About Christopher J. Lazaro, Primary Author of MiamiBeachBrokers.Blog
I am a Florida Licensed Real Estate Broker Associate (BK3388297) at eXp Realty! You can now find me and my Miami Metropolitan Area Listings in Southeast Florida at MiamiBroker.Pro! MiamiBroker.Pro is not only my NEW Website-CRM combo but is the basis of my new brand as a Broker Sales Associate within EXP Realty! I am excited about my forthcoming new logo. My Slogan, however, I have been using for quite some time: “LIVE VIBE-RANTLY!™”.
I specialize in Southeast Florida’s Luxury Real Estate markets and Off-Market Commercial Real Estate Investment opportunities. Whether you are a Residential Real Estate Investor in the market for a home or investment property or an Institutional Buyer seeking acquisition targets or joint ventures for your portfolio, please contact me and I will be happy to introduce you to my data-driven approach to real estate investment.
Prior to my joining eXp Realty in February of 2023, I founded and managed Metro International Realty PLLC (now operating under the DBA of Metro International Investments), which specialized in the sourcing of off-market (unlisted) investment opportunities. I also founded and managed Miami Beach Brokers®, a primarily residential real estate brokerage with a cool brand I created with the help of a very talented friend who is a professional designer. All Real Estate transactions are now BROKERED BY EXP REALTY! Both of my LLC companies will remain going concerns and they will be leveraged for alternate pursuits not involved in the leasing, purchasing, or selling of real estate.
Previous to my real estate profession, I was an Information Technology Professional. You could say that I still am as I never lost my passion for computer technology and all I really did was change how I applied my skills when I decided to resign from IBM as an IT Architect and take on a career as a real estate professional. Post graduation from college, I was in the IT biz as a full-time professional for about 15 years, but I also did a lot of “gig work” before I graduated with a degree in Computer Science from SUNY Albany.
You can read more about me (and reach me) in a number of locations:
Follow Christopher Lazaro on LinkedIn! I have nearly 8,000 followers and 12,000 contacts…I am not huge by any stretch of the imagination, but I do publish a lot of insightful commentary on a number of subjects, not just real estate.
Christopher Lazaro’s EXP Realty About Me Page – I literally just created this website and I am awaiting the approval of a vanity URL…More to come on this site and subject1
Christopher Lazaro’s About Me Page on the Miami Beach Brokers® Official Website. I have begun moving the official website away from “real estate brokerage”, or at least representing itself as a real estate brokerage. It is a good source of leads as it is generating some small amounts of traffic AND I have my most active customer database there. I am not sure I want to move it because there are a lot of custom searches for over 2000 active (more or less) users. It is not possible to transfer those searches (I have tried before and it was a catastrophe).
You can also find me on numerous social media websites:
Christopher Lazaro is MiamiBeachBroker on Tumblr. – Tumblr is a really good posting website.
Christopher Lazaro is MIABeachBroker on Twitter
Christopher Lazaro is MiamiBeachBroker on TikTok
Christopher Lazaro is MiamiBeachBroker on Pinterest
Christopher Lazaro is MIABeachBroker on Zillow
Christopher Lazaro started a YouTube Channel on January 1st, 2023 as @MiamiBroker. My channel is certainly focused on real estate, of course, but real estate is as much about living and lifestyle as it is about assets and making money. I decided to include my little girl, Aryel, as my co-star (she is the main attraction in the one below for sure!)
Like every Realtor should, Christopher Lazaro has a profile page on Realtor.com. I do not do business (directly) with this company. I think the National Association of Realtors has made some huge mistakes and selling Realtor.com was one of them.
Want to quickly get my information into your phone? Check out Christopher Lazaro’s VCardInfo Page and download the contact info!
I also created a Miami Beach Brokers® Reddit Page. I am thinking about creating another presence for myself…we will see!
About My Blog(s)
I originally began this (and other) WordPress blog(s) under the domain name RealtorOfMiami.com with the intention of blogging on a wide array of subjects; not just real estate. I was given a warning by NAR (the National Association of Realtors) that the domain name I had chosen was a Trademark infringement. Previous to this blog, I had never had a blog before and was not sure I would enjoy doing it. It is a painful passion, but with modern software, it is becoming easier to include elements and create the pages I want.
Unfortunately, at the time, I had lost access to my only other preferred domain name, Real-Estate-of-Miami.com. However, I was able to secure the domain again, and once I transitioned the content of the website to no longer conflict with NAR’s trademark policies, I began blogging once more; this time with a specific goal of keeping the public informed about market changes in the South Florida Real Estate Market. For more than a year, this website has operated under the name Real-Estate-of-Miami.com. As of February 1st, 2016, Real-Estate-of-Miami.com was called BeachBroker.MIAMI! I thought it was cool and that it might catch on. I even developed a logo for it:
Then, I created REBroker.Miami and focused on that site for a while. It became a bit of a bear to manage and I recently shut the site down and redirected the URL. The jury is out on what I will do with it…let it expire? Sell it? Seems a shame to let it go but as an MLS website, it was not very good and while the blog postings were beautiful, it was made in Avada and I found Avada to be difficult to use.
I exported data from a REBroker.Miami and RealtorofMiami.com and put as much of it as I could into this one. I blew up my following though…I had at least 1000 people following me on just one of the blogs but it appears lost most of my userbase when I moved over to this blog. This is why I now advise people to not shut down their sites. Simply reduce posting if you need to and use the posts to redirect to your new endeavor!
A couple of months ago I decided to sport for the URL and go to a paid WordPress plan, and so MiamiBeachBrokers.Blog has been born! I have even allowed a guest author to contribute and may open it up to more people in the near future!
From time to time, other noteworthy topics will be posted and discussed; I welcome any suggestions relevant to Real Estate, Politics or Economics. This blog represents the opinion of a single, licensed real estate broker (me), and it should not be construed, in any way, that any opinion given is also the opinion of other principal(s) or employees of Metro International Investments or Miami Beach Brokers.
I have a couple of new blogs going up in the coming weeks and will update this page once I have the new URLs up! Cheers! — Christopher Lazaro, Broker Associate at eXp Realty
Metro International Investments and Miami Beach Brokers® do not broker (buy/sell/recommend) stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or derivatives of any kind to the general public nor to private clients and customers.
Both Metro International Investments & Miami Beach Brokers® are privately owned LLC companies and are each engaged in private business dealings, including consulting, research, content creation, and social media marketing amongst other services not specifically requiring a real estate license.
As of February 2023, both companies have closed their duly licensed real estate brokerage practices and are no longer Florida real estate brokerages!
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