For attorneys
Matrimonial, trusts and estates, elder law, guardianship. I’m a licensed New York real estate broker on the OCA Part 36 fiduciary list, and I’m used to working files where the record matters as much as the result.
Reports go to all counsel simultaneously. I don’t have side conversations with one party in a two-party matter. Where I’m engaged as a neutral, the engagement letter says so and states what I’m paid and by whom. Where a matter is court-facing, I waive the listing in writing before I produce a number.
I write my files knowing a judge may read them. Condition documented photographically, showing history logged, offers and feedback recorded in writing. If your client’s conduct as a fiduciary is ever questioned, the record already exists.
I don’t pay for referrals and I don’t accept them. No fee splits, no percentages, no marketing subsidies, no paying for anything you’d otherwise buy. Your professional conduct rules foreclose it, RESPA reaches it on residential transactions, and New York’s license law makes paying an unlicensed referrer a misdemeanor. If we work together it will be because the work is good, and referrals will run in whatever direction each client’s interest points.
What I’m glad to do: present at a CLE alongside you, speak at a client seminar, or write the plain-English explainer your clients keep asking you for. That’s education, not consideration, and everybody stays clean.
Divorce, seniors, brokerage-management and negotiation credentials earned through the Ilumni Institute, RRC, REBAC and NAR — see About.
I am not a New York State certified or licensed appraiser. New York’s appraiser statute is a title act — Executive Law § 160-b(2) expressly permits appraising for compensation without that license — but the terminology is restricted and I observe it. What that buys you is a valuation that weighs current market conditions, not only closed sales; whether that suits your purpose is your judgment, and I’ll tell you where I think it doesn’t.
Where a sale needs approval, that step should shape the marketing plan from the beginning. Discovering it after you have a buyer is how deals fall apart.
Someone is living there and nobody established on what basis. It needs to be determined before marketing, not at contract.
Whether remediation earns more than it costs is answerable in dollars. I’ll answer it in writing so your client’s choice is documented.
Clients hear a price and assume a date. Realistic exposure time, stated up front and in writing, prevents most of the later friction.
A short explainer I recorded for divorce professionals.
What I do for you as a divorce real estate expert
Two of the testimonials on my public profile are from counsel.
Diallo is one of the most organized, efficient, hard working realtors I’ve encountered in my career in Real Estate Law. We have working together on countless closings, and I have NEVER had a regret recommending him to client, and have continuously marveled at how thoughtful and professional an individual Diallo is.
Diallo is an excellent realtor who consistently provides phenomenal service to my clients and to me. He is efficient, dedicated, and a pleasure to deal with.
Call and describe the matter. If a broker isn’t what you need, I’ll say so and it will have cost you a phone call. I’d like to be the person you think of when a matter has a house in it.
