Derrick Diazoni
NMLS #2516337
Your mortgage matchmaker with a decade of experience in real estate.
I was born and raised in the Bay Area of California. For college, I moved to SoCal to attend the University of California, Irvine, where I majored in Dance. I later moved abroad to earn my Master's in Musical Theatre at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England. For the better part of a decade, while studying or on leave, I worked for the Walt Disney Company as a performer in their theme parks and on tours all around the world. I also spent a couple of years between college and grad school living in Nevada, where I danced nightly on the Vegas Strip.
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After grad school I moved to New York City, where I have lived for just over a decade now. I worked as a licensed real estate salesperson for most of that time, selling luxury apartments in Manhattan's newest residential skyscrapers. During the pandemic, I branched out on my own with my first investment property and small business venture: Storybook Suites, a vacation rental property in Davenport, Florida, less than 10 miles from Walt Disney World.
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After the pandemic and the success of Storybook Suites, I vowed to work only for myself from then on. The financial side of real estate always fascinated me, and—believe it or not—even as a dancer my best subject in school was always math. I really just love to solve problems and crunch numbers. I studied for my mortgage license in 2023 and joined NEXA Mortgage at the beginning of 2024. I joined NEXA's branch in Wayne, New Jersey, and am actually in the process of moving to the neighboring town of Montclair.
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Though I will soon be a New Jersey resident, you will still find me in NYC most weekends, either seeing a Broadway show or hanging with friends in the West Village somewhere near the Stonewall Inn. If you're lucky, you might even catch me singing a song or two at one of my favorite piano bars. I also love to travel, so if I'm not in the tristate area then I'm probably abroad, or I'm visiting friends and family in California, Florida, Nevada, or any of the 11 states where I hold an active mortgage license.
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