Real Estate Agents Episodes

Five years after her first appearance on the show (Episode 3), Bailey Martin returns with a different story to tell. Earlier this year she left her longtime brokerage to open STA Sunrise Realty, built on a simple premise: real estate should feel human. Bailey has held her license for about a decade, spending seven years at her previous brokerage before striking out on her own. She's lived the markets she sells — eight years in World Golf Village, now over a year on Anastasia Island — and that firsthand experience shapes how she works with clients navigating St. Johns County's shifting landscape. The conversation covers what's really happening with sellers who bought at the top of the market and now can't afford to sell without bringing cash to closing, why she gave up her own 4% mortgage rate to move to the island, and how she coaches first-time buyers through a process most of them know nothing about going in. Her signature move with every client, especially those relocating…

Marilyn Gilman didn't plan on becoming a Jacksonville real estate agent — she got her license in 2019 after nearly two decades raising her family, stepping into a market she already understood from close to 40 years around her husband's family development business. She hit Rookie of the Year in her first year, sold just over $5 million, and now leads a mother-daughter team with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Network Realty, ranked the #3 small team in Florida. In this episode, Marilyn breaks down what actually happens when a seller won't move on price. Her read: sellers who wait too long "start dripping blood in the water" — and buyers' agents notice fast. She and Tracy also dig into Florida's November property tax ballot measure, the state's improving insurance market, and what it means to act as a true fiduciary when a client wants to hear a number you can't honestly give them. The conversation covers plenty of Jacksonville-specific ground too — the trade-offs between…

Angela Stancil spent nearly a decade in education — classroom teacher to assistant principal — before she ever wrote a real estate offer. On this episode of the Real Estate Excellence Podcast, she joins Tracy Hayes to talk about how that background shapes the way she works today as a REALTOR® with Team Davidow at Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realty, one of Northeast Florida's top-producing teams. Angela built her business almost entirely on referrals and relationships, and shares how the systems her team put in place kept her transactions running smoothly even through a serious personal health challenge — proof that the right infrastructure can carry a business through anything. The conversation goes deep on new construction, including the exact questions buyers should ask any agent to find out if they actually know the local builders, and why representation costs a buyer nothing since the builder pays the commission either way. Angela also breaks down how she works with military fa…

Tracy Frandsen has sold real estate in Northeast Florida for 20 years — long enough to work the foreclosure crisis from the inside. As part of a Fannie Mae brokerage relationship, she handled REO properties directly: assessing homes with renters still living in them, managing cleanouts, and deciding property by property whether to sell as-is or put on a new roof. "Sometimes I felt like I worked for Fannie Mae," she says, "instead of my brokerage." That negotiation instinct never left. Now with the Frandsen Team at Christie's International Real Estate First Coast — a team she built with her daughter-in-law Holly in 2020 — Tracy talks about what it actually takes to keep a deal alive. In the last six months alone, she's had to talk three different sellers off the cliff, including one Ortega-area deal where a frustrated seller was ready to walk over a repair request. Tracy Hayes and Tracy Frandsen also get into the Clay County vs. St. Johns County decision buyers face constantly, w…

Lisa Vernon has sold every home she's listed in Nocatee. Not most. Every one. In a market she says is down 6% to 8% with more than 200 expired listings at one point, that record isn't luck — it's a pricing conversation most agents avoid having. Lisa joins Tracy Hayes for Episode 335 to break down how she got there, starting in 1998 on the mortgage side. Commercial Credit, then EverBank, Washington Mutual, PHH — cubicle after cubicle, phone call after phone call. A difficult pregnancy in 2008 pulled her out of the business entirely. She came back in 2013 with a real estate license, a mentor at Keller Williams, and a vision board with a $52,000 income goal on it. She blew past it. The phrase that anchors this episode is one Lisa learned watching her mother work model homes as a teenager: "Commission breath is when you can tell that that agent cares more about their commission than making sure you're making the right choice." She tells the story of a buyer named Lynn who was ready …

Robyn Cavallaro didn't come up through real estate the traditional way. No college degree, a lifetime as an entrepreneur, and a restaurant that closed in 2019 — then a mid-pandemic decision to get licensed online because, in her words, "Self, you better come up with a Plan B." Since then, she's built a $110 million business out of Florida Realty Investments in The Villages, one of the most unique markets in the country, without a single paid lead. In this episode, Robyn breaks down how she turned raw, unedited restaurant-era videos into a full content system that now drives every client she has — buyers who trust her enough to purchase homes sight-unseen, some without ever meeting her in person. She and Tracy dig into the real financial and lifestyle math of The Villages: the bond system that confuses nearly every buyer, the difference between MLS and the developer's own VLS listings, snowbird versus full-time ownership, and the three-county tax trap that catches people off guard a…

Traci Crawford spent more than 30 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a Colonel and Deputy Commander of Brooke Army Medical Center. Today she's a Global Real Estate Advisor with ONE Sotheby's International Realty in Jacksonville, ranked among the top 1.5% of real estate professionals nationwide by RealTrends. In this episode, Tracy Hayes sits down with Traci to talk about the realities of military relocation in Northeast Florida — from matching PCS families to the right neighborhood near NAS Jacksonville and Mayport, to the VA loan myths that are still costing buyers and sellers money in 2026. Traci also breaks down what's actually changed in the Ponte Vedra Beach and Nocatee markets, how she prepares sellers who are downsizing in a more patient market, and what 30 years of Army command taught her about leading clients through high-pressure decisions. Traci sums up her approach simply: "People don't remember the pieces and parts. They remember how you made them feel." Whether…

Debora McCarty didn't take a traditional path into real estate. She came to the United States from Brazil at 30, spent 25 years as a homemaker, earned her teaching certification, and taught computer education at Fruit Cove Middle School in St. Johns County before going full-time in real estate with Watson Realty in 2022. That background — immigrant, educator, community volunteer — shapes everything about how she serves buyers and sellers across Jacksonville and St. Johns County today. In this episode, Debora and Tracy cover the Jacksonville market in 2026, including why sellers are still anchored to pandemic-era expectations, how the rate lock-up is keeping inventory tight, and what it actually takes to unlock a motivated seller who's sitting on a 2.5% mortgage. They dig into Florida property tax portability — one of the most underutilized tools in real estate — and how Debora uses it to show move-up sellers and downsizers what they're really working with financially before they ma…