highest and best at the majestic!!!

ah, the 4th page of comments all to myself ... nice :)

nothing to see here, please move along.

I think some of those "If you can demonstrate market movement with comps" discussions have grown to 500 or 600 comments.

However I've never seen an innocuous posting by a broker grow into a huge ugly monster that turned around and bit her like this one did.

Unfortunately, the content here has gone to zero, because there is no new information and will be none, for a long time.

ok...for all of you (and me) panting for results. check out the listing

http://www.brownharrisstevens.com/detail.aspx?id=535231

looks like everyone passed on the sick deal.

agent rachel --- good job as always. lies, lies and more lies. what happened to your due diligence? not enough cash in the suitcase? strongly urge to to go for yet another name change.

Power Broker Wendy didn't sell this thing? Come on Wendy!! I believe in you

Nice smile by the way

Weird ... they forgot to correct the square footage estimate. What's up with that?

it's 10,000 sqr ft...don't you know that!?
HOW DARE YOU QUESTION WENDY AND HER POWER BROKER FRIENDS!!

THEY WILL SMITE YOU WITH THEIR SHINY SMILES

There are strict requirements at the Majestic that must be verified before an official contract can be signed. Thats all you're getting from me for now.

it's a billion square feet...it's the size of the planet jupiter. still not close to the size of agent rachel's lies.

AR: rules can't be that strict at the Majestic. Just read your listing, very little truth in that.

The Majestic has stricter rules then the NSA...they are watching us RIGHT THIS SECOND!
BEEEEEEWARE

AR, is there a briefcase of cash in your office? Are you making the drop in the "orange" section of the Hilton Parking Lot?

You impress me so much...you should write a book!

Rachel,

I am not sure exactly what purpose you have in continuing to post here. From a credibility perspective, it's highly unlikely (read: impossible) that you will leverage this forum for any business purpose considering the hundreds of comments that question your morals, professionalism, empowerment, and capability. As such, it seems somewhat shortsighted to even continue to fuel the flame as if you are doing anything productive here.

As for you assisting Wendy (who I have met btw), it seems that you would serve both the lead agent and the seller (who would compensate you) interests by letting this thread die a slow death instead of continuing to unintentionally drop new charcoals on the dying flame.

To overinflate square footage is not your fault because you are not empowered enough to either come up with the original 2200 number or to correct it. You are a middle man for a middle man in an industry that is already oversaturated with middlemen offering little or zero value.

This isn't a fight for your reputation or name, as you are as irrelevant as the thousands of other brokers who will go up in flames as the real estate industry is redefined. Let it go and preserve the last bit of professional dignity you have remaining.

once a liar, always a liar...don't you realize she can't stop! maybe she wants to, but she can't.

Wendy is not a mere lead agent but a power broker...please let's keep that straight.

What the hell is that thing on the end of the mantel?

come on guys, stop jumping all over her. the listing says "approximately 2200 sq ft," not "exactly 2200 sq ft." what is the problem?

Bender, I think it would be more accurate if it read, "this is NOT 2200 sqr ft"
Speaking of which, if you're cool with "approx" meaning off 30%, I have some credit swaps to sell you

LONG LIVE POWER BROKER WENDY

and RE_Economist...well put...bravo...I loved every second of that

Bender, then why not say "approximately 3000 sf"?

How about I offer "approximately $2.850 million" and by that I mean $1 million. They wouldn't like that so much would they?

exactly....why are you defending her? read what she said about her sick deal. how would you characterize 1,500 sq ft? how about 1,500 sq. ft? why did she say they were finalizing an offer?

all you for real or another alter ego?

come on, guys, put down the pitchforks, i was making a joke. I should've put a smiley on it, but SE doesn't provide those

:)

my apologies...I should have gotten it. at least approximately.

No deal, apparently. The listing is back to standard prose. http://www.bhsusa.com/detail.aspx?id=535231

ROFL, I was wondering if this thread would ever come back.

Hope nobody forgets about Larry's $225K coop he's now trying to sell for $489K.

re-ecdonomist...: well stated

I haven't read this thread -- did anyone bid at the auction?...Did anyone ever agree on the sf?...

Is there a syndrome of self-flagellating posters who put themselves up over and over again for abuse? (AR?...407PAS?)

AgentRachel - all I have to say after reading all 325 comments on this thread is...you're really hot. Let's hook up. LOL.

well, she's gotta be good for something. a hell of a different kind of sick deal. meanwhile the stupid listing still says 2,200 sq ft. don't know whether to laugh or cry.

bump

BHS has quietly reduced the asking price a further $450K, to $2.4MM. Could mean they have solid bid and are trying to attract something better. More likely, it just means the listing is progressing normally toward market value.

West81st - Not so quiet, it is listed @ $2.4mm on the webdsite

"She worked as a broker for a large real-estate company for three years until January, when she says she hadn't made a sale in six months and had $2 left in her bank account. She now performs at Flash Dancers in Midtown.

With real estate, you can work 10 hours a day showing people apartments and you never know when the next sale will be," said Haverton, who lives on the Upper East Side. "But with dancing, the money is instant. Now that I make better money as a stripper than as a real-estate agent, I'm going to buy my own apartment."

Becky, 24, who lives in the East Village, was a pastry chef before becoming a "massage girl" recently at Rick's."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03292009/news/regionalnews/axed_gals_take_pole_positions_161908.htm

Apt_boy: I just meant "quietly" as opposed to "HIGHEST AND BEST" and "SICK DEAL".

quote from second post on this string:

"patient09

there is ZERO chance they get 1,999,999 for this. It is 1700 f2 at best. It would trade $1,150 f2 if it were in great condition.

$1,445,00 is closer to fair value"

how long till the next drop, I wonder?

Open houses Sunday and Tuesday. By appointment, of course - just one of the strict requirements at the Majestic.

I'll bring the measuring tape. For the square footage, that is. I'll let Columbiacounty measure AgentRachel.

81: From a technical point, If you need an appointment, then doesn't that disqualify it as being an "open house".

Happened to be walking by this morning, and noticed 15K still has its original (and dirty) windows, whereas most of the other apts have had theirs replaced. Also window AC, unlike the rest. It really is the poor stepchild of 115 CPW.

This dead horse has been beaten until it is just a small stain in the carpet.

Nah, it isn't pet food until the place sells.

$1.4MM minus $300K for staleness.... great going! NIce jobs brokers.

that's the problem with the stupid approach that they took. couldn't scare up a bid at $2.0 million so know they lower(???) to $2.4? seems like if no one is willing to bid $2 million, that you need to lower the ask below that figure not above.

and while they're at it, perhaps spring for a couple of hundred to wash the damn windows.

So SE now has the listing at 1,500 F2, congratulations to BHS for getting this sorted out.

look more carefully...copy line still says 2,200 sq ft. ah well, some things never change

gotta walk before you can run, baby steps

But agent Rachel's name was removed from the BHS listing. Or is that OLD news?

no contract yet, eh?

this poor girl is fucking screwed for posting on here.

It's really irresponsible to keep 2200 sq/ft in the listing description. Shame on the agency.

And FWIW, if you are not going to show the interior because it is such a wreck you can't even photoshop a decent photo out of it, why include one ridiculous shot of what appears to be a mantel on a decorative fireplace covered with clutter? I swear, people are really stupid. I'm not an agent and don't work in RE and I can see this--but a "professional" can't see it? And people wonder why their is so much RE agent bashing. Many of them act with nothing less than contempt--or even worse, indifference--for buyers' intelligence.

"there," not "their"

Wow, sucks to be Agent Rachel.

Odd to see Ms. Maitland and her Majestic listing cited in The Real Deal for creative selling:
http://ny.therealdeal.com/articles/selling-with-sealed-bids
The article goes on at length about Wendy's auction, but omits one crucial detail: that it failed.

To be fair, at the time of the interview, she may have thought the auction had yielded a likely buyer.

If nothing else, the auction garnered a lot of publicity for Team Maitland - both good (Real Deal) and bad (this thread)

Not only did it fail, but she let the fraudulent declaration of 2,200 sq ft live on.

Owned.

And not-owned.

it never ends.

lovin' it. maybe if we keep this alive whenever someone searches for her in google, this thread will pop up on the top

the funny thing is that were it not for agent rachel's original sick post, power broker would have gotten away with this free and clear.

well, not really...money talks and bullshit runs the marathon...
Which is to say, they haven't sold the place, and won't with that price tag/attitude

Carnegie, I think you should take over as broker...I have faith in you

We're coming up on the six-month birthday of this 2,200 sf listing.

PARTY!!!!!

Alanhart: Good catch. Six months is an important milestone in the lifespan of an exclusive. The heir/owner will have the final say on the way this listing has been managed. Our opinions (all 358 of them) don't matter much. His does.

West81st, they may matter if he's aware of them, needs to sell and hasn't felt comfortable taking it off the market, and is about to have the exclusive expire.

this seems like a classic case of chasing the market down...last fall, $1.9 million probably would have looked good for this ---now it's not even close.

Here we are in July, and still no movement. Still 2,200 sf at http://www.brownharrisstevens.com/detail.aspx?id=535231. Wendy Maitland is way out of her league at 115CPW.

Here we are in August, and ....

something tells me that wendy's got way bigger problems. power brokering ain't what it used to be.

This deal is so SICK it's been moved to the ICU ... no visitors!

.

Am I missing something on the square footage? If the floorplan is scaled accurately it doess measure over 2000 square feet. (and I love beating up flase square footage listings)

Hmmm, I don't remember where the 1500 came from, if not from somebody else measuring. The feed from BHS at http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/365898-coop-115-central-park-west-lincoln-square-new-york lists it at 1500 in the sf field but 2200 in the copy.

Ya it is strange. While that could have been a typo, the floorplan for the main section of the apartment on the last BHS listing looks to be 40 feet by 37 feet.
The floorplan on the earlier streeteasy link looks to be 38 by 35 feet!

look again....the main section is roughly 32 by 32 or 1,024 and the other section is roughly 20 x 20 or 400.

Um defenitely not on the BHS floorplan. If you click on the window and then click once on it for the zoom feature. It sizes up to the specs.
If you take a ruler and measure on one of the rooms, (interior walls like the living room)it's pretty close to 2.3 inches wide (23.6 feet stated) and 1.4 inches (14 feet high)
So every inch is 10 feet.
Measure the main section first (exterior part of the line or walls) which consist of the 2 bedrooms, the bath, 3/4 of the foyer and the appliance section of the kitchen. 4 inches wide (or 40 ft) by 3.7 inches or 37 feet. That's 1480 feet.
Now the dining room and the majority of the kitchen left is 2 inches wide or 20 feet.
The rest is negligibly trick as you have a walk in closet sticking out the left but the dining room is not as deep as the foyer. I split the difference between the 3 inch (30 feet) height or 2.4 inch (24 feet height) for an average of 2.7 inches or 27 feet.
20 by 27 is 540 sq ft.

1480
540
------
2020 sq ft.

And that is if the BHS floorplan is correct. The older streeteasy one is indeed smaller.

reposted for spelling and more accuracy on a number or two.

Um defenitely not on the BHS floorplan. If you click on the window and then click once on it for the zoom feature. It sizes up to the specs.
If you take a ruler and measure out one of the rooms, (interior walls like the living room)it's pretty close to 2.3 inches wide (23'6 feet stated) and 1.4 inches (13'9 feet high stated)
So every inch is 10 feet.
Measure the main section first (exterior part of the line or walls) which consist of the 2 bedrooms, the bath, 3/4 of the foyer and the appliance section of the kitchen. 4 inches wide (or 40 ft) by 3.7 inches or 37 feet. That's 1480 feet.
Now the dining room and the majority of the kitchen left is 2 inches wide or 20 feet.
The rest is negligibly tricky as you have a walk in closet sticking out the left but the dining room is not as deep as the foyer. I split the difference between the 3 inch (30 feet) height or 2.4 inch (24 feet height) for an average of 2.7 inches or 27 feet.
20 by 27 is 540 sq ft.

1480
540
------
2020 sq ft.

And that is if the BHS floorplan is correct. The older streeteasy one is indeed smaller.

wendy raised the price again.

11/15/2008 Listed in StreetEasy by Brown Harris Stevens at $3,750,000.
01/13/2009 Price decreased by 7% to $3,500,000.
02/03/2009 Price decreased by 6% to $3,275,000.
02/27/2009 Price decreased by 13% to $2,850,000.
03/31/2009 Price decreased by 16% to $2,400,000.
04/01/2009 Price increased by 2% to $2,450,000.
09/01/2009 Delisted temporarily.
09/10/2009 Re-listed by Brown Harris Stevens.
09/10/2009 Price increased by 12% to $2,750,000.

seriously, gonna hire a homeless guy to walk w/ a sign in front saying "sick deal" FLMAO.... you think it'll make the news... i shoud use my attorney to hire the guy... this way i can hide behind client's rights... LMAO

So, did it ever sell?

nope...still on the market. however, no longer a sick deal as they raised the price by $300K to $2,750,000.

thanks for bumping this...how's the OP of this thread doing?

I read the first page here and couldn't find the address of the apartment.
Thanks

115 Central Park West: http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/365898-coop-115-central-park-west-lincoln-square-new-york

It's back--New broker who states it's "extremely well-priced' at 2.495M. Hmm.

Guess it's not interesting anymore!

What a seesaw, now it's been staged is priced at 2.650mm.

At last, the ordeal ends.
11/15/2008 Listed by Brown Harris Stevens at $3,750,000.
01/13/2009 Price decreased by 7% to $3,500,000.
02/03/2009 Price decreased by 6% to $3,275,000.
02/27/2009 Price decreased by 13% to $2,850,000.
03/31/2009 Price decreased by 16% to $2,400,000.
04/01/2009 Price increased by 2% to $2,450,000.
09/01/2009 Delisted temporarily.
09/10/2009 Re-listed by Brown Harris Stevens.
09/10/2009 Price increased by 12% to $2,750,000.
11/11/2009 Delisted temporarily.
01/15/2010 Later Listed by Sotheby's International Realty, Inc. at $2,495,000.
08/13/2010 Sotheby's International Realty, Inc. Listing sold. Last priced at $2,695,000.
08/13/2010 Sale recorded for $2,340,000.

See ... have faith in the marketing genius of Agent Rachel.

Absolutely. She set the table. Sotheby's just ate the meal.