How to Win at the Game of Real Estate: The Agent Playbook
Coming winter 2026The systems behind a career built on referrals instead of cold calls, including how agents can use AI as a working tool.
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I lead from inside the work.
I started as a new agent at Rapid Realty. Within two years I was a broker running five franchise offices, and the company's CEO gave me the region to develop. When a venture group set out to acquire the company in 2016, they asked me to step in as CEO, and I wrote the post-acquisition business plan.
For the last nine years I've led Love First Realty, a New York brokerage focused on off-market, estate and investor transactions. I've turned an heirship acquisition pipeline that lived in scattered notes into a tracked workflow, and was brought to Athens to apply that expertise in a foreign market.
My pattern is the same wherever I go: understand where the company wants to be, decide what has to change to get there, and put the right people, process and tools in place to make it happen.
Financial
Margin, cost and capital decisions tied to measurable results.
Operational
Workflows redesigned so the work moves faster and anyone can pick it up.
People
Teams brought along, trained and trusted to work alongside AI.
How I lead
The AI-native operating model
Most companies are spending on AI faster than they are changing how they work. I help close that gap with five pillars, worked together from day one.
- Strategy and value. Every AI initiative tied to a P&L line and a business owner.
- Data foundation. One trusted source for the data decisions depend on.
- Workflow redesign. Work rebuilt around the AI step, with clear human checkpoints.
- People and capability. Training, champions and roles designed in the open.
- Governance and trust. Risk tiers, decision rights and reporting a board can rely on.
Proof of concept
Acquisition Radar™
I designed Acquisition Radar to show what a small team can do with public data and AI when the objective is clear.
- Scores 138,478 Brooklyn and Queens properties from NYC public records against an investor's strategy.
- Flags estate-owned, trust-held and under-built properties that rarely reach the open market.
- Drafts a first-pass acquisition memo with AI, reviewed by a licensed professional before anything is shared.
Owner names are masked. Values are screening figures, not appraisals, and every signal is verified at the source.
Books
Written from the deals, not the textbook.
BEST SELLING
OPTIONS
in a
DIVORCE
How to sell the shared home with clarity, fairness and less conflict
SUMMER ALLSOP
LICENSED NYS REAL ESTATE BROKER
Best Selling Options in a Divorce
In progressHow to sell a shared home during a divorce, including the hard cases: a spouse who won't cooperate and a court-appointed receiver.
Join the waitlistSpeaking
Topics I speak on
For podcasts, panels and leadership events in real estate, proptech and operations.
AI spending is ahead of results. Here's how to close the gap.
Why most AI investments stall, and the operating changes that make them pay off.
The off-market playbook
Finding estate and heirship properties with public data, and the human work that closes them.
From founder to operator
What 14 years of running my own business taught me about leading inside someone else's.
Formats: podcast interviews, panels, keynotes and workshops. Request a speaker sheet
Work with me
Where to find the rest of my work
Consulting engagements, real estate services, and a real estate accelerator for agents, now taking waitlist names.
ConsultingSsummer ConsultingStrategy, operations and grant development engagements.ssummerconsulting.com
Real estateLove First RealtyBuying, selling and investing in New York.lovefirstrealty.com
EducationReal Estate AcceleratorA program for agents and brokers built on the P.O.W.E.R. framework.Join the waitlist