I had a tremendously busy week of appointments and today was the pinnacle of my busy week.  Starting at noon I had a whirlwind afternoon of buyer appointments and showing appointments for a couple of our better priced listings since we do not have any lockboxes in New York City.  With so many appointments in a short period of time, if one appointment is late a domino effect will happen and the rest of the appointments will all fall down.  What gets a little tricky is not how fast you can get from one appointment to another.  The tricky part is when other people are late or call last minute to reschedule.  

My first appointment was at noon and was at one of our Murray Hill studio co-op apartments.  This property gets shown a lot and I am ready for it go get an offer one of these days.  My next appointment was about 3/4 of a mile away at one of most requested listings, a renovated Gramercy alcove studio priced at $499,000 with a washer/dryer in the unit.  Here in New York City having a studio with its very own washer/dryer is quite the luxury.  This unit is priced very well and is in great condition, people respond very well to this listing.  At this point I was still on time, no hiccups yet.  

My next appointment was at the Gramercy Starck.  This is the type of building that has to be seen to to believe.  Designed by Phillipe Starck and his design team, this is a high design super lux condominium building.  We have a number of listings available in the building and I was there to show one of our two bedroom listings.  While I was in the lobby waiting for the appointment to arrive I had a last minute request to see another unit in the building.  I wanted to accommodate so I stayed and showed a listing again.  Now I am running a little late to my next appointment.

I hustled uptown 50 blocks away to the Upper East Side and had three appointments to show a buyer some one bedroom and alcove studio apartments.  These appointments went pretty smoothly.  Earlier on in the day I had to juggle a couple of these appointments, but everybody showed up on time and my buyer saw a couple of apartments with lots of potential.

The next appointment was back downtown at the Renovated Alcove Studio.  This was a second showing, something that is always very encouraging in todays market.  I gave a full tour of the building and was told that our exclusive is on their short list of finalists.  We will see if an offer comes in.  The next and final appointment was at the Murray Hill studio co-op.   This is where things got interesting.  I met a nice couple and their broker who were looking for a pied-a-terres property here in New York City.  This apartment is tailor made for that type of situation.  As I am explaining the different types of ways to have their furniture positioned and they are asking me questions about the units renovations I hear the doorbell ring.  The first thing I thought was that was weird.  I answer the door and  I was looking at a very pissed off neighbor.  The owner directly below us started screaming at me about all of the noise that we were making and that she had the right to exist in peace.  Needless to say, I was hoping the buyer did not get turned off by this disgruntle neighbor that may just been having a bad day, we were the victims of her bad day...

I started at noon today with this madness appointments day and finished at 5pm in the afternoon, I calculated how many miles I have walked today, it had to be about 10 miles!!! I could not even believe that I walked 10 miles today hustling around town.  Now I truly think that we have to be in absolute great shape to be in Real Estate... but first I rewarded myself with one of my favorite meals of a cheeseburger, fries, and chocolate shake!

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