Balboa Rat to Arbor’s Big Cheese with Chris Brigandi

0:00 – Chris Brigandi welcome to the show
0:30 – Newport Beach Real Estate
1:00 – Grew up in City of Orange
1:40 – Every summer “I was a Balboa Rat…”
2:40 – Boogie Boarding across the channel
3:30 – Class of ’47 (dive bar in Newport Beach)
4:00 – A Restaurant (formally known as The Arches)
8:30 – Brother (Phil Brigandi) was a historian of Orange County
10:00 – 1980’s a musician (gospel and non-gospel band)
13:50 – 1990’s pivot to real estate
15:00 – Sold a $3,750,000 home in 1991 – breakthrough
15:40 – $80,000 commission check
16:00 – Started knocking on doors looking for homes to buy/develop
17:38 – Learned from Russ Fluter (Newport Beach developer)
18:40 – Started Strata Properties – high end, local
20:40 – Coldwell Banker bought Strata Properties
21:20 – Started Arbor Real Estate with Kristin Barry (and others)
21:30 – Roughly $1B in sales
22:00 – Today family and community keeps the grind going
23:40 – Community give-back and charity organizations
24:20 – Aligned with surfer Rob Machado