Hideki Kawakita doesn't look like your average real estate agent.
Dressed in jeans and a T-shirt spotted with bright purple and yellow illustrations, he looks more like a traveler, or maybe a writer.
Perhaps it is precisely his unpretentious manner that has allowed him to single-handedly match vacant houses in various stages of abandonment with new homeowners through his real estate company, Loca LLC.
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