Ryan
Ryan still has his haunted listing full of meat cleavers and doll heads. Now that all sorts of spiritual cleansing have occurred he has lots of clients to show the place. I’m still not sure I buy this entire storyline, but it’s kind of funny regardless.
The house is listed at $3,995,000 and he gets an offer of #3,750,000. I think she should take it and run. But they are going to dick around and try for a better offer. Miraculously, somehow Ryan has a potential bidding war on his hands. He gets an all cash deal for an even $4 million. He asks about the doll heads. The lady claims to be an artist that uses them in her sculptures. Okay then.
Ryan still has the penthouse with the car elevator. He has brought in purple lights that light the place up so it can be seen from the street to call attention to the place while it is still under construction. That was pretty cool.
Ryan and his girlfriend are fighting. Her sister is coming into town and Ryan has no interest in meeting her. Ryan is a douchebag. His girlfriend walks out.
Fredrik
Fredrik still has his two top clients haggling over the furniture on his $11 million listing. He got the full ask from his best client but he wants the furniture included. His seller, who he represents wants an extra million for the furniture. So basically, Fredrik is now a used furniture salesman.
Fredrik is going to inventory all of the furniture in the entire apartment. That is a ridiculous waste of time. Fredrik’s minion gets him a retail price of $800,000 on the furniture. His seller says $100,000 is his offer.
Fredrik’s husband is an abstract artist with his first art show. Fredrik manages to pretty much sell every piece in the show. Fredrik is telling everyone they are about to hire a surrogate and have a baby. Derek told some random art shopper that the baby was on the back burner. Fredrik is pissed.
Fredrik puts his buyer and seller in the room to argue over furniture. Eventually agree to sell the furniture at $250,000.
Luis
OH MY GOD! It’s Sonja Morgan! Sonja takes Luis to a party to meet a developer friend of hers named Ian. He has an insane amount of property and Sonja is trying to give Luis the hook up. Ian immediately says, ” I do real estate from 9 to 5 not from 5 to 9″ Then he insults Luis saying he looks like Ricky Ricardo’s little brother. Luis has no idea who Ricky Ricardo or Lucille Ball are. Then the guy has Luis do a Drag Revue in a pink wig. Because, Sonja’s friend.
Despite his insulting way of showing it, Ian has the hots for Luis, who has told him several times he is not gay. Luis goes to look at Ian’s apartment for a potential listing (Again, I don’t believe for a moment this guy is selling this apartment) and the inappropriate sexual comments just keep coming. Oh, I was right. The apartment is already sold. But he has another apartment he is putting together in the same building by combining several apartments. The other apartments are all disgusting. But he will be renovating everything. Meanwhile, a squatter is living in one of the units. Um, okay. Oh, and Ian’s dog is peeing on everything. Ian wants to list the property. Not only does he have to list too high, but the seller has a client already interested that would be excluded from Luis’s listing agreement. Luis must REALLY want this listing, because it’s extremely problematic.
Then it gets worse. Ian suddenly passed his brokerage exam and now wants half the listing and half the commission. Ian says he is walking away. I’m not sure he means it, but I hope he does.
So I am totally going to mix shows here. When you compare Ian’s behavior with a straight guy to Bianca Del Rio fromRuPauls Drag Race ther is no comparison. Here you have Ian hitting on someone who LIKES GIRLS and using his position (pun intended) to make Louis feel uncomfortable. On the other hand, Bianca Del Rio is in a room full of drag queens, making over straight guys into drag and she says “it’s ok. I’m not recruiting today.” Totally putting the guy at ease.
And that was my plug for TT to add another reality show to the recap lineup. 🙂
I wish Luis would just walk away from Ian. The potential income from doing business with him is not worth the dirty tricks and comments Luis would need to continue to endure. If this is real, not scripted crap, Luis is too good for this.
I would love to see Ian meet up with Nene. That would be good TV.
I love this show and I completely agree with you that Ryan is a douchebag. I like Luis and Fredrick. Luis is so excited to get a good deal, that I’m afraid he won’t have the courage to walk away from this potentially disastrous deal. I think Fredrick would make an amazing father, but he would have to cut back some of his work load. I hope he gets his little girl.
I love Fredrick’s husbands artwork. I know that Ryan is a bit if a douche but I love him anyways. I’d like to believe its all an act & deep down he’s a big teddy bear.
Ryan is an ACTOR, so if he is or isn’t a douche is up for debate. He is, however, fake as Lindsay’s sobriety. Worried about Luis but I love that his story arc seems to be about the real (albeit more entertaining) hazards and joys of trying to get a toehold in the world of no-holds-barred luxury real estate in the ultimate metropolis.
Luis’s ups and downs while definitely chosen for their photogenic merit at least depict a young up and comer facing defeats as well as victories as well as…jack ass dudes who hit on him.
Fredrik, so yummy so sweet so smart sooo sooo gay…and that’s okay! Poor Luis is being insulted and denegrated just to have to share half a commission that may never come from the gay version of Donald Sterling! Ryan is the Edie Haskell of smarmy real estate brokers and I cringe mainly while watching his bits…but I do watch! Please just change this to the Fredrik show!