Million Dollar Listing LA Recap: So Much Poopy

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By PopePhilly | Saturday, August 4, 2012 | 11:34 am | 22 Comments
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Predictably, JA explains that, due to the current housing market, the house would not sell for $4 million. He tells John that the house is worth $3.3 million. Also predictably, John gets offended and takes it personally. Your house isn’t worth as much as you think it is, John. Put on your big girl panties and get the fuck over it.

Madison and Aaron are meeting with Chris to go over one of the offers they received on the property. Aaron explains that the terms of the offer are very good. It’s all cash and a 17-day close. However, the house is listed for $6.997 million and the potential buyers have come in at $5.5 million. Chris says the offer isn’t good enough (drink!). I bet no one saw that coming. Just once, I want to see an episode where a potential buyer comes in with an offer and the seller says, “Yeah, that’s pretty good. Let’s do this!”

Argh! Why do we have to go back to JA? We’re not even seven minutes into the episode and I’m already sick of him. He explains to John that just because $1 million was spent on an interior design doesn’t mean that he’ll be getting that $1 million back when he sells the house. I will give JA credit for one thing. He really does give his clients realistic prices on the house. It’s not like Aaron who wanted to sell Chris’s house for a lot more than it’s worth just to please his client. 

It’s the only compliment he’ll be getting from me all season.

JA offers to list the house at $3.995 million as long as it’s fully furnished. John also has to agree to be flexible. If there is no interest in the house at $3.995 million, then JA will lower the price. John agrees to the terms. Then, I see the douchiest thing I’ve ever seen. John says, “Let me tell you one thing.” Then, to punctuate this, he puts on his sunglasses. “Where I come from, real businessmen wear suits.” I can’t take any more of this guy. He’s has to be an actor that Bravo hired to be the seller. I refuse to believe that anyone is like this in real life.

Back to Madison and Aaron. Aaron agrees that the offer isn’t something they should take. Why does Aaron talk like he’s got a through full of phlegm? I hope it’s nothing major like throat cancer or something traumatic when he was a kid. Then I’d feel like shit making fun of him. Also, I just noticed this now, but every time he speaks, I clear my throat. It’s like I’m trying to clear his for him!

Please go buy some Mucinex!

Madison reminds Chris that he originally wanted to list the property between $6 million and $6.5 million. He explains that now might be the time to reduce the price to regenerate some more interest. Chris isn’t happy about the price reduction (drink!). However, he agrees to counter and reduce the price. 

Hooray! It’s JF. He’s going to a listing meeting on Rodeo Drive. He meets with Sandy. She is the seller’s representative for this deal. JF knows that this house is going to be a difficult sell. It is customized to the current owner’s tastes and may not be for everyone. He is also aware that it probably one be a family house as the master bedroom is on a different floor than the other bedrooms. Most people want to have their children nearby. Also, we have to talk about some of the decorating:

Hello Kitty goes perfectly with the custom chandeliers and grand staircase.

Why does JF always get the weird clients? I know that he’s known as a very creative real estate agent, but this is getting a little ridiculous.

JF does like the house and knows that its location on Rodeo drive is going to be a great selling point. He thinks that they should price the house in the $2.8 million range. Sandy immediately shoots that down (drink!). The seller wants $3 million and not a penny less (drink again!). JF agrees that aiming for $3 million isn’t unrealistic because of the location. Sandy and JF compromise at agree to list at $2.995 million. 

JF asks if Sandy is ready for the first brokers open on Tuesday. She flat out says no. She shoots down a few more offers before she tells JF that the seller doesn’t want to do any open houses. She is a private person and wants to only have private showings. Maybe Sandy could have told JF this at the beginning of the meeting. However, JF can put the house on the multiple listings service. 

Well, at least I got some JF to put me in a better mood before we go back to JA. He’s with Mikey for the open house on John’s property. JA has given Mikey more and more responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is being the bartender for the open house. Also, this:

This seems to be more of a punishment than a responsibility. 

Mikey starts playing the ukulele and singing about how JA is going to sell this house today. Don’t encourage him, Mikey. I don’t hate you yet. Let’s keep it that way. JA knows that it’s a great house, but not for $3.995 million. Watching this, I started thinking. JF is able to sell some pretty strange houses by being really creative at his open houses. JA tries to sell normal houses by giving people alcohol. I don’t blame him. I’d have to be drunk too if I was spending time around JA. 

She’s only one shot away from dancing topless on the couch.

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Aside from making fun of reality television on a weekly basis, PopePhilly is a legal assistant by day and avid kickball player by night (well, at least on Thursdays). On the nerd front, she is an active member of the forensic speech and debate community. She spends her time judging at tournaments throughout the country and serving on the board of directors for the West Chester University alumni chapter of Pi Kappa Delta (yes, speech nerds get to pretend to be cool by having Greek letters).

22 Comments

  1. 1
    debbie hedges
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    I think the reason JA is so mad at Madison is this: he didn’t realize that he was going to end up supporting Heather! All of a sudden she prob is not making any money and he is footing the bill. Visits to the hair salon, mani-pedis, car payment etc. This is why he is hounding Madison to pay Heather money Madison does not owe to her! Yes, JA is tired of supporting her but what’s he gonna do? If he breaks up with her he looks really bad. He’s stuck with her and he knows it.

  2. 2
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    From the looks of things, Heather does appear to be the unemployed, live-in girlfriend. I’ve forgotten if the condo she and JA were listing together (the listing that caused Madison to fire her) was shown on the show as having sold. Supposedly, if JA and Heather did a good job, the owner of the building was gonna give Heather her very own listing to sell.

  3. 3
    hlesczyn
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    I was always team JA (sorry). In the past – he always seemed to be the only one selling or working or something – I don’t know. He is shed in a different life this time around it’s unfortunate.

  4. 4
    TV Junkie
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    I found some website that is called something like celeberty net wort. It lists Madison as having the most $$ something like 14 million and the 2 Josh’s as having 3 and 31/2 million each. I think Josh Flag could care less who has more money ..( I got A Simple Girl today!!! and I haven’t stopped reading it ..I am done with her story and put the book down for the rest of the day/night ..will read about Holland and WW11 the last section of the book next), because in A Simple Girl Edith stated(more than once )..it isn’t money that interested her..and her parents taught her to be humble which she passed onto her son (and I am sure to her step granddaughter and Josh as well). The more Josh grows up the more humble he seems
    …but JA another story ..he is out to sell his mother, Heather anyone to make a buck I am sure.
    I think there are many reasons the shit smelling bully tries to pick on Madison.. 1) Madison is better looking. 2) Madison has a nicer body 3) Madison has a nice family
    ….and last but not least Madison has about 14 million!!!!LOL!!!!

  5. 5
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 5:38 pm

    @TV Junkie: I’m glad you got the book! It’s so good. There is a part near the end where she gets her “revenge” on the Nazis. That part moved me to tears! Also, there are some REALLY funny parts after she makes her fortune – mainly because money never interested her. I just submitted my “TVgasm Investigates” piece on the book. It should be up soon.

    JA seems like he’s the type of guy who always gets what he wants. When something doesn’t go the way he thinks it should go, he gets insecure. That was so clear in all of his interactions with Madison. When Madison doesn’t back down, JA just starts throwing and temper tantrum and tosses out insults.

  6. 6
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 5:39 pm

    Wow. I’m apparently not literate today. “Throwing a temper tantrum…”

  7. 7
    awfuleyebrow
    Posted August 4, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    I love JF’s over the top desk chair. It makes me laugh every time they show him in it. I always think of those old SNL clips with Gilda Radner as Roseanne Rosannadanna. Or however that should be speller.

    I thoroughly enjoyed JA getting called out on his unprofessional attire by that douchey guy. What kind of an idiot takes advice on professional deportment and comportment from their unemployed drink tossing girlfriend? Is he going to let her cut his hair next?

  8. 8
    Iona Trailer
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 8:33 am

    JA seems the type that he doesn’t like gay men showing him up. That could be another reason why he resorts to insults to Madison. Madison was still very under control on WWHL with Miss Andy. However, what was up with JF’s hair?

  9. 9
    TV Junkie
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:40 am

    I love the part where Edith becomes a nurse and dresses in the “nurse uniform” What a great way to run her “bussiness” under the Natzi’s noses…I don’t remember the revenge part , but I am going to reread it. I felt badly for her having to have others raise her baby in hiding..I can not even imange what she was going through at that time…and still putting outhers first and saving lives!
    I also loved the part where she was told by her accountant to buy herself a Rolls( that she didn’t want)..I love the fact that after she went to the showroom and the salesman was so bitchy to her and wouldn’t give her the time of day..she and her husband bought one the very next day! No one tells Edith no ..like no one puts baby in the corner!

  10. 10
    TV Junkie
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:43 am

    I wonder if JA is so “afraid of ” Madison and picks on him is because he is attracted to him???
    I also belive that his puffly cheeks are puffy, because they are filled with the shit he spits out every time he talks…also notice that Heather’s cheeks and face have been getting puffier too..now it’s back to Edith time….

  11. 11
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:44 am

    @TV Junkie: The “revenge” part was such a huge part. She and Josh were in South America (I can’t remember which country) around Hanukkah. People from a nearby synagogue came out and started dancing in the streets to celebrate. When she and Josh got up and started dancing, she said that enjoying her life was her revenge.

    I also love the part when she’s in the elevator in her building getting ready to take out her dry cleaning. When a man got in and looked at the way she was dressed, he said, “The help is supposed to use the service elevator.” When they got downstairs, he walked over to the Rolls Royce that the valet had brought up and the valet just said, “No, sir. This is Mrs. Flagg’s car.” Then she got in and drove away. She is the shit.

  12. 12
    TV Junkie
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:49 am

    OMG I can’t stop..I also loved it when she was in her building elevator with her dry cleaning and a bandanna in her hair and some snotty man told her that there is another elevator for the help..did Edith tell him off??? NOPE she just said something like “I know” and got into her Rolls in front of him ( after he thought it was his rolls….since he apparently had the same car)
    I can’t wait for the new thread on the book to start up..so many stories…what a wonderful family!

  13. 13
    TV Junkie
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 10:52 am

    OMG PP We were writing at the same time! I do remember that part in BA…wonderful I would like to see more dancing on the show..Perhaps Josh F. could dance and push Josh A. off the “stage”
    Let us not forget how the people in the building thught she was a little nutty…her cabbage stuffed with lox hanging outside…She must have a little gypsy blood..no one has that much spirit and spunk
    Bye for now

  14. 14
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 11:35 am

    “. . . and the salesman was so bitchy to her and wouldn’t give her the time of day..she and her husband bought one the very next day!”

    I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t love to see a haughty, condescending salesman get his comeuppance. Please tell me that some other salesman got the commission, though.

  15. 15
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 11:49 am

    @crankyguy: I don’t remember if it was a different salesman or not, but the story was great! Edith and Eric (her husband) go back to the dealer. Eric tells a salesman they want to buy a Rolls Royce and he says they’re almost closing. Eric just says tells the salesman that they better go start the paperwork right away then!

  16. 16
    hutchlover
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    I wonder if JA is really insecure? Why else would he take advice from douchy Heather, when he’s always dressed to the nines. And the way he made poor Mikey dress!

    And I can’t believe I’m defending Heather here, but we only know Madison’s side of the “slander” story. I’m not saying it isn’t true, but part of the reason JA & Heatherwere so upset, could be that madison is making up stories as well. While I admire Madison for the way he’s handled himself, he does exagerate. He told his mother that Heather threw a drin in his face – not true.

    All these clients latetely are really douchy & assholes. They really need to get better cluents to agree to be on the show. Only JF seems to have some luck w/clients that aren’t as bad.

  17. 17
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted August 5, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    @hutchlover: I hope we get to hear Heather’s side of the story too. Not that it would make me respect her more, but it would at least make things even. I’m also curious about what her contract said. If it said she was not allowed to contact Madison’s clients once she no longer worked for him, then Madison is doing the proper thing by getting legal advice.

  18. 18
    katie
    Posted August 6, 2012 at 10:40 am

    So JF’s client was so private that she didn’t want brokers’ opens and people wandering through her house, but she was okay with a reality show being filmed there? That makes sense…

  19. 19
    labowner
    Posted August 6, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    Katie it just stops the lookie loos and time wasters.

  20. 20
    Quinn
    Posted August 14, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    Uh , yeah,labowner you’re wrong as in Cali real estate you’ve got to be preapproved in a price range to look so….btw, lmao @ Katie’s comment. I could go on a real diatribe about reality t v and how even it’s very low bar has sunk but….I’ll stay on topic! I think j a’s prob is typical of most straight guys. He is uncomfortable in his skin and therefore dealing with Madison is a challenge as well because madison is gay. He’s even antsy around j f andto m o j f is the most tolerable of the 3( keeping the scenario in mind here , reality t v) . They’ve all got something to gain by the show so let’s be honest . I can see, feel, smell those issues with straight guys right away. I’m in the business ( real estate but very much in reality and in NYC at that)…

  21. 21
    Sara Emilie
    Posted September 13, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    I know the type of person Heather is. She think ONLY money, thats why she betrade her Madison for Josh in the first place- she smelled money and sucess. Also in yhe episode when Josh walk out of a client, because they disagree on the price …she push and push to make him call the custumer and ask him directly.. do u want your EGO/pride to be in the way for 100.000dollars. I dont care money-my boyfriend´s repetation and pride is more important. She is all Madison said and i think the job and money,tv gets to her head, she think she is more than she is. To me she is a inmature BITCH. Please Heather look in the mirrow, do some reflections

  22. 22
    Stephen Cogan
    Posted January 30, 2013 at 4:07 pm

    Sandy is Sandra Murphy. As in the murderess Sandra Murphy from the mid 90s who helped kill Ted Binion. Total B&(%H

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