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Hi Al — found you through Lee & Associates NSDC: Broker of the Year, 500 Most Influential, 25 years on land and retail investment. That's a serious North County run. Reaching out operator to operator, not as a pitch. I made you a page: https://www.sideguysolutions.com/shareables/lee-associates-carlsbad.html — short version, I run SideGuy, an operator and tech layer for North County businesses, and there's a free hour of local-SEO and tech help in there for the Lee & Associates Carlsbad office. No catch, no lock-in. Text me at 858-461-8054.
From SideGuy · Encinitas

A note for Lee & Associates, Carlsbad.

Al — no pitch, no Calendly link. Operator to operator, North County to North County.

Found you the honest way — the record:

Al Apuzzo · President / Managing Principal, Lee & Associates NSDC — San Diego Business Journal Broker of the Year, 500 Most Influential People in San Diego, ~25 years on land and retail investment. Matt Weaver and the Carlsbad office right alongside. That's not a directory listing — that's North County's commercial brokerage.

Which is exactly why I'm writing. I run SideGuy out of Encinitas — a one-operator-plus-AI "side guy," the tech and operator layer for North County businesses. And I'd bet you'll get the pitch faster than most people, because it's your own language.

You broker leases. You know lock-in.

SideGuy is the month-to-month layer

You spend your days on the difference between a flexible deal and a 10-year lock-in. Software is the same trade — most agencies and SaaS vendors want the long lease. SideGuy is the opposite: the operator layer that runs month-to-month, no contract, the trusted side guy who stays because the work is good, not because you're trapped. Same instinct you sell your own clients.

A brokerage runs on tech now

Listings, local search ("commercial real estate Carlsbad"), follow-up, the website, the tools that quietly leak hours — that's all operator-layer work. It's the kind of operator tech help SideGuy does every day, and it already runs right in Carlsbad. You can see what it shipped today — live, not slides.

The gift — free, no strings.

One free operator hour

Point it anywhere the Carlsbad office wants: an honest local-SEO check on how Lee & Associates and its listings show up in North County search, a second opinion on a tech tool or quote, tidying the follow-up flow. It's the same operator-honest layer SideGuy runs for every business — one hour, real work, yours, whether or not anything else comes of it.

→ Text PJ to claim the hour

Anything to be accomplished?

That's the whole ask. If an hour of operator help fits the Carlsbad office — or Matt's side of the business — let me know. If not, no harm, and the hour still stands. One text, no meeting.

— PJ, SideGuy Solutions · Encinitas, CA
858-461-8054 · operator-honest, async-by-default

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