think right away cancer,yeah, I get asked that question
pretty much every time I meetsomebody and I tell them, oh
yeah, I had a kidney transplantand we talk about it, they're
like, oh, did you get it fromthe nuclear?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
power plant?
Yeah, it's not that I know of.
Yeah right?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But I don't think so.
No, right.
No, I discovered it because Ihad to get a physical every year
and the one year I went down Iwas in my mid-20s and my blood
pressure was like through theroof and I remember my doctor
took my blood pressure like fourtimes because he's like this
isn't right, this can't becorrect.
So that's from the kidney.
Yeah, that's amazing.
So when you have kidney diseaseand I wasn't in kidney failure
(10:22):
at that point but when you havekidney disease, your kidney and
your heart kind of go hand inhand.
So typically people I meanthere's a whole bunch of
different diseases that causekidney disease specifically but
typically you either havediabetes or high blood pressure.
That's like the two indicators.
And I don't have diabetes but Ihad high blood pressure.
So, yeah, I wanted to have an.
I literally got disarmed, senthome and I never went back
(10:42):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, at that moment just talk about upside down,
right, completely upside down.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I literally just bought my first house, like a
couple weeks before that.
Wow, married or no, yet I wasyou were married OK.
And I wasn't sure what I wasgoing to do.
I was yeah, it was kind of wild.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
But here's the thing.
There's moments you know,obviously it's very surreal and
all these things go on.
Did you still think, oh my God,what am I gonna do for a living
now?
Or does your focus immediatelygo to holy shit, I gotta get
this fixed or I'm in trouble.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Oh yeah, for the first time in my life, because
growing up, like I said, Ialways wanted to be a police
officer.
I always wanted to get in thecriminal justice field somewhere
and I did that.
I became a nuclear securityofficer and for the first time
in my life I was like what?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
the hell am I gonna do with my life?
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
So I went through the process.
I found out that I had kidneydisease.
I had to get a biopsy of mykidney to determine what it was.
I had something called IgAneuropathy.
Long story short is I haveeverybody produces antibodies.
My antibodies become abnormaland they attack my kidney.
So my antibodies attack my body.
I don't know why.
Everything are just the kidneys, just the kidney yeah, so your
antibodies don't like kidneys.
(11:50):
They don't like kidneys, theyjust don't like kidneys and the
bummer thing about it is like Istill have that disease, Like
there's no cure for that diseaseGotcha.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So we have to be careful with the new kidney,
Exactly yeah, so, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So at that time I was diagnosed, wasn't sure what I
was gonna do with myself, and Iwound up getting hired for a
company called Clark Associatesand Lancaster.
I did a couple of years of justcustomer service, yeah, and for
the first time in my life Iactually got let go from that
job.
Oh wow.
And so I found myself for thesecond time in my show.
I'm only 34.
Yeah, I turned 35.
(12:22):
Next, I forgot about it.
I forgot for a second.
I turned 35 next week or nextmonth.
It's starting to affect yourbrain.
It is.
I'm getting up there.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Wait, wait he gets much first.
By the way, who the hell isthis guy right here?
I don't even know who you are,yeah, so you get laid off or you
get.
Yeah, I got, let go, let go.
Yeah, I got let go, wow it wasone of those things.
That's not a good feelingeither.
No, I played sports my wholelife and I've always.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I started working at a very young age, so I feel like
my work ethic has always beenpretty high, so to get let go
from something that wasn't usedto me.
That's definitely not goodBlessing and disguise, but I
wasn't used to it.
It was literally two monthsbefore my first daughter was
born.
Oh my gosh.
So I found myself for thesecond time in my life like what
the hell am I gonna do withmyself?
What?
am I gonna do with my life.
I have a criminal justicebackground, which I can't really
(13:07):
do that line of work anymorebecause of the kidney disease,
and I have a customer servicebackground and I didn't really
wanna work in a call centeragain because it was kind of
miserable.
So I can't picture you in acall center.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I could just see you striking up conversations with
them on the phone, like hey.
So what are you doing today?
Well, you know, yeah, all thetime.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah.
So yeah, a good friend of mine,a good buddy of mine that I've
known since high school times,we had gone up to Cigars
International.
It was like a Tuesday orWednesday.
And we got up to CigarsInternational.
We were sitting out on the deck.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I love it up there.
It's beautiful.
Yeah, you can look over and seethe mountain from the deck.
I go there with my father.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I can't have cigars anymore unfortunately, or I
actually don't drink anymoreeither, oh yeah.
I was gonna ask you though youcan't do either, no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I could have a beer too if I wanted to, but it's
kind of like well, it's a pointat that point, yeah right.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Because I can't really have more than that.
So, yeah, we were sitting atCigars International and it was
like a Tuesday, like a noon,drinking a whiskey, having a
cigar, and I looked at my buddyand I was like, so this is what
it feels like to be retired.
Yeah, Yup, and shortly.
I don't remember exactly whenit happened, but at some point
in that week time I came homeand I told my wife I was like,
(14:14):
hey, I'm gonna get my realestate license.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But why Did you know a realtor?
Did you see realtors?
Where did that come from?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You know I've always been fascinated with real estate
.
Even when I was working throughmy island, I've always been
fascinated with real estate.
I've always been fascinatedwith the architecture, helping
people that's just kind of what.
I'm wired that way andinvesting in real estate.
I always just thought that wassuch a cool thing.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, yeah.
So what do you think about itnow?
You still think that I love it.
I still do.
Hey, 31 years dude, I'm stilldoing it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I just can't, like I can't picture at this point in
my life I can't picture doinganything else.
Yeah, like I probably wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It's the ultimate serve.
It is Because, I mean, we allneed a home, we all need help
getting a home, most likely, andyou know, we have that cool job
of being able to do thatAbsolutely.
And it's funny because we don'tjust sell real estate, we
become psychologists, we becomefriends, we become helping you
know anything Absolutely.
It's amazing what we do.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
What's so great about it is and I tell people this
all the time, like I'm not asalesman whatsoever my job is to
help guide you through theprocess, one of the biggest
processes you're ever gonna haveto go through.
I'm gonna.
I'm here to give you theinformation, give you the facts
and guide you through theprocess Absolutely.
And through that process wemake so many friends.
I've been able to reconnectwith so many people from my past
life, whether it be at ThreamIsland, previous jobs, high
(15:32):
school, college, helping thosepeople buy and sell real estate,
and you're just buildingrelationships Like I've built so
many really cool relationshipsin the past couple of years.
I never thought that's whatreal estate would be about.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
So you're getting.
So referrals is that's whereyou get pretty much where you
get your business.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
A lot of our business comes from referrals, yeah
referrals, social media that'slike where I built my business.
Spending money on online leadsis not the way to go.
I never understood that.
Yeah, never understood that.
That's something we've everreally.
We didn't really when I was anagent on my own, I never did it.
When you have a team, do it alittle bit.
Yeah, just to give to the team.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Exactly, yeah, obviously, yeah, exactly.
That's amazing.
So things are going good withyour health, though.
Now they're, you're on and youstill, and the story I thought
that was interesting is theperson that donated the kidney
is actually your businesspartner's husband.
You got it, that's, and itdidn't, so which came first?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So the kidney came first and I'll tell you the
story about that.
So when I first got into realestate, I worked for another
company, another brokerage, andthat's the same brokerage that
they were at.
Oh, okay, and I went.
When I went through real estateschool, I was actually going
through school with my nowbusiness partner, carissa.
Her mom was going through it.
Oh, okay.
So I kind of met them throughthat.
I'm a huge Packer fan andDave's a big Lions fan.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Oh gosh, we always had a lot of banter.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So that was really the extent of our relationship
and we saw each other.
We said hi, talk, banter, andthat's it.
And I was only at thatbrokerage for three months, so
it's not like we were friendsoutside of real estate.
I, they, just we stall eachother and passing kind of thing,
and this is the guy, and thisis the guy.
This is the match, which iscrazy, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's crazy the fact that he meet, you know that this
person came into your life andthen, all of a sudden, that's
the match for the kidney.
It's just, and it's not easy tobe a match, right?
It's not?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And then even to back up one more for the first time
in my life.
Like I said, I got let go froma job, yeah, and I got into real
estate and my kidney failed onme earlier than what doctors
projected it to fail on me.
Okay, got it.
So, like I look at all thislike man, all this happened for
a reason.
Yeah, what a blessing.
In disguise, oh, absolutelyyeah, cause look at what you're
doing Exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Do you don't think you'd be in real estate if the
kidney thing didn't happen?
Obviously, probably not, isn'tthat crazy?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, probably Really crazy, cause I really did enjoy
working at TMI it was a lot offun.
Yeah, absolutely, it's like youknow, I played sports my whole
life.
And working at TMI, you're on acrew and you're with the same
people.
It becomes like a sports team.
Yeah, they're your guys andgirls.
You know it's a lot of fun.
Yeah, so I don't think so.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't think I would be.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Let's dig into real quick.
You're, you have a wife I do,sarah.
And then let's talk about yourkids.
You have three children, I do,and there are three girls.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
They are three.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, do you have a shotgun Girls?
I have a couple.
Do you clean them All the time,like on the front porch, all
the time?
You're going to need to do thatmore 100%.
Yeah, you're going to need toclean that more.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And maybe even a dog next to you.
Yeah, you know, like a, mydog's a big teddy bear.
I have a big golden doodle.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I used to have a German Shemmerdoodles.
Oh, you might want to go withlike more, like a pit bull or
like something more intimidating.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, yeah, moose is my golden doodle.
He's seven now.
So ages of the kids yeah, he issix.
Hmm, audrey is three, she'll befour in January and Emily is
the baby.
Emily is.
She's turning nine months heresoon.
Dude, you got your hands full.
I'm in trouble you are.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I'm in trouble, holy mackerel.
So where do you, where do yousee yourself before we wrap it
up?
Where do you see yourself goingthe next five years?
What, where?
Where does the real estate go?
Is there any hobbies?
Is there anything you want usthat you aspire to do besides
real estate?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You know I think about that sometimes.
I I love going to the beachthough so finding, you know, I
have a cabinet in the Poconosand I saw that keeps saying,
like man, I really want to get aplace at the beach, yeah, so at
some point when the team's kindof running itself, yeah, going
to the beach and just taking thefamily, having the memories,
having given the experience,absolutely I would be ideal.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
The Poconos thing I did see pictures of that and it
looks really nice.
It's a neat spot, yeah, butthat's awesome.
So well, I wish you the bestman.
Yeah, I wish you the best andkeep working hard.
Stay in touch, yeah, when wehave the name change of the of
the show, which we've been kindof teasing people with.
Once that happens, we'll haveyou come back cool, because we
want to have a lot of the peoplethat were on his guests on this
(19:34):
show to come in for the nextshow, too, sounds great, I'll be
there.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Great man.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I wish you the best of your health.
Awesome, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
All right, take care, buddy.
All right, there you have it.
Matt Koch oh, my gosh, I'lltell you you got to go see his
videos.
Where do we see your videos at?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You can find me on Instagram, facebook, youtube, if
you just type in the beard andrealtor on Google.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
You'll see him.
You'll see it because you're.
He's the bearded realtor.
There is no other exceptions.
Right, that's right, that's itAll.
Right.
There, you have it All right.
Check us out again nextThursday at 7 pm.
Thank you, you're welcome.
Thank you.
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