I realy was earning my bacon yesterday. I had 9 appointments--whew! My 9:30AM appointment I showed the Morgan Lofts to 142-144 Steuben St Jersey City, NJ 07302. She didn't like the 3 bedroom, but I always show the Penthouse just for kicks, the kids ran up there and picked out their bedrooms and that was that. She made an offer but I doubt it will be accepted, but I have to present all offers!
My second appointment at 11:00AM, TOOK the place at 295 York St Jersey City, NJ 07302. This place was a great deal for $1450, directly across from Van Vorst Park. I have shown it several times, but no takers. It's a 600 sq ft apartment for $1450, two block from the Grove St PATH, how can you beat it. I had several clients tell me it wasn't worth it, but I beg to differ and obviously I found the client that agreed! There was a swap shop at the park yesterday, I thought that may have dettered potential clients, but it turned out pretty good. I bought a couple of chachkis for myself.
My 1:00PM gut never showed up or never even called, I guess it was a good thing because I ended up renting the place that he wanted to rent to my 11:00 AM couple. c'est la vie...
Then my 2:00PM appointment was a half-hour late! It totally threw off my schedule, it really wasn't their fault, they were driving in from Bostona nd got caught in traffice on I-95. I was just about to leave when they pulled up. I showed them four apartments, 2 at 89 Wayne St Jersey City, NJ 07302, the 3 bedroom loft at 142-144 Steuben St Jersey City, NJ 07302 and 1 at 211 Washington St Jersey City, NJ 07302. The loft was a little scary for the Dad becuase he has a 3 year old that likes to climb--enough said? So the lofts were out, I don't beleive they liked the other apartment at 89 Wayne St, but I do believe they liked the location more than the apartment in Paulus Hook (211 Washington St), they were making a decision by tomorrow and I was supposed to be called regardless of the choice, but that's what everyone says! At least they could have rented one of my places seeing as they made me late for my next two appointments!
I double booked my 3:00PM appointment because quite frankly, I had a couple that just had to go in today and didn't want to wait. When we went to register I learned that they had called and were unable to get an appointment, and that's when they called me(more on that later). Any way so I met my two clients, I had been communicating with her for several weeks, she works for CBS and travels a lot and she cancelled last week, so she finally made it out yesterday. I felt a little bad because since I am trying to give both clients my undivided attention it was tough because I had to split my attention, it hurts the sales presentation also for the leasing agent, but we made it work, after all the were both looking for the same size apartment at 225 Grand Jersey City, NJ 07302.
After this we went to 70 Greene St Jersey City, NJ 07302 where we met Kathy Porpiglia, quite frankly the BEST leasing agent that I have met. She really loves her building and you can see by the way she makes her presentation that she loves her building. My clients are always impressed after we go and see her, not only by the building but by Kathy herself. It's always fun to see her too, because she's uber energy! I just wish I could finally rent one of the places at 70 Greene already.
Afterwards we went to Portside Towers, a sister property of 70 Greene St. We were an hour late, but luckily Jill was able to accomodate us and get us thru the building. My clients really liked this building, much to my surprise, but they reall, really liked 225 Grand St. Portside Towers is one of the older building in Jersey City, but it is well maintained, they are renovating all of the apartments currently, so as leases are up they renovated the apartment. Granite coutertops, stainless steel appliances, flat top stove, very sleek and modern. This was my last showing for my 3:00PM clients, they went back to 225 Grand to speak to Michael Miller the leasing agent over at 225 Grand, although I KNOW they will end up at 225 grand, they still would like to see other luxury buildings to "rule them out," I guess they want to make sure they are getting the best building which I told them they are, but I' a Realtor and a salesperson and I'll leave it at that...
I had a 4:00PM appointment that wanted to go to 225 Grand, I finagled getting an appointment and asked Roni Billington my broker to take them over, as I already had 2 clients going thru the building at the same time! These people NEVER showed up, and never even called to cancel the appointment. I was throughly annoyed.
My last appointment was at 89 Wayne St--AGAIN, the 2-2 bedroom apartments. The guys I met were two muscular dudes, I asked what kind of work they do, they said they were bankers. I was like wow, "dude if you told me to put my money here, I would put it there because I wouldn't want you to crush me with your bear hands." They were very nice, I got a maybe feeling from them. I didn't realize the rent on these apartments had been lowered, which is a good thing--I'll have them rented THIS week!
I had double booked this appointment also, one client called and claimed she found a place, but I think she was lying. She really wanted the 2 bedroom at the Morgan Lofts, but I rented that out on Friday. I also had double booked another guy at 3PM, but he never showed up or called.
All in all it was a pretty good day, NINE appointments, 1 rented, 2 definite maybes, and the other 6 well you know how those went..., I put up a couple of ads on Craigslist so I am sure there will be some calls throughout the day.
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