Florida is my licence. Woodbridge is a referral.

Read this part before the rest

After the introduction I am not in your transaction. I do not supervise the agent, I do not see your contract, and I have no authority to intervene when something goes wrong — that authority belongs to their broker and to the body that licenses agents in New Jersey. What I do keep is the telephone. If something reads badly three weeks in, tell me. I would far rather make an awkward call to another brokerage than find out at closing that the introduction was the wrong one.

What actually happens next

What this page is not offering

I will not tell you what to offer or what to ask in Woodbridge. Pricing is the advisory half of brokerage, it rests on evidence I have no proper access to, and giving it where I hold no licence would be the precise thing this page says I do not do. When you want that answer, take it from the licensee I introduce you to, in writing, with the comparable properties attached to it.

Before you go: the structural differences

• Real estate licensing is state by state. An agent licensed in Florida cannot represent you in New Jersey, and a New Jersey licensee cannot represent you in Florida.
• Leaving Florida means picking up a state income tax in New Jersey. Model it against the housing number before you settle on a price range, and take the actual arithmetic to a tax adviser rather than to any real estate agent, including me.
• Expect an attorney at the closing table in New Jersey. Florida closings typically run through a title company instead, so the cast of characters, the fee structure and the sequence of the last two weeks will all look unfamiliar.
• Like Florida, New Jersey has coastal exposure and a named-storm deductible regime in its property insurance market. The mechanism will feel familiar; the numbers will not necessarily.
• Neither the homestead exemption nor the Save Our Homes cap travels with you out of Florida. New Jersey sets its own assessment rules, its own exemptions and its own limit on how fast a bill can rise — confirm the specifics with the local taxing authority rather than assuming a Florida analogue exists.

What I can do directly, without an introduction

There is a version of this where I am not a referral at all. If the property you are leaving is in Florida, I can list and sell it as your agent under The Keyes Company — that half is squarely my licence — while the Woodbridge side goes to the licensee I introduce you to. Say so early, because the two timelines have to be planned against each other.

The questions that tell you who you are dealing with

• How are deposits handled in New Jersey — who holds the money, what amount is customary, and at what point does it stop being refundable? Get that answer before you write the cheque rather than after.
• What goes into an offer here besides the price, and what do sellers in New Jersey expect to see attached to it? Local custom on this varies more than people moving between states tend to assume.
• If I am buying before I have seen the property in person, what will you do on my behalf and what will you refuse to do? A clear answer to the second half of that question is worth more than the first.
• When an inspection turns something up, what is the local practice — a price reduction, a credit at closing, or the seller arranging the work — and who conducts that negotiation on my behalf?

Other cities in New Jersey

• Union City
• New Brunswick
• Princeton
• Elizabeth
• Passaic
• Howell
• Cherry Hill
• Paterson
• All of New Jersey