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Welcome to The Brad Weisman Show, where we dive into the world of real estate, real life, and everything in between with your host, Brad Weisman! Join us for candid conversations, laughter, and a fresh take on the real world. Get ready to explore the ups and downs of life with a side of humor. From property to personality, we've got it all covered. Tune in, laugh along, and let's get real! #TheBradWeisman #Show #RealEstateRealLife
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Bad Energy Cleansing in Homes w/ Adam Brawer
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What happens when spirituality meets ultra-luxury real estate? Adam Brawer, dubbed "The Spiritual Realtor," has created a niche by bringing energy work to high-end property sales in Los Angeles. With a morning practice that includes sage burning and meditation, Adam doesn't just sell homes—he transforms their energy.
When listing properties with challenging histories—divorce, death, or domestic violence—Adam brings in "home healers" who use sage, drums, and intuitive practices to clear negative energy. The results speak for themselves. After cleansing one home with a particularly violent history, potential buyers immediately commented on the property's positive feel. This spiritual approach addresses what many buyers unconsciously sense when touring homes. As Brad notes, "Everyone asks if someone died in the house, which shows we all care about energy."
Beyond energy work, Adam's business spans from $1 million "starter homes" to a $50 million Andalusian palace featuring what Mansion Global calls "America's best pool"—a water feature with multiple waterfalls, a grotto, lazy river, and infinity edge. He's even currently marketing a private island in French Polynesia for €15 million, complete with two homes, staff quarters, and a chef from a Michelin-starred restaurant. Marketing such properties requires sophisticated targeting, including geo-fencing around the world's top private airports to reach potential ultra-wealthy buyers.
Adam's philosophy is simple yet profound: "The buyer is not buying your house; they're buying their house." By creating neutral environments and positive energy, he allows buyers to project their own lifestyles onto properties. Whether you're spiritual or skeptical, his approach offers a fascinating glimpse into how energy and intention shape our most important purchasing decisions.
Curious about energy cleansing or just want to daydream about ultra-luxury properties? Follow Adam on Instagram @adambrower or reach out directly to learn more about his unique approach to real estate.
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Welcome to The Brad Weisman Show, where we dive into the world of real estate, real life, and everything in between with your host, Brad Weisman! 🎙️ Join us for candid conversations, laughter, and a fresh take on the real world. Get ready to explore the ups and downs of life with a side of humor. From property to personality, we've got it all covered. Tune in, laugh along, and let's get real! 🏡🌟 #TheBradWeismanShow #RealEstateRealLife
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You know, I always tell my sellers, you know the buyer is not buying your house, the buyer is buying their house.
Speaker 2:Good point From real estate to the market as a whole, which then sometimes will affect the technology. Right, you know the real life. We all learn in different ways. If you think about it, wayne Dyer might not attract everybody, and everything in between.
Speaker 1:Mission was really to help people just to reach their full potential.
Speaker 2:The Brad Wiseman Show. And now your host, Brad Wiseman. All right, we're back. Oh man, Hugo, it seems like forever. Right, Welcome back. Thank you, buddy. Say something in Irish now. Say something in Irish now. I could say cilantro, which means cheers, and you're never supposed to click the glass, they say. No you don't click the glass. They actually just kind of go like this and they look at each other.
Speaker 2:It's like a look underneath their glasses kind of a thing. But yeah, so we got a new show today, which is great. I'm excited because I'm back, got a new show. And I'm excited about this new show because we have a guy. His name is Adam Brower. I've been looking at his information for quite some time. They call him the spiritual realtor. Hugo and I were just talking to him and I'm excited to have him on the show because he does stuff a little different. He's doing some things with Sage, where he goes through houses after they're sold and will clean out the bad energy in the air, if you want to call it that. He also has some great stories about homes that he sold in the Los Angeles area, also has a story about a treehouse home, which sounds a little different when I say the word treehouse, but this thing was huge. I saw pictures of it. I saw a walkthrough. It actually burned in the fires that happened out in California. So we're going to go through that story too, but you know we're going to get them on here right away.
Speaker 2:Let's talk to Adam Brower. How are you doing, adam? Hey, brad, thanks for having me. I'm doing great. Good, good, you are the spiritual realtor. Did you know that. I've been told. You've been told. You've been told, yeah, cause that's what I saw on your website, so somebody put that in there. I don't know, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I um, I like to bring spirituality into residential real estate. You know, the home is a sacred place and things a little bit differently. To sanctify a home and clear the energy.
Speaker 2:I agree with you on that. You know it's. It's funny. You know, did you ever have somebody asked you? Did somebody pass away in the house? You know that kind of stuff all the time, yeah and well I get it too and and it's, it's interesting nobody.
Speaker 2:The only time that question comes up actually is if you say, hey, by the way, it's in a state or it's in a trust or whatever, and right away the question will come well, did they pass in the house, you know? So that shows you that we all care about the energy in the house. You know what I mean. We might not be superstitious, we might think it's not a big deal who cares, but why is it that anytime, I don't care who they are, they will ask that they pass in the house. So if you're not, if you don't really care about that, why would you ask the question? Right A?
Speaker 1:hundred percent. It's a material fact.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So what? So what is that? What got you into this, like, what got you to a point we're going to go into so many different things with you here on the show, cause we we got a lot of stuff we talked about before we went live. But what is the whole thing with like, with the sage, like, how did you get into that? Was it just to differentiate yourself or did you really feel there's a need for that?
Speaker 1:Um, I definitely feel like there's a need for it, for sure, I'll tell you, like the Genesis of this whole thing. So I have a morning practice and every morning I'll either use sage or Palo Santo, I'll burn it and I'll I'll clean myself energetically.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And then do some breath work, I'll do some meditation. It's a nice kind of clean start to the day, energetically, yeah, and I also clean the energy of my home with sage regularly. Oh, wow, yeah, and so, um, I can personally most people may not be aware of it, but I, you know they can feel an energy of a home. You know, I've gone into spaces before and I'm like, wow, it feels really heavy or doesn't feel good to be in here. It's the worst when I come out. And so I'll always ask the owners, obviously, why are you selling, like what's what's going on? And if there's been like domestic violence, a divorce, a death, something like that, I am what I call a home healer. It's somebody who comes in who brings like drums and smudges and sage and feathers. It sounds super woo woo because of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And they'll. They'll bang the drum and they'll walk around and you know, sometimes I'll walk with them and I won't tell them what happened in the house. Sometimes, especially early on, I kind of wanted to test them to see just how intuitive is this person. So I bring them in the house. We'd go room by room and this one person specifically would say take that statue out of this room, take this mask out of this room. Ooh, you know there's a lot of anger here. I'll leave them alone, depending on the size of the home, for an hour, two hours. I'll come back.
Speaker 1:The place feels completely different. I mean, I did this in one home specifically where there was domestic violence, and I'm talking like we had to change the locks, I had to hire private security, get lawyers involved. It was really bad. And the second I walked into the home. The first time I was like oh, this. I was like this is going to be tough to sell. This doesn't. This feels horrible, like it kind of smells weird too. You know, I don't know about this. I brought her in an hour. 90 minutes later I come back. The place feels incredible. I do an open house that weekend and I literally had people. I literally had people saying wow, the energy feels so good in here, oh, wow, laughing. So I was like if you were here three days ago yeah right, it wasn't so good, it wasn't so good, yeah, it wasn't so good.
Speaker 2:That's crazy, you know, and there's something to that, you know. I think also, you know, when there's a lot of times people go into a house and they're like I just I don't know what it is, it just doesn't feel right.
Speaker 1:Yep, exactly. I always tell clients I'm like you know, we, everyone, we have our metrics. We know how much homes are worth based on comps, blah, blah, blah. But how do you feel in the home? Spend a little time in there. How do you feel physically? How does your body feel there? How does your nervous system feel? Do you feel calm and relaxed? Do you feel anxious? You know the views are important. Is it surrounded by nature? Are you in a high rise? How do you feel?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like you know. I always tell my sellers, you know the buyers is not buying your house, the buyer is buying their house.
Speaker 2:Good point.
Speaker 1:So let's clean the energy of the house. So they're not feeling I don't tell them this, but so they're not feeling. You especially, you know, sometimes buy, sometimes sellers like have a stranglehold on the property, like if they grew up in the house, like they sometimes sabotage their own sales. And so I've. I've done this a few times where I brought the home healer into the house to sage it and then I realized, oh wait, it's not the home, it's the cellar. So then I'll do like a private coaching session.
Speaker 2:We can clean the cellar's energy up a little bit and relax them, and it usually helps he just lights them up, you know, with a put sage around their head or something I remember. Actually you could do too. You could shove sage in their pillow at night and then that way they don't even know it's happening. It's just there and you've got to watch with fires out there where you are, you can't be burning weeds, this stuff, all the time. You've got to be careful. You guys have an issue out there with that.
Speaker 1:We've got professionals? Yeah, you've got professionals.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's right. No, I think that's awesome and I think there's something to that. I really do. I think there's something to that because I know that you know a home is. There's so many memories, there's so much energy in a house. You know, when it's been lived in, especially like you know 20, 30, 40 years and the house takes on kind of that energy. You know it takes on that that feel. Do people look at you sometimes like you're nuts or no?
Speaker 1:yes yes, yes, but I also, I like choose what I want to share with certain people because some people are like this, dude this, this dude's off his rocker man.
Speaker 2:Oh man, that's hilarious in my house.
Speaker 1:I don't know what smelled good. I don't know what's going on with this guy I think he's just smoking a joint.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't smell any sage. It's part of my feeling yeah, yeah, right, no. But I'm sure some people are like, come on, yeah, really, you know, but that's cool so.
Speaker 1:So people who I I believe are not into it, I won't mention it. Yeah, but if the energy is really, really bad, I'll do it anyway in service of the sale. Yeah, I know it'll help them, whether or not they know it yeah, now, can you smell that.
Speaker 2:Then, when you come back in the house, can you smell this? You can smell the sage, right?
Speaker 1:you can, but I also like I mean, I'm my own, so I'm my own brand of sage and also my own brand of candles own brand of candles.
Speaker 1:You said yeah, I created some custom scented candles awesome. Yeah, so for the open houses, I've got the candles burning. I like. I feel like when someone tours a house, it's a multi-sensory experience. It's not just, of course, how does it look, how does it feel, how does it smell. Yeah, you know people, whether or not they're aware of it, you walk into a home. A home smells bad.
Speaker 1:You're probably not getting an offer on that home you're right, but you know, if the home smells incredible and the light is great and the flow is open and maybe there's a cross breeze, you know there's a higher like every little advantage, why not use?
Speaker 2:it? Yeah, did you ever find that with food, cultural food, where where there's, you know, somebody cooks in a certain way, you know, and it's nothing wrong with it's, just their culture has has food that sometimes will hang out in the house a little bit longer than than it needs to? And specifically, yes curry.
Speaker 2:Uh yeah, that kind of stuff, yeah, and it's, and it's tough, because if somebody comes in and doesn't like that kind of food, or even garlic, garlic can do that too. Um yeah, so it's interesting down. Would the sage and those candles help out with neutralizing those, those?
Speaker 1:odors, for sure, I mean the candle more than the sage, I would say, because usually it's running for hours. You know it's an open house. Um, the sage will help out, for sure, a little bit, but sometimes the smell gets into the carpet. If there's carpet, you know, sometimes it gets into the wall. So I always like to tell my sellers let's create a completely neutral environment, color palettes, neutral, no weird smells, no weird energies, like I want the buyer to project their lifestyle onto this property, so we don't want polarizing artwork. Or I mean, I had this seller once who, uh, I'm Jewish, I can say this. You know, he had this weird, almost like Holocaust art. He's Jewish too. He had like weird art and like I had multiple buyers who were really offended by the art and I told him and he was just like, oh, they got bad taste. And I was like, no, actually you have bad taste.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Holocaust thing on the wall is not a good idea. It's got to be neutral. And here the thing I always say about that you're selling your house. Take it down. You know what I mean. You're going to be taking it down at some point. Just take it down. Take it down now. Why have taking it down at some point, just take it down take it down now.
Speaker 2:Why? Why? Why have controversy here? I just don't get it. No, I I agree with you on that stuff. You know it's it's you got to be careful, because some people will will definitely have an issue with that.
Speaker 1:I get it, of course yes, I had a situation recently um, I don't know, do you have trader joe's where you are?
Speaker 2:we do, but we don't not where I'm living, right here in redding Pennsylvania, but we have them around the area. Yes, they're awesome.
Speaker 1:In LA there are these huge murals inside Trader Joe's and so I had clients do a really cute, cool mural. The woman who does those murals did their mural. She, she commissioned. You know, it's really cool in a nursery and I brought the stager in and I always like to just hire people who are the best at what they do. I don't micromanage. I'm like you do what you do, great. Yeah, I'm going to let you run with it. And she was like house is great. You know, there's this one nursery where you got like a chipmunk reading a book on a flower. It's cool. But you know, if the buyer, if your buyer, comes in, they don't have young kids. It rubs them the wrong way a little bit. I would recommend you paint the room. So I talked to the sellers and I was like, let's just, the new buyer is going to paint the room anyway. Let's just speed that up 30 days and let's paint it for them. Yeah, right, right, how'd that go over? Did it go over?
Speaker 2:well, I mean, they agreed we were getting an offer in today, so there, you go there, you go, yeah, I think well, and it's that's that coaching, that's that that that you know, I think a lot of times agents feel like, because they feel it, because they hired us, that we're supposed to be yes, men, we're not. We're there to to coach and to give the guidance that they came to us for. You know, we're not going to agree with everything they say. That's not why you hired me. You don't hire somebody to say yes, you hire somebody to to guide you and give the ideas that you don't have, and I think it's pretty interesting how that works.
Speaker 2:But yeah, let's go into some other topics here. I love all that stuff though. It's really cool. Let's talk about your market. I think people are here they're going to hear you talk about this stuff. Let's talk about what type of houses you're talking about here. This is not a in our area here. This is not a $500,000 house. We're talking some big homes here that you're dealing with homes here that you're you're doing, you're dealing with totally.
Speaker 1:So I do like full spectrum. You know I'll do million dollar starter homes in la. That's a million, that's a starter home which is funny.
Speaker 2:That's a top price for us crazy market. Yeah, it's amazing. So you do a million dollar starter homes, okay, and then you and I do 50 million dollar ender homes, wow, wow, amazing, um, so full, full spectrum.
Speaker 1:I personally like you know the 25, $50 million homes. There are very few buyers for those homes. They're also the most expensive homes to market. They're also the most fun homes to market yeah, they also a lot of time. So I like to, you know, have kind of a portfolio of listings where I say I've got a bunch of, you know, starter homes, I've got some, you know, medium and luxury homes, I've got some high end luxury homes. But you know my background is in entertainment, so I have a lot of entertainment clients, celebrity clients and, you know, on the higher end, those are a lot of people who I'm dealing with.
Speaker 2:Do you ever feel intimidated by some of those people that are like do you ever get that intimidation feeling at all by some of these higher end? You know they're billionaires or whatever they are. You know that's. That's a different clientele. Very different.
Speaker 1:I mean when I first started dealing with that kind of clientele, uh definitely was nervous and um, and I was more subservient. Now I'm just kind of like listen, I'm great at what I do, I know it, yeah, and so I meet them kind of on that level and get more respect, I think because of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, and you've been doing it and I've seen your videos and stuff. It's amazing and what you're doing let's talk about. So there is a house that you have that's listed for $50 million. How do you price that that? I mean, how do you sit there and go, okay, this is worth 50 million because there's no other house that's like that anywhere. It's it's, it's its own thing, you know, is that that's got to be tough so it's a unicorn property it is.
Speaker 1:It's an andalusian style palace. It's on 3.6 acres, nine bed bed, 18 bath, 21,000 square feet, with the best pool probably in America. Mansion Global is actually doing an article this week on this property and the pool as the best pool in America. Wow, it's. It's got aading pool that opens up, goes past three massive waterfalls, a grotto, a hot tub into a lazy river, past a massive water slide, past a koi pond, under two bridges, into an infinity pool.
Speaker 2:Okay, we call those water parks, we call those water parks in our area. Do they give you like an inner tube? The guy like tells you when to go and all that. You know what I mean? Is that that kind of that?
Speaker 1:is crazy that's crazy.
Speaker 2:It's almost football field long. Oh my gosh, that's incredible. But this, that's the kind of stuff that you see. That's another question. I got a question do you still it does? Do these homes still impress you? Like? Do you still get in a home and go holy crap, I've never seen that before. Yeah, I mean, it brings the smiles to my face. Yeah, it makes me let's just laugh talking about it. Yeah, just like what? Yeah, it's kind of like. Yeah, because somebody thought of it, but it's not just the thought, somebody actually paid to have it done, which is incredible yeah, the architect is richard landry.
Speaker 1:He did mark walberg's place out here, kardashians, dr dre, uh, he's known as the king of the mega mansion. Wow, so he's done in europe, in in asia. He did. I don't know what the price was, but it's for one of the wealthiest people, families and in china and it it looks like Versailles, it's like it's an unbelievable.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so, yeah, it blew my mind. When I first saw it, I was just. The views alone are like spellbinding. You can see from downtown all the way into the ocean.
Speaker 2:Unbelievable, unbelievable. I got a question. So the buyer's a different buyer, the seller is a different seller in that price range. You know they're. They're both thinking they are better than the other. Probably, um, I would think, right, and because if you have that kind of money, it's a different ball game and you're going to have. You know you're, it's going to be, um, zip, pulling your zipper down and showing who's is bigger and that kind of a thing. And so how do you know? Typically, they're working with a buyer agent, correct?
Speaker 1:Yeah, like at that level, like almost 100%.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I thought, Okay.
Speaker 1:Even if they call me directly and I tour it for them directly. Yeah, I've never had a situation where they're like, hey, can you represent me? Yeah, it's usually like I'll tour it for them. There's no agent, no mention of an agent, and then if they like it, they're like okay, my agent will be in touch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, well, that happens. Yeah yeah, that's weird. You never mentioned that before. I just spent four hours touring the house with you. Yeah, no, so so it basically you have the same situation we get, but going back to it, so that must be very difficult. Now is there then attorneys involved, of course?
Speaker 1:Yes, a hundred percent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So, um, there are attorneys involved Totally. Um depends on, you know, when I, when I got this listing, I told the seller I said, listen, very, this is a unicorn property. Very, very specific. Um, I and what I did is I actually pull. I, I was like these are the buyer archetypes, the kinds of buyers I think who would purchase this home. You know, I think it could be a foreign family, multi-generational, that wants to live under one roof. Um, could be asian, middle eastern high likelihood, especially with the architecture, maybe, maybe russian, you know, could be, uh, you know, a someone like a tech billionaire who had a massive exit. Could be an entertainment. You know, not very few celebrities can afford this home Isn't that funny.
Speaker 2:So even celebrities at 50,. So 50 million is definitely like a whole different level than like 10 million or 15 million. That's a different level, different level, Cause it's like million.
Speaker 1:That's a different level, different level, because it's like, how many buyers are there? Yeah, for this, yeah, and. And so you know one thing that I've done marketing wise. I've uh, it's called geo fencing. I've drawn digital fences around like the top 10 private airports in the world and certain businesses. So, yeah, you know anyone who's flying private. They had a cookie on their phone. They get my, my ad. Oh, then I get a phone call and they happen to have a patient, but I'm cool with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's okay. You're there to. You're there to cause the properties as hell period. I mean, that's, that's what it's about, whether or not it's your buyer or not. And in those homes, I would think, even even if you wouldn't want to represent that person, because that's to me would be a legal nightmare.
Speaker 1:Yeah, major conflict. Yeah, funny, because the seller on that property is actually like he's okay with it as long as you know there's a reduction in commission. Of course, sure, of course. Yeah, which is?
Speaker 2:okay, which is okay. Yeah, it's crazy. And then you were saying too, like the amount of marketing that you have to do. I mean, you're advertising to other countries. You're not just advertising to the market around there, you're advertising to other countries, and that's that's the thing that blows my mind with that. You've got to be in the top magazines, you've got to be everywhere You've got to be everywhere.
Speaker 1:It's beyond MLS ads. You know I did a thing at formula one in Miami. Know I did a thing at formula one in Miami. You know, um, like, I feel like digital is probably ad dollars better spent because it's trackable at least. So I do, I mean, I do do magazine ads also. Yeah, um, I don't, I mean, and I I yeah, I don't know if I've had great success with magazine ads, but I I do it cause you know it's for the seller not for you. For the seller. Yeah, exactly, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly, it's still the same. Nothing has changed. It's just funny because it's really for the seller to see their, to see their home, and I get that. And then every once in a while somebody could be on a plane somewhere looking at the American airlines magazine, and there's the house. Who knows? You know, you don't know it could be, it could happen, you know.
Speaker 1:I always like to say, like all right, how many hours do we have in the quiver, and let's shoot all of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Within yeah.
Speaker 2:And see what's next. Well, let's put the net out big. Put that net out as big as you can Almost almost almost knock something off my table here. That was close, but yeah. So let's go on the but yeah so let's go on. The other thing that you told me about just before we went live is you're selling an island.
Speaker 1:Hugo did you hear that I did yeah, Selling an island. I'm excited to hear about it, yeah this is interesting.
Speaker 2:I got to say I don't think I've ever met anybody that was selling an island. What's the price of the?
Speaker 1:island. Let me tell you about the island. And why don't you guess? Oh, about the island. And why don't you get? Oh, build, build up the value first, and then we'll talk about the price. That sounds good. I, I got that. Go ahead, tell me about this island. It's on a protected uh atoll in french polynesia. The island's called motu fara, so one thing that separates this island from almost any other island in the world is that it's only eight. So on the adjoining island is an international airport called rangaroa airport. It's on the rangaroa at all. So this island is a three minute boat ride and a seven minute car ride from that tarmac, so 10 minutes from touchdown onto your own private dock on your own island but so there's a wait, so there's a bridge that goes to it, because you said your car.
Speaker 2:Are you talking that it's a ferry that takes you?
Speaker 1:so yeah, well, the island comes with a boat. It comes with it's called a conga, so it's a motor. Pretty funny it's got a staff of six and a chef. He's not michelin star chef, but he worked at a michelin star restaurant in Paris. We'll let that slide.
Speaker 2:What's that? I said we'll let that slide. He's all petty.
Speaker 1:Um, so it's a three minute boat ride from Motufar to Rangaroa and then like seven minutes from the on in car, from the tarmac on. Rangaroa to the dock Wow. Um in car from the tarmac on Rangaroa to the dock Wow Eight hours, 15 minutes direct from LA. The island is about four acres, two homes, two pools, a bungalow for the staff, fully turnkey solar powered water, rain recapture system.
Speaker 2:What about electric? Is it all solar?
Speaker 1:uh, it's solar, but then there's also electric as well. The solar was installed. I want to say the major upgrade, renovation in 2023, major. There's a boathouse as well, and what do you think something like that might cost?
Speaker 2:oh my gosh. Well, the last time I I did a market analysis on a on an island was a while ago, um, but no, I'm. I mean, I think that's in that same range as that 50 million dollar house. It has to be like 50 million, 75 million, I mean I I don't even know, believe it or not, for only 15 million euros. Wow so it. So it's about 20, some American maybe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a little bit less. Wow, I think it's a great deal. Most of the island is about a meter above sea level, so that's nice. Yeah, what?
Speaker 2:about do hurricanes come there, or typhoons or anything like that? Do hurricanes come there, or typhoons, or anything like that?
Speaker 1:In the last 20 years there's been one tsunami that had very minimal, like almost very, very minimal. So in terms of weather it's great. It's also a great income property, so it's currently being short-term rented. And one thing that I didn't know in France they have different types of lending products and they have a lending product. I can't talk specifics because I don't fully understand it, but my understanding is you know, if you were to put 50% down and 50% loan, there's a way for this loan. Like you put a certain amount into the loan, which appreciates over time, and it's way better than any product I've heard of in the States.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Interesting, Very interesting, and you got brought in on this cause you're not a realtor in France, so you brought. You got brought in from another agent, uh in France that saw what you were doing in uh, California and decided to to bring you on. I think that was smart for him on his part it was a blessing on my part, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1:I mean, he discovered me uh, I think he saw my website and then checked me out on instagram and it was one of those instagram dms where I was like is this guy for real?
Speaker 2:yeah, you're selling talent yeah and no, yeah, well I would be like okay, yeah, this is definitely some kind of spam. You know what I I mean? It's like, yeah, my, my aunt, died. We're looking for a person to give the money to so we can send it to Russia. You know what I mean? Those things that are definitely never true, obviously. But yeah, so, the island thing. So what, what have you noticed about selling an island? It's a little different. I mean, this is a very different thing.
Speaker 1:Very different, um, very challenging. Honestly, not a lot of people, I mean, an Island is not a necessity. Nobody like needs to buy an Island, so this is the type of trophy property that masters of the universe purchase, yeah, and so like, how do you reach those masters of the universe? You know, private aviation is one way. Yep, uh, I recently joined realm global, which is, uh, I mean, the strategy has been essentially, not only is it an amazing forever vacation or vacation home for a family that lives in the US or maybe Australia, it's a great income. It's actually like a legitimately great income.
Speaker 2:I was going to ask that I mean, you're allowed to rent it out, right, it's not like. I mean, well, it's your island, so I guess you can do whatever the hell you want. I mean, but yeah, you can rent it out. So when you're not there, it could be Airbnb or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely Wow, that's amazing it's being rented out currently and after the upgrades, at a nice premium. So if someone's looking for an island, I got a guy.
Speaker 2:You are the guy. You are the guy for islands, so let's just talk, talk before we wrap this up here. Let's talk about we talked about your island, which was really cool. That was a big thing. I've never talked about selling an island before, so that was cool. Let's talk about the tree. I saw that this, this tree house, home, whatever you call it. That was on one of your YouTube things, I think. Whatever I saw in there and the house was just amazing, spectacular, is so unique and each room had like opening open, like walls, windows, whatever, spectacular. I started talking to you about this before we went live and I wanted to just have you say talk about the house and then talk about what happened.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so incredibly special house. Uh, my clients bought it before I knew them um about six years ago. Long celebrity history of the house, so it was.
Speaker 1:Olivia Newton John's house, then it was Sally Fields house, then it was the CEO of my space's house, then it was James Gunn. We directed guardians of the galaxy. He runs DC, dc comics, yep, um. And then they bought it from him and it was him and it was like an English country home on a little over three acres amazing views, protected equestrian stables, really cool property. But it was an English country home that was dated and so their vision initially.
Speaker 1:They came in, they brought in this interior designer, really talented guy, ryan White, to buy some custom furniture and as they were talking and Ryan's a great salesman the project went from like custom furniture to like, let's customize this room, let's, instead of a couch, let's do a built in cuddle, puddle couch for 40 people. I saw that. So the whole thing transformed. It turned into a down to the absolute studs complete renovation. They flew in a team from belgium, belgium to do like belgian plaster job on the wall. I don't know what the price per square foot was, but I for real it was like 1500 oh my gosh it was the finest.
Speaker 1:it was called, like calcutta palazzo, extra Stone. They had shower chambers built with Juliet balconies, so we flew a drone through the shower into the house.
Speaker 2:I saw it. Amazing marketing. Keep going, amazing marketing.
Speaker 1:So we got into Architectural Digest. A lot of excited people got into escrow. A lot of excited people got it into escrow and I think it was January 9th. The house burnt and when I say it burned, I don't know what the temperature was. I've walked it since we're about to do another YouTube video of the before and after and it incinerated. I'm talking like the steel was twisted and melted. The only thing left was this like ceramic fireplace. Everything else just completely vaporized.
Speaker 2:Wow yeah it's so sad was that during the fires, the big fires that went through, or was that a separate fire?
Speaker 1:this was the palisades fire which I believe started uh like january 7th, then I think january 8th. It was tuesday, unbelievable, and I think it turned on wednesday. You know, we all got um. I was, I was in spain, I was evacuated, they got evacuated. I I mean, the fire was nowhere near that neighborhood. Yeah it just the, the gusts. I don't know if it's like 70 miles an hour.
Speaker 2:It was insane yeah, I saw a lot of it on the news. I yeah, you have a 70 mile an hour wind, with fire. I mean it's just devastating. And then you have all that timber, you have all that, you know it. Just it's yeah, you don't have a chance, you really don't. That's amazing story. And it's interesting because I just started talking about that house and then you're like it's gone so, and you said that they're looking to to rebuild, right.
Speaker 1:They're looking to rebuild Yep, they've already hired, you know, all the people. I don't know if they're doing the same plan or they're doing something else. Um, so I'm not sure and it's going to take a long time, but it's a shame.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a shame, it's a shame. Is there anything else that you wanted to talk about before we, before we end this? I just think it was. It was great.
Speaker 1:well, you have a question I have a question, you got a question. What's your question? So, uh, what are some of the strangest stories that you have?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, you had some strange stories in this endeavor yes, give us a couple of those I'll give you.
Speaker 1:I'll give you start off with this one. Uh, so I used to be in entertainment friend of mine, talent manager me. This was like probably five years ago. He says listen, I've got a friend of mine, this rock star, he's looking to sell his house in the valley. It's on two acres. Are you interested? Of course I'm interested. So I drive up there. It's like 10 am on a Tuesday. I get there a few minutes early.
Speaker 1:Delivery driver is like dropping off cases and unnamed rockstar comes out. He's got like purple hair, blue hair or something, and he's like oh hey, are you Adam? I'm like, yeah, he's like, opens up one of the boxes, it's vodka. He's like you want one. And I was like who am I to deny this man a gift? Yeah, I mean, give me some vodka. Of course, yes, put it in the car, get inside. Um, my friends there they open the vodka and start pouring vodka and orange juices. And you know he's like you want one. And I was like, of course I don't. It's 10 am ona tuesday, but sure it's like, it's like a it's like a morning drink.
Speaker 2:I mean, come on, it's orange juice, come on, come on, let's be classy guys.
Speaker 1:He's getting wasted. We're touring the property like a little disarray but it's a very cool, huge lot Like, and as we're touring he's telling me some wild stories and like wild partying stories and the end of the tour he's like you know, I'd love to show you my favorite room in the house. Uh, do you have a few more minutes? I'm like yeah, no problem, I haven't even shown him like a listing presentation book or anything. So he takes out a special set of keys, oh boy, puts it into this big box. He opens the door and there's red quilted leather all over the walls.
Speaker 1:There's a swing hanging from the ceiling oh my gosh, you're kidding me and he's like this is where I have my fun and I'm like, oh, okay okay, okay he's like actually I want to show you this video. What's playing? A video? I'm not. I'm not gonna say what was on this video, because I it's a wild video. It's a wild video, it's not disney is what you're saying that's definitely not disney, it's not, it's not g or pg.
Speaker 1:um, all of a sudden the door bursts open and three big guys step in and my, my friend, the manager is his jaw kind of drops and I'm just like who are these guys? They grab said rock star like by the arms and they like leave out the room. And my friend's like he's like I'll be right back and I was like okay, he leaves. And I'm like I don't want to be in this dungeon.
Speaker 1:No, I try to open the door but it's locked. Oh geez, dungeon's locked. I'm locked in a dungeon and I look up and there's a camera that's on me in the dungeon and I'm like am I gonna be part of a video?
Speaker 2:in here a minute past. Am I gonna be on the news tomorrow?
Speaker 1:there are no windows in this dungeon and I'm just like I really want to get out of this dungeon. All of a sudden the door opens. My friend's like let's go. He's like you want sushi? I was like, yeah, I'll have sushi. That was it. I'm like what the hell is going on. He's like well, so his bandmates knew that he had this listing appointment at 10 am, so they staged an intervention at 10.30 because they knew he'd be in the home.
Speaker 2:They're bringing him to rehab. Oh my gosh, so you were in the middle of the intervention with the case of vodka.
Speaker 1:Well, hey, you know what you helped him.
Speaker 2:You took a bottle. You, you were part of the intervention, you took a bottle. That was very nice. You did not let him have that. Oh my gosh, dude, that's a great story. That's a great story. I love it. So you probably have many. We got to get Brett, get you back on, just to talk about more stories, adventures in real estate.
Speaker 2:Unbelievable. So how tell me how people get in touch with you out there? You know in in California and and you know like phone number is it. Is it a email me? What's the best way to reach out to you? Um email.
Speaker 1:Adam at Adam Brown. Instagram at Adam Brower B-R-A-W-E-R. If somebody wants to reach out, direct 310-279-8251.
Speaker 2:Awesome, man, awesome. Thanks so much for being on. What a blast. That was a good over 30 minutes, believe it or not, and that was a lot of fun. So, yeah, thanks for being on. We will talk to you real soon, all right, all right, thanks, man. So there you go, adam Brower, that was a great show. What do you think, hugo? That was fun, that was fun, great show.
Speaker 1:What do you think, hugo, that was?
Speaker 2:fun. That was fun. Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what the spiritual realtor. We learned a lot from him. We learned about saging a house, we learned about all kinds of stuff, and then the story at the end was pretty, pretty amazing. All right, that's about it. We will see you next Thursday at 7 pm. Thanks for joining us again, all right?
