Pivoting Like A Boss & Dialing Into Your Zone Of Genius With Sabina Dinescu
So often, we have been doing the same thing for years and years. We’re thinking about shifting into something completely different, but wonder how do we make that leap? How do we pivot? Joining Stefanie Peters on the show today is Sabina Dinescu. Sabina is someone who is familiar with pivoting without missing a beat. A powerhouse CPA before shifting gears, she broke into the luxury real estate market in Southwest Florida. Tune in to this episode to discover how Sabina dialed into her zone of genius and pivoted like a boss. Plus, get some tips on how to do flips and avoid the crazy.
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Pivoting Like A Boss & Dialing Into Your Zone Of Genius With Sabina Dinescu
Once again, I am fired up to be with another powerhouse lady boss. It's been fun chatting with likeminded lady bosses that are crushing it in the real estate space. Crushing it may be an understatement for this woman. She broke into the luxury market in Southwest Florida. Do you know how difficult it is to break into real estate, let alone the luxury market? She was a powerhouse CPA before shifting gears. This is so relevant because so often we have been doing the same thing for years and years. We think, “To shift into something completely different, how do I make the leap? How do I pivot?” Right now, people are being pushed to pivot and they are scared spitless. Yet this lady boss, Sabina, didn't miss a beat and she is making it happen. She recorded a pilot for HGTV with her husband. I am so jazzed to dial in and talk about all the things. Sabina, thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for having me.
It was fun chatting with you and talking a little bit more about your story. You are one of the top agents with Douglas Elliman and you climb the ranks very quickly. I want to go back to your mindset when you were a very successful CPA and what prompted the shift to transition over to real estate?
Truthfully, I was raised around real estate. First off, my dad owned multiple investment properties as I was growing up. I used to help him manage the rentals and get them ready for the next tenants. I never thought that I would be in real estate, even though I was raised around real estate. I'm a licensed CPA. I went to college. I did everything I was supposed to do. I got my Master's Degree. I worked with the number one firm in the world. I fell in love with real estate. I had this undeniable urge that I couldn't ignore because one of the top companies I was auditing at PWC was Vector Group. Vector Group is a huge public company that owns Douglas Elliman, which is the brokerage I'm with now.
It was my baby. I was auditing Vector Group with their real estate investments and all their real estate holdings. I fell in love with it because it was a very complex part of the audit. I would see all these people doing so well and making all this money. This sounds cliché and ridiculous, but it's the truth. I would come home at night and I would be working continuously. I would see these people on these TV shows that we all watch. I'd be like, “I don't understand. If this person can do this, why can’t I do it?” That's what pushed me. I became very curious and I couldn't ignore the urge. I tried to push it off and I tried to ignore it and I couldn't. I made the jump and the jump was pretty scary, but I did it.
I want to talk about the jump. Was your whole family and your friends on the same page? What did that look like?
I initially discussed it with my husband first and my husband has always been the only one that's never put me in a box ever. He was all for it. My husband's a GC, so it's a great mixture. He told me if that’s what's going to make me happy, then I should go for it. I also had different visions for my life. Being a public accountant is very demanding. I'm very thankful for the experience that I had and you can never get that anywhere. I was working sometimes eighteen hours a day. I realized that I wanted to work for myself. If I was going to work eighteen hours a day, it was going to be for myself and I wanted to have a family.
I knew with the lifestyle that I was having, there's no way that I was ever going to be able to even know my children if I had time to even make babies with my husband. He was very supportive because he could see that there was something brewing inside me that I wasn't 100% happy. He told me that I can do anything I set my mind to. On the flip side of that, I had a lot of my family try to bulldoze me. Not to put anyone on blast, I'm not going to start calling out specific family members, but those that are supposed to be closest to you tried to knock me down and tell me that I'm crazy flushing my life away. I'm destroying my career. I'm wasting all those years in grad school. I can't believe that you're going to throw away your CPA. It’s the most horrendous thing that you could ever imagine. I had to push through all that, ignore it, keep going, stick to my faith and to what I knew and felt like.
Was there one specific moment in your life where you decided that “I don't care what this person or that person says. There's a knock on the door of my heart and it keeps getting louder. It's not going to go away? This is my moment and I'm going all in?”
Yes, it was September 2014. I woke up in the morning. I got dressed for work, but instead of going to the client that I was auditing, I went straight to the main office at PWC. I let them know what I was feeling that I wanted to take an extended leave. I didn't know if or when I was going to be back. I literally decided that day that was it.
It wasn't a very smooth transition. It was this, then start in that. It was a start and stop. There was a moment where I said, “No,” and put that completely on the back burner and we're going all in. There have been other moves that have been a little bit smoother because I slowly eased into the next thing. That's courageous on another level, in my opinion. Did you ever have a second guess of, “What the hell did I do?”
Yes, naturally. I'm only human. I remember the feeling as I was walking out of that office that day, I was like, “Did I ruin my life?” I'm like, no, because I didn't quit. I told them I'm going to leave. I can always come back if this crap hits the fan. This sounds cliché, but big risk, big reward. I always knew that if it were a mistake, or God forbid, or if I fell on my face, I'm a CPA. I can always go back or I can find another company and go put my CPA skills to use. There's no such thing as a permanently closed door in life.
It's not that I decided that I was throwing away my CPA forever. I'm not going to do anything with it. If this were to fail, I knew that I could always go back if I needed to, but I didn't think that I was going to fail. I didn't. That's why I did it. I still had the safety net of my CPA license and all my experience. I knew I could always go back if I needed to, but I had the gut feeling that I wasn't going to, and I wasn't going to need to.
It's also a mindset of what if, God forbid, something hits the fan, you can always dial back. I'd much rather live with the “oh wells” in life versus the “I wish I would have.” You can always go back in your mind to, “I wish I could have done this,” or “I wish I could have done that.” On my death bed, I want to know that I gave it everything I got and I took the risks. I dove in headfirst and let the chips fall where they may. With that, once you made that clean-cut, what was that first step? What was your game plan? Did you have a coach that helped you? Are you self-motivated that you knew how to do it? Tell me what that season looked like.
Pivot Like A Boss: You do learn from every single flip. Even from the home runs, you learn how you can improve next time.
I have to be honest with you. I knew that I was leaving the job to go into real estate. I knew that the first thing I wanted to do in that real estate arena was to flip houses. I watched all these people on TV. I read all the blogs on the internet. I did some research before I woke up and was like, “Screw this. I'm out of here. I'm leaving my job.” I did research. I thought about it. I prayed about it because I rely a lot on that before I make a decision. That's why I trust my gut feeling so much because I always pray about things before I do them. I knew that we were going to start flipping and I knew my husband was a GC already.
I knew I know some about construction already. I knew I know how to identify the right deals. I know how to do numbers. We started looking for the right house to flip. We ended up finding it pretty quickly. Within that same month that I left, we formed our company. I found the first place that we're going to flip. It was the biggest piece of crap you have ever seen in your life. It was way bigger than maybe I would recommend for anyone to take on for their first flip because we got it for so cheap though. It was bank-owned. We went all-in and this place was a disaster, a complete nightmare.
Once you decided, “This is the house. We're going to do this.” You're the yin and the yang with you and your husband working on this project together. You knew your numbers. Every flip you've ever done, has it been a home run?
No. Thankfully, we haven't lost money. We sold our last project that was a breakeven pretty much. A lot of mistakes were made along the way with that one. You do learn from every single flip. Even from the home runs, you learn, “How can I improve next time? What should we not do next time? What can we do better next time? How can we be more efficient next time?” You have to keep up also with the market, where it's trending and what people are looking for? How you can fill needs that are in the market? What are buyers looking for? With this last property that we did, I don't think we paid enough attention to that. What was the need in that certain market with that house? There were some things lacking and that was not a flop because we didn't lose money, but we didn't make money. It's a flop because I'm not in business to hang out and break even. It was fun but I have to make some money too, but we did learn from that one.
I have learned some valuable lessons. Let me share it with the audience. As a lot of you know, I bought an Airbnb, $500,000 property in the Bradenton area. I got it to the point back in February 2020 where I could get renters in there. I knew there were some other things that needed to be done in order to get it to be that experience. I'm such a woman of excellence that I want to make sure that everything is on point and it's an amazing experience. For lack of a better term, I put a little lipstick on a pig. It's a beautiful property, but still the upstairs and the bathroom, it looked the ‘90s threw up and there were some other things like the flooring had to be taken out.
We needed to revamp. We took out all the vanities and all that stuff. In the beginning, I only did a handful of little things to get it to the point to get renters in there. I wanted to wait until it wasn't high season and I would do the rest of the work. I hired a guy. He didn't do what he said he was going to do, but this other contractor came in and saved the day. We were taking toilets out at 2:00 AM the day before the renters were coming in. It was such a hot mess. We went well. I've turned a significant profit from the day that I bought it, but I knew that “Now, is the time. It's a little bit slower time between now and November 2020. Let's get this done sooner rather than later.” I hired the guy that saved me back in February 2020. Little did I know that this guy, he is not exactly a man of his word. I'm not going to share his name on this show. Maybe I should, but I won’t.
Maybe you should.
Yes, so other people can avoid the crazy. I'm finding that the work ethic in Florida isn't exactly like the work ethic in the Midwest unless good people like your husband. This guy, I paid him 80% upfront for everything because I wasn't going to pay him all of that upfront. He's like, “I need to pay my workers. I need to be able to buy all the materials and all of this.” Weeks go by, he's MIA. I'm like, “Friend, where are you?” He came up with all these BS excuses and to date, I had to hire a whole other crew. We had to cancel two different Airbnb guests. They were thousands of dollars per reservation. Not only was I thousands of dollars in the hole with this guy who was totally MIA, but then we had to get rid of those reservations.
It was such a hot mess. My dad flew in and we worked with a crew and we just got it done. Now, I have renters in there. They moved out. I've learned some valuable lessons. I want to hear from you, Sabina, how do you avoid that crazy? What are your top three things that when someone's doing a flip, I usually don't do something more than $10,000 to $15,000 because I want to stay in my zone of genius and what I know? Share with us how can we avoid this crazy?
That's a loaded question because to your point, there are different types of flips you can do. There's the lipstick on the pig. There are those projects that are astronomical, which is one of the first properties that we did. The one I had mentioned to you. What I would recommend is try not to bite off more than you can chew. What I mean by that is if you're going to take on a huge project, make sure that you have the knowledge behind you to match whoever you're going to hire. For example, if you take on a project that's a complete gut, which by the way, are most of the projects that we do. Most of the houses that we get, I'm like, “I hate it. Take everything out,” literally down to the studs. I'm like, “Everything has to go.”
We get down to the studs. We remove the drywall. We start from scratch. Most of the homes we've done, we leave the shell outside. That's because my husband and I have the knowledge to match these contractors we're working with. If somebody comes and tries to scam me or tells me, “X needs to be done,” and it doesn’t, my husband can step in and be like, “No, because according to my knowledge, it conflicts with what you're saying.” You need to know what you're doing if you're going to take on big projects because otherwise, people will swindle you and then have a ball with you. This is Miami. Unfortunately, I don't want to bash my own city, but people have a different way of being here.
It's like the Wild West almost out here. It's difficult to contain the people that are working for you and not let them get carried away. That's the number one thing I would say. If you're more comfortable with the lipstick on the pig projects and changing cosmetic things like painting, maybe even installing new kitchen cabinets or whatever, things that don't get too involved. I would stick to that until you attain the knowledge to be able to have a free-flowing conversation on these major trades who are working for you. Plumbers can easily tell you something that may or may not be true. If you don't know how to tell the difference, you're up crap’s creek. You are going to be in a lot of trouble so you need that knowledge.
If you don't have it, you can get it little by little. You can start small and you learn as you go. That's number one. Number two, even if you do have all the knowledge and even if you do have established relationships with contractors because after a while, you're going to grow your team. You're going to have a contractor that you like, you're going to have your plumber, your electrician. People are human and at the end of the day, they're looking out, “I got to feed my family,” type of thing. You cannot ever give someone too much money upfront, even if they've been working with you forever. I never give more than 20% upfront to a contractor. If that doesn't work for them, then cool. That's great, but we can't work together.
I never force someone to do something they don't want to do. If they're not comfortable working with me starting at 20% upfront, then it's not the right match. I'm not going to hire you because there must be a reason you want more than 20% upfront. What is it? I'm not going to let them take my money and go float the rest of their business expenses. I'm paying you 20% upfront so you can buy materials to start my job. I pay according to the percentage of completion. For people that don't know, that means 20% upfront to buy the raw materials that you need. When you're halfway done, then I'll give you another 30% and so on. I always reserve 10% for the last payment when it's done. That's the way you need to be. Otherwise, people take advantage of you. They will spot that as a weakness or that you're naive and they'll take advantage of you. You can’t let that happen.
Pivot Like A Boss: Being a flipper does not mean you hire a bunch of people to do things for you, and you come when it's over. You need to be present in your jobs and supervise what's going on.
Sabina, that is invaluable information right there. If I would have chatted with you, I would have saved myself thousands of dollars. Lesson learned and thank you for sharing that. That's so powerful. With you dialing into the flipping game, in that first home, what were some of the most valuable lessons that you learned in flipping that first home?
That's a lot because we learned a lot. This project was very complicated and it took a very long time because we also added square footage to the house. To give you some perspective, it was an old 1940s home in Shenandoah that had small square footage, but it had a great lot. We added almost 500 square feet to that property for the master suite. We made a killing on that property. It was great. What did I learn? I learned to be present on the job site a lot and not to just trust the contractor that he's got everything under control. There were many times that I would pop in on the job and nobody was there. The project took longer than it needed to because they would say they're working and then I would pop in and they weren't.
You need to be present in your job. Being a flipper does not mean you hire a bunch of people to do things for you and you come when it's over. No. You need to be present in your jobs and you need to be supervising what's going on. That's the first thing that I learned. Also, to flip in a location that's convenient for you to be able to do that. If you're going to buy a property that's an hour away from your house, you're not going to go. You need to stick to your area, especially in your first few projects so you can be there. The next thing I learned is about securing your job site and always have having a camera there because we were stolen from at that first job because we didn't have cameras because I was an idiot.
We got cameras after, but we had the brand-new AC unit that we had installed flat out swiped from that property. They broke into the house and took the inside AC unit and they took it from the back too. We had it in a cage and all that secured, but someone went in the middle of the night and cut through the metal and ran off with our AC. That cost us $4,500 that we had to go and pay. Had I had cameras and an alarm already installed, that wouldn't have happened. That's another thing I learned. Doing your numbers to account for lost time because when I had done our original number, I counted for some lost time, but not as much last time as we had, even though this property was a slam dunk. It didn't impact us that much, but you need to have your numbers tight. You need to have an understanding of how long things are going to take and you need to have enough cushion in case things take a lot longer. You're still going to come out positive because that's the goal.
Let's say there's someone that says, “Sabina, I want to dial into the flipping industry. What's my first step?” You'd say start smaller versus bigger to ease your way into it. What would be some other key points that you would make sure that people do their homework or their due diligence to make sure that it's a success at the end of the day?
Do you mean in terms of like how are they going to get their first place?
Yes, like from start to finish? How do they acquire it? How do they even figure out their numbers? How do they know the right contractors? Walk us through that process.
The very first thing is knowing how much capital you have to work with. You need to know what you're going to do to get that capital if you don't have it. Are you going to be paying cash for your flip or are you going to be paying some cash and then borrowing the rest? If you're going to borrow the rest, how are you going to borrow it? Is it a hard money lender or is it a traditional bank? That's step one. You need to know how much capital you have to work with because that's going to dictate the type of property that you take. If you only have a little bit of cash, in Miami, you might be flipping a little condo somewhere. If you have enough cash to flip a single-family home, then you're looking at something completely different.
You need to figure out how much capital you have and how you're going to get the capital if you don't have it. Not just everyone is hanging out with an extra six figures in the bank because they'll flip houses. That's step one. Step two, once you know the cash you have to work with, you have to zero in on how you're going to obtain this property. This might seem counterintuitive or opposite to what a lot of people say, but we have gotten some great deals off the MLS. We have properties that are listed, but I can wear the listing agent out to the point that he wants to sell the property. We've gotten some great deals on the MLS. For inexperienced flippers, first of all, I would recommend get your real estate license.
That way, you don't have that extra cost of commission on the buyer side and on the seller side. Get your real estate license. Pop on the MLS and see what's out there. I would target properties that have been listed forever and aren't moving because timing is everything with these places. Sometimes sellers have to be proven wrong by how long your property sits on the market. You might hit them at the right time. Another clever way is to pop on the MLS and see what's expired. Homes that were listed for sale last year that never sold. Now you can go and contact that owner directly and say, “I've got the cash. Let's make this happen,” because now they don't have to worry about that extra 6% commission that they had to worry about before.
It can be a win-win. That seller can finally sell their place and you can buy it for the price that you need to pay. That's a great strategy that we've employed that's been successful. Obviously, foreclosures are great, especially in Miami because you don't have to physically go to the courthouse anymore. All the bidding is done online. Miami Dade County has a foreclosure calendar and it's public information. You can hop on there and see what's going to be sold. If you have cash, you can buy anything that you see. That's another way. Those are the three easiest ways to find a property. You don't have to get into all these other complicated ways unless those three areas dry out, which in most cases they don't. There's usually plenty available.
That is invaluable information as well because I know I've dialed into in the past of connecting with wholesalers. I've done some wholesaling myself, but even to sidestep the crazy of some of those people.
I don't mess with that. I'm not into that. I haven't seen the value in that. You have no idea how many emails and phone calls and text messages I get from wholesalers all day, every day. They have never put something in front of me that I'm like, “That is such a good deal. I could never have gotten that on my own.” We haven't seen anything too appealing with that. We don't deal with wholesalers.
What I love about what you said is I've got some screaming deals being in the wholesale arena, but I got first pick because I had them coming down the pipeline, but yet you're like, “I'm not about that life.” That's awesome. You figure it out, these are my areas. These are my buckets that I love to play in. You stick with that. There are so many different ways to skin a cat, for lack of a better term. Now what's fun is to see you evolve that you have become such a master in the flipping game. I know one of your goals and one of your dreams was to get on HGTV and have your own flipping show. Now, that is starting to become a reality. Tell me what it felt when the production team followed you around doing your flipping projects. You're like, “My dream is becoming my reality.”
Pivot Like A Boss: If you want to be the boss of your own life, you need to have the fire inside you to fuel your passion.
It was totally crazy and surreal because we did not go seeking out that opportunity. I did not go contacting production companies and submitting casting video. I didn't do any of that. As a matter of fact, I'm telling you right now that if we would have documented all the crap we've been through, you don't understand. If I would've had somebody following me around with a video camera, I could be a freaking big YouTube star by now. I’m probably one of those people that document every move they make. We weren't videotaping anything because I was grinding. I was concerned with, “I need to get this house on after the next one.” Usually, before I'm done with one house, I already know what I want to get. I'm like, “Go.”
I never had time to stop and film what we were doing. I was running on pregnant and our flips with another baby on my hip while I was nine months pregnant, yelling at people. I didn't go looking for this. It literally fell on our lap. It's a long story. When this production company from LA reached out to us and we're like, “We want to fly out to Miami and follow you guys around and see what you're doing.” I was like, “What are you talking about?” They're like, “Will you let us follow you around for a couple of days?” I'm like, “I guess, but don't get in my way or anything,” and it was fun. They came down from LA. They followed us around for two straight days.
From 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night, me and my husband and our little girl at the time, she was one or something and they videotaped everything that we did for those two days. It was surreal at first and I was nervous, but then it felt natural. That was fun. They're like, “I don't know if anything's going to come of this, but if it does, we'll let you know.” I don't know, 6 to 9 months went by and then all of a sudden, they call us and they're like, “There are two major networks that are interested in you guys.” I'm like, “What are you talking about? From that thing that we did? I thought nothing happened.” They're like, “Yes.” It was HGTV and another major network.
They're like, “HGTV loves you, guys. They want to shoot a pilot.” I'm like, “What's that?” They're like, “It's the first introductory episode of possibly a series. They're going to pay to shoot a pilot. That's probably going to be on TV.” I was like, “What? What are you talking about?” It felt crazy, but exciting because it was a dream come true all of a sudden. You would never imagine that you're going to be on HGTV one day. I was running around all over Miami with my husband and my kid trying to make it happen. It was cool. Shooting the pilot was fun. It was an experience that I can't even describe.
Had you envisioned that in your mind before it had happened? Do you feel like you manifested that or where you had it in the back of your mind and you thought, “That'd be fun,” but didn't pursue it and it is what it is?
No, I have to be honest with you. I'm a big believer in manifesting and energy and envisioning things before they happen and positive self-talk. I'm huge with that. I'm being honest with you. I did not envision any of this. It was like, “That would be great,” in my mind, but we were not moving forward envisioning, “We have to keep going because what if one day we ended up on HGTV?” No, we didn't take any steps to purposely go in that direction. We were approached out of nowhere and I was like, “This is awesome.” Of course, you’d say yes. What kind of buffoon is going to say no to that? We rode with it and it was amazing.
Now, I'm manifesting the heck out of this thing. I'm manifesting the green-lighting and the series. I'm envisioning all of that but no, we were working and trying to make it happen and doing our thing. It was never with the intention of we're doing this because we want to get on HGTV. If you think about it, if you put it into perspective, so many people are flipping, designing, and investing and the odds that you get your own TV show on HGTV are slim. I wasn't doing that with that in mind in the beginning.
What is fun about that is you were faithful with what God put in your hand for such a time. God aligns the stars, in my opinion. I've seen that time and time again in my own life of I'm running my race. I'm not looking to the left. I'm not looking to the right. I'm doing my thing and those massive doors open up because you're in the alignment of where you're being called to.
That's 100% true because I'm telling you, the urge to make the shift was undeniable. As I had mentioned, I prayed about it before. If I'm praying about something and I have this urge, I know for sure that it's God talking to me and I felt we were aligned with what we were supposed to be doing. It felt right. That's why this opportunity happened because I feel like we were doing what we were supposed to be doing.
You'll have to keep me in the loop on that. I'm homestretch on a handful of questions and then I want you at the end here to share all your handles because we all want to be watching your journey and watch you light up the screen on HGTV. If someone met you and said, “Sabina, I want to become the boss of my own life and call the shots. What's my first step?”
The first step I would say is to identify your passion and what you're passionate about. I know this is said a lot, but I swear it's not BS. What's your passion and what's your why? Why do you want to be the boss of your own life, first of all? What are you doing now that's not working for you and what are you passionate about? What do you genuinely love? You can't fake it. If you want to be the boss of your own life and you want to open up some random business and you're not even passionate about it, I don't think it's going to end up working in the long run because there's no fire behind it. You need to have the fire inside you to fuel what you're driving to.
For me, I became passionate about real estate and design because I love real estate and design. My why that I didn't want to be working for someone else is because I wanted to see my husband because I never see him and I wanted to raise a family. I wanted to have the freedom and do what I wanted to do and take my daughter whenever I felt taking her on vacation or spending extra time with my family, taking a few days off to be with my kids if I wanted to. I know that I wanted to create a family and I wasn't going to be able to do that where I was. You need to identify what your passion is about and why you want to be your own boss. A lot of people think, “I'm my own boss. I can do whatever,” but you need to make sure that you understand why and what goes with that. You are held super accountable every day for your actions or for your lack of action. It's a different ball game completely. That's the first step.
What is your personal definition of a boss?
My personal definition of a boss is someone that knows what they want, that doesn't stop at anything to get there, with the exception of hurting people and all that. I'm not into that. I don't bring others down so I can get up. I don't mean trampling over people, but don't stop at anything to get where you're going. Be a good leader and inspire people so they want to learn from you. They want to be around you. They want to be on your team. That'll only elevate you even further. If you are inspiring and you have a good team around you that wants to work with you, then you're naturally a boss. You're a badass. If you know what you want, you have a fire inside. You inspire people around you and they want to elevate you and you in turn elevate them. At the end of the day, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself and God. That's what a boss is.
Pivot Like A Boss: When you’re the boss, you are held super accountable every day for your actions or your lack of action.
Do you have any last words of wisdom?
Don't ever let anyone mess with your dreams ever. If you feel that you want to do something and you're being called to do something and you want to make the change and there are people projecting their own personal fears of failure on you, ignore it and don't ever allow it.
Sabina, thank you so much for being a part of this show. I am cheering you on all the way. I know so many of my readers are going to want to start dialing in, following you and being able to learn from you. I would love for you to share all your handles.
Thank you. I have two. Instagram, it’s the easiest place to find me because on Instagram you can find all my other things. My website link is there, my email and my phone number. My first Instagram, because I'm also an agent and I sell mostly luxury real estate. It's @SabinaDinescu. My other Instagram that's my personal page and also geared more towards flipping, design and what we're doing, the handle's going to change soon because we're rebranding. Right now, it's @Sabina128. There you can find pictures of our flipping adventure, my design tips, design inspiration and DIY projects that I do. There's a picture of me inside a septic tank somewhere in there. You can hit me up on that page.
Thank you so much for your time. For all of you bosses out there, my challenge to you like it is every time I do an episode is for you to fire your fear, build your faith and become the boss of your own life. Let's get after it, make an impact, money along the way and change people's lives. Go, team. Thanks, Sabina.
Thank you.
Important Links:
@SabinaDinescu – Instagram
@Sabina128 - Instagram
About Sabrina Dinescu
A native of Pinecrest, Sabina has extensive knowledge of the South Florida luxury market, and she is well known in the Pinecrest community as a local specialist. Her success in this market is a result of her multi-faceted marketing campaigns, utilizing a brilliant blend of avenues.
Buying or selling with the Dinescu Group is effortless, as they go above and beyond and are always one step ahead of the process. Always putting the client first, Sabina believes in open communication and is available to her clients whenever they need a question answered or a problem addressed. As a licensed CPA, Sabina is also an expert in financial counseling on the sale and purchase of luxury and investment properties. She offers timely and relevant market information, while identifying emerging trends and worthy investments. Because of her financial expertise, many consider her to be their real estate Advisor and seek her counsel for all real estate related transactions.
Sabina is known to exceed client expectations through robust business expertise, supreme market knowledge, attention to detail, expert financial guidance, and razor-sharp negotiating skills. With a full-service real estate approach and access to a growing network that spans the globe, the Dinescu Group excels in client representation that focuses on responsiveness and a well-rounded knowledge base that leads to the best outcome for each client. Sabina's international resources further empower her clients, utilizing a larger buyer pool to secure the highest possible sales prices.