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Beyond Stereotypes: Property Insights with James Gunther
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The Fun Side Of Business - The Extra Slice
Exclusive access to premium content!Have you ever wondered if there are estate agents out there who break the mold of slick-talking, commission-hungry stereotypes? Our conversation with James Gunther, partner at Fenwright estate agency, proves they exist—and they're worth their weight in gold.
We explore James' journey from being rejected for a position at Fenwright to eventually becoming a partner there—a testament to resilience and staying true to oneself.
Listen now to discover why genuine relationships matter more than quick sales, not just in real estate but in all aspects of life. And if you enjoyed this refreshing conversation about breaking stereotypes and authentic success, please subscribe and share with someone who values genuine connections.
Good morning everyone. Welcome to the Extra Slice. Hang on, we know the order these are going in.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:They might not know about Extra Slice. The late ones might not be. This is, yeah, the choice of editing in chronology.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you haven't picked up on it. So this is the extra part of the show where me and Nick talk about the guests we've just seen part of the show where me and nick talk about the guests we've just seen and, through all my wisdom, I come out one day and was like, oh, let's call it the extra slice, slice, slice. And it stuck. So no, I don't know if you're hearing it, where it wasn't the extra slice or now it is the extra slice, slice, but this is the extra part for the show where we talk about the guests we just had yes slice okay, so who have we just had?
Speaker 1:it's so difficult to keep any kind of straight face where everything you keep saying just keeps getting jimmy gunther oh, james gunther what okay, I'm not gonna say he's lovely, because apparently I say that about everyone. You do.
Speaker 2:Fucking awesome All right.
Speaker 1:Can I say that Awesome, you just did Awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2:Awesome.
Speaker 1:Is it because he was thinking about selling you a £700,000 house for £200,000?
Speaker 2:£200,000. He was not even considering, he didn't even blink.
Speaker 1:Well, guess what?
Speaker 2:If you don't, what if?
Speaker 1:you don't ask, you don't get. No, just a genuine, genuine guy. See, this was the thing, I don't. Yeah, he's one of those people where, again, ego's left at the door yeah, I think the problem that, not the problem.
Speaker 1:I've got the wrong word, but I always see estate agents a bit cocky, annoying to all the same and because he's, and because he estate agents a bit cocky, annoying, and because he's got a bit of an Essex about him as well, it sounds even more like he should be a bit of a wide boy, don't you?
Speaker 2:But he's just not. He breaks all of that, and that's what I love. I love someone who breaks all stereotypes, and he does that.
Speaker 1:But the nice part is that I think he probably meets that middle ground. So if you think about like a partner at an estate agency, I'd treat them similar to the way you'd kind of assume that stereotypical partner at a law firm yeah. Where it's very prim and proper and you know this must be like this. And yet you think estate agent, you know someone going out and selling stuff. You kind of think of them as like a step up from a car dealer.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know that Jack the Lad Exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But what he actually does is he brings the two together and he loses all of the negativity of that kind of car dealer. Wide boy Jack the Lad, yeah, but has that approachability that you wouldn't get with that stereotypical partner of an estate agency.
Speaker 2:Well, his focus, what I've really picked up on that because obviously we know James both personally, outside of work.
Speaker 1:I've got very drunk with him before.
Speaker 2:And well, he didn't talk about that story, did he?
Speaker 1:No, he didn't talk about the one where yeah.
Speaker 2:But I forgot where I was going with that. Now, Nick.
Speaker 1:What was I going to say? Who?
Speaker 2:knows. Oh, this is what I was going to say. Um, he really prides himself on the customer relationship yes not just let's get this sale, let's, let's, let's get these people in the house, let's get these people out the house. It's more so. I've dealt with this family. I want them to trust me. I want them to use me again.
Speaker 1:It's building relationships, yeah which, which was so apparent, you know, when we met him um, and yeah, I think I don't know. I think every single time I meet him, I find a different element to him that I never expect to see yeah and, but it's always a positive something yeah you know and I can't.
Speaker 1:As you know, there's times where I go. Do you know what I want to dislike him for being an estate agent? Because I mean not being funny. There's hang on a second. I can count on one hand, in fact. Here we go. Let's go one step further. Let me just make sure how many people I'm going to offend with this. I can count on one finger estate agents. I like oh and yeah, unfortunately we couldn't get them because we've got james. But no, james is one that, he's just one of those.
Speaker 2:I love the fact he went for the interview at fenwright initially. Is that right, and then he didn't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, yeah so he went for his job at fenwright and not even the job he's got now, because obviously now his partner he didn't interview for that yeah so he went for a job at Fenwright's, who decided he wasn't good enough, gave the job to someone else and then obviously noticed the error of their ways right, yeah, that's hilarious, and how good is it that you know what he's doing and, and you know, you can definitely see the future of Fenwright's is in safe hands there, right oh, absolutely you know, absolutely you know he's going to be a stable part of that business for years to come.
Speaker 1:Yeah great company and what a guy to have on your side, great guy, great company, yeah, very, very good. And I'm going to get drunk with him next month.
Speaker 2:Are you really Hang?
Speaker 1:on next month. Yeah, it is next month.
Speaker 2:Maybe you should do a little recording while you're with him.
Speaker 1:Maybe we will do, Maybe we'll do the extra extra slice.
Speaker 2:Maybe send it to me first, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when we're going out to Essex to. Yeah, maybe go and have one or two beverages.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And yeah, so yeah, we'll do the extra extra, extra slice, and then we can tag it onto the end of this. Okay, come on then, gem.
Speaker 2:So we're down to the game of scoring that some guests.
Speaker 1:We score some guests we don't. Oh right, okay, yeah, but I'm gonna get you to score him well out of 10, james, I mean I mean, we could go out of five stars and then no one could ever work out how they ranked against anyone else, because we'll just have a different system so we do this one as five stars then we could do, or we could do like would you would you class him in bronze silver, gold or platinum category?
Speaker 1:oh, and then category. And then literally no one could compare each other because they'd just keep creating different scales.
Speaker 2:Okay, so what are we doing? This one as.
Speaker 1:Out of 50. Out of 50? Yeah, why not 49. Would you score a 49 out of 50?
Speaker 2:45.
Speaker 1:That is a high score.
Speaker 2:And do you know why he dropped a few points? Okay, do you know why.
Speaker 1:So he would have been 50.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But he didn't give you the cheap house.
Speaker 2:He wouldn't give me my 700,000 house.
Speaker 1:Maybe you should have upped the offer or something and said I'll stretch to 300 or something.
Speaker 2:I offered to stretch to 250.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, that's fair. He should have come down a bit, right. He should have. What he should have done is said. There was no negotiating the house is at 700,000, right, I'll give you 200. I can't take that. I'll go to 250. He should have at least come to 500 or something right.
Speaker 2:Or 400 or 300. He's lost out, it's fine. Yeah, it's his loss.
Speaker 1:I'm not sad about it at all and yet there he is doing the right thing for his customers exactly. So that's my 45 there we go and we dispelled the myth as well that estate agents will just go and take any deal to get a commission yeah, that's false, they're false yeah, could have had a commission on that, but false.
Speaker 2:No, he held firm and yeah there was no deal and laughed at me and laughed at you a lot, yeah but yeah, um, what a great guy. What are you? What are you scoring him out of 50?
Speaker 1:Well, hang on, I've got to go drinking with him. When do you reckon he's going to listen to this? Is he going to listen to this before or after I go out with him?
Speaker 2:Before. Okay, I'm going to send it to him this afternoon 46.
Speaker 1:You think he definitely has been one of my favorite guests yeah but I don't know whether he's been one of my favorite guests because he's been amazing on the podcast, or whether he's one of my favorite guests because he's one of my favorite people.
Speaker 2:He's just genuinely to just hang around with yeah, because yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1:However, he comes across on the podcast, not going to change well, this is exactly that.
Speaker 2:Whatever, however, he comes across in business or in the podcast, or if you met him in person or go to the pub or he's the same person he's the same person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that yeah, and that's the thing. And you know, having, you know, been to his house, which you could offer him 200 000 for that, he wouldn't even have to be acting as a client. I'm just kidding, just just say, well, it's no client I might just give him an envelope of money and say can you just, can I, can I just have your house. You definitely want his house, by the way. Um, if it helps, in his house he has a bar I love how you're trying to sell his house.
Speaker 2:He might not even be trying to sell his house he's not so you just want me to give him 200 grand to get his house.
Speaker 1:Trust me, jem, even if he says he wants to go to 300, I'll put in the other 100 for him, trust me. But yeah, so really, really, really, really nice guy and one of those rare people that I can say is an honour to call a friend.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's, and you don't normally. I'm not normally quite soppy about people. You don't normally get stuff like that, no, but, yeah, genuinely good guy.
Speaker 1:He's one of those people that would be there for you. You know that 2am call.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Who was it? Who was talking about that, james, james.
Speaker 2:Roper.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when James spoke about it.
Speaker 2:you know if you can count on that. Your close friend's on my hand, yeah.
Speaker 1:You can count those people that would pick up the phone if you rang them at two in the morning. I reckon James would be one of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Good, good guy. That's why he scores 46. But you only scored him 45, just for the point. And that puts him to the top of the out of 100 lead award.
Speaker 2:With a score of 91 out of like 18 or something, and then we'll do stars stars how many.
Speaker 1:Do you know what? We should score them. We should go bang on theme. This might be the inspirational moment where we change it right on a 12 slice pizza. How? Many slices and you can only score the thing by going how many slices you want to get I love that, or we can have a big cake.
Speaker 2:How many slices would you cut?
Speaker 1:no, because, because it started as pizza slice don't?
Speaker 1:you started as pizza well, you started as a slice. I just added pizza, so yeah, anyway. So yeah, james gunther, 91 out of 100 subscribers. Thank you so much for listening. Right now, if you're considering I don't really understand why I'm paying for this I might be in agreement with you. I guess what if you could go along and have a little bit of a smile on your way to work? This is what we're here to do. So, guys, thank you so much for listening, thank you so much for subscribing and yeah, we'll see. We'll catch you at the next one.
