Southern California Industrial Real Estate Blog

 With more than $100,000,000 in listed inventory, Jodi Summers, founder of The SoCal Investment Real Estate Group, has expertise in the coastal investment real estate market. A top producer with Sotheby’s International Realty, Jodi and her team know finance, rules, regulations, procedures and methods. We are accurate, knowledgeable, timely and aware of how government shapes the cities of Southern California.

Jodi is born in Brooklyn, raised in and around Manhattan – the family business was marketing, Madison Avenue style. Childhood math quiz questions calculated demographic and psychographic percentages or analyzed the allocation of adverting dollars. Word games were for devising slogans.

An honors graduate from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, Jodi moved to California to achieve her goal of living by the beach with a palm tree and a hibiscus bush in her yard.

She thrived as an entrepreneur in the entertainment, media and marketing industries. She has three books in publication with Allworth Press - The Interactive Music Handbook, Making and Marketing Music and Moving Up In the Music Business. Making and Marketing Music is in second edition. Check out her work on Amazon.com.

That was a great time, but as Kiss bass player Gene Simmons says, “If it’s too loud, you’re too old.”

As buying her home was the best investment she ever made, Jodi moved into real estate.

 “My marketing and communication skills have proven to be a true gift when it comes to promoting real estate,” observes Jodi. “And I am consistently able to get an exceptionally high price per square foot for my sellers.”

Discipline (Jodi holds a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do), organization, motivation, excellent  communication skills and knowing & satisfying the needs of her clients have been her  essentials for running a successful business.  A passion for investment real estate explains her emphasis in asset-yielding properties.

 Jodi is a member of the National Association of Realtors, Beverly Hills + Greater West Side Association of Realtors, Action Apartment Association of Westside income property owners, the Santa Monica Conservancy historic preservation society, The Ocean Park Association, the Friends of Sunset Park community group, the Real Estate Investors Club L.A., the American Solar Energy Society, Sierra Club, California Parks Association and the Culver City Rock & Mineral Club. She is currently in training for her CCIM + SIOR certifications. Members of her team are fluent in Spanish, French, Farsi and Italian