[00:00:00] Christina Smith: Hello, and welcome to our very first episode of real estate is crazy. I'm Christina Smith. I'm David Haghighi, and this is my very good friend, Tiffany Micah young.
[00:00:17] And, um, I'm really excited because we have a crazy story to tell you guys. I guess how we should preface this and get going, is that, you know, David and I had been in the real estate business for a long time. And when we go into houses, you can sometimes feel the energy in a
[00:00:37] David Haghighi: home. Well, I always feel the energy.
[00:00:39] The question is, can I ever get close to a level that Tiffany does feeling
[00:00:44] Christina Smith: energy? And is it good energy or bad energy? Like you can tell sometimes if someone has lived in a home for a pre time, You know, you feel warm, you feel invited. And then there's some homes
[00:00:55] David Haghighi: institutional or like overly sanitized.
[00:00:59] Yeah. [00:01:00] There's a, there's a lot of feelings you can get yeah.
[00:01:02] Christina Smith: From a property. So what brought Tiffany to me was this was actually, um, the first time they actually needed help with the property. And, um, well, Tiffany and I have known each other since middle school. And it wasn't until I think about a year and a half ago, the, you told them.
[00:01:23] That you have this, this gift?
[00:01:26] Tiffani Magallan: Well, I think it was like three years ago, but we, we were just chit-chatting. Can
[00:01:32] David Haghighi: we use the little word clairvoyance? Is that a, is that a word that you would use?
[00:01:36] Tiffani Magallan: Yeah, like when people ask me specifically what. My level is, or whatever, in order to
[00:01:44] David Haghighi: level 12, right? Third degree,
[00:01:47] Christina Smith: black border
[00:01:47] Tiffani Magallan: to categorize, you know, like just, I think people need that label just to understand, you know?
[00:01:54] And so what I tell people
[00:01:55] David Haghighi: is you have the state certification required for
[00:01:58] Tiffani Magallan: this. There are [00:02:00] actually schools, you know, metaphysical schools and stuff like that, but it's like when you're dealing with the Colts, it's more. Geared towards magic ceremonial magic, like high levels from
[00:02:13] David Haghighi: the Bayou type stuff.
[00:02:15] Right. Well, I mean, you're not actually like stabbing little doll.
[00:02:20] Tiffani Magallan: You're talking about a certain type that's boudou and that's a type of
[00:02:27] David Haghighi: voodoo, excuse me for lumping it all together. I
[00:02:29] Tiffani Magallan: really don't. Oh, no, that's okay. Okay. Um, Like a light path and a dark path, they call it the right hand path and the left-hand path and magic, and basically the right hand path deals with everything light for, you know, lack of a better term and vice versa.
[00:02:49] You know, with the left hand path,
[00:02:50] David Haghighi: it seems very black and white.
[00:02:53] Tiffani Magallan: It does, but it's not because it deals with duality. [00:03:00]
[00:03:00] David Haghighi: And
[00:03:01] Tiffani Magallan: yeah, it doesn't come from and the F the divine feminine and the divine masculine, it doesn't come from a place of like good evil. God's saying, like, we don't believe in scene. That's a Judeo Christian,
[00:03:18] David Haghighi: but I know when I walk in, it's either bright and sunny or dark and dungeon like that.
[00:03:23] Those are the two. You know, immediate energy vibes that I get from a home and typically dark and dungeon. It just seems,
[00:03:33] Tiffani Magallan: uh, people like to like assign all this, like, you know, stuff to it. It doesn't necessarily mean evil or something terrible,
[00:03:42] Christina Smith: you know? Exactly it could mean. Yeah. And I've always found it strange.
[00:03:48] You can have the same, uh, same house built the same year. And if one home was not maintained, not cared for the people in it. Sickly and [00:04:00] deteriorate right before your eyes. And then you see another home that looks like it's. I mean, I don't know if you've ever gone in his original, 1976 and it looks like you just stepped into 19
[00:04:14] David Haghighi: three times this week.
[00:04:17] This is all really
[00:04:17] Tiffani Magallan: relevant changed,
[00:04:20] Christina Smith: but they kept it and they were, you can feel that they were good energy in the home and the whole. So I
[00:04:28] David Haghighi: call these grandma homes. Okay. So I tell my clients, like they're the best deals because. They're not neglected, but they're not upgraded. So you're not paying for somebody upgrades, but what you're paying for is love and care and all these things that we think about it.
[00:04:44] Those are back in style. Makoto tiles back inside. Absolutely. Now you just gotta do the right color contrast, right. You know,
[00:04:53] Christina Smith: this particular house so that I call Tiffany out. Um, I was in a desperate situation. It was, [00:05:00] it was a listing of
[00:05:00] David Haghighi: mine. Wait, you were in a desperate situation or your seller was in a desperate situation.
[00:05:05] Yeah. You
[00:05:06] Christina Smith: were in this together. What do I do with this? You know, what this situation and, um, ultimately what it was was the person who was living in the home, um, had to go into a hospital. They were diagnosed as having Alzheimer's and dementia. And when the homeowner went into the home, Found it in a hoarding situation.
[00:05:27] It was pretty cemetery. Yeah. Very
[00:05:32] David Haghighi: feces. Yeah. I'm familiar with these homes. There's a lot of these out there right now. And it's crazy because I think property condition matters less than it ever did in my memory of real estate.
[00:05:43] Christina Smith: It was either sell it to a cash investor or the owner had the option of fixing it up and I would help facilitate the fix-up.
[00:05:52] It's such a fun situation.
[00:05:54] Tiffani Magallan: Christina did an amazing job
[00:05:58] David Haghighi: in the
[00:05:58] Tiffani Magallan: house [00:06:00] because I knew what it had looked like previously. And I was just like,
[00:06:04] Christina Smith: whoa, she, she says it that way because she sensed it. Like when she came in, we were still doing some work that it had been completely cleaned out, but she
[00:06:13] David Haghighi: realized.
[00:06:17] Christina Smith: Like just stuck. And I was like, yeah, there was, I mean, I can post pictures on the website, you know, the house,
[00:06:28] Tiffani Magallan: when you, when you go to a house that is full of crap, you know, and the person is a hoarder, or even when they remove this stuff, you can still feel that, you know, when you walk into someone's house and you feel tension, it's like a Phantom limb.
[00:06:43] Christina Smith: Yes. Yeah.
[00:06:45] David Haghighi: My arm hurts. We don't have an arm anymore.
[00:06:48] Christina Smith: And that's what it was. So we cleaned all the stuff out. We started doing work to the home and strange stuff started happening and it wasn't an immediate [00:07:00] click for me. Um, so an example is, you know, there was a leak in the roof. So I called the solar company out to replace the panel.
[00:07:08] Is this had
[00:07:09] David Haghighi: solar, but what real estate agents call the solar company for a roughly? I mean, come
[00:07:12] Christina Smith: on. Well, I had to like have the panels removed so we could replace the roof. I'm an
[00:07:17] David Haghighi: advocate. Don't don't get me wrong.
[00:07:19] Christina Smith: So, um, they had placed the panels in their proper position outside, and then the next morning the homeowner was there and he said that one of the panels was tipped over.
[00:07:31] Smashed on the ground. So I call the solar company and I'm like, Hey, this is what happened. He's like, that's impossible. These things are 40 pounds. There's no way that panel tipped over on its own. And I was like, well, in that case, one of your workers, student, and just neglected to tell us, so of course I negotiated and I feel really bad about it now, but they paid for a new.
[00:07:53] Why do you
[00:07:53] David Haghighi: feel bad about it? You showed your teeth for your buyers. Stop it.
[00:07:57] Christina Smith: I know better, but I blamed [00:08:00] them because that was the only logical explanation. There was no one at the house. There was nobody working there. The logical explanation is the workers didn't secure the panel, or they accidentally tipped to.
[00:08:12] So then that, that got situated. But then I had a plumber working underneath the house, replacing some plumbing and he was reporting that he heard footsteps going up and down the hallway above him. And I was like, oh, that's kind of weird. It's an older house. It's a raised foundation.
[00:08:32] David Haghighi: You did say something about rats in the attic to
[00:08:36] Christina Smith: some pests or something like heavy rats?
[00:08:40] Yeah. So, but the one I could not ignore was my son who's 21 was working with the contractors doing some side work and he had stayed late because they had removed the bedroom doors and he was painting the bedroom. And one [00:09:00] of the doors was propped up against a wall. And while he was painting the door, flung off the wall and into another door, like aggressively enough that it damaged the other door.
[00:09:11] I just
[00:09:12] David Haghighi: think about how messy it was. It was being painted well,
[00:09:16] Christina Smith: really dark wood. And it just didn't go in that. I was like, let's just paint them. He, you know, of course came home, told me. And, uh, he also told me that when he was in the house, he would periodically hear growling in his ear. And I was like, you know what, but they're not big enough to get in his face.
[00:09:35] I was like, I called Tiffany and I'm like, I need you to come cleanse the home. Something is going on. And I know from his, like, you know, just when you start doing work to a home, sometimes these things can start to happen. You stir things up, so to speak,
[00:09:54] Tiffani Magallan: renovate,
[00:09:57] Christina Smith: sell this to anyone being [00:10:00] in this state. So I have to deal with this
[00:10:01] Tiffani Magallan: now it sucks because renovations tend to kick up spirit activity because a lot of times.
[00:10:08] They don't like what you're doing. Well, they don't want you to change it. They like to keep things the way they like to keep it.
[00:10:16] David Haghighi: I've had sellers who want to just keep it the way it is. So I can imagine that they're, you know,
[00:10:22] Tiffani Magallan: and you know, it's like someone's in my house. Like, imagine if you loved your.
[00:10:27] And then you died unexpectedly and tragically, you know, and then some other people come in and then let's just say that these people are the complete opposite of someone that you would want to hang out with.
[00:10:38] Christina Smith: Oh yeah. That's a conflict right there. We only be stirring up some stuff and get out of my house.
[00:10:44] David Haghighi: I'd be worried if they say that the home inspector. And the spirits didn't get along. Like that's going to basically kill the deal. That's for me, that's the biggest no-nos killing the deal.
[00:10:56] Tiffani Magallan: I wouldn't say that the older gentlemen didn't get [00:11:00] along with hunter, but he was being rude to hunter because he didn't feel.
[00:11:08] That hunter was doing things up to his standards now hunters the home inspector.
[00:11:13] Christina Smith: Oh, oh, I was the cool thing about, well, the cool thing about this was I had the benefit of the homeowners. W it was a family home. The family had owned it since 1949. So I had the benefit of being able to go back to the. And say, this is what you need told me all about their parents.
[00:11:34] So those other guys too. Yeah.
[00:11:37] Tiffani Magallan: You can like some of that stuff. And then the woman was really upset because she didn't want anyone touching her lemon tree. I was like really special,
[00:11:47] Christina Smith: well, over a hundred year old lemon tree in the backyard. So as Tiffany's walking through, so first she co she came in and she, she does her setup and it's very elaborate.
[00:11:59] [00:12:00] Yeah, she does a whole elaborate thing like crystals and plants and herbs.
[00:12:05] David Haghighi: Yeah. I have pictures of
[00:12:07] Christina Smith: your up. Yeah. I did a whole video of it actually, so I can post that on the site. So, but then you started walking through and she was talking about the things that she was sensing. And so I guess, like, what was one of the first things you felt?
[00:12:23] Um,
[00:12:24] Tiffani Magallan: well, the different people. You know, I got an older couple and then I got like approximate years that they were there. And then, um, I got another gentleman that had been there that was sick. And,
[00:12:41] David Haghighi: um, this was before COVID though. Right? So it wasn't.
[00:12:45] Tiffani Magallan: And um, we got like some other, this, this gets kind of deeper a little bit, you know, but.
[00:12:55] To keep it short. We found another entity which can be created by a [00:13:00] spirit itself. It's
[00:13:01] David Haghighi: not a corporation state of California entities, different, different types of it
[00:13:05] Christina Smith: was, it was actually surprised because up until that point, everything that she had said, like you said, that the mom, which I knew about the mom kept making comments about the fact that the walls were white.
[00:13:17] And what was she saying?
[00:13:19] Tiffani Magallan: She didn't like. And that's not how she had it, you know, when she was there in the house and it just was a, a personal style choice, really. I mean, a decoration type of thing, you know? I mean,
[00:13:35] David Haghighi: yeah. People have those, that's all you're saying is she
[00:13:38] Christina Smith: had a personal preference. Yes. We had painted all the walls, whites.
[00:13:41] And when Tiffany was there, the walls. And you said that she kept coming, like, why are the walls white? There's no color. And
[00:13:50] Tiffani Magallan: I tried to tell her that's what they do in homes so that people can picture what they want
[00:13:55] Christina Smith: in the house,
[00:13:56] David Haghighi: which may or may not be true [00:14:00] in
[00:14:00] Tiffani Magallan: this
[00:14:00] Christina Smith: case. She didn't know. When we started, the walls were like green purple and pink.
[00:14:09] Sounds like a circus. Oh yeah. But it's because she loved color. And so then we came in and we took the color. I was like, oh my God,
[00:14:20] David Haghighi: color's emotion. Especially in a design sense, you know, real estate thrives on color. If you find designers using color, people will usually pay a lot of money for that color.
[00:14:29] Yeah. Well, because it's risky to do it on their own. They need a professional to bring in color.
[00:14:33] Christina Smith: Yeah. And just the right amount.
[00:14:35] Tiffani Magallan: And she picks like certain colors for certain pieces. Like for their rooms and stuff
[00:14:43] Christina Smith: was pink and one
[00:14:43] David Haghighi: was purple that white paint was just didn't go over. Well,
[00:14:47] Tiffani Magallan: they painted over something important to her too.
[00:14:49] Like she had, you know, done. You've
[00:14:54] David Haghighi: injured. The height of the kids. Yeah. I just took a picture of one of, so we just did a property that was a [00:15:00] complete dump and I had to get a picture of it because I knew I was the only one getting like I was about to get demoed out and it was like 15 years. Kids Heights on this little door jam.
[00:15:10] So I took a picture. It's the best I can do.
[00:15:12] Christina Smith: Oh, well now you did get them where they're like mobile, you know, where it's like a thing that you can buy.
[00:15:17] David Haghighi: Yeah. But see, when we're doing them, we don't think about that. We just think about let's measure this height and this is our house. We're never going to leave this house, man.
[00:15:24] Memories,
[00:15:25] Christina Smith: big deal. Yeah. Um, it, it, it really gave me so much more compassion because then as we're walking through and you're telling me about the husband. And I asked you, why did he knock over the door? And you, you said, yeah. And why did he do that? You didn't like what hunter was doing. And so then I was like, well, wait a minute.
[00:15:50] I knew that the owner had told me that her father put the roof on that house. And I said, did he knock, go for it? The solar [00:16:00] panel.
[00:16:03] Tiffani Magallan: He just doesn't. And he's old school, you know, and he just doesn't see the need for things like that.
[00:16:10] David Haghighi: It doesn't see STG raising the rates every quarter. It's of course, once you pass, you don't have to deal with STG and anymore. That's the problem.
[00:16:17] Christina Smith: Yeah. Yeah. You know, and he didn't want anyone touching his roof and he didn't want anyone touching his plumbing.
[00:16:26] It's watertight.
[00:16:26] David Haghighi: So let's talk about this a little bit. People change roofs when they don't need to be replaced. A lot of times they're water tight. They got a good five years left
[00:16:32] Christina Smith: in them. Yeah. But this one had a big leak. This.
[00:16:36] David Haghighi: Yeah, this one. Yeah. This one was past
[00:16:40] Christina Smith: leak in the ceiling and
[00:16:41] David Haghighi: it was very proud of this roof that didn't really
[00:16:43] Christina Smith: work that well.
[00:16:44] Well, he replaced it back in 1984. The dad did, and obviously he had passed away. So like now we're again going into his home and we're. Changing things, 30 years later
[00:16:56] Tiffani Magallan: in his day there, they would've just patched it, [00:17:00]
[00:17:01] David Haghighi: replace the whole thing. Yeah.
[00:17:03] Tiffani Magallan: He just, he has, he has like, no sense of humor either. That's the thing.
[00:17:07] Oh,
[00:17:09] David Haghighi: like a really cold and stoic guy.
[00:17:12] Christina Smith: Exactly what my client said. Her dad was like, she said, yes, my dad was like, And so those things were explained. But then when we went into the first bedroom, because what Tiffany did was she staged the whole entire house. And as we're walking through and she asked like, what religion were the parents?
[00:17:31] Because we will do, I asked the question, their religion and they were Catholic. So she brought over some Catholic prayers that I could read while she was seeking the home. Cause it's comforting for that. So that we can explain like the houses moving on to a new family and in the first bedroom though, like what you never, I think ever want to hear Tiffany say is.
[00:17:56] That's weird.[00:18:00]
[00:18:03] She's like the Sage is black and I'm like, what does that mean? Do I need
[00:18:07] Tiffani Magallan: to leave?
[00:18:10] Christina Smith: Like
[00:18:10] Tiffani Magallan: what do I do normally, like an alternate. You know, like when you burn it, you know, but yeah. You know, like, I don't want to sound like totally ridiculous, but it was doing this thing where remember how it was like smoking.
[00:18:22] It was like completely
[00:18:24] Christina Smith: black
[00:18:24] David Haghighi: on the outside, like yeah.
[00:18:27] Tiffani Magallan: And it was like, and it started to go, you know, and like, kinda like oxygen, I guess you could say, you know, I
[00:18:35] Christina Smith: was freaking out. It
[00:18:37] Tiffani Magallan: didn't look good. You know, it just. Nothing in that. Yeah. And nothing in that room felt right. And it was the room of the guy and he had died in there and he had a lot of sickness, you know, like, um, and physical pain, you know, and just like I was saying earlier, like that pain, [00:19:00] it can be.
[00:19:01] The energy of it can reside. It's like an
[00:19:03] David Haghighi: insurance claim. It sticks with the house.
[00:19:05] Tiffani Magallan: Yeah. You know, let's see, you have like a bunch of people that argue in a house, like all the time. And I know this is true because in my old house, that's how it was when I was growing up. And we went to see the house like 20 years later, just to meet the new people that lived there and stuff clear as day.
[00:19:24] Huh? She point blank asked me she was. What is with all the attention and anger in this house, you know? And I was like, oh, you picked up on that, you know, cause it's a newer home. So then people are like, oh, that whenever it's a newer home, that's my clients freak out the most because they're like, but my house is less than 20 years old.
[00:19:48] Christina Smith: Yeah. So one died in it. There shouldn't be anything, but that's not the truth.
[00:19:53] David Haghighi: I can speak for the energy transfer aside from. Anything that might be super natural. [00:20:00] I can speak that. Just buyers and sellers, just by looking at each other. Sometimes they never get to meet, but there's an energy transfer there.
[00:20:06] Usually it's bad buyers should never meet sellers.
[00:20:10] Christina Smith: T like I've recently had this happen several times and it was like interesting, horrible. It went terribly wrong. What happened terribly wrong? I mean, I guess, I don't know if that's a podcast for another day,
[00:20:24] like swap phone numbers and then they started negotiating behind the scenes and classic what should not be went so horribly wrong that like, I mean, cause then they started bickering. Well, they say, well, it was more than that. It was like originally he was going to put in a full price offer. And then next thing I know he wants to put it $30,000 lower.
[00:20:46] And then next thing I know my client's calling me. Hey, he's offering $75,000 last accepted. And I'm like, what are you talking about? I did a background check on me and he's got, he's got all the [00:21:00] behind the scenes and I'm like,
[00:21:02] David Haghighi: it's not uncommon. You see, Tiffany's really surprised because this kind of stuff is surprising, but it happens
[00:21:08] Christina Smith: all the time.
[00:21:09] It happens and they start negotiating behind the scenes. And you're not even a part of that. And I'm like I told the other guy's agent, I'm like, I want whatever background information your client got on my client in my email box, in like the next few hours, because I
[00:21:24] David Haghighi: want to know I prefer the next one because
[00:21:26] Well, the truth is we can, um, wrap up our episode a little bit here because Tiffany did some numbers.
[00:21:33] Did she do an actual, full
[00:21:35] Christina Smith: cleanse? We did a full cleanse. And in fact, at the end of it, I asked her, you know, cause she cleansed the room and, and I asked her, what was it that she saw in that room? And she described it.
[00:21:49] We want to describe it.
[00:21:52] Tiffani Magallan: And what I was telling her is that this is what the spirit wanted me to see. So it was projecting, [00:22:00] it was trying to probably make me scared so that I would leave it alone, you know? And so it was kind of like this little, like troll. Type thing.
[00:22:13] David Haghighi: Well, gremlin, yeah,
[00:22:16] Tiffani Magallan: that's a good word.
[00:22:19] Christina Smith: Like Gollum in Lord of the rings.
[00:22:26] little creature crouched in the closet. I'm like in the closet of this
[00:22:31] David Haghighi: out, you know, now no one will buy it. If they see this little guy in the corner,
[00:22:37] Christina Smith: Well, I mean, there was like a drawer that wouldn't open and she's like, he's in that drawer. So I had to like pry the drawer open so we could Sage inside every drawer, every cabinet, wait
[00:22:47] a
[00:22:47] David Haghighi: second.
[00:22:47] I was like furniture wasn't in this house. He
[00:22:49] Tiffani Magallan: was trying to stay
[00:22:52] Christina Smith: as a built-in jar. You know how there's like 1940s houses have those knucks and little drawers in the hallway quality that they
[00:22:58] David Haghighi: just don't build anymore. It made no
[00:22:59] Christina Smith: sense
[00:22:59] Tiffani Magallan: [00:23:00] that it wouldn't open.
[00:23:01] Christina Smith: It was, it had opened fine the whole time. And now suddenly when open and I was like, there's no.
[00:23:06] The thing is staying in this house. So
[00:23:09] Tiffani Magallan: she pried it. I don't know how she got it open. Cause I couldn't do it. I'd be
[00:23:13] David Haghighi: worried that it would still stay, but that's actually brought you
[00:23:16] Christina Smith: well, ultimately the rest of the work went fine. We didn't have any further issues. The home felt so much lighter afterwards and no more problems.
[00:23:27] David Haghighi: Now we can make more memories.
[00:23:29] Tiffani Magallan: Yeah. I needed the homeowners and Christina and to participate in the cleansing. Of course. A few things that I did while I was on the property. And then I just asked them to finish it out. You know what I mean? Cause it's their house to take charge of their home, you know, and make sure that everything in anything knows it's not welcome there.
[00:23:50] You know? And that's like a really important attitude to have when you buy a house, that's your house. You bought it.
[00:23:58] Christina Smith: Yeah, exactly. No [00:24:00] negative energy is allowed in this house. And it's not welcome here. And it's about bringing in light and love and peace into your home. Exactly. And so the biggest takeaway I got from that was there is not a home I'm going to close where if the, if the new owner will allow, if my client will allow, I'm bringing Tiffany out to do a cleansing because it's so important, it's a
[00:24:22] David Haghighi: good way to ensure that your clients are going to have extended good energy that carries through their first.
[00:24:29] Couple of months of ownership because that's when it all really sets in. I realize. You know, a couple months and you actually know what it feels like to live there. Yeah.
[00:24:39] Christina Smith: And then it hits you when that first mortgage payment comes through.
[00:24:43] David Haghighi: You know? Well remember though, you get to skip a mortgage payment.
[00:24:46] See, this is something I keep reminding people because mortgages are charged in a rears. You don't have to pay that first payment when you buy out. Everybody should buy a
[00:24:54] Christina Smith: house, buy a house. You should call us if you want to buy homes.
[00:24:59] David Haghighi: No, the truth [00:25:00] is, uh, finding a house and buying a house is harder than ever.
[00:25:03] So a good buyer's agent is more important than ever.
[00:25:06] Christina Smith: I brought
[00:25:06] Tiffani Magallan: this book that I really like, and as all these, um, spells in it about like how to find a new house or like what to do. If someone is taking too long in escrow and like all this kind of stuff. Yeah. You're like specific
[00:25:22] David Haghighi: that there's specific take too long and
[00:25:24] ask
[00:25:25] Tiffani Magallan: her all the time.
[00:25:25] Like I looked for this book for you for a while. Yeah. And I found it and I was like, We're
[00:25:32] David Haghighi: beginning booking Tiffany's next episode to come tell us about this book. We need to know more.
[00:25:36] Christina Smith: Definitely. There's definitely more episodes, more experiences that I've had with her that are super unique. And we're going to put her contact information in our show notes in the description.
[00:25:46] If you want to have your home cleansed and you need help with anything. She's amazing and she'll help you with anything that you need. Such a pleasure
[00:25:55] David Haghighi: to break it in and we look forward to having you back.
[00:25:58] Christina Smith: Yeah. Thanks guys.
[00:25:59] Thanks for joining [00:26:00] us and follow us and join us for our next episode of, uh, real estate
[00:26:08] David Haghighi: until next time. By