Million Dollar Listing Gets in and Gets out…FAST
Million Dollar Listing Gets in and Gets out…FAST by Roxanne McDonald
 |
Million Dollar Listing debuted on Bravo on Tuesday, August 29, 2006. And be forewarned: two months later, the show will be airing its finale! |
Anyways, Million Dollar Listing features in each of its six one-hour episodes promise two real estate companies working to sell a house in Malibu and Hollywood areas. The “cast” is composed of Shannon McCloud, Scotty Brown, Madison Hildebrand, Carol Bird (why does that name sound familiar?), Lydia Simon, Ray and Dia Schuldenfrei, Chris Cortazzo, and Chase Campen.
Tonight’s episode features Shannon McCloud,
trying to sell her ex-fiance’s Rising Glen listing (as she represents both Jeff and the prospective buyer, Farrah), which has an asking price of 2.395; and newbie real estate agent Madison Hildebrand (looking fresh out of prep school and following the guidance of seasoned mentor Scotty Brown) attempting to sell the 3.2-million “fixer-upper”, at Anna Cappa View, to potential buyer Greg, who will flip the house and make a cool mill profit.
Million Dollar Listing–Consistent Quality
Million Dollar Listing–Consistent Quality by Roxanne McDonald
 |
Subsequent episodes of Million Dollar Listing continue to be even more engaging, more fascinating than the first. |
In the second episode, for example, we meet Lydia, the most successful real estate agent in Malibu, and the husband and wife team, Ray and Dia.
Dia and Ray are working with Antoinette, an overwhelmed recently divorced woman who doesn’t want but needs to sell her house. During a brokers’ open house, Ray tells us, typically only brokers come, but these days the public also comes. One young couple do so, for example, equipped with camera and many questions. The young woman notes how the master bath is small, but Ray (the good cop of the team) gently corrects her, saying that they are not IN the master bath. Clearly not celebrities, the interested couple must be in technology, or of old money? Otherwise, what in God’s name are they doing looking at this 2.4 mil house? Okay, I’m just jealous.
On the other side of moneytown
Lydia is showing a house to Ron and Amy for her good friends. Holiday House is a high end property, she says, on the water and with private beach access. (The fact subtext appears at that moment, noting how private beach access is the most desired commodity in Malibu.) Lydia is working the potential buyers, telling them that for under 3 mill they can get a house on the beach. The husband is intrigued by the notion of having Charlie Sheen as a neighbor, and Lydia says it is either Charlie or Martin but that regardless it is not all that impressive.
What she does emphasize, by repeating, is that they should “throw” an offer at the owner.
Ray is back in his office saying that a lot of offers are flying in by fax for Antoinette’s place. He calls her and leaves a message when he gets one offer 35k above asking price (1,328.000), and continues to call every few minutes, expressing how urgent his call is as the buyers want an answer in twenty-four hours.
Million Dollar Listing’s Curmudgeons and Coo-Coos and Lost Commissions, Oh My!
Million Dollar Listing’s Curmudgeons and Coo-Coos and Lost Commissions, Oh My!
by Roxanne McDonald
|
Million Dollar Listing brings the mystique again in the third episode, this time showing us some unique “characters”. |
Dia and Ray are selling the home of one Peter Deep, a disgruntled American who decided that when Bush made his moves and choices, Peter was out of here and preparing to move to Mexico.
Ray and Dia dispute the value of Deep’s house, Ray calling it “magnificent” with the sex and drama that make it a “hot property”, but Dia deeming it a “dump” that smells, is dirty, is disgusting, is cluttered, and needs a lot of help.
The successful agents had had the house on the market ten years ago and it didn’t sell because it was then priced too high–at 395,00.
Now, Dia says 925,00 if they’re lucky and Ray says 949,00, for, he adds, they’re not buying from the head but from the heart. (With this a sidebar appears, reporting how the number one reason a house doesn’t sell is that it is priced too high.)
After Peter sleeps on it, much to Ray’s surprise, Peter Deep calls Ray and signs the listing papers. Dia and Ray toast to a potential commission of 24,475 and bicker over their ideas and opinions of what to do about presentation and price, etc..
On the other side of SoCal, in Malibu, Scotty Brown is working to get “top dollar” for what they call at Million Dollar Listing the “stubborn socialite,” Becky (and husband Jay) Winslett. Becky insists on holding firm with an asking price of 3 mill, and as the first buyers come to look and turn their noses, the sidebar blurb tells how “most people decide in the first 30 seconds if the house isn’t for them.”
Debut of Million Dollar Listing
Million Dollar Listing debuted on Bravo Tuesday, August 29, 2006.
 |
Each of the six one-hour episodes promise two real estate companies working to sell a house in Malibu and Hollywood areas.
The “cast” is composed of Shannon McCloud, Scotty Brown, Madison Hildebrand, Carol Bird (why does that name sound familiar?), Lydia Simon, Ray and Dia Schuldenfrei, Chris Cortazzo, and Chase Campen. |
This episode features Shannon McCloud, trying to sell her ex-fiance’s Rising Glen listing (as she represents both Jeff and the prospective buyer, Farrah), which has an asking price of $2.395 million.
Newbie real estate agent Madison Hildebrand (looking fresh out of prep school and following the guidance of seasoned mentor Scotty Brown) attempting to sell the 3.2-million “fixer-upper”, at Anna Cappa View, to potential buyer Greg, who will flip the house and make a cool mill profit. (more…)
