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.”

Becky’s house is not, evidently, for the first visitors, or the second, who say it is too small here and eew there and who have their agent report to Scotty that they “detest” the house.

Fellow real estate brokers/ buyer agents

Lea and Leon (only in Malibu) think of two “very qualified buyers for this type of house” for Scotty. Priced by Becky W. at 2,995,00, Scotty’s potential commission is 74,875. The potential buyers squawking at the price, Scotty attempts to get Becky to come down, saying that if you want to sell a house right away you have to lower the price. But HE wants to sell fast, of course, while the owner says it makes her “crazy” to have to reduce the asking price and while she shrugs that she is willing to wait years, if necessary.

Back in the Deep’s part of town, Peter has buried a statue of St. Joseph and said a prayer for real estate success. Potential buyer Clarke and his agent Brian arrive to check out the digs. Clarke says there is good sun, takes perfect photos, and has a thing for the names “Craig” and “Floyd”. Since Deep’s house is Floyd Terrace on Craig Street and Floyd, it’s a winner in his eyes.

This success comes, by the way, after a nasty confrontation regarding the messy condition of the house and Ray’s suggestion for a home staging (where pros come in with all new furniture and set the stage for appeal). The man reading The Angry American and smoking cigarette after cigarette had refused this and now assigns the success of the sale to his buried saint.

Scotty gets some similar success, which he doesn’t directly attribute to his own efforts involving meditation and mantras of “breathe in. breathe out” but which he includes as part of his attempts to stay positive. He has gotten Becky to agree to lower counter offer, saying he is “keeping it [this deal] alive” and laughing.

Ray stays positive despite his loss of the huge commission. Ray and Dia, however, have earned a 17,280 commission and are going out to spend some. It took eight weeks to make and Dia, says Ray, is going to spend it in two hours.

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