Slava Ploshkin is a Los Angeles and Long Beach real estate agent, founder of The Slava House brand, with a combined social media audience of 10 million followers. He works with broker Joe Goodman (more than 25 years of California real estate experience). Slava Ploshkin, REALTOR® with Hayden & Bach. Joe Goodman is the broker. Russian available.
Русский · English — Los Angeles, Long Beach & Orange County
Buying or selling a home is stressful enough in your first language. Slava Ploshkin runs the whole deal in Russian or English — video tours from anywhere in the world, every document explained until it is actually clear, and broker Joe Goodman's 25+ years of California contracts behind every step.
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Slava landed in America at twenty without a word of English — and drove the language to full fluency while building an audience of 10 million as a creator. Then he studied California real estate in that second language and passed the state exam on the first try.
So when a family in Moscow, Dubai or Berlin asks whether a deal can really be run from abroad — he does not answer from a brochure. Ocean, time zones, documents in a language that is not yours yet: that is his own biography, turned into a process.
And behind every offer stands Joe Goodman — the broker with 25+ years of California deals, through 2008, the pandemic and every market in between. You speak whichever language you think in. The two of them speak the deal's.
California contracts stay in English — your understanding of them should not suffer for it. We go through each page together, in Russian, until the numbers and the risks are truly clear. No signature lands on a half-understood page.
Live video walkthroughs of every home, honest commentary included — the creaky floor and the loud street make it into the video, not just the ocean view. Decide confidently before you ever book a flight.
No fifty «just checking in» texts, no pressure scripts in any language. Systems watch the market; we call only when there is something worth a call. If now is the wrong time to buy — you will hear that too.
I was nervous at first because Slava is young, and buying a house in LA isn't something I wanted to take lightly. But I gave him a chance, and I'm glad I did. It was way more comfortable than I expected, and Joe Goodman helped too. These guys know what they're doing.
I liked that Slava didn't pretend every home was perfect. Sometimes he'd point out something uncomfortable we hadn't noticed. At first it was surprising, but then I realized that's exactly what I want from an agent.
No. Russian and English are the same service at the same terms — the language is simply whichever one your family thinks in. Documents get explained in the language you actually absorb numbers in, and negotiations happen in whichever language wins you the better outcome.
Yes. Slava made this exact move himself — ocean, time zones, documents in a second language — so the process you get is lived, not theoretical: live video tours of every home, remote review of each document, coordinated signings, and a deal tracked across time zones so you can commit with confidence before you land.
That is exactly the job. Every California purchase document stays in English legally — but you go through each one with us line by line, in Russian, until the numbers and the risks are actually clear. No signature happens on a page you only half-understood. And broker Joe Goodman's 25+ years of California contracts sit behind every review.
Not at all — most of our clients work with us in English. Russian is a capability, not a niche wall: mixed families switch languages mid-meeting all the time, and that is exactly how it should feel. You choose the language; the standard of the work does not change.
The same map as all our work: Long Beach and the coast, Los Angeles, and Orange County — including Malibu, Rancho Palos Verdes, Irvine, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. If you are choosing between areas from another country, we will walk the trade-offs with you on video before you ever book a flight.
One conversation — about what you actually want, and whether now is even the right time. If it is not, we will tell you that too.
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