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Episode 26: Sports Chatter & Real Estate Hustle
Baseball fans and property enthusiasts unite in this candid conversation that starts with passionate Yankees commentary before diving into the real estate trenches. We analyze how the Yankees might fare this season despite pitching injuries, debate NBA playoff favorites, and reveal why the Celtics remain the team to beat unless OKC's young hunger prevails.
The heart of our discussion explores the surprisingly robust real estate market, where our Queens Village open house recently attracted 30 potential buyers despite rising interest rates. This seller's market continues to defy expectations, demanding aggressive agent representation to secure the best outcomes. We share the fascinating story of our Rockland County property that demonstrated unique buying patterns within the Jewish community, creating the most competitive bidding war we've ever witnessed.
Nothing compares to our Manhattan brownstone adventure, however. This nightmare property previously owned by a hoarder required us to navigate mountains of belongings, encounter potential vermin, and marvel at historical construction quality that prevented collapse despite severe water damage. The five-inch thick doors and robust framework tell a story of craftsmanship rarely seen in modern buildings. We wrap up acknowledging the surprising challenges of content creation in real estate marketing – it's practically another full-time job! Have real estate questions you'd like us to address in future content? Drop your ideas in the comments and we'll turn them into informative videos tailored to your interests.
welcome to pseudopub bias episode. I'm not too sure. Well, we'll figure that out later. But hey, chris, I see the yankees had. What's going on with the yankees?
Speaker 1:they won. Yesterday man finally won two games in a row.
Speaker 2:Really Against who? Kansas City, kansas City, that's a good team.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, they are we faced them last day in the playoffs and we beat them Like five or six games.
Speaker 2:Nice, and then you went to the grand finals, now against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately we lost, but that's in the past and now it's a new year and hopefully we win this year.
Speaker 2:Gotcha, what are your expectations, like how big of a percentage do you think they have against the Dodgers, it's very low man.
Speaker 1:Pitching right now is very bad because of a lot of injuries. We have three injured pitchers, three injured pitchers Wow, and all of them is the best pitchers we have.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, so you're digging deep into the pocket of pitchers that you guys have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've been struggling this year, but the season just started. Hopefully they come back, pitchers, and be strong.
Speaker 2:Who's the best performer in the Yankees right now? For what? Pitching or batting, just overall? Well, I guess batting.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know, Aaron Judge, aaron Judge the GOAT, he's been the greatest hitter out there Better than Otani Otani.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's a strong message out there. Oh, my goodness, Missing Juan Soto, though right.
Speaker 1:Not a fan of Juan Soto, especially what he did to the Yankees fans and literally just went to the Mets for an extra $5 million.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know you have strong feelings of Juan Soto Outside the podcast.
Speaker 1:it's, yeah, a little bit more crazy. But yeah, I hope for the best for him his whole career, but wish he would have stayed in the Yankees.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fine, is there a reason why, why he did he just take the money, or was there another reason?
Speaker 1:so he had more benefits in the in the contract for him and his family. Okay, overall, it was best for him and his family. That's the reason he left I got you.
Speaker 2:It's like the whole thing, I think, with kawaii, right when he left, I think, the rafters to go to um, was it la? Yeah la a lot of things with his, with his family as well, his uncle negotiating and all of that. It's like all for the family and whatnot. I think that's what happened in the transfer, or was it in toronto?
Speaker 2:it was one of those two. But yeah, whenever you favor like your family in the contract and stuff like that, it tends to be better for the player incentive-wise Also. The NBA playoffs are starting.
Speaker 1:Yes, I think they maybe just started. They just started, they're going to start.
Speaker 2:Got you.
Speaker 1:Who do you think is going to win overall, overall?
Speaker 2:Not just the divisions, because I know for the divisions, it's probably the Celtics, right? Unfortunately, I feel like the overwhelming favorites, even though I will say, right, I haven't watched the nba that much this season. I think the thing that got me back into it, just briefly, was that luka trade, that luka trade oh yeah, that was the biggest trade in nba history yeah, maybe they had to do something like that for the nba ratings to come back up, you know, because I've seen that the ratings have been going lower because of the refs.
Speaker 1:Oh, the refs have been so bad. Now they need to stop it. Like you touch the player and it's a foul.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Or they flop Right.
Speaker 2:I remember there was one recent one with Luka specifically, where he was, I think, talking to a fan and the ref thought it was to him and he threw him out of the game or something, and I was like wait what?
Speaker 1:The NBA is going to soften. It's not the same way, how it back then was.
Speaker 2:Right, but I think you know the ref should be protected, right, they shouldn't be just taking a back seat and just like having to take everything.
Speaker 2:But yeah, some of the calls are a little bit questionable, right, if they had a system where, like a system where it can automatically detect fouls, and all of that without, like, having human referees and it would be, that would be hard yeah, it would be incredibly hard, but I think that would be like the way, because you often see these refs sometimes make horrible calls or good calls, but a lot of the time you kind of get a sense of those bad calls are game-changing sometimes. Also, I do think that those calls do make the game exciting sometimes, because you go like, oh, it's going perfect, but then now you get these calls and now the game's going thrown into chaos, right true, that is true so I think there is something there, even aspect, that people like um, what do you think is gonna win it all?
Speaker 1:honestly probably boston. Yeah, because they're basically a complete team. Yeah, I don't think they're missing any role players, or what about OKC?
Speaker 2:OKC is a good team.
Speaker 1:Maybe more experienced in the playoffs. I'll say Just because they're a young team.
Speaker 2:They are a young team.
Speaker 1:They probably average ages 25 to 28. That's pretty young.
Speaker 2:Really young. Their superstar Shea, you said I think is 25, right, I don't remember, but like around there yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's crazy young. And their superstar, shea, you said I think is 25, right, I don't remember, but like around there, yeah, yeah, that's crazy young and they're hungry for it. Man, oh yeah, they're trying to get that. I wonder, if they win that right, Will they be the youngest NBA team to win?
Speaker 1:NBA final. Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 2:Right, I'm not sure. Yeah, because they all look so young. They are all young, like very, very young. So, yeah, I think that's pretty much the consensus. Right, it's gonna be celtics, unless injuries happen, which they could happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, porzingis yes, yes, what. What do you think about the knicks?
Speaker 2:the knicks huh god bless the knicks you know, I mean, if they, if they could get it to the finals, right to the division finals, right the eastern conference finals, okay then, uh, I think that's a big achievement on its own. I think it's very doable. But yeah, celtics are just, you know, they're the team to be, they're the team to be, they're the team to beat. I wonder, how are the odds for Vegas? Because Vegas usually has, like, the most accurate data regarding, like, who might, who's going to probably win or not, because you know a lot of money goes through there. But yeah, moving the subject along, we did an open house this past two weeks, yeah, queens Village.
Speaker 2:Yeah, queens Village. You want to talk a little bit about that uh, yeah, so we.
Speaker 1:basically it was the first open house that we did for this home and first showing and overall it was uh 30 buyers that went. Uh, it was the most busiest open house that we had Starting this year and even if interest rates are going higher right, there's still buyers out there looking for a home for them and their family and right now it's going to get so overacting.
Speaker 2:That's right. I mean, that's just how the market is. You price something well, you're going to get results. You're going to get results. People are still buying like it's nothing and competition is fierce.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, yes, it is.
Speaker 2:Like these agents will be blasting your phone, trying to get updates and stuff, making sure they're doing best for their client, which we always respect, because that's how we are as well, very aggressive, very aggressive. I know that, for you, one of the things that you don't like to hear is that the other agent is not aggressive oh yes, yeah, I agree because then, how are you providing a good service to your client if you're not aggressive?
Speaker 2:and also, on a side note and on a real note, it's like how are you going to get paid? Like uh needs to provide a good service for you in order to get paid. And how do you do that? And you be aggressive, you take the initiative and you pound on the other side to get that deal through. Yeah, and I think that's why a lot of um, a lot of buyers love you.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Although sometimes they they're kind of going like you're a little bit too much. But yeah, although sometimes they're kind of going like you're a little bit too much, too aggressive. Yeah, you have to be like that, especially in this market. Yeah, because, like how we saw in the open house, so much competition.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, it's still a seller's market out there. Even if interest rate is higher, there's still people buying. You have to be aggressive, yeah, you do you have to be aggressive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you do, you have to be aggressive in this market. What was the most packed open house we had?
Speaker 1:It was probably maybe the Queens Village. Queens Village no, it was the property in Rockland County.
Speaker 2:Oh, butternut, yeah, yeah, on that Sunday, oh my.
Speaker 1:How was that open house?
Speaker 2:last year.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness, goodness, compared to this year that open house was so packed.
Speaker 2:I think the problem with that house I think it might have been maybe the same amount of people coming in the thing is that how it was shaped, the the layout of the house, the layout there was a couch making it, so all the traffic kind of had to like go through that little passageway on one way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, and there were so many people. One thing that I didn't know, that I learned on that day, is that the jewish community doesn't come out on saturday. They come out on sunday because on saturday they they're not allowed to leave their home like the very traditional jewish community. They're not able to, like you know, attend open houses. So when Sunday came around, we were expecting a good amount of people, even though on Saturday we didn't see that many.
Speaker 2:On Sunday everyone from the Jewish community came out to that home and we were in shock because it was so many people like so many and they were all outbidding each other like crazy. Afterwards, yeah, it was insane the amount of like people were. Basically they were putting like hey, whatever the highest bid is, add like 5K to it, 10k to it. Like it was crazy to a certain amount, like I said, just until you reach this point. And it was crazy to a certain amount like they said, just to until you reach this point. And it was just insane like I've never seen that type of bidding where they're calling off, emailing and saying, hey, whatever the highest bid is, just put this amount on top of it and that's our offer and we're we're just having like continual ones of those, and it's just like damn the price is just.
Speaker 2:It's a strong competition out there oh yes, very strong and everyone is like over qualified for that home specifically, and it was crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy crazy. But I think that was like maybe around the same type of people, okay, but a lot more offers like crazy competitive offers. I think that was the most competitive one that I've seen. This one, it was very competitive too, but that one it was just a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 1:Different okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in that sense, but it's still strong. It's still strong. So, chris, what was the most interesting deal you've had that you think you want to share with the?
Speaker 1:people. The most interesting transaction that we did was the house in Manhattan that we sold a couple years ago or a year ago.
Speaker 2:By.
Speaker 1:Harlem yes, it was in Manhattan. It was a brownstone, it was three floors with a basement. But there is a twist in the story. This house the previous owner was a hoarder Me and Andrew went to this home in dark time. It was scary. It had a lot of belongings, rats, I'm not sure. Maybe they found a cat that was dead.
Speaker 2:It was so hard to maneuver in that place. Literally we were like this, like foot over foot, yeah it was very tight, yes, very tight, especially going upstairs.
Speaker 1:You couldn't even see the floor. Yeah, that's how much stuff there was here we had to do some parkour to get to the upper level, second, third floors and especially to the basement right and some of the stairs felt like, uh, they were, wasn't there like missing handles or something like that.
Speaker 2:On some of the stairs on the third floor probably. Yes, yeah, I was so scared that that was gonna fall. But, um, these, these houses are built to last, right?
Speaker 1:oh yes, especially with this home, that a pipe did burst and was leaking, uh nuts, especially it was going down to the basement and didn't collapse at all. Even with all those belongings, it didn't fall at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all that weight on top of it and it still didn't fall because, honestly, like in Manhattan, you probably get better quality. And also, in the past they probably made it a lot more durable than now. Past they probably made it a lot more durable than now because that door that we needed to open to go into the living room in the first floor was like no lie five inches thick, six inches thick. These doors that we have now are like two inches thick and they're nothing.
Speaker 1:It's easy to break. Yeah, those doors in my head. Oh, you gotta use all your muscle or maybe use a axe or a hammer to break that door. But right those doors you would never see nowadays.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were so exhausted trying to get that door open. That's how much stuff they had. It's like we were just like hanging on it and it was so hard I think our shoulder gave gave up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it did give up. I did post on TikTok the story of the house. Also a good thing we didn't see no ghosts.
Speaker 2:No ghosts, and the funny thing about it is that we came at night and we were tasked on removing some of the trash to kind of get it a little bit more prepped, and we looked like criminals yeah, it didn't work out just because there was so much stuff yeah, oh man plans. Plans didn't work out right that night because we thought it was gonna be like, okay, there's some stuff in there, let's try to, you know, get it ready and stuff. When we went in there it was crazy, it was.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:It was something out of a movie Like every part of the place was covered with stuff. There was like locker rooms. At one point, like in the second floor, I think, there was like a locker, like a steel locker or something like that.
Speaker 1:I don't remember. It's been a while, yeah, that we went, but yes, this house had a lot of rooms and every room has had belongings, top to bottom every room, the hallways, the bathrooms, everything had something in there and not just something, a lot of something yeah, my guys, no one was living there for for a while yeah, you could tell you wouldn't be able to live there.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, it was just so bad and, like you said, that leak was horrible. I don't know how the ceiling didn't collapse, yeah just built different, built completely different. Another thing that I was also, uh, wanted to bring up is, you know, the content creation that we do, like the little short clips and stuff. We initially thought that was going to be all like easy.
Speaker 1:It's not. It's not. It's basically another job. You have to think so much of video ideas and then from there you got to edit it or maybe hire an editor. But it's not easy.
Speaker 2:It's not easy. Like and you should know you're like our content creator, right With the clips and everything, Like you're holding the lifeline of bias real estate content because you're the only one really posting it, Because, like you said, it's like almost a full-time job. You have to make a lot of time in the day to kind of like think of ideas how you're going to do it, how you're going to organize people's time to kind of like, you know, do those things with one another, and it's a lot of work.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it is a lot of work. Yeah, well, I'm going to keep trying thinking of new video ideas and keep posting on TikTok and the body is IG.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, and I mean, if you guys have any, any ideas on, you know clips that you want to see from us in our social media, let us know in the comments and we'll definitely make a video out of it and chris will definitely make his, like the edits, kind of like yeah, answering your questions or ideas you have that we should post, but definitely leave it in the comments.
Speaker 2:Yeah, honestly, because we have a lot of ideas right, but we want to make sure that we're answering the questions that you guys are interested in. Right, because we might be interested in some stuff that are like realtors right, but we want more ideas on, like, what you guys are interested in, because you guys are the buyers, you guys are the sellers, and I think it's better that you guys shared those ideas with us so we have a better understanding.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, I think that's about it for this podcast. I think we talked about all the main points and stuff, so do you have anything else to add?
Speaker 1:No, no, all right, awesome.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you guys. So much for tuning in to Suit Up With Bias. We'll figure out the episode later on, but thank you guys. Bye guys.