It seems this season that the realtors will rotate in and out of the episodes and we will be focusing on just three this week, Last week we had both Joshes and Tracy. This week we have Tracy with The Brits and Madison.
The Brits
James and David are super excited to have a shot at listing the first “vertical building” in LA which will be the beginning of the new “vertical living” in the city. Really? Please stop trying to make “vertical building” a thing. There are high-rise apartments all over the world. This isn’t some new invention. It’s just a really, really tall building. They had to have spent a fortune to earthquake proof that place. You couldn’t get me to step foot in or anywhere within falling distance of it.
That said, it is GORGEOUS and comes with butlers who will put away your grocery deliveries. There is a one acre park with actual trees and grass on the roof. It is really, really, fancypants. But I would not live there if it were free.
It looks like you can lease a two bedroom perhaps with the cool furniture for $9,600 a month. That seems like a steal to me. Did I miss a zero or something? The Brits must have not gotten the memo that the owners have no interest in an exclusive listing agreement.
David and James are renting a lot of apartments. And I just saw the $9,600 price again. I think it is totally worth it except for the whole dying in an earthquake thing. THERE IS A FREE BREAKFAST BAR EVERY MORNING IN THE PARK. I may be willing to die fat and happy in an earthquake now.
The penthouse suite is gorgeous. It rents for $65,000 a month. And they were awarded the exclusive listing. This is a hugely different client though than the people they’ve been renting the lower levels to. I’m worried about the small population of people who can afford the place.
Tracy
Tracy’s friend Heidi stops by for a visit and at first it appears she is having a garage sale in her driveway. But this is LA so it’s actually a photo shoot happening in her garage. Because, of course. And it’s not her house it is one of Heidi’s rental properties. Heidi is drop dead gorgeous and is Tracy’s husband’s best friend. Tracy seems to be not particular fond of the idea they are so close, but she hasn’t poisoned her wine or anything like I would be doing. They bond over working so much and feeling like bad moms.
Of course Tracy is there to list the two properties that are really run down from the low quality tenants. Jason is a contractor and he comes to the pocket listing meeting to weigh in on the price. Heidi wants way more for the houses than Tracy wants to list them for. Jason thinks the property is worth about $11 million. Tracy was willing to go $12 million. They finally agree on $14 million and I believe that is for the two houses. Tracy gets an offer for $13.5 million. Heidi says she is not taking it. She says she can build two homes and sell them for $44 million.
Madison
Madison’s boytoy, Cody is moving in with him this week. Madison has a client who is looking for a summer beach rental for no more and $100,000 per month. It’s very late in the season and everything is full.
Somehow, Madison finds a gorgeous house. It’s right on the beach with a lovely deck. The deck doesn’t have enough room for a long dinner table though, and she is not having it. She also only wants to be on Malibu Road. Again, all of these rentals were books months ago.
Eventually, Madison finds a home that belongs to a couple who is going to spend two months abroad. She can rent their place for $500K for two months. Thus the title of this episode. Eventually they settle on $400K for the summer rental. What does this woman do for a living? I’m going to guess that she is not a blogger.
Josh Flagg
It looks like we do see Josh Flagg on this episode. The old man with the bitchy and demanding arm candy are back. The deal did not go through because they had a private inspection that determined the house needs $100,000 worth of work. He wants $100K off the offer. Josh suggests splitting it down the middle. This makes everyone happy.
Hey TT, I did a quick search but didn’t have much luck. I think Heidi was on Patti S. Million Dollar Matchmaker in one of the earlier seasons. I think she was a t shirt designer. Would love more of an update on Heidi
Yes she was. She owns a clothing label something about being young broke and fabulous
Heidi Cornell
Great-great-grandpa turtle is back? Be still my beating heart! His great-great-granddaughter, sorry, girlfriend, got herself quite the catch, but I’m $ure her motive$ are a$ pure a$ the driven $now. He seems like a very nice man, and still in command of all his faculties, so I wish them happiness in their new home. She’d better treat him well or I’ll drive down to Beverly Hills and arm wrestle her for him.
Love this show, enjoy the interaction between all the realtors, but am somewhat creeped out by the age discrepancy between Madison and his boyfriend. He seems awfully young, so, for Madison’s sake, I hope he’s in it for the long haul. Madison seems to be crazy about him and ready to settle down, so hope he doesn’t get his heart broken.
The quoted rent of $9,600 per month for those beautiful units does seem very, very low. Is it one of the buildings that was build on top of the earthquake fault that they later pretended wasn’t there? That might explain it.
Madison’s client wanting a place in Malibu is a nasty creature. Rich but nasty. One of those people who is used to being able to get anything they want. When she told Madison to go back to “his little desk” and get to work finding her something, I was very glad he told her not to be condescending. I thought he showed great restraint. $400,000 for two months’ rent? Who are these people with all that money? Maybe if I end up with turtle great-great-grandfather, I’ll find out. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
I would die for a breakfast bar every morning! Think of getting up and sitting down to a nice breakfast every morning, like in a hotel, before starting your day. You don’t plan it, shop for it, cook it, or clean up after it. Just sit and enjoy.
That poor turtle man has a horrid wife. Abominable. To be missing a good bit of your face AND stuck with a demanding ugly shrew is just too much hardship.
I wonder if Madison has noticed that Cody has no personality? No interests. No hobbies. Just nothing at all, to go with very average looks.
“I wonder if Madison has noticed that Cody has no personality?” LOL. I think that he hasn’t grown into his big boy pants yet, but perhaps Madison likes it that way. Plus, your comment about turtle man and the shrew was completely on point. Poor old thing. I always wonder what guys like him are thinking, because he has to know that she wouldn’t look at him twice (or even once) if he weren’t rich. Hopefully, he has enough sense to have an ironclad prenup. Plus, he probably figures any money he might lose was well worth the price of having what he considers a babe on his arm, who wouldn’t have been there otherwise. So, for him, dollars well spent. Still, he’d be much better off lavishing his worldly goods on me. I’m much closer to his age and, if he didn’t mind having no sex life, we’d probably be a pretty good match.
Did you notice that little peck of a kiss she gave him after they agreed to purchase the house?
I think he knows what she’s after, hence the “low budget” for the house. He did not change it despite her whining.
He has already calculated how much her “ company” is worth. Good for him for sticking to it despite her whining.
Does anyone agree that Cody looks like Mr. Potato head? Esp the mouth.
I think Cody is just being super careful because he is on TV, he is probably not very comfortable with the cameras. I guess we will find out as the season goes on.
Is it me or does Tracy’s head shots look heavily filtered? Or maybe she is just overly contoured? I do like what a hellcat she is as a realtor. It’s about time a strong highly successful business woman was represented on this show as an equal.
Her duck mouth is distracting, looks like she had fillers and Botox to achieve the look.
I’m fascinated how her mouth turns up at the corners. Is it natural? My mouth turns down at the corners so it looks like I’m frowning. Instead of resting bitch face, I have resting angry face.
When Madison is on screen I just I fast forward. Can’t stand it that sverytime they show Madison his boy toy of the moment has to be in bed with him. Yuck – sickening! I can’t believe I ever liked Madison – he has changed so much. I just love Josh and Bobby. They have such a good relationship and act respectful of each other. I wish they had the show of their own.
I totally agree with you. Madison has become unbearable. Besides that…does he ever work? And when they do show him working…he seems to be whining about it. He is the worst realtor on this show. He is really really bad at it. Luckily he sells Malibu which basically sells itself.
I wish I wouldn’t have deleted this episode right after I watched it, may record it again to look more closely at Tracy’s scene with her husband. He is a very attractive man but I agree he did play dirty on camera about their kids.
Cody reminds me of McCauley Culkin. Time will tell with that relationship. Madison does seem truly smitten.
I’m in on the breakfast served daily but I’d want the butler to bring it to me in the bathtub! I wouldn’t want to stagger downstairs every morning before my first cup of coffee or a shower…
My only issue would be getting up in time for breakfast. I would have no problem waddling downstairs unwashed, in my PJs and sitting my fat ass out on the rooftop park slurping coffee and eating whatever they consider breakfast in LA.
I’m lazier than you are. Timing would be an issue too on my days off…
Thus…the butler
No one is lazier than me. I finally changed the lightbulb in the room where my pantry is today. For the last SEVERAL WEEKS I’ve just been using a flashlight. My bedroom light has been out for months. In my defense the light is above the bed and it’s a PITA to change.
The vacuum broke months ago. I’ve taken that as a sign that I don’t need to vacuum or really clean at all.
LOL Are you sure you and I aren’t distantly related?You could be the intelligent relative and I could be the strange one. I used to be a really good housekeeper years ago, and grew up with a mother who kept a spotless, perfect home. I used to knock myself out making the house look nice, trying to keep up with her impossible standards. Then, I retired and got a little lazy. Finally, during the years when I was caretaking my husband, I let my standards slip tremendously. Problem is, I’ve never found the energy to bring them back up. I’ve become really accustomed to seeing cobwebs on my cobwebs – I see them but they don’t bother me like they should. It’s not a dirty house, you can safely eat anything I cook,and the kitchen is cluttered but pretty clean, but it doesn’t take too many “signs” for me to let things wait until the next day, or the day after that, or even the month after that. Wouldn’t mind a housekeeper, but I’d have to hire someone to tidy up the house first.
I’m so far gone my rich friends can’t even bail me out.
I want to get it together… but not enough to clean up before someone could send a maid. I’m hoping for a church youth group.
See? All you need is a butler! Problems solved! Just that fault line thing to worry about.
This may be shocking news, but I don’t make enough money to afford the $9,600 in rent. Though I still think that is a steal and if I could afford it, it would almost be worth the risk to die happy in an earthquake in a foreign land where I would have to by grits and duke’s mayo and possibly Luzinanne tea bags online.
I am wondering how much an apartment at the The Colony in Palm Springs costs and how I could torture that Julie Olsen bitch if I lived there.
She seems to move around from rich people city to rich people city and still doesn’t have a man, so I expect she will leave soon enough.
This may be shocking news, but I don’t make enough money to afford the $9,600 in rent. Though I still think that is a steal and if I could afford it, it would almost be worth the risk to die happy in an earthquake in a foreign land where I would have to by grits and duke’s mayo and possibly Luzinanne tea bags online.
I am wondering how much an apartment at the The Colony in Palm Springs costs and how I could torture that Julie Olsen bitch if I lived there.
She seems to move around from rich people city to rich people city and still doesn’t have a man, so I expect she will leave soon enough.
I just finally got around to watching this episode. There are a bunch of high rises on the west side on Wilshire. Have been for a long time. This building is on Santa Monica but, same area. I think Candy Spelling moved into one. Gene Roddenberry’s widow lived in one. Anyway, they all have the same concierge service. Groceries and all. They’ll send out dry cleaning, order a car, whatever you want. Maybe the big difference is that those are condos and these are rentals? It depends on what you want but, I think the rent is right/a bit high because you can rent a house, get a full time housekeeper and have a little money leftover if you like more privacy.