April 22, 2025 • 17 mins
Baseball fans and property enthusiasts unite in this candid conversation that starts with passionate Yankees commentary before diving into the real estate trenches. We analyze how the Yankees might fare this season despite pitching injuries, debate NBA playoff favorites, and reveal why the Celtics remain the team to beat unless OKC's young hunger prevails.
The heart of our discussion explores the surprisingly robust real estate market, where our Queens Village open house recently attracted 30 potential buyers despite rising interest rates. This seller's market continues to defy expectations, demanding aggressive agent representation to secure the best outcomes. We share the fascinating story of our Rockland County property that demonstrated unique buying patterns within the Jewish community, creating the most competitive bidding war we've ever witnessed.
Nothing compares to our Manhattan brownstone adventure, however. This nightmare property previously owned by a hoarder required us to navigate mountains of belongings, encounter potential vermin, and marvel at historical construction quality that prevented collapse despite severe water damage. The five-inch thick doors and robust framework tell a story of craftsmanship rarely seen in modern buildings. We wrap up acknowledging the surprising challenges of content creation in real estate marketing – it's practically another full-time job! Have real estate questions you'd like us to address in future content? Drop your ideas in the comments and we'll turn them into informative videos tailored to your interests.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
welcome to pseudopub bias episode.
I'm not too sure.
Well, we'll figure that outlater.
But hey, chris, I see theyankees had.
What's going on with theyankees?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
they won.
Yesterday man finally won twogames in a row.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Really Against who?
Kansas City, kansas City,that's a good team.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yes, yes, they are we faced them last day in the
playoffs and we beat them Likefive or six games.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Nice, and then you went to the grand finals, now
against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Unfortunately we lost , but that's in the past and now
it's a new year and hopefullywe win this year.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Gotcha, what are your expectations, like how big of a
percentage do you think theyhave against the Dodgers, it's
very low man.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Pitching right now is very bad because of a lot of
injuries.
We have three injured pitchers,three injured pitchers Wow, and
all of them is the bestpitchers we have.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh my God, so you're digging deep into the pocket of
pitchers that you guys have.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, we've been struggling this year, but the
season just started.
Hopefully they come back,pitchers, and be strong.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Who's the best performer in the Yankees right
now?
For what?
Pitching or batting, justoverall?
Well, I guess batting.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh, you know, Aaron Judge, aaron Judge the GOAT,
he's been the greatest hitterout there Better than Otani
Otani.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Wow, that's a strong message out there.
Oh, my goodness, Missing JuanSoto, though right.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Not a fan of Juan Soto, especially what he did to
the Yankees fans and literallyjust went to the Mets for an
extra $5 million.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, I know you have strong feelings of Juan Soto
Outside the podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
it's, yeah, a little bit more crazy.
But yeah, I hope for the bestfor him his whole career, but
wish he would have stayed in theYankees.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, fine, is there a reason why, why he did he just
take the money, or was thereanother reason?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
so he had more benefits in the in the contract
for him and his family.
Okay, overall, it was best forhim and his family.
That's the reason he left I gotyou.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's like the whole thing, I think, with kawaii,
right when he left, I think, therafters to go to um, was it la?
Yeah la a lot of things withhis, with his family as well,
his uncle negotiating and all ofthat.
It's like all for the familyand whatnot.
I think that's what happened inthe transfer, or was it in
toronto?
it was one of those two.
But yeah, whenever you favorlike your family in the contract
(02:42):
and stuff like that, it tendsto be better for the player
incentive-wise Also.
The NBA playoffs are starting.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes, I think they maybe just started.
They just started, they'regoing to start.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Got you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Who do you think is going to win overall, overall?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Not just the divisions, because I know for
the divisions, it's probably theCeltics, right?
Unfortunately, I feel like theoverwhelming favorites, even
though I will say, right, Ihaven't watched the nba that
much this season.
I think the thing that got meback into it, just briefly, was
that luka trade, that luka tradeoh yeah, that was the biggest
(03:19):
trade in nba history yeah, maybethey had to do something like
that for the nba ratings to comeback up, you know, because I've
seen that the ratings have beengoing lower because of the refs
.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh, the refs have been so bad.
Now they need to stop it.
Like you touch the player andit's a foul.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Or they flop Right.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I remember there was one recent one with Luka
specifically, where he was, Ithink, talking to a fan and the
ref thought it was to him and hethrew him out of the game or
something, and I was like waitwhat?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The NBA is going to soften.
It's not the same way, how itback then was.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Right, but I think you know the ref should be
protected, right, they shouldn'tbe just taking a back seat and
just like having to takeeverything.
But yeah, some of the calls area little bit questionable, right
, if they had a system where,like a system where it can
automatically detect fouls, andall of that without, like,
having human referees and itwould be, that would be hard
(04:19):
yeah, it would be incrediblyhard, but I think that would be
like the way, because you oftensee these refs sometimes make
horrible calls or good calls,but a lot of the time you kind
of get a sense of those badcalls are game-changing
sometimes.
Also, I do think that thosecalls do make the game exciting
(04:40):
sometimes, because you go like,oh, it's going perfect, but then
now you get these calls and nowthe game's going thrown into
chaos, right true, that is trueso I think there is something
there, even aspect, that peoplelike um, what do you think is
gonna win it all?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
honestly probably boston.
Yeah, because they're basicallya complete team.
Yeah, I don't think they'remissing any role players, or
what about OKC?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
OKC is a good team.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Maybe more experienced in the playoffs.
I'll say Just because they're ayoung team.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They are a young team .
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They probably average ages 25 to 28.
That's pretty young.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Really young.
Their superstar Shea, you saidI think is 25, right, I don't
remember, but like around thereyeah.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's crazy young.
And their superstar, shea, yousaid I think is 25, right, I
don't remember, but like aroundthere, yeah, yeah, that's crazy
young and they're hungry for it.
Man, oh yeah, they're trying toget that.
I wonder, if they win thatright, Will they be the youngest
NBA team to win?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
NBA final.
Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Right, I'm not sure.
Yeah, because they all look soyoung.
They are all young, like very,very young.
So, yeah, I think that's prettymuch the consensus.
Right, it's gonna be celtics,unless injuries happen, which
they could happen.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, porzingis yes, yes, what.
What do you think about theknicks?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
the knicks huh god bless the knicks you know, I
mean, if they, if they could getit to the finals, right to the
division finals, right theeastern conference finals, okay
then, uh, I think that's a bigachievement on its own.
I think it's very doable.
But yeah, celtics are just, youknow, they're the team to be,
(06:22):
they're the team to be, they'rethe team to beat.
I wonder, how are the odds forVegas?
Because Vegas usually has, like, the most accurate data
regarding, like, who might,who's going to probably win or
not, because you know a lot ofmoney goes through there.
But yeah, moving the subjectalong, we did an open house this
past two weeks, yeah, queensVillage.
(06:44):
Yeah, queens Village.
You want to talk a little bitabout that uh, yeah, so we.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
basically it was the first open house that we did for
this home and first showing andoverall it was uh 30 buyers
that went.
Uh, it was the most busiestopen house that we had Starting
this year and even if interestrates are going higher right,
there's still buyers out therelooking for a home for them and
their family and right now it'sgoing to get so overacting.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That's right.
I mean, that's just how themarket is.
You price something well,you're going to get results.
You're going to get results.
People are still buying likeit's nothing and competition is
fierce.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yes, yeah, yes, it is .
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Like these agents will be blasting your phone,
trying to get updates and stuff,making sure they're doing best
for their client, which wealways respect, because that's
how we are as well, veryaggressive, very aggressive.
I know that, for you, one ofthe things that you don't like
to hear is that the other agentis not aggressive oh yes, yeah,
(07:52):
I agree because then, how areyou providing a good service to
your client if you're notaggressive?
and also, on a side note and ona real note, it's like how are
you going to get paid?
Like uh needs to provide a goodservice for you in order to get
paid.
And how do you do that?
And you be aggressive, you takethe initiative and you pound on
(08:14):
the other side to get that dealthrough.
Yeah, and I think that's why alot of um, a lot of buyers love
you.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Although sometimes they they're kind of going like
you're a little bit too much.
But yeah, although sometimesthey're kind of going like
you're a little bit too much,too aggressive.
Yeah, you have to be like that,especially in this market.
Yeah, because, like how we sawin the open house, so much
competition.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yes, yes, it's still a seller's market out there.
Even if interest rate is higher, there's still people buying.
You have to be aggressive, yeah, you do you have to be
aggressive.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, you do, you have to be aggressive in this
market.
What was the most packed openhouse we had?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It was probably maybe the Queens Village.
Queens Village no, it was theproperty in Rockland County.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Oh, butternut, yeah, yeah, on that Sunday, oh my.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
How was that open house?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
last year.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, my goodness, goodness, compared to this year
that open house was so packed.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I think the problem with that house I think it might
have been maybe the same amountof people coming in the thing
is that how it was shaped, thethe layout of the house, the
layout there was a couch makingit, so all the traffic kind of
had to like go through thatlittle passageway on one way.
Yeah, okay, and there were somany people.
(09:31):
One thing that I didn't know,that I learned on that day, is
that the jewish communitydoesn't come out on saturday.
They come out on sunday becauseon saturday they they're not
allowed to leave their home likethe very traditional jewish
community.
They're not able to, like youknow, attend open houses.
So when Sunday came around, wewere expecting a good amount of
(09:52):
people, even though on Saturdaywe didn't see that many.
On Sunday everyone from theJewish community came out to
that home and we were in shockbecause it was so many people
like so many and they were alloutbidding each other like crazy
.
Afterwards, yeah, it was insanethe amount of like people were.
(10:15):
Basically they were puttinglike hey, whatever the highest
bid is, add like 5K to it, 10kto it.
Like it was crazy to a certainamount, like I said, just until
you reach this point.
And it was crazy to a certainamount like they said, just to
until you reach this point.
And it was just insane likeI've never seen that type of
bidding where they're callingoff, emailing and saying, hey,
(10:37):
whatever the highest bid is,just put this amount on top of
it and that's our offer andwe're we're just having like
continual ones of those, andit's just like damn the price is
just.
It's a strong competition outthere oh yes, very strong and
everyone is like over qualifiedfor that home specifically, and
it was crazy, crazy, crazy,crazy crazy.
(11:00):
But I think that was like maybearound the same type of people,
okay, but a lot more offerslike crazy competitive offers.
I think that was the mostcompetitive one that I've seen.
This one, it was verycompetitive too, but that one it
was just a whole differentballgame.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Different okay.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, in that sense, but it's still strong.
It's still strong.
So, chris, what was the mostinteresting deal you've had that
you think you want to sharewith the?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
people.
The most interestingtransaction that we did was the
house in Manhattan that we solda couple years ago or a year ago
.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
By.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Harlem yes, it was in Manhattan.
It was a brownstone, it wasthree floors with a basement.
But there is a twist in thestory.
This house the previous ownerwas a hoarder Me and Andrew went
to this home in dark time.
It was scary.
It had a lot of belongings,rats, I'm not sure.
(11:54):
Maybe they found a cat that wasdead.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It was so hard to maneuver in that place.
Literally we were like this,like foot over foot, yeah it was
very tight, yes, very tight,especially going upstairs.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You couldn't even see the floor.
Yeah, that's how much stuffthere was here we had to do some
parkour to get to the upperlevel, second, third floors and
especially to the basement rightand some of the stairs felt
like, uh, they were, wasn'tthere like missing handles or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
On some of the stairs on the third floor probably.
Yes, yeah, I was so scared thatthat was gonna fall.
But, um, these, these housesare built to last, right?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
oh yes, especially with this home, that a pipe did
burst and was leaking, uh nuts,especially it was going down to
the basement and didn't collapseat all.
Even with all those belongings,it didn't fall at all.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, all that weight on top of it and it still
didn't fall because, honestly,like in Manhattan, you probably
get better quality.
And also, in the past theyprobably made it a lot more
durable than now.
Past they probably made it alot more durable than now
because that door that we neededto open to go into the living
room in the first floor was likeno lie five inches thick, six
inches thick.
(13:09):
These doors that we have noware like two inches thick and
they're nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It's easy to break.
Yeah, those doors in my head.
Oh, you gotta use all yourmuscle or maybe use a axe or a
hammer to break that door.
But right those doors you wouldnever see nowadays.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, we were so exhausted trying to get that
door open.
That's how much stuff they had.
It's like we were just likehanging on it and it was so hard
I think our shoulder gave gaveup.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, it did give up.
I did post on TikTok the storyof the house.
Also a good thing we didn't seeno ghosts.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
No ghosts, and the funny thing about it is that we
came at night and we were taskedon removing some of the trash
to kind of get it a little bitmore prepped, and we looked like
criminals yeah, it didn't workout just because there was so
much stuff yeah, oh man plans.
Plans didn't work out rightthat night because we thought it
(14:12):
was gonna be like, okay,there's some stuff in there,
let's try to, you know, get itready and stuff.
When we went in there it wascrazy, it was.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
It was something out of a movie Like every part of
the place was covered with stuff.
There was like locker rooms.
At one point, like in thesecond floor, I think, there was
like a locker, like a steellocker or something like that.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I don't remember.
It's been a while, yeah, thatwe went, but yes, this house had
a lot of rooms and every roomhas had belongings, top to
bottom every room, the hallways,the bathrooms, everything had
something in there and not justsomething, a lot of something
(14:59):
yeah, my guys, no one was livingthere for for a while yeah, you
could tell you wouldn't be ableto live there.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
No, yeah, it was just so bad and, like you said, that
leak was horrible.
I don't know how the ceilingdidn't collapse, yeah just built
different, built completelydifferent.
Another thing that I was also,uh, wanted to bring up is, you
know, the content creation thatwe do, like the little short
clips and stuff.
We initially thought that wasgoing to be all like easy.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
It's not.
It's not.
It's basically another job.
You have to think so much ofvideo ideas and then from there
you got to edit it or maybe hirean editor.
But it's not easy.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's not easy.
Like and you should know you'relike our content creator, right
With the clips and everything,Like you're holding the lifeline
of bias real estate contentbecause you're the only one
really posting it, Because, likeyou said, it's like almost a
full-time job.
You have to make a lot of timein the day to kind of like think
of ideas how you're going to doit, how you're going to
(16:01):
organize people's time to kindof like, you know, do those
things with one another, andit's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh yeah, it is a lot of work.
Yeah, well, I'm going to keeptrying thinking of new video
ideas and keep posting on TikTokand the body is IG.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, absolutely, and I mean, if you guys have any,
any ideas on, you know clipsthat you want to see from us in
our social media, let us know inthe comments and we'll
definitely make a video out ofit and chris will definitely
make his, like the edits, kindof like yeah, answering your
questions or ideas you have thatwe should post, but definitely
(16:42):
leave it in the comments.
Yeah, honestly, because we havea lot of ideas right, but we
want to make sure that we'reanswering the questions that you
guys are interested in.
Right, because we might beinterested in some stuff that
are like realtors right, but wewant more ideas on, like, what
you guys are interested in,because you guys are the buyers,
you guys are the sellers, and Ithink it's better that you guys
(17:05):
shared those ideas with us sowe have a better understanding.
But, yeah, I think that's aboutit for this podcast.
I think we talked about all themain points and stuff, so do
you have anything else to add?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
No, no, all right, awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well, thank you guys.
So much for tuning in to SuitUp With Bias.
We'll figure out the episodelater on, but thank you guys.
Bye guys.
welcome to pseudopub bias episode.
I'm not too sure.
Well, we'll figure that outlater.
But hey, chris, I see theyankees had.
What's going on with theyankees?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
they won.
Yesterday man finally won twogames in a row.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Really Against who?
Kansas City, kansas City,that's a good team.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yes, yes, they are we faced them last day in the
playoffs and we beat them Likefive or six games.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Nice, and then you went to the grand finals, now
against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Unfortunately we lost , but that's in the past and now
it's a new year and hopefullywe win this year.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Gotcha, what are your expectations, like how big of a
percentage do you think theyhave against the Dodgers, it's
very low man.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Pitching right now is very bad because of a lot of
injuries.
We have three injured pitchers,three injured pitchers Wow, and
all of them is the bestpitchers we have.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh my God, so you're digging deep into the pocket of
pitchers that you guys have.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, we've been struggling this year, but the
season just started.
Hopefully they come back,pitchers, and be strong.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Who's the best performer in the Yankees right
now?
For what?
Pitching or batting, justoverall?
Well, I guess batting.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh, you know, Aaron Judge, aaron Judge the GOAT,
he's been the greatest hitterout there Better than Otani
Otani.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Wow, that's a strong message out there.
Oh, my goodness, Missing JuanSoto, though right.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Not a fan of Juan Soto, especially what he did to
the Yankees fans and literallyjust went to the Mets for an
extra $5 million.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, I know you have strong feelings of Juan Soto
Outside the podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
it's, yeah, a little bit more crazy.
But yeah, I hope for the bestfor him his whole career, but
wish he would have stayed in theYankees.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, fine, is there a reason why, why he did he just
take the money, or was thereanother reason?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
so he had more benefits in the in the contract
for him and his family.
Okay, overall, it was best forhim and his family.
That's the reason he left I gotyou.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's like the whole thing, I think, with kawaii,
right when he left, I think, therafters to go to um, was it la?
Yeah la a lot of things withhis, with his family as well,
his uncle negotiating and all ofthat.
It's like all for the familyand whatnot.
I think that's what happened inthe transfer, or was it in
toronto?
it was one of those two.
But yeah, whenever you favorlike your family in the contract
(02:42):
and stuff like that, it tendsto be better for the player
incentive-wise Also.
The NBA playoffs are starting.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes, I think they maybe just started.
They just started, they'regoing to start.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Got you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Who do you think is going to win overall, overall?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Not just the divisions, because I know for
the divisions, it's probably theCeltics, right?
Unfortunately, I feel like theoverwhelming favorites, even
though I will say, right, Ihaven't watched the nba that
much this season.
I think the thing that got meback into it, just briefly, was
that luka trade, that luka tradeoh yeah, that was the biggest
(03:19):
trade in nba history yeah, maybethey had to do something like
that for the nba ratings to comeback up, you know, because I've
seen that the ratings have beengoing lower because of the refs
.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh, the refs have been so bad.
Now they need to stop it.
Like you touch the player andit's a foul.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Or they flop Right.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I remember there was one recent one with Luka
specifically, where he was, Ithink, talking to a fan and the
ref thought it was to him and hethrew him out of the game or
something, and I was like waitwhat?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The NBA is going to soften.
It's not the same way, how itback then was.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Right, but I think you know the ref should be
protected, right, they shouldn'tbe just taking a back seat and
just like having to takeeverything.
But yeah, some of the calls area little bit questionable, right
, if they had a system where,like a system where it can
automatically detect fouls, andall of that without, like,
having human referees and itwould be, that would be hard
(04:19):
yeah, it would be incrediblyhard, but I think that would be
like the way, because you oftensee these refs sometimes make
horrible calls or good calls,but a lot of the time you kind
of get a sense of those badcalls are game-changing
sometimes.
Also, I do think that thosecalls do make the game exciting
(04:40):
sometimes, because you go like,oh, it's going perfect, but then
now you get these calls and nowthe game's going thrown into
chaos, right true, that is trueso I think there is something
there, even aspect, that peoplelike um, what do you think is
gonna win it all?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
honestly probably boston.
Yeah, because they're basicallya complete team.
Yeah, I don't think they'remissing any role players, or
what about OKC?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
OKC is a good team.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Maybe more experienced in the playoffs.
I'll say Just because they're ayoung team.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They are a young team .
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They probably average ages 25 to 28.
That's pretty young.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Really young.
Their superstar Shea, you saidI think is 25, right, I don't
remember, but like around thereyeah.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's crazy young.
And their superstar, shea, yousaid I think is 25, right, I
don't remember, but like aroundthere, yeah, yeah, that's crazy
young and they're hungry for it.
Man, oh yeah, they're trying toget that.
I wonder, if they win thatright, Will they be the youngest
NBA team to win?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
NBA final.
Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Right, I'm not sure.
Yeah, because they all look soyoung.
They are all young, like very,very young.
So, yeah, I think that's prettymuch the consensus.
Right, it's gonna be celtics,unless injuries happen, which
they could happen.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, porzingis yes, yes, what.
What do you think about theknicks?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
the knicks huh god bless the knicks you know, I
mean, if they, if they could getit to the finals, right to the
division finals, right theeastern conference finals, okay
then, uh, I think that's a bigachievement on its own.
I think it's very doable.
But yeah, celtics are just, youknow, they're the team to be,
(06:22):
they're the team to be, they'rethe team to beat.
I wonder, how are the odds forVegas?
Because Vegas usually has, like, the most accurate data
regarding, like, who might,who's going to probably win or
not, because you know a lot ofmoney goes through there.
But yeah, moving the subjectalong, we did an open house this
past two weeks, yeah, queensVillage.
(06:44):
Yeah, queens Village.
You want to talk a little bitabout that uh, yeah, so we.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
basically it was the first open house that we did for
this home and first showing andoverall it was uh 30 buyers
that went.
Uh, it was the most busiestopen house that we had Starting
this year and even if interestrates are going higher right,
there's still buyers out therelooking for a home for them and
their family and right now it'sgoing to get so overacting.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That's right.
I mean, that's just how themarket is.
You price something well,you're going to get results.
You're going to get results.
People are still buying likeit's nothing and competition is
fierce.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yes, yeah, yes, it is .
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Like these agents will be blasting your phone,
trying to get updates and stuff,making sure they're doing best
for their client, which wealways respect, because that's
how we are as well, veryaggressive, very aggressive.
I know that, for you, one ofthe things that you don't like
to hear is that the other agentis not aggressive oh yes, yeah,
(07:52):
I agree because then, how areyou providing a good service to
your client if you're notaggressive?
and also, on a side note and ona real note, it's like how are
you going to get paid?
Like uh needs to provide a goodservice for you in order to get
paid.
And how do you do that?
And you be aggressive, you takethe initiative and you pound on
(08:14):
the other side to get that dealthrough.
Yeah, and I think that's why alot of um, a lot of buyers love
you.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Although sometimes they they're kind of going like
you're a little bit too much.
But yeah, although sometimesthey're kind of going like
you're a little bit too much,too aggressive.
Yeah, you have to be like that,especially in this market.
Yeah, because, like how we sawin the open house, so much
competition.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yes, yes, it's still a seller's market out there.
Even if interest rate is higher, there's still people buying.
You have to be aggressive, yeah, you do you have to be
aggressive.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, you do, you have to be aggressive in this
market.
What was the most packed openhouse we had?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It was probably maybe the Queens Village.
Queens Village no, it was theproperty in Rockland County.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Oh, butternut, yeah, yeah, on that Sunday, oh my.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
How was that open house?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
last year.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, my goodness, goodness, compared to this year
that open house was so packed.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I think the problem with that house I think it might
have been maybe the same amountof people coming in the thing
is that how it was shaped, thethe layout of the house, the
layout there was a couch makingit, so all the traffic kind of
had to like go through thatlittle passageway on one way.
Yeah, okay, and there were somany people.
(09:31):
One thing that I didn't know,that I learned on that day, is
that the jewish communitydoesn't come out on saturday.
They come out on sunday becauseon saturday they they're not
allowed to leave their home likethe very traditional jewish
community.
They're not able to, like youknow, attend open houses.
So when Sunday came around, wewere expecting a good amount of
(09:52):
people, even though on Saturdaywe didn't see that many.
On Sunday everyone from theJewish community came out to
that home and we were in shockbecause it was so many people
like so many and they were alloutbidding each other like crazy
.
Afterwards, yeah, it was insanethe amount of like people were.
(10:15):
Basically they were puttinglike hey, whatever the highest
bid is, add like 5K to it, 10kto it.
Like it was crazy to a certainamount, like I said, just until
you reach this point.
And it was crazy to a certainamount like they said, just to
until you reach this point.
And it was just insane likeI've never seen that type of
bidding where they're callingoff, emailing and saying, hey,
(10:37):
whatever the highest bid is,just put this amount on top of
it and that's our offer andwe're we're just having like
continual ones of those, andit's just like damn the price is
just.
It's a strong competition outthere oh yes, very strong and
everyone is like over qualifiedfor that home specifically, and
it was crazy, crazy, crazy,crazy crazy.
(11:00):
But I think that was like maybearound the same type of people,
okay, but a lot more offerslike crazy competitive offers.
I think that was the mostcompetitive one that I've seen.
This one, it was verycompetitive too, but that one it
was just a whole differentballgame.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Different okay.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, in that sense, but it's still strong.
It's still strong.
So, chris, what was the mostinteresting deal you've had that
you think you want to sharewith the?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
people.
The most interestingtransaction that we did was the
house in Manhattan that we solda couple years ago or a year ago
.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
By.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Harlem yes, it was in Manhattan.
It was a brownstone, it wasthree floors with a basement.
But there is a twist in thestory.
This house the previous ownerwas a hoarder Me and Andrew went
to this home in dark time.
It was scary.
It had a lot of belongings,rats, I'm not sure.
(11:54):
Maybe they found a cat that wasdead.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It was so hard to maneuver in that place.
Literally we were like this,like foot over foot, yeah it was
very tight, yes, very tight,especially going upstairs.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You couldn't even see the floor.
Yeah, that's how much stuffthere was here we had to do some
parkour to get to the upperlevel, second, third floors and
especially to the basement rightand some of the stairs felt
like, uh, they were, wasn'tthere like missing handles or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
On some of the stairs on the third floor probably.
Yes, yeah, I was so scared thatthat was gonna fall.
But, um, these, these housesare built to last, right?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
oh yes, especially with this home, that a pipe did
burst and was leaking, uh nuts,especially it was going down to
the basement and didn't collapseat all.
Even with all those belongings,it didn't fall at all.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, all that weight on top of it and it still
didn't fall because, honestly,like in Manhattan, you probably
get better quality.
And also, in the past theyprobably made it a lot more
durable than now.
Past they probably made it alot more durable than now
because that door that we neededto open to go into the living
room in the first floor was likeno lie five inches thick, six
inches thick.
(13:09):
These doors that we have noware like two inches thick and
they're nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It's easy to break.
Yeah, those doors in my head.
Oh, you gotta use all yourmuscle or maybe use a axe or a
hammer to break that door.
But right those doors you wouldnever see nowadays.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, we were so exhausted trying to get that
door open.
That's how much stuff they had.
It's like we were just likehanging on it and it was so hard
I think our shoulder gave gaveup.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, it did give up.
I did post on TikTok the storyof the house.
Also a good thing we didn't seeno ghosts.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
No ghosts, and the funny thing about it is that we
came at night and we were taskedon removing some of the trash
to kind of get it a little bitmore prepped, and we looked like
criminals yeah, it didn't workout just because there was so
much stuff yeah, oh man plans.
Plans didn't work out rightthat night because we thought it
(14:12):
was gonna be like, okay,there's some stuff in there,
let's try to, you know, get itready and stuff.
When we went in there it wascrazy, it was.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
It was something out of a movie Like every part of
the place was covered with stuff.
There was like locker rooms.
At one point, like in thesecond floor, I think, there was
like a locker, like a steellocker or something like that.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I don't remember.
It's been a while, yeah, thatwe went, but yes, this house had
a lot of rooms and every roomhas had belongings, top to
bottom every room, the hallways,the bathrooms, everything had
something in there and not justsomething, a lot of something
(14:59):
yeah, my guys, no one was livingthere for for a while yeah, you
could tell you wouldn't be ableto live there.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
No, yeah, it was just so bad and, like you said, that
leak was horrible.
I don't know how the ceilingdidn't collapse, yeah just built
different, built completelydifferent.
Another thing that I was also,uh, wanted to bring up is, you
know, the content creation thatwe do, like the little short
clips and stuff.
We initially thought that wasgoing to be all like easy.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
It's not.
It's not.
It's basically another job.
You have to think so much ofvideo ideas and then from there
you got to edit it or maybe hirean editor.
But it's not easy.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's not easy.
Like and you should know you'relike our content creator, right
With the clips and everything,Like you're holding the lifeline
of bias real estate contentbecause you're the only one
really posting it, Because, likeyou said, it's like almost a
full-time job.
You have to make a lot of timein the day to kind of like think
of ideas how you're going to doit, how you're going to
(16:01):
organize people's time to kindof like, you know, do those
things with one another, andit's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh yeah, it is a lot of work.
Yeah, well, I'm going to keeptrying thinking of new video
ideas and keep posting on TikTokand the body is IG.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, absolutely, and I mean, if you guys have any,
any ideas on, you know clipsthat you want to see from us in
our social media, let us know inthe comments and we'll
definitely make a video out ofit and chris will definitely
make his, like the edits, kindof like yeah, answering your
questions or ideas you have thatwe should post, but definitely
(16:42):
leave it in the comments.
Yeah, honestly, because we havea lot of ideas right, but we
want to make sure that we'reanswering the questions that you
guys are interested in.
Right, because we might beinterested in some stuff that
are like realtors right, but wewant more ideas on, like, what
you guys are interested in,because you guys are the buyers,
you guys are the sellers, and Ithink it's better that you guys
(17:05):
shared those ideas with us sowe have a better understanding.
But, yeah, I think that's aboutit for this podcast.
I think we talked about all themain points and stuff, so do
you have anything else to add?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
No, no, all right, awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well, thank you guys.
So much for tuning in to SuitUp With Bias.
We'll figure out the episodelater on, but thank you guys.
Bye guys.
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