Meet Johnny Leavitt
- 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Real Estate Agent Advice Barrie, Market Cycles, Home Selling Strategy, Parker Coulter Realty
Johnny Leavitt walked 808 through a practical Real Estate 101 session built to help members make smarter decisions as buyers, sellers, and entrepreneurs. He broke down how trust is built fast, why the right agent matters, and how to avoid getting emotionally pulled into pricing, timing, and negotiation mistakes. Johnny’s edge is real world construction experience, he understands how homes are built, where issues hide, and how “good bones” and long term costs should factor into every deal.
“Do the harder thing first, it makes the whole thing easier.”
A major focus was seller strategy and market reality. Johnny unpacked market cycles, seasonality, days on market, and the danger of chasing a declining market with unrealistic pricing. He emphasized the importance of honest conversations backed by stats, not “telling sellers what they want to hear” just to win the listing. From there, he outlined what a full service approach should look like: strong photography, maximum exposure across boards, consistent follow up, clear listing descriptions that actually sell the lifestyle and features, and negotiation that keeps the door open instead of turning buyers off.
He also connected real estate to entrepreneurship, showing how property decisions impact cash flow, stability, growth, and long term wealth. Whether you lease to preserve capital or buy to hedge rising rents and build equity, the message was the same: treat real estate like a business decision, not a feeling.
“If it was worth what it’s listed at, respectfully, it would’ve sold by now.”
