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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, I always
tell my sellers, you know the
buyer is not buying your house,the buyer is buying their house.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good point From real
estate to the market as a whole,
which then sometimes willaffect the technology.
Right, you know the real life.
We all learn in different ways.
If you think about it, wayneDyer might not attract everybody
, and everything in between.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Mission was really to
help people just to reach their
full potential.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The Brad Wiseman Show
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And now your host, Brad Wiseman.
All right, we're back.
Oh man, Hugo, it seems likeforever.
Right, Welcome back.
Thank you, buddy.
Say something in Irish now.
Say something in Irish now.
I could say cilantro, whichmeans cheers, and you're never
supposed to click the glass,they say.
(00:49):
No you don't click the glass.
They actually just kind of golike this and they look at each
other.
It's like a look underneaththeir glasses kind of a thing.
But yeah, so we got a new showtoday, which is great.
I'm excited because I'm back,got a new show.
And I'm excited about this newshow because we have a guy.
His name is Adam Brower.
(01:09):
I've been looking at hisinformation for quite some time.
They call him the spiritualrealtor.
Hugo and I were just talking tohim and I'm excited to have him
on the show because he doesstuff a little different.
He's doing some things withSage, where he goes through
houses after they're sold andwill clean out the bad energy in
the air, if you want to call itthat.
He also has some great storiesabout homes that he sold in the
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Los Angeles area, also has astory about a treehouse home,
which sounds a little differentwhen I say the word treehouse,
but this thing was huge.
I saw pictures of it.
I saw a walkthrough.
It actually burned in the firesthat happened out in California
.
So we're going to go throughthat story too, but you know
we're going to get them on hereright away.
Let's talk to Adam Brower.
How are you doing, adam?
Hey, brad, thanks for having me.
(01:52):
I'm doing great.
Good, good, you are thespiritual realtor.
Did you know that.
I've been told.
You've been told.
You've been told, yeah, causethat's what I saw on your
website, so somebody put that inthere.
I don't know, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, I um, I like to
bring spirituality into
residential real estate.
You know, the home is a sacredplace and things a little bit
differently.
To sanctify a home and clearthe energy.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I agree with you on
that.
You know it's.
It's funny.
You know, did you ever havesomebody asked you?
Did somebody pass away in thehouse?
You know that kind of stuff allthe time, yeah and well I get
it too and and it's, it'sinteresting nobody.
The only time that questioncomes up actually is if you say,
hey, by the way, it's in astate or it's in a trust or
whatever, and right away thequestion will come well, did
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they pass in the house, you know?
So that shows you that we allcare about the energy in the
house.
You know what I mean.
We might not be superstitious,we might think it's not a big
deal who cares, but why is itthat anytime, I don't care who
they are, they will ask thatthey pass in the house.
So if you're not, if you don'treally care about that, why
(02:59):
would you ask the question?
Right A?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
hundred percent.
It's a material fact.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, yeah.
So what?
So what is that?
What got you into this, like,what got you to a point we're
going to go into so manydifferent things with you here
on the show, cause we we got alot of stuff we talked about
before we went live.
But what is the whole thingwith like, with the sage, like,
how did you get into that?
Was it just to differentiateyourself or did you really feel
there's a need for that?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Um, I definitely feel
like there's a need for it, for
sure, I'll tell you, like theGenesis of this whole thing.
So I have a morning practiceand every morning I'll either
use sage or Palo Santo, I'llburn it and I'll I'll clean
myself energetically.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And then do some
breath work, I'll do some
meditation.
It's a nice kind of clean startto the day, energetically, yeah
, and I also clean the energy ofmy home with sage regularly.
Oh, wow, yeah, and so, um, Ican personally most people may
not be aware of it, but I, youknow they can feel an energy of
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a home.
You know, I've gone into spacesbefore and I'm like, wow, it
feels really heavy or doesn'tfeel good to be in here.
It's the worst when I come out.
And so I'll always ask theowners, obviously, why are you
selling, like what's what'sgoing on?
And if there's been likedomestic violence, a divorce, a
death, something like that, I amwhat I call a home healer.
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It's somebody who comes in whobrings like drums and smudges
and sage and feathers.
It sounds super woo woo becauseof it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And they'll.
They'll bang the drum andthey'll walk around and you know
, sometimes I'll walk with themand I won't tell them what
happened in the house.
Sometimes, especially early on,I kind of wanted to test them
to see just how intuitive isthis person.
So I bring them in the house.
We'd go room by room and thisone person specifically would
say take that statue out of thisroom, take this mask out of
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this room.
Ooh, you know there's a lot ofanger here.
I'll leave them alone,depending on the size of the
home, for an hour, two hours.
I'll come back.
The place feels completelydifferent.
I mean, I did this in one homespecifically where there was
domestic violence, and I'mtalking like we had to change
the locks, I had to hire privatesecurity, get lawyers involved.
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It was really bad.
And the second I walked intothe home.
The first time I was like oh,this.
I was like this is going to betough to sell.
This doesn't.
This feels horrible, like itkind of smells weird too.
You know, I don't know aboutthis.
I brought her in an hour.
90 minutes later I come back.
The place feels incredible.
I do an open house that weekendand I literally had people.
(05:43):
I literally had people sayingwow, the energy feels so good in
here, oh, wow, laughing.
So I was like if you were herethree days ago yeah right, it
wasn't so good, it wasn't sogood, yeah, it wasn't so good.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
That's crazy, you
know, and there's something to
that, you know.
I think also, you know, whenthere's a lot of times people go
into a house and they're like Ijust I don't know what it is,
it just doesn't feel right.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yep, exactly.
I always tell clients I'm likeyou know, we, everyone, we have
our metrics.
We know how much homes areworth based on comps, blah, blah
, blah.
But how do you feel in the home?
Spend a little time in there.
How do you feel physically?
How does your body feel there?
How does your nervous systemfeel?
Do you feel calm and relaxed?
Do you feel anxious?
(06:27):
You know the views areimportant.
Is it surrounded by nature?
Are you in a high rise?
How do you feel?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, it's like you
know.
I always tell my sellers, youknow the buyers is not buying
your house, the buyer is buyingtheir house.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So let's clean the
energy of the house.
So they're not feeling I don'ttell them this, but so they're
not feeling.
You especially, you know,sometimes buy, sometimes sellers
like have a stranglehold on theproperty, like if they grew up
in the house, like theysometimes sabotage their own
sales.
And so I've.
I've done this a few timeswhere I brought the home healer
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into the house to sage it andthen I realized, oh wait, it's
not the home, it's the cellar.
So then I'll do like a privatecoaching session.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
We can clean the
cellar's energy up a little bit
and relax them, and it usuallyhelps he just lights them up,
you know, with a put sage aroundtheir head or something I
remember.
Actually you could do too.
You could shove sage in theirpillow at night and then that
way they don't even know it'shappening.
It's just there and you've gotto watch with fires out there
where you are, you can't beburning weeds, this stuff, all
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the time.
You've got to be careful.
You guys have an issue outthere with that.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
We've got
professionals?
Yeah, you've got professionals.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's right.
That's right.
No, I think that's awesome andI think there's something to
that.
I really do.
I think there's something tothat because I know that you
know a home is.
There's so many memories,there's so much energy in a
house.
You know, when it's been livedin, especially like you know 20,
30, 40 years and the housetakes on kind of that energy.
(08:00):
You know it takes on that thatfeel.
Do people look at you sometimeslike you're nuts or no?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
yes yes, yes, but I
also, I like choose what I want
to share with certain peoplebecause some people are like
this, dude this, this dude's offhis rocker man.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh man, that's
hilarious in my house.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't know what
smelled good.
I don't know what's going onwith this guy I think he's just
smoking a joint.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I don't know, I don't
smell any sage.
It's part of my feeling yeah,yeah, right, no.
But I'm sure some people arelike, come on, yeah, really, you
know, but that's cool so.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So people who I I
believe are not into it, I won't
mention it.
Yeah, but if the energy isreally, really bad, I'll do it
anyway in service of the sale.
Yeah, I know it'll help them,whether or not they know it yeah
, now, can you smell that.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Then, when you come
back in the house, can you smell
this?
You can smell the sage, right?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
you can, but I also
like I mean, I'm my own, so I'm
my own brand of sage and also myown brand of candles own brand
of candles.
You said yeah, I created somecustom scented candles awesome.
Yeah, so for the open houses,I've got the candles burning.
I like.
I feel like when someone toursa house, it's a multi-sensory
experience.
It's not just, of course, howdoes it look, how does it feel,
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how does it smell.
Yeah, you know people, whetheror not they're aware of it, you
walk into a home.
A home smells bad.
You're probably not getting anoffer on that home you're right,
but you know, if the homesmells incredible and the light
is great and the flow is openand maybe there's a cross breeze
, you know there's a higher likeevery little advantage, why not
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use?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
it?
Yeah, did you ever find thatwith food, cultural food, where
where there's, you know,somebody cooks in a certain way,
you know, and it's nothingwrong with it's, just their
culture has has food thatsometimes will hang out in the
house a little bit longer thanthan it needs to?
And specifically, yes curry.
Uh yeah, that kind of stuff,yeah, and it's, and it's tough,
because if somebody comes in anddoesn't like that kind of food,
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or even garlic, garlic can dothat too.
Um yeah, so it's interestingdown.
Would the sage and thosecandles help out with
neutralizing those, those?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
odors, for sure, I
mean the candle more than the
sage, I would say, becauseusually it's running for hours.
You know it's an open house.
Um, the sage will help out, forsure, a little bit, but
sometimes the smell gets intothe carpet.
If there's carpet, you know,sometimes it gets into the wall.
So I always like to tell mysellers let's create a
completely neutral environment,color palettes, neutral, no
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weird smells, no weird energies,like I want the buyer to
project their lifestyle ontothis property, so we don't want
polarizing artwork.
Or I mean, I had this selleronce who, uh, I'm Jewish, I can
say this.
You know, he had this weird,almost like Holocaust art.
He's Jewish too.
He had like weird art and likeI had multiple buyers who were
(10:59):
really offended by the art and Itold him and he was just like,
oh, they got bad taste.
And I was like, no, actuallyyou have bad taste.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, the Holocaust
thing on the wall is not a good
idea.
It's got to be neutral.
And here the thing I always sayabout that you're selling your
house.
Take it down.
You know what I mean.
You're going to be taking itdown at some point.
Just take it down.
Take it down now.
Why have taking it down at somepoint, just take it down take
it down now.
Why?
Why?
Why have controversy here?
I just don't get it.
No, I I agree with you on thatstuff.
(11:27):
You know it's it's you got tobe careful, because some people
will will definitely have anissue with that.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I get it, of course
yes, I had a situation recently
um, I don't know, do you havetrader joe's where you are?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
we do, but we don't
not where I'm living, right here
in redding Pennsylvania, but wehave them around the area.
Yes, they're awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
In LA there are these
huge murals inside Trader Joe's
and so I had clients do areally cute, cool mural.
The woman who does those muralsdid their mural.
She, she commissioned.
You know, it's really cool in anursery and I brought the
stager in and I always like tojust hire people who are the
best at what they do.
I don't micromanage.
(12:06):
I'm like you do what you do,great.
Yeah, I'm going to let you runwith it.
And she was like house is great.
You know, there's this onenursery where you got like a
chipmunk reading a book on aflower.
It's cool.
But you know, if the buyer, ifyour buyer, comes in, they don't
have young kids.
It rubs them the wrong way alittle bit.
I would recommend you paint theroom.
(12:28):
So I talked to the sellers andI was like, let's just, the new
buyer is going to paint the roomanyway.
Let's just speed that up 30days and let's paint it for them
.
Yeah, right, right, how'd thatgo over?
Did it go over?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
well, I mean, they
agreed we were getting an offer
in today, so there, you go there, you go, yeah, I think well,
and it's that's that coaching,that's that that that you know,
I think a lot of times agentsfeel like, because they feel it,
because they hired us, thatwe're supposed to be yes, men,
we're not.
We're there to to coach and togive the guidance that they came
to us for.
(13:01):
You know, we're not going toagree with everything they say.
That's not why you hired me.
You don't hire somebody to sayyes, you hire somebody to to
guide you and give the ideasthat you don't have, and I think
it's pretty interesting howthat works.
But yeah, let's go into someother topics here.
I love all that stuff though.
It's really cool.
Let's talk about your market.
I think people are here they'regoing to hear you talk about
this stuff.
(13:21):
Let's talk about what type ofhouses you're talking about here
.
This is not a in our area here.
This is not a $500,000 house.
We're talking some big homeshere that you're dealing with
homes here that you're you'redoing, you're dealing with
totally.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So I do like full
spectrum.
You know I'll do million dollarstarter homes in la.
That's a million, that's astarter home which is funny.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's a top price
for us crazy market.
Yeah, it's amazing.
So you do a million dollarstarter homes, okay, and then
you and I do 50 million dollarender homes, wow, wow, amazing,
um, so full, full spectrum.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I personally like you
know the 25, $50 million homes.
There are very few buyers forthose homes.
They're also the most expensivehomes to market.
They're also the most fun homesto market yeah, they also a lot
of time.
So I like to, you know, havekind of a portfolio of listings
where I say I've got a bunch of,you know, starter homes, I've
got some, you know, medium andluxury homes, I've got some high
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end luxury homes.
But you know my background isin entertainment, so I have a
lot of entertainment clients,celebrity clients and, you know,
on the higher end, those are alot of people who I'm dealing
with.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Do you ever feel
intimidated by some of those
people that are like do you everget that intimidation feeling
at all by some of these higherend?
You know they're billionairesor whatever they are.
You know that's.
That's a different clientele.
Very different.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I mean when I first
started dealing with that kind
of clientele, uh definitely wasnervous and um, and I was more
subservient.
Now I'm just kind of likelisten, I'm great at what I do,
I know it, yeah, and so I meetthem kind of on that level and
get more respect, I thinkbecause of it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, well, and
you've been doing it and I've
seen your videos and stuff.
It's amazing and what you'redoing let's talk about.
So there is a house that youhave that's listed for $50
million.
How do you price that that?
I mean, how do you sit thereand go, okay, this is worth 50
million because there's no otherhouse that's like that anywhere
.
It's it's, it's its own thing,you know, is that that's got to
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be tough so it's a unicornproperty it is.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's an andalusian
style palace.
It's on 3.6 acres, nine bed bed, 18 bath, 21,000 square feet,
with the best pool probably inAmerica.
Mansion Global is actuallydoing an article this week on
this property and the pool asthe best pool in America.
Wow, it's.
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It's got aading pool that opensup, goes past three massive
waterfalls, a grotto, a hot tubinto a lazy river, past a
massive water slide, past a koipond, under two bridges, into an
infinity pool.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Okay, we call those
water parks, we call those water
parks in our area.
Do they give you like an innertube?
The guy like tells you when togo and all that.
You know what I mean?
Is that that kind of that?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
is crazy that's crazy
.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It's almost football
field long.
Oh my gosh, that's incredible.
But this, that's the kind ofstuff that you see.
That's another question.
I got a question do you stillit does?
Do these homes still impressyou?
Like?
Do you still get in a home andgo holy crap, I've never seen
that before.
Yeah, I mean, it brings thesmiles to my face.
Yeah, it makes me let's justlaugh talking about it.
(16:43):
Yeah, just like what?
Yeah, it's kind of like.
Yeah, because somebody thoughtof it, but it's not just the
thought, somebody actually paidto have it done, which is
incredible yeah, the architectis richard landry.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
He did mark walberg's
place out here, kardashians, dr
dre, uh, he's known as the kingof the mega mansion.
Wow, so he's done in europe, inin asia.
He did.
I don't know what the price was, but it's for one of the
wealthiest people, families andin china and it it looks like
Versailles, it's like it's anunbelievable.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
And so, yeah, it blew
my mind.
When I first saw it, I was just.
The views alone are likespellbinding.
You can see from downtown allthe way into the ocean.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Unbelievable,
unbelievable.
I got a question.
So the buyer's a differentbuyer, the seller is a different
seller in that price range.
You know they're.
They're both thinking they arebetter than the other.
Probably, um, I would think,right, and because if you have
that kind of money, it's adifferent ball game and you're
going to have.
You know you're, it's going tobe, um, zip, pulling your zipper
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down and showing who's isbigger and that kind of a thing.
And so how do you know?
Typically, they're working witha buyer agent, correct?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, like at that
level, like almost 100%.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, that's what I
thought, Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Even if they call me
directly and I tour it for them
directly.
Yeah, I've never had asituation where they're like,
hey, can you represent me?
Yeah, it's usually like I'lltour it for them.
There's no agent, no mention ofan agent, and then if they like
it, they're like okay, my agentwill be in touch.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, yeah, well,
that happens.
Yeah yeah, that's weird.
You never mentioned that before.
I just spent four hours touringthe house with you.
Yeah, no, so so it basicallyyou have the same situation we
get, but going back to it, sothat must be very difficult.
Now is there then attorneysinvolved, of course?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yes, a hundred
percent.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So, um, there are
attorneys involved Totally.
Um depends on, you know, when I, when I got this listing, I
told the seller I said, listen,very, this is a unicorn property
.
Very, very specific.
Um, I and what I did is Iactually pull.
I, I was like these are thebuyer archetypes, the kinds of
buyers I think who wouldpurchase this home.
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You know, I think it could be aforeign family,
multi-generational, that wantsto live under one roof.
Um, could be asian, middleeastern high likelihood,
especially with the architecture, maybe, maybe russian, you know
, could be, uh, you know, asomeone like a tech billionaire
who had a massive exit.
(19:20):
Could be an entertainment.
You know, not very fewcelebrities can afford this home
Isn't that funny.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So even celebrities
at 50,.
So 50 million is definitelylike a whole different level
than like 10 million or 15million.
That's a different level,different level, Cause it's like
million.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That's a different
level, different level, because
it's like, how many buyers arethere?
Yeah, for this, yeah, and.
And so you know one thing thatI've done marketing wise.
I've uh, it's called geofencing.
I've drawn digital fencesaround like the top 10 private
airports in the world andcertain businesses.
So, yeah, you know anyone who'sflying private.
They had a cookie on theirphone.
(19:57):
They get my, my ad.
Oh, then I get a phone call andthey happen to have a patient,
but I'm cool with that.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, but that's okay
.
You're there to.
You're there to cause theproperties as hell period.
I mean, that's, that's whatit's about, whether or not it's
your buyer or not.
And in those homes, I wouldthink, even even if you wouldn't
want to represent that person,because that's to me would be a
legal nightmare.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, major conflict.
Yeah, funny, because the selleron that property is actually
like he's okay with it as longas you know there's a reduction
in commission.
Of course, sure, of course.
Yeah, which is?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
okay, which is okay.
Yeah, it's crazy.
And then you were saying too,like the amount of marketing
that you have to do.
I mean, you're advertising toother countries.
You're not just advertising tothe market around there, you're
advertising to other countries,and that's that's the thing that
blows my mind with that.
You've got to be in the topmagazines, you've got to be
everywhere You've got to beeverywhere.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It's beyond MLS ads.
You know I did a thing atformula one in Miami.
Know I did a thing at formulaone in Miami.
You know, um, like, I feel likedigital is probably ad dollars
better spent because it'strackable at least.
So I do, I mean, I do domagazine ads also.
Yeah, um, I don't, I mean, andI I yeah, I don't know if I've
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had great success with magazineads, but I I do it cause you
know it's for the seller not foryou.
For the seller.
Yeah, exactly, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yes, exactly, it's
still the same.
Nothing has changed.
It's just funny because it'sreally for the seller to see
their, to see their home, and Iget that.
And then every once in a whilesomebody could be on a plane
somewhere looking at theAmerican airlines magazine, and
there's the house.
Who knows?
You know, you don't know itcould be, it could happen, you
know.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I always like to say,
like all right, how many hours
do we have in the quiver, andlet's shoot all of them.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Within yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And see what's next.
Well, let's put the net out big.
Put that net out as big as youcan Almost almost almost knock
something off my table here.
That was close, but yeah.
So let's go on the but yeah solet's go on.
The other thing that you toldme about just before we went
live is you're selling an island.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Hugo did you hear
that I did yeah, Selling an
island.
I'm excited to hear about it,yeah this is interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I got to say I don't
think I've ever met anybody that
was selling an island.
What's the price of the?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
island.
Let me tell you about theisland.
And why don't you guess?
Oh, about the island.
And why don't you get?
Oh, build, build up the valuefirst, and then we'll talk about
the price.
That sounds good.
I, I got that.
Go ahead, tell me about thisisland.
It's on a protected uh atoll infrench polynesia.
The island's called motu fara,so one thing that separates this
island from almost any otherisland in the world is that it's
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only eight.
So on the adjoining island isan international airport called
rangaroa airport.
It's on the rangaroa at all.
So this island is a threeminute boat ride and a seven
minute car ride from that tarmac, so 10 minutes from touchdown
onto your own private dock onyour own island but so there's a
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wait, so there's a bridge thatgoes to it, because you said
your car.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Are you talking that
it's a ferry that takes you?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
so yeah, well, the
island comes with a boat.
It comes with it's called aconga, so it's a motor.
Pretty funny it's got a staffof six and a chef.
He's not michelin star chef,but he worked at a michelin star
restaurant in Paris.
We'll let that slide.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
What's that?
I said we'll let that slide.
He's all petty.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Um, so it's a three
minute boat ride from Motufar to
Rangaroa and then like sevenminutes from the on in car, from
the tarmac on.
Rangaroa to the dock Wow.
Um in car from the tarmac onRangaroa to the dock Wow Eight
hours, 15 minutes direct from LA.
The island is about four acres,two homes, two pools, a
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bungalow for the staff, fullyturnkey solar powered water,
rain recapture system.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
What about electric?
Is it all solar?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
uh, it's solar, but
then there's also electric as
well.
The solar was installed.
I want to say the major upgrade, renovation in 2023, major.
There's a boathouse as well,and what do you think something
like that might cost?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
oh my gosh.
Well, the last time I I did amarket analysis on a on an
island was a while ago, um, butno, I'm.
I mean, I think that's in thatsame range as that 50 million
dollar house.
It has to be like 50 million,75 million, I mean I I don't
even know, believe it or not,for only 15 million euros.
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Wow so it.
So it's about 20, some Americanmaybe.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, a little bit
less.
Wow, I think it's a great deal.
Most of the island is about ameter above sea level, so that's
nice.
Yeah, what?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
about do hurricanes
come there, or typhoons or
anything like that?
Do hurricanes come there, ortyphoons, or anything like that?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
In the last 20 years
there's been one tsunami that
had very minimal, like almostvery, very minimal.
So in terms of weather it'sgreat.
It's also a great incomeproperty, so it's currently
being short-term rented.
And one thing that I didn'tknow in France they have
different types of lendingproducts and they have a lending
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product.
I can't talk specifics becauseI don't fully understand it, but
my understanding is you know,if you were to put 50% down and
50% loan, there's a way for thisloan.
Like you put a certain amountinto the loan, which appreciates
over time, and it's way betterthan any product I've heard of
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in the States.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, Interesting,
Very interesting, and you got
brought in on this cause you'renot a realtor in France, so you
brought.
You got brought in from anotheragent, uh in France that saw
what you were doing in uh,California and decided to to
bring you on.
I think that was smart for himon his part it was a blessing on
my part, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I mean, he discovered
me uh, I think he saw my
website and then checked me outon instagram and it was one of
those instagram dms where I waslike is this guy for real?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
yeah, you're selling
talent yeah and no, yeah, well I
would be like okay, yeah, thisis definitely some kind of spam.
You know what I I mean?
It's like, yeah, my, my aunt,died.
We're looking for a person togive the money to so we can send
it to Russia.
You know what I mean?
Those things that aredefinitely never true, obviously
.
But yeah, so, the island thing.
So what, what have you noticedabout selling an island?
It's a little different.
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I mean, this is a verydifferent thing.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Very different, um,
very challenging.
Honestly, not a lot of people,I mean, an Island is not a
necessity.
Nobody like needs to buy anIsland, so this is the type of
trophy property that masters ofthe universe purchase, yeah, and
so like, how do you reach thosemasters of the universe?
You know, private aviation isone way.
Yep, uh, I recently joinedrealm global, which is, uh, I
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mean, the strategy has beenessentially, not only is it an
amazing forever vacation orvacation home for a family that
lives in the US or maybeAustralia, it's a great income.
It's actually like alegitimately great income.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I was going to ask
that I mean, you're allowed to
rent it out, right, it's notlike.
I mean, well, it's your island,so I guess you can do whatever
the hell you want.
I mean, but yeah, you can rentit out.
So when you're not there, itcould be Airbnb or whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, absolutely Wow,
that's amazing it's being
rented out currently and afterthe upgrades, at a nice premium.
So if someone's looking for anisland, I got a guy.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
You are the guy.
You are the guy for islands, solet's just talk, talk before we
wrap this up here.
Let's talk about we talkedabout your island, which was
really cool.
That was a big thing.
I've never talked about sellingan island before, so that was
cool.
Let's talk about the tree.
I saw that this, this treehouse, home, whatever you call
it.
That was on one of your YouTubethings, I think.
Whatever I saw in there and thehouse was just amazing,
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spectacular, is so unique andeach room had like opening open,
like walls, windows, whatever,spectacular.
I started talking to you aboutthis before we went live and I
wanted to just have you say talkabout the house and then talk
about what happened.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, so incredibly
special house.
Uh, my clients bought it beforeI knew them um about six years
ago.
Long celebrity history of thehouse, so it was.
Olivia Newton John's house, thenit was Sally Fields house, then
it was the CEO of my space'shouse, then it was James Gunn.
We directed guardians of thegalaxy.
He runs DC, dc comics, yep, um.
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And then they bought it fromhim and it was him and it was
like an English country home ona little over three acres
amazing views, protectedequestrian stables, really cool
property.
But it was an English countryhome that was dated and so their
vision initially.
They came in, they brought inthis interior designer, really
talented guy, ryan White, to buysome custom furniture and as
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they were talking and Ryan's agreat salesman the project went
from like custom furniture tolike, let's customize this room,
let's, instead of a couch,let's do a built in cuddle,
puddle couch for 40 people.
I saw that.
So the whole thing transformed.
It turned into a down to theabsolute studs complete
renovation.
They flew in a team frombelgium, belgium to do like
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belgian plaster job on the wall.
I don't know what the price persquare foot was, but I for real
it was like 1500 oh my gosh itwas the finest.
it was called, like calcuttapalazzo, extra Stone.
They had shower chambers builtwith Juliet balconies, so we
flew a drone through the showerinto the house.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I saw it.
Amazing marketing.
Keep going, amazing marketing.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
So we got into
Architectural Digest.
A lot of excited people gotinto escrow.
A lot of excited people got itinto escrow and I think it was
January 9th.
The house burnt and when I sayit burned, I don't know what the
temperature was.
I've walked it since we'reabout to do another YouTube
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video of the before and afterand it incinerated.
I'm talking like the steel wastwisted and melted.
The only thing left was thislike ceramic fireplace.
Everything else just completelyvaporized.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Wow yeah it's so sad
was that during the fires, the
big fires that went through, orwas that a separate fire?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
this was the
palisades fire which I believe
started uh like january 7th,then I think january 8th.
It was tuesday, unbelievable,and I think it turned on
wednesday.
You know, we all got um.
I was, I was in spain, I wasevacuated, they got evacuated.
I I mean, the fire was nowherenear that neighborhood.
Yeah it just the, the gusts.
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I don't know if it's like 70miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
It was insane yeah, I
saw a lot of it on the news.
I yeah, you have a 70 mile anhour wind, with fire.
I mean it's just devastating.
And then you have all thattimber, you have all that, you
know it.
Just it's yeah, you don't havea chance, you really don't.
That's amazing story.
And it's interesting because Ijust started talking about that
house and then you're like it'sgone so, and you said that
they're looking to to rebuild,right.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
They're looking to
rebuild Yep, they've already
hired, you know, all the people.
I don't know if they're doingthe same plan or they're doing
something else.
Um, so I'm not sure and it'sgoing to take a long time, but
it's a shame.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, it's a shame,
it's a shame.
Is there anything else that youwanted to talk about before we,
before we end this?
I just think it was.
It was great.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
well, you have a
question I have a question, you
got a question.
What's your question?
So, uh, what are some of thestrangest stories that you have?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
oh yeah, you had some
strange stories in this
endeavor yes, give us a coupleof those I'll give you.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I'll give you start
off with this one.
Uh, so I used to be inentertainment friend of mine,
talent manager me.
This was like probably fiveyears ago.
He says listen, I've got afriend of mine, this rock star,
he's looking to sell his housein the valley.
It's on two acres.
Are you interested?
Of course I'm interested.
So I drive up there.
It's like 10 am on a Tuesday.
I get there a few minutes early.
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Delivery driver is like droppingoff cases and unnamed rockstar
comes out.
He's got like purple hair, bluehair or something, and he's
like oh hey, are you Adam?
I'm like, yeah, he's like,opens up one of the boxes, it's
vodka.
He's like you want one.
And I was like who am I to denythis man a gift?
Yeah, I mean, give me somevodka.
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Of course, yes, put it in thecar, get inside.
Um, my friends there they openthe vodka and start pouring
vodka and orange juices.
And you know he's like you wantone.
And I was like, of course Idon't.
It's 10 am ona tuesday, butsure it's like, it's like a it's
like a morning drink.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I mean, come on, it's
orange juice, come on, come on,
let's be classy guys.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
He's getting wasted.
We're touring the property likea little disarray but it's a
very cool, huge lot Like, and aswe're touring he's telling me
some wild stories and like wildpartying stories and the end of
the tour he's like you know, I'dlove to show you my favorite
room in the house.
Uh, do you have a few moreminutes?
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I'm like yeah, no problem, Ihaven't even shown him like a
listing presentation book oranything.
So he takes out a special setof keys, oh boy, puts it into
this big box.
He opens the door and there'sred quilted leather all over the
walls.
There's a swing hanging from theceiling oh my gosh, you're
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kidding me and he's like this iswhere I have my fun and I'm
like, oh, okay okay, okay he'slike actually I want to show you
this video.
What's playing?
A video?
I'm not.
I'm not gonna say what was onthis video, because I it's a
wild video.
It's a wild video, it's notdisney is what you're saying
that's definitely not disney,it's not, it's not g or pg.
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um, all of a sudden the doorbursts open and three big guys
step in and my, my friend, themanager is his jaw kind of drops
and I'm just like who are theseguys?
They grab said rock star likeby the arms and they like leave
out the room.
And my friend's like he's likeI'll be right back and I was
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like okay, he leaves.
And I'm like I don't want to bein this dungeon.
No, I try to open the door butit's locked.
Oh geez, dungeon's locked.
I'm locked in a dungeon and Ilook up and there's a camera
that's on me in the dungeon andI'm like am I gonna be part of a
video?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
in here a minute past
.
Am I gonna be on the newstomorrow?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
there are no windows
in this dungeon and I'm just
like I really want to get out ofthis dungeon.
All of a sudden the door opens.
My friend's like let's go.
He's like you want sushi?
I was like, yeah, I'll havesushi.
That was it.
I'm like what the hell is goingon.
He's like well, so hisbandmates knew that he had this
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listing appointment at 10 am, sothey staged an intervention at
10.30 because they knew he'd bein the home.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
They're bringing him
to rehab.
Oh my gosh, so you were in themiddle of the intervention with
the case of vodka.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Well, hey, you know
what you helped him.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You took a bottle.
You, you were part of theintervention, you took a bottle.
That was very nice.
You did not let him have that.
Oh my gosh, dude, that's agreat story.
That's a great story.
I love it.
So you probably have many.
We got to get Brett, get youback on, just to talk about more
stories, adventures in realestate.
Unbelievable.
So how tell me how people getin touch with you out there?
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You know in in California andand you know like phone number
is it.
Is it a email me?
What's the best way to reachout to you?
Um email.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Adam at Adam Brown.
Instagram at Adam BrowerB-R-A-W-E-R.
If somebody wants to reach out,direct 310-279-8251.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Awesome, man, awesome
.
Thanks so much for being on.
What a blast.
That was a good over 30 minutes, believe it or not, and that
was a lot of fun.
So, yeah, thanks for being on.
We will talk to you real soon,all right, all right, thanks,
man.
So there you go, adam Brower,that was a great show.
What do you think, hugo?
That was fun, that was fun,great show.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
What do you think,
hugo, that was?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
fun.
That was fun.
Yeah, I mean, I'll tell youwhat the spiritual realtor.
We learned a lot from him.
We learned about saging a house, we learned about all kinds of
stuff, and then the story at theend was pretty, pretty amazing.
All right, that's about it.
We will see you next Thursdayat 7 pm.
Thanks for joining us again,all right?