January 21, 2025 • 31 mins
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My good friend Johny Pach, Realtor in Beverly Hills, shares his first hand story of the fires he witnessed! The devastating fires in Southern California have led to widespread destruction and a housing crisis, significantly impacting families, businesses, and community infrastructure. Listeners will gain insights into the personal stories of loss, the challenges of rental price surges, and the critical community responses to rebuild and recover from this catastrophe.
• Over 12,300 structures lost across various community sectors
• Personal accounts from families affected by the fires
• The role of community support in times of crisis
• Increased rental prices due to housing shortages
• Challenges faced with insurance and coverage
• The importance of keeping pets with their families during evacuations
• Long-term impacts on the real estate market and economy
• Understanding the shift in local dynamics and community resilience
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, guys.
No music, no fanfare, no,nothing.
We're actually live here today.
It's the Thursday and I wantedto get on here to talk to you a
little bit about what's going onout in California with the
fires.
I have an agent and actually afriend now.
Johnny Pash is his name.
He was on the show once before.
(00:23):
He works for Compass, or he's areal estate agent for Compass
Realty out there in BeverlyHills, california, and I thought
it'd be great to just touchbase with him to find out, uh,
what's going on, what does itlook like on the streets there?
What is happening with housing?
Um, and what, what are peopledoing, you know, to just survive
, because this is such acatastrophe, it's such a um, an
(00:45):
anomaly and um.
So I got Johnny on here.
We are actually live.
If you would have any questions, you can text me or call me.
Most likely text me would begreat, um, and we can answer the
questions.
But, johnny, how you doing bud?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Um all right actually , yeah, not too bad at all
Obviously deeply saddened bywhat's happened.
Since last Tuesday, I'vepersonally had around 52 clients
that have lost their homes.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Wait a minute 52 clients that have lost their
homes.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It's been some really difficult conversations, brad.
Obviously these families aredistraught and a lot of my
clients are developers and ifyou think about the process here
, they've purchased a greatpiece of land, let's say, just
(01:45):
off of PCH in Malibu,overlooking the ocean.
They have then waited probablytwo to three years to get their
plans approved to build anincredible home on that
coastline.
It's then taken them anothertwo years and they're just at
the process now of where theywant to sell the property and
unfortunately, a few days agocompletely burnt down and
decimated.
(02:05):
So every client has gotdifferent stories.
I've had clients which arefamilies who are dangerously
close to the fires and nearlylost their lives and they're
calling me up anxiously tryingto get rehoused and into some
sort of rental property or intosome sort of hotel accommodation
(02:28):
.
And here's the thing, they'velost everything.
So we are here at the Compassoffice and we're frantically
trying to gather them linen andclothes and, you know, food and
drink in some sort of cases.
So it's, yeah, it's a reallychallenging time.
(02:49):
It's been, um, it's been a bitof a stressful time but, um,
there's such a great sense ofcommunity here in Los Angeles.
Everybody's rallied together.
The fire department has justbeen unbelievable.
The fire department has justbeen unbelievable, the Red Cross
has been unbelievable and,unfortunately, a lot of people
are sleeping and housingthemselves within the Red Cross
(03:15):
volunteer unit, wow.
So yeah, it's been a difficulttime, but a real positive.
You know a positive, a positive, optimistic, upbeat attitude
from everybody here yeah, thatthat's incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You know, and this is the first time I'm actually
talking to somebody that's thereon the ground and and gone
through, that is experiencing it.
Um, you know, and I I feel foryour clients, I feel for all of
the people there.
You know we're on the otherside of of the country here and
you know we see everything thatother side of the country here
and you know we see everythingthat we see through the media
and, of course, you know storiesand things like that and a lot
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of actors and producers anddirectors and.
But there's also there's also alot of I would think there's
probably a lot of homes that arenot just the $20 million homes
or $10 million homes there's.
I know I know your prices outthere are a lot different than
ours, but is there a lot of youraverage sale price homes that
were destroyed also?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean the Palisades area isone of the most desirable
locations in Los Angeles to live.
So those properties, I mean themedium sales price over there
is probably about 1.5 to 2.5million, but then you're talking
2.5 million all the way up toabout 40 million over in that
(04:34):
area.
I mean, if you think about it,brad, I think it's something
like 12,300 structures have beenlost, and this is a mixture of
single-family homes,multi-family and especially
commercial, like mcdonald'schase bank, um, you know the
grove type of situation.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
big shopping malls, they've all just been completely
wiped off well and that's thepart that blows my mind, johnny,
is that I was just talkingabout this with with an agent
here in our office.
Is you know, your house burnsdown?
In a normal situation, um,you're, you're, you're kind of
the only person that is dealingwith something at that moment.
(05:18):
If it's a singular home burningdown, your, your, your stores
are still open, you can still goto mcdonald's.
It's terrible's tragic.
You've lost all your pictures,you've lost all your clothes,
but in this situation, what isso different is that you're not
going to Target because theTarget's gone, or you're not
going to Macy's.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You're not going to.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
McDonald's for a burger.
It's all gone.
And that's why, when they say12,000 structures, I think
people forget your church isgone, your daycare is gone, your
schools are gone.
That is like rebuilding a wholecity, all at once the full
infrastructure is gone.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's just a toxic waste dump over there right now.
It's.
It's damaging, you know.
You know the, the nature thatwas around those beautiful
places to live.
But, as you said, yeah, thecomplete infrastructure's gone.
Food, uh sorry, not food likewater, electricity, gas.
You know, even if your home hasmiraculously survived those
(06:23):
fires in those neighborhoods,what's the point?
Your neighbors are gone, yourwhole community is gone.
It's just so sad.
Some of these people have livedthere for many, many, many
years, um, and it's just really,really sad.
I mean, if you look behind me,right, so we're in the heart of
beverly hills here, but probablyabout five days ago it's a very
(06:45):
clear day today the air qualityis a lot better over here.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I was going to ask how is the air quality at this
point?
Is it getting better?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's a lot better.
It's a lot better.
This is a clear day here.
But you know, behind me lastweek, full of smoke, you can see
smoke bellowing over here toBeverly Hills because the
Palisades fire is so close, onthe doorstep of Brentwood, which
is that way, santa Monica, justthis way.
(07:16):
So it was coming in dangerouslyclose.
And you know, myself and thewife, we got evacuation notices
last week it was last WednesdayVery, very touch and go.
You might have heard about thesunset fire and you know we're
driving into Beverly Hills.
(07:37):
I'll just tell you a bit of astory.
We're driving into Beverly Hills.
We were just going to fill upthe car with some gas and just
get some food for the evening.
We're driving back because welive about eight minutes that
way and this is kind of gettingmore into your kind of West
Hollywood Hancock Park type ofneighborhood.
But we're on the doorstep ofBeverly Hills.
(07:58):
We're driving back and then I'm, we're all on like a group
message and one of my friendssays oh my God, running Canyon's
on fire.
And I showed it to my wife likeno way.
And as we've turned left topull into the corner of our
apartment there is a giantfireball to the left of us.
Running Canyon is about threemiles away from our apartment.
(08:22):
You know you always seeeverybody's influencer pictures
and videos on top of RunningCanyon looking over the city.
I generally hike up there quitea fair bit and as we're turning
into the apartment it's on fireand it felt like it was just
next to you.
So, we hopped up to the top ofthe roof.
All of our neighbors are therein the roof and just looking
(08:45):
dead ahead at this giantfireball and it was chaos and so
it became real for you at thatpoint.
Really real yeah yeah, we packedup a suitcase and we were ready
to get a flight out of therethat evening to get back to the
UK.
But then we can.
(09:06):
We were getting the evacuationnotices but you couldn't
evacuate because the freewaysare all closed.
It was pandemonium on the roads.
Nobody could move in the roadso you couldn't drive out of
there.
Lax were cancelling a lot oftheir flights because the air
quality, the smoke, was so bad,so it was touch and go at one
(09:29):
point.
Thankfully they they put thatfire out because it was becoming
dangerously close to the sunsetstreet and hollywood boulevard.
You know, the famous streetwith all the hollywood stars yep
, I've been there a long timeago.
Oh man, that was on the verge ofgetting completely wiped out.
If they didn't contain thatfire, it would have been a bit
(09:52):
of a difficult situation.
And then, when you cross SunsetBoulevard and Hollywood
Boulevard, you then hit a wholerow of houses and then that was
where we lived there with ourapartment building.
So it was pretty scary.
They managed to contain that.
But, brad, if you think aboutit right so far probably.
(10:17):
I read up 40,695 acres haveburnt since last Tuesday, oh my
gosh.
And if you think about it, newYork City is 14,500, just New
York City.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Now imagine that land scale burning and getting wiped
out and they still haven'tcontained it.
I think the Palisades firebehind me, they've contained it
to about 20% now and the Eatonfire, the big Pasadena fire, the
Altadena one, that's about 33%contained but the fires are
(11:00):
still burning.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, but are they away from housing more now?
Is it more just more forestryor fields and stuff that's
burning now and the wind iscalmed?
Well, the wind jacked up alittle bit, I guess, the other
day.
Is it back down again?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
So the wind jacked up a little bit the other day,
which created the auto fire.
You might have seen that one,these embers with the wind.
These embers are travelingmiles in the air and they're
landing on a certainneighborhood.
It could be like 10 miles awayfrom the actual fire and it's
(11:40):
just igniting and starting up.
Um, unfortunately, we've seen,you know, some people um over
here that are are kind of arson,vandalizing and actually
starting the fires themselves aswell, which is stretching the
fire department even even more.
But, um, yeah, it's been alittle bit of a chaotic time,
(12:04):
but there is a movement there.
There is a real community feelwith everybody and everybody's
giving back and we're givingback to the fire department and
it's going to be okay.
Yeah, oh, it's going to be okay, it's going to be okay.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I know it'll be okay.
We're, we're, we're the U?
S and and, and you know, andalso our communities within our
country, I'm sure, are the sameas the UK.
When things like this happen,people come together.
It doesn't matter if they'reRepublican, democrat, whatever
race they are, it doesn't matter.
People come together because,at the end of the day, that fire
didn't care who you were.
(12:38):
I mean, it was not prejudice atall, it just went through and
wiped everything out and it'sjust so sad.
So, one of the things thatwe've been hearing on the news
and things like that I just wantto get some clarity on some of
this the rent gouging Is there alot of rent gouging?
And also, how do you displace,you know, let's just say, 5,000
homes?
Where do those people go?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I mean there've got to go somewhere else in the
country.
This is it.
I mean, you know, a lot of thechurches over here are letting
families come in and actuallyhouse in the church and actually
sleep in the churches.
Hotels are absolutely maxed outand booked up and there's
literally been, you know, hotelprices really jacked up as well.
Understandably for this typetype of situation, rent gouging
is a real difficult one.
Um the I'm getting inquiriesevery day from people that want
(13:33):
to sell or or rent their homeand they're absolutely jacking
up the price and I'm like, no,look, you just, you just cannot
be doing that.
These people are desperate.
They're willing to pay threetimes over the rental price just
to get safely housed with theirfamily.
They will pay whatever at thispoint.
It's a very desperate situationand we are having to have very
(13:56):
stern conversations with ourclients to say, hey, look, you
just can't be doing this.
To say, hey, look, you justcan't be doing this.
But then again you have a lotof clients like I have a listing
at the moment in Beverly Hillswhere the owner is offering his
car lease for anybody that'slost their car and he's offering
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his property fully furnished.
So there's little things likethat that are going on.
These know, these landlords aregiving back as much as they can
.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Unfortunately, that's the stuff we don't hear in the
news because that doesn't sell,that doesn't sell the news.
But yeah, I know that there'sprobably for every one situation
that is absolutely terrible andit's a human being taking
advantage of another human being.
There's probably anotherhundred stories of somebody
caring for somebody, you know,making sure their kids are okay,
(14:46):
finding them a car, you know.
Like you said, there's thosethings that just don't get
reported.
Uh, unfortunately.
Um, but that's, it'sinteresting.
What are the other things too?
What about pets?
Like, I think about my dog.
I mean, obviously I havechildren too, but you know, you
know we have our dog, is part ofour family.
Like, where are the pets going?
I mean, you could house people,but what do you do with all the
(15:07):
, all the?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
animals.
I know, and if you think thethousands of pets are actually
misplaced and lost right now andand possibly, you know, lost
their lives, which is sounfortunate.
We we went to the um Burbankequestrian center the other day.
250 horses there have have losttheir, their owners and and the
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stables of where they live andthey're trying to.
We were, you know, we weregiving them food and we were we
were changing their um, theirpaddocks and and just you know,
just being close to the horsesbecause they're deeply
distressed by what has happened.
They're real spiritual animalsand you can just tell by the
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look in their eye that they aredeeply saddened by what's
happened.
They really feel it and yeah,we were over there the other day
just trying to help out andvolunteer as much as we can to
help the horses.
And here's the thing, becausethe owners have lost their homes
and everything around them,they can't take on the horses
(16:19):
there and they're all trying tosell their horses in this
difficult time as well and getthem re-homed as best as
possible.
It's very, it's very sad forthe owners yeah, what about dogs
?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
what about dogs and cats?
I guess, because I'm a dogperson, I what about that?
I mean, is there, where arethey?
I mean, I love horses too,don't get me wrong, but I always
think about my.
I just think of, because wehave a dog and we have a big dog
, and I think about where wherewould he go?
You know what would happen?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I mean, they're sticking with the families they
are coming along for the ride.
Oh, that's good they aregetting into the hotels I'm.
All of my inquiries have beencan you please accept the pets
and a lot of the landlords areopen to that in in this
difficult time.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So no, they are sticking with the family
absolutely well, and you knowwhat that's therapy for the, for
the family too, I meanabsolutely you lose your, you
lose your family pet.
That's that.
That could be just just as badas everything else yeah, for
sure it's terrible.
And then one of the other thingsis um, we're hearing a lot
about the insurance and I know,hugo, you probably have
(17:22):
questions too.
I'm not sure if you go overhere to the side, you can't see
them, but yeah, so what aboutinsurance?
I mean, we're here, we'rehearing all kinds of stuff about
insurance.
Are a lot of people insured?
Are they not insured?
What do you?
What are you hearing on thestreet there?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Here's the thing, and I think what I my kind of 10
best tips for you know, dealingwith the insurance situation
right now, I'm going to send yousome content after this, um,
after this interview.
Great, but you know, justironically and weirdly, some of
the insurance companies pulledtheir insure insurance plans on
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these properties prior to thefires.
Um, a lot of the owners weren'taware of it.
A lot of the owners, a lot ofthe owners homes, they didn't
have insurance of the homes andthey they knew of that because
you'll see the news reportswhere they're desperately
standing in their front yardhosing down the whole home and
(18:22):
and the yards to you know, tonot let the fires take their
homes, and they're openly sayingto the news reporters that we
don't have any insurance on ourhome.
We have to save it as best aswe can.
Um, here's the other thing aswell the the insurance payouts.
You know they're minimal atbest.
(18:43):
So, either way, thesehomeowners are unfortunately
going to lose millions in theirhome devastation.
What I would say is andprobably a lot of the people
have already spoken to theirinsurance companies, but we're
(19:04):
trying to guide and instructanybody that's lost their homes
to call their attorney first andjust see where, just see where
you sit with that insurancecompany prior to dealing
directly with them.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well, and this is one of those things how many people
read their policy?
We were just talking about thistoday.
You know your policy comes.
It's this thick's this thick.
A lot of times you end up justputting it in a file somewhere.
You don't read it, you don'treally know.
And one of the things that Iheard recently and this was an
interesting one, I just heard ittoday is that a lot of policies
do not cover for fire fromnatural disaster.
(19:42):
They only cover for fire fromwithin your home.
So like if yeah, prettyinteresting, right, Pretty
interesting.
I just I just heard this froman agent today that they said
that they're finding out thatwhen people are looking at their
policies, if it's a naturaldisaster, if a fire is coming
through of the mountaintop orwhatever, and it takes your
house, that is a different claimthan if your toaster started on
(20:04):
fire and took your house.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
A hundred percent, and we you know, myself and the
wife we looked at our policy theother day and it was exactly
that.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No way.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Earthquake and fire doesn't cover you, right.
So, but, as you said, ifthere's a fire in your home,
your gas cooker, then you'recovered.
So it's a very interestingsituation.
So seek your attorney, get thebest advice you can before
moving forward with yourinsurance company on that.
(20:37):
And I know that it's.
It's good to see that a lot ofum, a lot of the homes they're
actually getting paid outalready.
Oh, that's good to see that alot of the homes they're
actually getting paid outalready.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Oh, that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Which is great.
But Are they getting paid out alittle bit too early before
they've even, you know, kind ofseeked that professional
advice,000 something, you said12.
They keep saying 12,000,something, structures.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But do we know how many actual living units were
actually destroyed?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So you said earlier around 5,000.
I think that's kind of like.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I thought that's what it was A reasonable number.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, I think that's kind of a reasonable number.
Think about this.
It's certainly going to shiftthe economy greatly because
they're estimating 250 to 275billion in damage.
You know, in damages that'sbeen wiped out by the fires.
That's an astronomical amount.
(21:46):
Can you imagine, so, what that'sgoing to be um doing to the
property market?
Because we're seeing such a biginflux of renters and people
desperately trying to buyanother home that you know
they're going to wait for theirinsurance payout but thankfully
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they have the cash to go and buysomewhere.
Quite initially, that side ofthe market has tremendously
picked up.
There was already a shortage ofrentals and people selling
their homes here.
The lack of inventory has beenquite difficult over the past
(22:31):
year, I would say.
So now you're going to seeproperty prices are going to
increase, um, you know, quitesignificantly, and these, yeah,
these unfortunate people arewill be paying over the odds to
to get them rehoused and intosomething quite quickly.
(22:54):
Yeah, um, will that bring downthe interest rates ultimately,
with higher property prices?
We will have to see.
Yeah, but, and right nowthere's a big advantage for
anybody looking to invest intola.
We're having a lot ofinternational inquiries from
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investors looking formultifamily investment
opportunities just because ofthe high demand for the rental
market right now.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And it could change your landscape there.
You could get to a point wheresome of the streets that used to
be single-family homes are noweach lot has a duplex, you know,
just because you get morepeople in a smaller area.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, the rebuild is going to be interesting.
Yeah, it will be.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
So let's go back to you're talking about the
inventory.
This is the thing I worry aboutwith you and other realtors.
I mean, mean, we obviously veryconcerned about all the people
in your area that lost a home,but we also have people like
yourself that this is their,this is their life, this is how
you make money.
My thing I can't imagine if welost 5 000 homes here in our
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county.
We would all be out of businesswow, it's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Thankfully what California.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
What are you selling?
You're selling just the piecesof land.
That's all that's there.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Here's the thing Myself and my team, we've been
hitting the phones today becausewe're getting so many inquiries
from our clients that have losttheir homes.
We've just been hammering thephones trying to find those
listings.
We are, we've just beenhammering the phones trying to
find those listings, but focuson areas of Palos Verdes,
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Newport Beach, Laguna Beach youknow beautiful neighborhoods
just outside of LA.
A lot of people want to moveback to Santa Monica.
Marina del Rey, you have topivot.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You have to pivot.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And you just have to yeah, you just have to pivot,
you have to pivot and you justhave to get grinding and see who
is now in a position to selltheir home.
All of the people we werespeaking to before the back end
of last year that were kind ofcontemplating selling their home
, waiting for the interest ratesto go down, and that type of
thing Now it's a differentconversation.
Now we really need your home,type of thing.
(25:16):
Now it's a differentconversation.
Now we really need your home.
Do you know, is there a desireto sell right now and a lot of
the time?
They're.
They're open to it, thankfully,and they're looking to move out
of the state or even out of thecountry.
So it's good, it's going to beinteresting, for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
you know palm springs , certain areas like this
surrounding Los Angeles, gotcha,yeah, and then what they could
do too is take the insurancemoney or whatever, move to there
and then over time, rebuildwhat you had and sell that.
You can sell that, then Build anew home and sell it, or build
(25:52):
a duplex or something else.
So there's definitely a lot ofpossibilities out there for sure
.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
and then and what's also happening now and I have to
help a few of my clients withum they're going to get the
insurance payout some of themalready have it and they're just
selling their land parcels andmoving on.
Yeah, so you know, they'regoing to come in with a big
clearance of their area and thenwhat you're going to see over
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the next few months is a lot ofland parcel listings popping up
all over the place.
Right, every agent over here isgoing to be selling land.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's right.
You're right.
That's what you're going to see.
You guys are going to be greatat selling land, because once
they get rid of all the toxicstuff and all the stuff that's
left over, you've got a lot tosell, and then the builders are
going to be gone.
Nuts, I mean, I should juststart a building company and
come over there and hang outwith you.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
That's it.
Yeah, absolutely, it's a goodidea.
It's a great idea.
I met a couple of developersthe other day for coffee and we
are really formulating a plan ofhow they can rebuild LA,
rebuild these structures andthese homes in a more
safety-efficient way, because Icouldn't believe it when I moved
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here, brad, so many of thesehomes are just made out of wood.
I'm just so not used to that.
Yeah, we're used to red brick,solid, you know, solid homes
with solid foundation, and overhere they're just made out of
wood.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
so if you get a big gust of wind ripping through
your neighborhood, you're you'rein trouble yeah, we're all
built out of wood here, but wedon't have we don't have the
threats that you have.
We don't have earthquakes, wedon't have wildfires, we don't
have any of that stuff.
So for us it's, you know, it'sa norm.
But you know, florida, theydon't build anything except for
(27:46):
cement.
It's all concrete because ofhurricane.
Absolutely, yeah well, I thinkthat's going to change.
Your building codes are goingto change there's.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
There's a lot of news on on there about the um, the
rebuild smart la 2028 on thelead up to the olympics.
I would, I would urge your,your listeners, to go and check
out some of those youtube videosand see their grandmaster plan
of what's going on there.
Makes you think, you know.
Suddenly we get all of thesecrazy fires in January, but you
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know, the most unprecedentedevent that's ever happened here
in LA.
And then there's a lot of newscoming out about this rebuild
smart LA that's going to happenon the lead up to the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
So it's kind of ironic in a way.
So the so the conspiracytheories are out there, I'm sure
.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Absolutely yeah, of course, With any occurrence
that's the way it happens.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Well, I'll tell you what I wanted to.
I want to say thanks.
We're going to wrap this upbecause I know you're busy
trying to help your clients andand we we're going to get moving
here, but I want to say thankyou for coming on here.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I really appreciate it and you know, we've become
friends via via online and emailand texts and things like that
and I want to say thanks forstaying in touch because you
know it's it's.
It's great to talk to you andI'm glad that you guys are
pushing forward.
You're, everybody's going to beokay.
It's just going to take sometime.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, definitely I'm going to.
I'm going to email you.
You know, lots of kind of likelike giving back links, how?
Yes, that's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I wanted to ask you that.
Actually, there's one of thethings I want to ask you before
we stop where can we, where canwe go to help and what's the
best way to help?
Because I know people on theEast coast are are definitely
helping.
We're sending you know things.
I know Keller Williams, thecompany that I I work for.
They've been there, they'recoming in and they're going to
(29:41):
be bringing lots of water andall kinds of stuff that we bring
, yeah, all that good stuff andand it's that's one of the
things that we give to also, butI'd love to know that.
So, get me all that information, cause I will definitely put it
out on all of our social media.
Uh, you know, instagram,facebook, whatever, and, uh, you
know, we wish you well.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Absolutely, Brad.
I'll keep you absolutelyupdated with all of this.
Really appreciate your time and, yeah, I'm going to send you as
much information as you can anduh, thankful for all of your
listeners and this greatinterview.
Thanks so much, man.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Thanks, buddy, I appreciate it.
Take care of yourself, allright.
Bye, bye, all right.
Thanks for watching thisspecial edition of the Brad
Wiseman show.
We appreciate it.
We will definitely be puttingall the information online on
social media with whether it beFacebook or Instagram,
everywhere that you can find us.
We're going to put informationabout this interview, about,
(30:32):
also, how you can help.
Johnny's going to get us allthat information, and if you
want to reach out to Johnny, youcan do that too.
We'll hook you up and get youdirectly to him.
Okay, that's about it, thanks.
Thanks for watching.
Have a great day.
All right, guys.
No music, no fanfare, no,nothing.
We're actually live here today.
It's the Thursday and I wantedto get on here to talk to you a
little bit about what's going onout in California with the
fires.
I have an agent and actually afriend now.
Johnny Pash is his name.
He was on the show once before.
(00:23):
He works for Compass, or he's areal estate agent for Compass
Realty out there in BeverlyHills, california, and I thought
it'd be great to just touchbase with him to find out, uh,
what's going on, what does itlook like on the streets there?
What is happening with housing?
Um, and what, what are peopledoing, you know, to just survive
, because this is such acatastrophe, it's such a um, an
(00:45):
anomaly and um.
So I got Johnny on here.
We are actually live.
If you would have any questions, you can text me or call me.
Most likely text me would begreat, um, and we can answer the
questions.
But, johnny, how you doing bud?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Um all right actually , yeah, not too bad at all
Obviously deeply saddened bywhat's happened.
Since last Tuesday, I'vepersonally had around 52 clients
that have lost their homes.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Wait a minute 52 clients that have lost their
homes.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It's been some really difficult conversations, brad.
Obviously these families aredistraught and a lot of my
clients are developers and ifyou think about the process here
, they've purchased a greatpiece of land, let's say, just
(01:45):
off of PCH in Malibu,overlooking the ocean.
They have then waited probablytwo to three years to get their
plans approved to build anincredible home on that
coastline.
It's then taken them anothertwo years and they're just at
the process now of where theywant to sell the property and
unfortunately, a few days agocompletely burnt down and
decimated.
(02:05):
So every client has gotdifferent stories.
I've had clients which arefamilies who are dangerously
close to the fires and nearlylost their lives and they're
calling me up anxiously tryingto get rehoused and into some
sort of rental property or intosome sort of hotel accommodation
(02:28):
.
And here's the thing, they'velost everything.
So we are here at the Compassoffice and we're frantically
trying to gather them linen andclothes and, you know, food and
drink in some sort of cases.
So it's, yeah, it's a reallychallenging time.
(02:49):
It's been, um, it's been a bitof a stressful time but, um,
there's such a great sense ofcommunity here in Los Angeles.
Everybody's rallied together.
The fire department has justbeen unbelievable.
The fire department has justbeen unbelievable, the Red Cross
has been unbelievable and,unfortunately, a lot of people
are sleeping and housingthemselves within the Red Cross
(03:15):
volunteer unit, wow.
So yeah, it's been a difficulttime, but a real positive.
You know a positive, a positive, optimistic, upbeat attitude
from everybody here yeah, thatthat's incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You know, and this is the first time I'm actually
talking to somebody that's thereon the ground and and gone
through, that is experiencing it.
Um, you know, and I I feel foryour clients, I feel for all of
the people there.
You know we're on the otherside of of the country here and
you know we see everything thatother side of the country here
and you know we see everythingthat we see through the media
and, of course, you know storiesand things like that and a lot
(03:50):
of actors and producers anddirectors and.
But there's also there's also alot of I would think there's
probably a lot of homes that arenot just the $20 million homes
or $10 million homes there's.
I know I know your prices outthere are a lot different than
ours, but is there a lot of youraverage sale price homes that
were destroyed also?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean the Palisades area isone of the most desirable
locations in Los Angeles to live.
So those properties, I mean themedium sales price over there
is probably about 1.5 to 2.5million, but then you're talking
2.5 million all the way up toabout 40 million over in that
(04:34):
area.
I mean, if you think about it,brad, I think it's something
like 12,300 structures have beenlost, and this is a mixture of
single-family homes,multi-family and especially
commercial, like mcdonald'schase bank, um, you know the
grove type of situation.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
big shopping malls, they've all just been completely
wiped off well and that's thepart that blows my mind, johnny,
is that I was just talkingabout this with with an agent
here in our office.
Is you know, your house burnsdown?
In a normal situation, um,you're, you're, you're kind of
the only person that is dealingwith something at that moment.
(05:18):
If it's a singular home burningdown, your, your, your stores
are still open, you can still goto mcdonald's.
It's terrible's tragic.
You've lost all your pictures,you've lost all your clothes,
but in this situation, what isso different is that you're not
going to Target because theTarget's gone, or you're not
going to Macy's.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You're not going to.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
McDonald's for a burger.
It's all gone.
And that's why, when they say12,000 structures, I think
people forget your church isgone, your daycare is gone, your
schools are gone.
That is like rebuilding a wholecity, all at once the full
infrastructure is gone.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's just a toxic waste dump over there right now.
It's.
It's damaging, you know.
You know the, the nature thatwas around those beautiful
places to live.
But, as you said, yeah, thecomplete infrastructure's gone.
Food, uh sorry, not food likewater, electricity, gas.
You know, even if your home hasmiraculously survived those
(06:23):
fires in those neighborhoods,what's the point?
Your neighbors are gone, yourwhole community is gone.
It's just so sad.
Some of these people have livedthere for many, many, many
years, um, and it's just really,really sad.
I mean, if you look behind me,right, so we're in the heart of
beverly hills here, but probablyabout five days ago it's a very
(06:45):
clear day today the air qualityis a lot better over here.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I was going to ask how is the air quality at this
point?
Is it getting better?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's a lot better.
It's a lot better.
This is a clear day here.
But you know, behind me lastweek, full of smoke, you can see
smoke bellowing over here toBeverly Hills because the
Palisades fire is so close, onthe doorstep of Brentwood, which
is that way, santa Monica, justthis way.
(07:16):
So it was coming in dangerouslyclose.
And you know, myself and thewife, we got evacuation notices
last week it was last WednesdayVery, very touch and go.
You might have heard about thesunset fire and you know we're
driving into Beverly Hills.
(07:37):
I'll just tell you a bit of astory.
We're driving into Beverly Hills.
We were just going to fill upthe car with some gas and just
get some food for the evening.
We're driving back because welive about eight minutes that
way and this is kind of gettingmore into your kind of West
Hollywood Hancock Park type ofneighborhood.
But we're on the doorstep ofBeverly Hills.
(07:58):
We're driving back and then I'm, we're all on like a group
message and one of my friendssays oh my God, running Canyon's
on fire.
And I showed it to my wife likeno way.
And as we've turned left topull into the corner of our
apartment there is a giantfireball to the left of us.
Running Canyon is about threemiles away from our apartment.
(08:22):
You know you always seeeverybody's influencer pictures
and videos on top of RunningCanyon looking over the city.
I generally hike up there quitea fair bit and as we're turning
into the apartment it's on fireand it felt like it was just
next to you.
So, we hopped up to the top ofthe roof.
All of our neighbors are therein the roof and just looking
(08:45):
dead ahead at this giantfireball and it was chaos and so
it became real for you at thatpoint.
Really real yeah yeah, we packedup a suitcase and we were ready
to get a flight out of therethat evening to get back to the
UK.
But then we can.
(09:06):
We were getting the evacuationnotices but you couldn't
evacuate because the freewaysare all closed.
It was pandemonium on the roads.
Nobody could move in the roadso you couldn't drive out of
there.
Lax were cancelling a lot oftheir flights because the air
quality, the smoke, was so bad,so it was touch and go at one
(09:29):
point.
Thankfully they they put thatfire out because it was becoming
dangerously close to the sunsetstreet and hollywood boulevard.
You know, the famous streetwith all the hollywood stars yep
, I've been there a long timeago.
Oh man, that was on the verge ofgetting completely wiped out.
If they didn't contain thatfire, it would have been a bit
(09:52):
of a difficult situation.
And then, when you cross SunsetBoulevard and Hollywood
Boulevard, you then hit a wholerow of houses and then that was
where we lived there with ourapartment building.
So it was pretty scary.
They managed to contain that.
But, brad, if you think aboutit right so far probably.
(10:17):
I read up 40,695 acres haveburnt since last Tuesday, oh my
gosh.
And if you think about it, newYork City is 14,500, just New
York City.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Now imagine that land scale burning and getting wiped
out and they still haven'tcontained it.
I think the Palisades firebehind me, they've contained it
to about 20% now and the Eatonfire, the big Pasadena fire, the
Altadena one, that's about 33%contained but the fires are
(11:00):
still burning.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, but are they away from housing more now?
Is it more just more forestryor fields and stuff that's
burning now and the wind iscalmed?
Well, the wind jacked up alittle bit, I guess, the other
day.
Is it back down again?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
So the wind jacked up a little bit the other day,
which created the auto fire.
You might have seen that one,these embers with the wind.
These embers are travelingmiles in the air and they're
landing on a certainneighborhood.
It could be like 10 miles awayfrom the actual fire and it's
(11:40):
just igniting and starting up.
Um, unfortunately, we've seen,you know, some people um over
here that are are kind of arson,vandalizing and actually
starting the fires themselves aswell, which is stretching the
fire department even even more.
But, um, yeah, it's been alittle bit of a chaotic time,
(12:04):
but there is a movement there.
There is a real community feelwith everybody and everybody's
giving back and we're givingback to the fire department and
it's going to be okay.
Yeah, oh, it's going to be okay, it's going to be okay.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I know it'll be okay.
We're, we're, we're the U?
S and and, and you know, andalso our communities within our
country, I'm sure, are the sameas the UK.
When things like this happen,people come together.
It doesn't matter if they'reRepublican, democrat, whatever
race they are, it doesn't matter.
People come together because,at the end of the day, that fire
didn't care who you were.
(12:38):
I mean, it was not prejudice atall, it just went through and
wiped everything out and it'sjust so sad.
So, one of the things thatwe've been hearing on the news
and things like that I just wantto get some clarity on some of
this the rent gouging Is there alot of rent gouging?
And also, how do you displace,you know, let's just say, 5,000
homes?
Where do those people go?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I mean there've got to go somewhere else in the
country.
This is it.
I mean, you know, a lot of thechurches over here are letting
families come in and actuallyhouse in the church and actually
sleep in the churches.
Hotels are absolutely maxed outand booked up and there's
literally been, you know, hotelprices really jacked up as well.
Understandably for this typetype of situation, rent gouging
is a real difficult one.
Um the I'm getting inquiriesevery day from people that want
(13:33):
to sell or or rent their homeand they're absolutely jacking
up the price and I'm like, no,look, you just, you just cannot
be doing that.
These people are desperate.
They're willing to pay threetimes over the rental price just
to get safely housed with theirfamily.
They will pay whatever at thispoint.
It's a very desperate situationand we are having to have very
(13:56):
stern conversations with ourclients to say, hey, look, you
just can't be doing this.
To say, hey, look, you justcan't be doing this.
But then again you have a lotof clients like I have a listing
at the moment in Beverly Hillswhere the owner is offering his
car lease for anybody that'slost their car and he's offering
(14:17):
his property fully furnished.
So there's little things likethat that are going on.
These know, these landlords aregiving back as much as they can
.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Unfortunately, that's the stuff we don't hear in the
news because that doesn't sell,that doesn't sell the news.
But yeah, I know that there'sprobably for every one situation
that is absolutely terrible andit's a human being taking
advantage of another human being.
There's probably anotherhundred stories of somebody
caring for somebody, you know,making sure their kids are okay,
(14:46):
finding them a car, you know.
Like you said, there's thosethings that just don't get
reported.
Uh, unfortunately.
Um, but that's, it'sinteresting.
What are the other things too?
What about pets?
Like, I think about my dog.
I mean, obviously I havechildren too, but you know, you
know we have our dog, is part ofour family.
Like, where are the pets going?
I mean, you could house people,but what do you do with all the
(15:07):
, all the?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
animals.
I know, and if you think thethousands of pets are actually
misplaced and lost right now andand possibly, you know, lost
their lives, which is sounfortunate.
We we went to the um Burbankequestrian center the other day.
250 horses there have have losttheir, their owners and and the
(15:31):
stables of where they live andthey're trying to.
We were, you know, we weregiving them food and we were we
were changing their um, theirpaddocks and and just you know,
just being close to the horsesbecause they're deeply
distressed by what has happened.
They're real spiritual animalsand you can just tell by the
(15:54):
look in their eye that they aredeeply saddened by what's
happened.
They really feel it and yeah,we were over there the other day
just trying to help out andvolunteer as much as we can to
help the horses.
And here's the thing, becausethe owners have lost their homes
and everything around them,they can't take on the horses
(16:19):
there and they're all trying tosell their horses in this
difficult time as well and getthem re-homed as best as
possible.
It's very, it's very sad forthe owners yeah, what about dogs
?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
what about dogs and cats?
I guess, because I'm a dogperson, I what about that?
I mean, is there, where arethey?
I mean, I love horses too,don't get me wrong, but I always
think about my.
I just think of, because wehave a dog and we have a big dog
, and I think about where wherewould he go?
You know what would happen?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I mean, they're sticking with the families they
are coming along for the ride.
Oh, that's good they aregetting into the hotels I'm.
All of my inquiries have beencan you please accept the pets
and a lot of the landlords areopen to that in in this
difficult time.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So no, they are sticking with the family
absolutely well, and you knowwhat that's therapy for the, for
the family too, I meanabsolutely you lose your, you
lose your family pet.
That's that.
That could be just just as badas everything else yeah, for
sure it's terrible.
And then one of the other thingsis um, we're hearing a lot
about the insurance and I know,hugo, you probably have
(17:22):
questions too.
I'm not sure if you go overhere to the side, you can't see
them, but yeah, so what aboutinsurance?
I mean, we're here, we'rehearing all kinds of stuff about
insurance.
Are a lot of people insured?
Are they not insured?
What do you?
What are you hearing on thestreet there?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Here's the thing, and I think what I my kind of 10
best tips for you know, dealingwith the insurance situation
right now, I'm going to send yousome content after this, um,
after this interview.
Great, but you know, justironically and weirdly, some of
the insurance companies pulledtheir insure insurance plans on
(17:58):
these properties prior to thefires.
Um, a lot of the owners weren'taware of it.
A lot of the owners, a lot ofthe owners homes, they didn't
have insurance of the homes andthey they knew of that because
you'll see the news reportswhere they're desperately
standing in their front yardhosing down the whole home and
(18:22):
and the yards to you know, tonot let the fires take their
homes, and they're openly sayingto the news reporters that we
don't have any insurance on ourhome.
We have to save it as best aswe can.
Um, here's the other thing aswell the the insurance payouts.
You know they're minimal atbest.
(18:43):
So, either way, thesehomeowners are unfortunately
going to lose millions in theirhome devastation.
What I would say is andprobably a lot of the people
have already spoken to theirinsurance companies, but we're
(19:04):
trying to guide and instructanybody that's lost their homes
to call their attorney first andjust see where, just see where
you sit with that insurancecompany prior to dealing
directly with them.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well, and this is one of those things how many people
read their policy?
We were just talking about thistoday.
You know your policy comes.
It's this thick's this thick.
A lot of times you end up justputting it in a file somewhere.
You don't read it, you don'treally know.
And one of the things that Iheard recently and this was an
interesting one, I just heard ittoday is that a lot of policies
do not cover for fire fromnatural disaster.
(19:42):
They only cover for fire fromwithin your home.
So like if yeah, prettyinteresting, right, Pretty
interesting.
I just I just heard this froman agent today that they said
that they're finding out thatwhen people are looking at their
policies, if it's a naturaldisaster, if a fire is coming
through of the mountaintop orwhatever, and it takes your
house, that is a different claimthan if your toaster started on
(20:04):
fire and took your house.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
A hundred percent, and we you know, myself and the
wife we looked at our policy theother day and it was exactly
that.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No way.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Earthquake and fire doesn't cover you, right.
So, but, as you said, ifthere's a fire in your home,
your gas cooker, then you'recovered.
So it's a very interestingsituation.
So seek your attorney, get thebest advice you can before
moving forward with yourinsurance company on that.
(20:37):
And I know that it's.
It's good to see that a lot ofum, a lot of the homes they're
actually getting paid outalready.
Oh, that's good to see that alot of the homes they're
actually getting paid outalready.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Oh, that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Which is great.
But Are they getting paid out alittle bit too early before
they've even, you know, kind ofseeked that professional
advice,000 something, you said12.
They keep saying 12,000,something, structures.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But do we know how many actual living units were
actually destroyed?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So you said earlier around 5,000.
I think that's kind of like.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I thought that's what it was A reasonable number.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, I think that's kind of a reasonable number.
Think about this.
It's certainly going to shiftthe economy greatly because
they're estimating 250 to 275billion in damage.
You know, in damages that'sbeen wiped out by the fires.
That's an astronomical amount.
(21:46):
Can you imagine, so, what that'sgoing to be um doing to the
property market?
Because we're seeing such a biginflux of renters and people
desperately trying to buyanother home that you know
they're going to wait for theirinsurance payout but thankfully
(22:08):
they have the cash to go and buysomewhere.
Quite initially, that side ofthe market has tremendously
picked up.
There was already a shortage ofrentals and people selling
their homes here.
The lack of inventory has beenquite difficult over the past
(22:31):
year, I would say.
So now you're going to seeproperty prices are going to
increase, um, you know, quitesignificantly, and these, yeah,
these unfortunate people arewill be paying over the odds to
to get them rehoused and intosomething quite quickly.
(22:54):
Yeah, um, will that bring downthe interest rates ultimately,
with higher property prices?
We will have to see.
Yeah, but, and right nowthere's a big advantage for
anybody looking to invest intola.
We're having a lot ofinternational inquiries from
(23:15):
investors looking formultifamily investment
opportunities just because ofthe high demand for the rental
market right now.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And it could change your landscape there.
You could get to a point wheresome of the streets that used to
be single-family homes are noweach lot has a duplex, you know,
just because you get morepeople in a smaller area.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, the rebuild is going to be interesting.
Yeah, it will be.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
So let's go back to you're talking about the
inventory.
This is the thing I worry aboutwith you and other realtors.
I mean, mean, we obviously veryconcerned about all the people
in your area that lost a home,but we also have people like
yourself that this is their,this is their life, this is how
you make money.
My thing I can't imagine if welost 5 000 homes here in our
(24:07):
county.
We would all be out of businesswow, it's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Thankfully what California.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
What are you selling?
You're selling just the piecesof land.
That's all that's there.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Here's the thing Myself and my team, we've been
hitting the phones today becausewe're getting so many inquiries
from our clients that have losttheir homes.
We've just been hammering thephones trying to find those
listings.
We are, we've just beenhammering the phones trying to
find those listings, but focuson areas of Palos Verdes,
(24:41):
Newport Beach, Laguna Beach youknow beautiful neighborhoods
just outside of LA.
A lot of people want to moveback to Santa Monica.
Marina del Rey, you have topivot.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You have to pivot.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And you just have to yeah, you just have to pivot,
you have to pivot and you justhave to get grinding and see who
is now in a position to selltheir home.
All of the people we werespeaking to before the back end
of last year that were kind ofcontemplating selling their home
, waiting for the interest ratesto go down, and that type of
thing Now it's a differentconversation.
Now we really need your home,type of thing.
(25:16):
Now it's a differentconversation.
Now we really need your home.
Do you know, is there a desireto sell right now and a lot of
the time?
They're.
They're open to it, thankfully,and they're looking to move out
of the state or even out of thecountry.
So it's good, it's going to beinteresting, for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
you know palm springs , certain areas like this
surrounding Los Angeles, gotcha,yeah, and then what they could
do too is take the insurancemoney or whatever, move to there
and then over time, rebuildwhat you had and sell that.
You can sell that, then Build anew home and sell it, or build
(25:52):
a duplex or something else.
So there's definitely a lot ofpossibilities out there for sure
.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
and then and what's also happening now and I have to
help a few of my clients withum they're going to get the
insurance payout some of themalready have it and they're just
selling their land parcels andmoving on.
Yeah, so you know, they'regoing to come in with a big
clearance of their area and thenwhat you're going to see over
(26:19):
the next few months is a lot ofland parcel listings popping up
all over the place.
Right, every agent over here isgoing to be selling land.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's right.
You're right.
That's what you're going to see.
You guys are going to be greatat selling land, because once
they get rid of all the toxicstuff and all the stuff that's
left over, you've got a lot tosell, and then the builders are
going to be gone.
Nuts, I mean, I should juststart a building company and
come over there and hang outwith you.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
That's it.
Yeah, absolutely, it's a goodidea.
It's a great idea.
I met a couple of developersthe other day for coffee and we
are really formulating a plan ofhow they can rebuild LA,
rebuild these structures andthese homes in a more
safety-efficient way, because Icouldn't believe it when I moved
(27:09):
here, brad, so many of thesehomes are just made out of wood.
I'm just so not used to that.
Yeah, we're used to red brick,solid, you know, solid homes
with solid foundation, and overhere they're just made out of
wood.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
so if you get a big gust of wind ripping through
your neighborhood, you're you'rein trouble yeah, we're all
built out of wood here, but wedon't have we don't have the
threats that you have.
We don't have earthquakes, wedon't have wildfires, we don't
have any of that stuff.
So for us it's, you know, it'sa norm.
But you know, florida, theydon't build anything except for
(27:46):
cement.
It's all concrete because ofhurricane.
Absolutely, yeah well, I thinkthat's going to change.
Your building codes are goingto change there's.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
There's a lot of news on on there about the um, the
rebuild smart la 2028 on thelead up to the olympics.
I would, I would urge your,your listeners, to go and check
out some of those youtube videosand see their grandmaster plan
of what's going on there.
Makes you think, you know.
Suddenly we get all of thesecrazy fires in January, but you
(28:19):
know, the most unprecedentedevent that's ever happened here
in LA.
And then there's a lot of newscoming out about this rebuild
smart LA that's going to happenon the lead up to the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
So it's kind of ironic in a way.
So the so the conspiracytheories are out there, I'm sure
.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Absolutely yeah, of course, With any occurrence
that's the way it happens.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Well, I'll tell you what I wanted to.
I want to say thanks.
We're going to wrap this upbecause I know you're busy
trying to help your clients andand we we're going to get moving
here, but I want to say thankyou for coming on here.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I really appreciate it and you know, we've become
friends via via online and emailand texts and things like that
and I want to say thanks forstaying in touch because you
know it's it's.
It's great to talk to you andI'm glad that you guys are
pushing forward.
You're, everybody's going to beokay.
It's just going to take sometime.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, definitely I'm going to.
I'm going to email you.
You know, lots of kind of likelike giving back links, how?
Yes, that's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I wanted to ask you that.
Actually, there's one of thethings I want to ask you before
we stop where can we, where canwe go to help and what's the
best way to help?
Because I know people on theEast coast are are definitely
helping.
We're sending you know things.
I know Keller Williams, thecompany that I I work for.
They've been there, they'recoming in and they're going to
(29:41):
be bringing lots of water andall kinds of stuff that we bring
, yeah, all that good stuff andand it's that's one of the
things that we give to also, butI'd love to know that.
So, get me all that information, cause I will definitely put it
out on all of our social media.
Uh, you know, instagram,facebook, whatever, and, uh, you
know, we wish you well.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Absolutely, Brad.
I'll keep you absolutelyupdated with all of this.
Really appreciate your time and, yeah, I'm going to send you as
much information as you can anduh, thankful for all of your
listeners and this greatinterview.
Thanks so much, man.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Thanks, buddy, I appreciate it.
Take care of yourself, allright.
Bye, bye, all right.
Thanks for watching thisspecial edition of the Brad
Wiseman show.
We appreciate it.
We will definitely be puttingall the information online on
social media with whether it beFacebook or Instagram,
everywhere that you can find us.
We're going to put informationabout this interview, about,
(30:32):
also, how you can help.
Johnny's going to get us allthat information, and if you
want to reach out to Johnny, youcan do that too.
We'll hook you up and get youdirectly to him.
Okay, that's about it, thanks.
Thanks for watching.
Have a great day.
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