Time to check in with the NYC boys. But first, Andy talked about the filming of the reunion show for Million Dollar Listing New York and said that EVERYONE cried including Andy and that it was a good show.
Luis
Luis is still in Puerto Rico trying to help one of his best clients close a deal. The wife wants the giant house listed at about $4 million and the husband came with a budget closer to one million because it’s just a vacation getaway pad. He doesn’t see the point in maintaining such a large place they will rarely use. I agree with him. Luis manages to smooth things over and get them back into party mode.
Luis’s client is ready to submit an offer on the villa in St. Regis. The offer is $2.4 million but the sellers refuse to lower their prices, in fact they are in the process of raising the prices. The buyers are being ridiculous. What’s $100K to these people. Buy the villa, and relax and enjoy the day. Luis manages to get them an electric golf cart and a gold membership as part of the deal.
Luis spends his last night in Puerto Rico with his family having a party. He is adorable.
Ryan
Ryan’s penthouse listing with the car elevator and garage is still under construction, list price $23 million. The seller wants to do the video right away and Ryan is flummoxed. The glass floor for the sky vault is in and I have vertigo just watching this scene. Did you guys see the news about the Sears tower glass viewing ledge that cracked? Yikes! And yes, I know it is the Willis Tower now, but that’s just stupid. Speaking of stupid, this glass vault is also stupid. Who wants a glass floor? Who wants to have a see through vault? If you want a vault, isn’t that a place to hide things? I don’t get it.
Ryan shoots his ridiculous commercial for the sky vault penthouse. The commercial cost $51,000. Ryan has a brokers open event for the unveiling of the commercial. CSNBC is there filming the event at the movie theater. The commercial sucked. It didn’t show anything about the apartment. Ryan is pleased with how it turned out.
Fredrik
Fredrik slums it out to the boroughs to go to Park Slope in Brooklyn for a listing appointment. The house is gorgeous and has six bedrooms. Fredrik suggests a range of $4.1 – $4.3 million. Fredrik never does a range he usually just gives a number. The seller wants $4.5 so that the buyers have a bit of bargaining power. I have never understood why Fredrik never allows for wiggle room on the price and is always insistent on full ask sales. It’s weird. But it seems to be working for him. They agree on $4.45 million and she agrees that she will be happy with something just under that.
Fredrik and Derek have still not spoken about Derek’s comments at his art exhibit. Derek was telling clients that inquired that the baby situation is on the back burner. Hmmm perhaps this is what all the crying was about at the reunion taping. Either they are still in disagreement, of they have a bun in the oven. Ironically, they are having this conversation at a pizza place in front of a giant oven. Derek says he doesn’t want to be the stay at home Dad. He doesn’t think that Fredrik will be available to spend time with the baby. This is news to Fredrik. The baby making is off. Until the next scene, where Fredrik is baby clothes shopping. Fredrik wants Derek to come to the open house in Park Slope. Fredrik is going to make it a kid friendly open house so that Derek will get baby fever. Sigh.
In order to get Derek to the open house, he asks Derek to do an art party with the kids. Fredrik has all the kids go draw with Derek while he shows the house to potential buyers. Fredrik cries when he sees Derek with the kids.
Fredrik asks Luis to come meet with him. It seems for some reason that Fredrik wants to take Luis under his wing. Luis doesn’t trust Fredrik. Fredrik says the seller in Brooklyn, Jeanne has new development and he offers to introduce Luis. See? I knew there was something fishy about Fredrik slumming in Brooklyn.
Fredrik meets with Jeanne a few minutes before Luis gets there and he actually says nice things about him to Jeanne. He’s hoping the two of them can work together on new development deals in the future. Luis arrives with a positive attitude. Jeanne says that Fredrik said he was “up and coming” (aka green) and that he wants to be “a little mini Fredrik.” Oh my. As it turns out, Jeanne does not do new development, she basically flips town houses. Oh no. Luis and Fredrik have a major argument outside of the listing.
Do you guys think Fredrik’s motives are pure?
I thought Frederik’s intentions were good. He has expressed remorse for the way he treated Luis, whom I like very much, at the last season reunion. Sonja did Luis dirty this season IMO, when she turned that weird arrogant richy rich on him. I forget his name but Luis became his sport for pleasure. Makes me wonder was Luis still reeling from dealing with that amoral POS? Poor Luis. He doesn’t know who is being straight with him or trying to play him at this point. Hope he straightens his compass out. Stay away from Sonja though. Her links seem to have expired. :/
You would hope Fredrik learned what a bitch karma can be when Ryan exposed Fredrik’s previous film career to a group of NYC brokers at an open house. This came as retaliation for screwing Ryan out of a deal. Fredrik broke down. I mean he cried for goodness sake! I hope his motives are pure with Luis, who seems like someone who doesn’t deserve to be messed with. Ryan on the other hand I’m not so sure about. High kick!!
I adore everything Luis, but I think he was wrong this time. I do think Fredrick is a white, male, gay Nene, in that he must put others down who he feels intimidated by, but in this case I think his intent was pure, and Luis couldn’t see past last year’s transgression. Plus, I commended Luis on how he always keeps his cool–especially with that jerk that had him pick up his dry-cleaning–but he didn’t have to express himself the way he did in front of Jeanne. You never know what she could have offered in the future.
The St. Regis got a lot of nice advertisement with so many different homes being toured. The buyers and Luis were pretty fake in their fight acting but it got the story told. I am sure they choose their unit and signed the dotted line prior to cameras rolling.
I don’t get the point of that vault of vertigo. I guess developers have to keep being innovative to cater to thr wealthy folks that want to be the only one to have something, even if it is something ridiculous. If it was expensive to build that makes it special.
The Willis tower thing is horrible. The piece I saw sort of scoffed at the people on the ledge for being afraid. They claimed it is still safe, did not even indicate they would repair it or not.
I like Fredrik, but Luis should trust him no farther than he can throw him. I think he wants Luis to do all the work then skim big money off the commission for the referral. That is a pretty small favor. It also keeps Luis out of his territory.
My anticipation for the reunion in now ten fold Thanks T.T
I like Luis, but I love me some Fredrik. In the Jeanne situation, Luis was totally in the wrong and showed his ass. He insulted the client to her face and acted unprofessionally. Luis is green and it shows: never burn bridges. Jeanne might be a big developer someday. Besides a commission on a 4 million town house is a nice paycheck. He should have just rolled with whatever Fredrik was proposing and see how it panned out. I would not want Luis to be involved in my business dealings because he gets all in his feelings and acts or speaks rashly. Hopefully he will grow out of it because he seems like a decent, sincere person (as far as reality show folk goes).
I agree, Luis did handle himself badly and burned 2 bridges.
Still hoping Luis finds a way to kick everyone’s ASS!
I think the whole deal with Fredrik was a set up. Something was fishy as soon as Fredrik was in Park Slope.
Fredrik has sold quite a bit in Brooklyn- mostly in Williamsburg. That being said, I have no idea of the timeframe of those listings, or if they were handled primarily by his partner. I’m not saying your theory is incorrect… Would THE Bravo Personality Fredrik “High Kick” Eklund take listings in Brooklyn now? Who knows?
I’m on team Fredrik for now. Luis, who I adore, lost points with me for his lack of professionalism in front of a client- regardless of her cuntitude.
I don’t believe Frederik has a generous personality – and I don’t say that as a condemnation. It’s simply a matter of his approach towards life. If you can accept and be on notice of that, he has other attributes to amuse a person. I would never trust him in business though. I did love seeing Luis dance with his family. That guy is smooooooth.
I started to like Luis this season but it went downhill with him following this “poor me” story line. He works real estate in New York City; it is not for the naive! I grew up here; have flipped living spaces in Manhattan, Brooklyn and now in the Bronx. You can’t be a crybaby. He behaved poorly with Fredrik; don’t burn bridges (in front of a brownstone flipper and a senior Vice President at D Elliman no less!)
If he was going to be insulting and yell at anybody, it should have been that jerk who made him pick up his dry cleaning!
I liked seeing Luis at home in PR. I am from there, so I guess I have a soft spot? He seems so much more relaxed and happy. I love me a salsa damcing man, and it looked like he was getting down while that doctor and his wife were arguing at the club. I think Luis is right to distrust Frederik. You can’t be that easy once someone trips you up. We will see if Frederik is willing to do the work to prove he really is who is saying he is this season to Luis.
Aww, Luis let me down by being so touchy in front of that client. I still like him though. He IS young and he seems to be a good one for learning from his mistakes and isn’t too proud to admit he was wrong. I like Fredrik but he seems to think Luis is a bit of a joke and Luis senses that, I suspect. Trouble is Fredrik likes to play Master Manipulator. That’s okay with customers & clients since it is his job but it leads to distrust with co-workers and I don’t think Derek is one to appreciate his husband, the man with whom he has to build a trustworthy lifelong relationship, trying to emotionally manipulate and game him. That could go far worse than anything Luis could ever do or say.