From a trailer park in Newfoundland and Labrador to buying properties and land across Canada, to even buying and selling homes in the United States, Shaun Majumder, Canadian actor and comedian, has lived all over North America—in many types of homes. His life journey can be mapped through real estates, with emotional memories attached to every move.
On this episode of REAL TIME, Majumder joins us to share his first memory of home, how his different moves helped shape his journey and experiences, and how finding the right REALTOR® was more about than just who was the most knowledgeable—it was about who was the best fit.
Majumder starts off by painting a picture of the first homes he can remember. Notably, spending pivotal moments of his childhood in rural Newfoundland and Labrador in a town with 350 people, and a family with no money. While they were not rich in material objects, they had a home that he remembers fondly.
“It was like a tin box. It was the safe space for me. It held off crazy Newfoundland winter storms. It was a place of love and warmth and safety and security. At least that was from my perspective growing up,” he says, continuing with the humorous addition, “now if you look at it now, dude, it was a health hazard.”
After Newfoundland and Labrador, Majumder found himself living in the bustling Greater Toronto Area, starting in Mississauga. As a child, he remembers his impression of his new home. “This new place that I live now with people of all these different ethnicities, which was amazing to me, it blew me away. Now I was in this multicultural, rich, diverse, Jamaican, Trinidad, India, Asian culture, everything was there mashed up, which was a far cry from where I was before, in small town, white Newfoundland,” he says.
Being a great listener is one of the most important things and I’m going through it right now. I just had that experience that it made me feel really comfortable with this REALTOR® who listened to where we were at, what we wanted to get from our house. He was also very grounded and practical at the same time. – Shaun Majumder
Spending his young adult years in the Toronto area and experiencing success on Canadian television, he then made the move to Los Angeles, United States to grow his budding comedy and acting career. It’s in Los Angeles that he first started thinking about purchasing property after meeting his now wife, Shelby.
“When I saw the price of a house, I was like, ‘I can’t buy that.’ You don’t buy that. You get a loan, and you understand leveraging value and understanding your interest rates and monthly payments. I did not know any of this stuff,” he says.
After telling the story of how he bought his current house in Los Angeles, their second property in the city, he goes on to discuss the relationships he’s had with REALTORS®. “A person who is authentic, a person who is a great listener, I think a person who is a great no BS kind of a person too, ” he says. “I find that, in both the acting agent world and the real estate agent world, the grounded, practical, but also forward-thinking strategic REALTORS®, they’re the ones that I’ve always responded well to.”
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