Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles

               With so many celebrities and entertainment industry people, one would expect Los Angeles to have large and elaborate homes.  The show Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles shows this is not an unfounded belief.  Three L.A. realtors are followed around as they try to sell houses and battle with their own personal problems.  I could do without all the personal drama (the clients provide enough) but I can ignore that in order to see the houses and what it takes to sell them.

                The three realtors are Madison, Josh A., and Josh F.  Each work in different parts of L.A. and have different styles and ideas when it comes to selling.  Sometimes a house is sold in the traditional way.  There are regular open houses and showings, with nothing really special to make this particular home stand out except for the house itself.  Many times that is all it takes.  Then there are the others that take a bit more creativity.  This is where things can really get interesting.  I never quite know what the men are going to come up with.  There have been openings with boat rides, an art show, and a circus theme to name a few.

                Once an offer on a house is made the negotiation process begins.  This could possibly take up half the show on its own.  Very rarely do the negotiations go easily.  Sellers want too much and buyers want to pay too little.  That is just the money.  At times there are items in the home that come under dispute.  I am amazed at what people expect on both the buyer and the seller sides.  As an outsider I often shake my head.

                 While the methods to sell and the negotiations are interesting, what I really like is when the houses themselves are gone through.  No two are exactly alike.  There are also a lot of surprises.  Standing on the outside of the house one would think they know what is going to be on the inside.  So often this is not true.  The outside and inside can be drastically different.  One example of this is my favorite house of any episode.  From the outside, except for the door, I would not expect the incredible décor inside.  Well, incredible to me.  It is definitely not to everyone’s taste.  Having kind of a gothic tone, for lack of a better word, I fell in love literally at the door.  Except for the glass walkway, there wasn’t anything I could pinpoint and say I did not like.  It is somewhere I would love to live.  There is just the little problem of not having $18,000 a month for rent.  Plus I do not live in L.A.  Details, details.  I will just watch that episode repeatedly and dream.