NYC luxury real estate runners reveal indignant client demands

If it is believed that Bravo, all that is needed to sell the richest people in the world, the most expensive houses in the world is to take away your lambo, shake hands and open a bottle of krug.

But there is a dark side of the glamor of the closing offers you will not watch on television, reveals New York runners.

“We are like a concierge service,” he told The Post Peter Zaititeff in Serhant. “People want restaurant reserves. They want to know where to take their children. We solve the toilets.”

A couple of weeks ago, Brown Harris Stevens Hotshot, Lisa Simonsen, had already wrapped his work for a client, selling a unit of about $ 10 million in one of the “Good Building” co-operatives of the UPPER EAST SIDE, when he again asked for more.

“He asked me to make a last -minute reservation for 12 at home Tua,” said Simonsen, of the UPPER EAST Private Super Club, who is currently one of the hardest tables in the city to reserve. “I wanted it in the next two hours!”

Endless questions go far beyond the simple favors, the Kvetch real estate markers.

In the Hyper-Competitive Sales Market and High Gamma, its Ultra-Entrepreneurship Masters are used to achieve their way, and they hope that services are usually reserved for national staff and expert specialists.

This means that city runners are usually told to go to cafes, babysitting and walking dogs, while also acting as artz art advisers, interior designers, school consultants and even party manufacturers. Those who dare say “no” risk losing profit.

“They are thinking:” I just paid this person $ 10,000 for this rent. I want to do them work for this, “Zaititeff said about customers.

The Agent of Compass Vickey Barron recalled to show a loaded couple and their three young “excitable” children at UPper West Side.

“They asked for someone from my team to bring their children to Central Park. During the next two hours, one brother bit the other and the other wet his pants,” Barron told The Post. “They were beyond wild. One got on a tree and would not go down. They were in some kind of adrenaline.

Nadine Hartstein, De Bond, has also been armed with a kangaroo for customers.

“It was 12 and 13 years, very privileged, extremely rich, but very protected,” said Hartstein, from the offspring of a foreign buyer he treated. “The mother said that her children should have American friends and, the next I know, they are with my children of tricks or treat them. We had to take them to a house in horrors and that the mother made reservations for her children to have the next night. At least I have children, if not, it would have been even worse for me.”

Pets are another pressure point, according to Barron, who said that sellers are often reluctant to eliminate pets for exhibitions.

“I felt like a dog hiker, but for a cat,” he said. “The client says,” I have these cats and a cat is wild, and he will escape and escape. You need to ensure -you my cat be safe. “”

At the moment the door opened for a show, he recalled Barron, the cat headed for it, making it through the door and in an open elevator about to go down to the ground floor. After a search for the entire construction, he found the flying feline in an apartment whose door was cracked; The cat was under a bed, his hair lifted and scratched for his life.

“I’m allergic to cats,” he said. “And this was a continuous subject. I liked,” Where is my Benadryl? “”

But even Barron has limits.

He spent three hours cleaning a customer’s apartment to prepare for a photo shoot. But when the woman told Barron that he will better before the session to clean the kitchen, the runner exploded.

“I looked at her and said,” You will see exactly like this when I get here. Don’t think I’m going to get here early and do it again. “I had to set an expectation,” he said.

However, most runners agree that going to the additional mile pays dividends.

“Nothing is under me,” Zaititeff said. “I tell the people to rub the toilets to live part -time.”

He says he learned to suck him and serve him, no matter how much, the Madeline Hult Elghanayan de Douglas Elliman, the real estate runner of the billionaire developer, and the President of TF Cornerstone, Tom Elghanayan.

“She is married to one of the richest people in New York City, and we would make houses open and would be there rubbing the floors,” says Zaititeff.

Thus, when difficult customers make the indignant ask, if they are taking advantage of their rollobex to incorporate a client into an exclusive club or to fix their John, Zaititeff said that he is always on leave, because when they want to sell in a few years, he knows who they will call.

However, this reciprocity economy is also mature for abuse.

“It is extortion,” says Vincent Pergola, of the Boutique Real Estate Brokerage Elegran.

This month, with an agreement hanging on the balance, the rich family invested in Properties in Manhattan asked Pergola to organize what seemed like a celebration business dinner.

“We got a record rental for one of its units and there was a possibility that rent could also buy the apartment, possibly giving rise to two commissions. The client said,” If you take it away, you owe my dinner, “says Pergola.” I’m like, “absolutely, I would love to do it, anywhere you want to go. It is me.”

But then the conversation took a strange turn: “He sent me a text message and said to me,” Hey, instead of dinner, buy -Me these $ 550 headphones, “said Pergola.” And I was like “Safe, if the sale happens.” Responded with outrage. “”