Buying Beverly Hills (2022) s01e02 Episode Script

1
[dramatic music playing]
[Brandon] Beverly Hills!
[Sonika] It's pretty. Let's go!
Lots of people say in real estate,
"Look like the place that you're selling."
Like, you want to mimic the product.
There's a bit of pressure.
Like when you pull into The Agency
and everybody's in Bentleys and Mercedes,
you're kinda like,
"Okay, well, I got some work to do."
But I love my "Mazdarati." [laughing]
-[car alarm chirps]
-[Brandon] Wow.
[Sonika] This is beautiful. Here we go!
-Hey, guys! How are you?
-[both] Hi. Hey.
-Good, how are you?
-[Jon] Good! This is a special one.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jon] Sonika and Brandon
are two junior agents on my team.
Today I'm taking them
to my new listing on Rexford
because I think
it's a good teaching moment to show them
how to show a $20-million house.
Anyone would kill to have this listing
because it's a seven-figure commission.
So part of my job as the team leader
is to make sure we're setting
all of our agents up for success.
Sometimes we gotta throw 'em into
the deep end and see if they can swim.
But I've got a little surprise planned
for Brandon and Sonika today.
They're gonna be like, "Oh, no."
[laughing]
I want to just walk through
and just give you guys some tidbits
on how to show a house of this size.
When you're showing a $20-million house,
there's different etiquette and protocol.
Sure. I would imagine.
Jon is a boss.
He's, like, polished from head to toe.
Suited and booted, buffed and puffed.
Right? So it's like anything.
Do your research up front.
Your job is to try to read the room
But more than anything,
Jon's eyebrows are iconic.
You need to be a bit of a chameleon
[Brandon] They need
their own office at The Agency.
Both of them.
I usually just start
with, like, just a basic overview.
"Okay, so, welcome to Rexford Drive."
Interestingly, it was originally owned
by Edward G. Robinson,
a silent film actor back in the day.
So, a lot of cool history here.
Why don't we take you
into the living room? We can start there.
-[Brandon] Oh!
-[Sonika] Okay, this is beautiful.
One of the things
that I really like about it
is the juxtaposition
between the more modern amenities
and the old-world character and charm
that you just can't find in houses today,
like the intricate wood carvings
above the fireplace mantle,
and the piano-key crown molding,
and the coffered ceilings that just
give it so much personality and charm.
[Sonika] What kind of floors
are we walking on?
These are wood floors.
This brings up a really great point.
There's a very graceful and
intelligent way to say, "I don't know."
-You don't have to know everything.
-That's great.
[Jon] That's it, right?
It's just casual confidence.
Let's come into the primary suite,
which, as you can see
[chuckling] is not short on space.
-It's bigger than my apartment.
-[Jon] Bigger than most houses.
[Sonika] I was gonna say.
[Jon] Yeah,
you could land a helicopter in here.
[Sonika] Seriously.
[Jon] There's a lot to see.
We won't see all of it.
I've asked for a friend to stop by who's
gonna do this once more with you guys.
-I see the deer in the headlights.
-I'm ready.
-Like, "Who?"
-Who is this person?
Go see if they're here
and we can walk through.
[Sonika] Oh, my gosh!
-[Brandon] You're gettin' nervous.
-Now I'm nervous?
-[Mauricio] Hello! How are you guys?
-[Brandon] Hey. How're you doing?
-[Jon] Thanks for coming.
-How's it going?
-[Sonika] Oh, my goodness.
-Nice to see you.
I'm, like, shocked.
Like, the CEO of the company
is right here. What is he doing here?
What am I expected to do?
Like, what's going on?
I'm completely thrown for a loop.
-[Jon] So, we've gone through the house.
-Yeah.
And now I think it might be fun if maybe
we do a little role-playing with you.
Yeah.
Positions at The Agency are coveted,
and the main focus for The Agency
is to grow globally.
But reputation is everything, so I wanna
make sure that they represent us well.
-All right, so I'm gonna be the buyer.
-[Brandon] Okay.
[Mauricio] Um, got a family of four kids.
I think it could work for me, but I really
want to know more about the house.
Okay, so here we are
in the formal living room.
Introduce yourself. "So, I'm Sonika."
I'm no longer Mauricio.
You no longer know me, right? Let's roll.
Hi. So, I'm Sonika. I'm with The Agency.
And, so you are going
-Sorry. Let me start that over.
-[Mauricio] That's all right.
Uh
[Brandon] Sonika appears to be
very nervous.
It's a surprise that the big boss is here,
but we gotta buck up and we gotta do it.
I'm Brandon, I'm with The Agency.
You mentioned four kids.
There's plenty of space here.
I'd love to show you a few rooms.
Maybe this works for your family.
-Let's see it. Let's show it.
-Let's see it.
So right now
we are in the formal dining room.
[Mauricio] Dining room?
But I don't see any dining table.
Did I say dining?
I'm sorry, I meant formal living room.
Got it. Got it. I was a bit confused.
I wasn't sure
-Dining's over there. We'll see that next.
-Got it. Thank you so much.
Phew!
Child!
[Sonika] So here
we have the formal living room.
-[Mauricio] Yes.
-Um
The fireplace is I believe
Oh, God. There I go.
There's lots of details
as far as the coffered ceilings.
There's a wood-burning fireplace
I have on, I wanted to warm it up.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
[Brandon] Now we are
in the formal dining room.
Take a look at the wallpaper,
which adds some texture
and elevated design to the room.
I read on the internet that this
had some Hollywood history.
-Can you tell me anything about that?
-Yeah, so I, um
For client confidentiality reasons,
I'm not going to disclose that.
Okay.
-How much is this house?
-We're priced reasonably. Um
I don't
I really wish
I could have prepared better for this.
If I had known, I would have studied up.
Like
But
Fucking sucks.
Well, is the seller,
like, motivated to sell?
So it's been on the market a little while,
so they're definitely a little motivated.
Okay. Um
You don't need to point out the negatives.
He didn't say anything about,
"How many days has it been on the market?"
-He doesn't need to know that.
-I just lowered my offer price.
I'm hoping in this moment
that I'm being assessed for who I am
and that we're not, like, a combo.
Like, this is not McDonald's.
It's apples and oranges.
You had a nice playful moment
where you said something about,
"I turned on the fire
so it's nice and cozy."
You have to give your client
the sense that you know your product,
and you're confident,
and if you're not confident about it,
I'm not trusting you.
I'm gonna go get another agent
and I might buy this house,
but I'm not buying it with you.
These rookies,
they have a great mentor in Jon,
but at the end of the day
what makes or breaks a real estate career
is somebody's ability to perform.
So, Jon has a lot of work to
get these guys to where they need to be,
so he better get started.
[upbeat song playing]
We know what you want
We got what you want ♪
We got what you want
So come and get it ♪
That looks good to me.
I'll just have to talk to the other agent
and make sure it's good with him.
Ain't nobody else can have it ♪
They might come and try to grab it ♪
[Melissa] Farrah, hello? Hi!
[Farrah] Hello!
Melissa is my best friend,
but I met her through work.
Well, she actually found me.
She came into my office,
because I'm always
hiding in my office working,
and literally said,
"Let's have dinner this week."
And I was like,
"Oh, God. Uh, let me look at my calendar."
-I'm so happy you're here.
-[Melissa] I know. Finally.
How long has it been?
-Like, way too long.
-So weird. I talk to you every day, but
I know! Where do we begin?
So many things.
I'm very close to the Umansky family.
Farrah's my best friend.
I stay with her
whenever I come to California.
-Oh, third glass?
-Uh Oh, yeah, Alexia's coming.
-Sorry, I forgot to mention.
-Ah! My little butterfly.
I'm licensed in Texas and in California.
So I'm living the best of both worlds
and trying to survive
in both these amazing states.
I'm a hot mess express, 24/7.
I know I don't have to say this,
because you're an amazing house guest
Yes.
but, you know,
I just organized my entire house.
Like, everything is labeled.
You know, everything lives in its home,
and I feel so much better with my OCD.
-[Melissa] Of course.
-It's, like, perfect.
And I just want to keep it that way.
-So, thank you in advance.
-Mmm-hmm.
[Farrah] Although we are best friends,
to me, having anyone in my house
is a little uncomfortable.
Melissa comes in as a tornado,
and sometimes I want Zen,
and sometimes she wants to be like this,
and I want to be like this,
and I just say, "Okay."
[exhales] "It's okay. Just let go."
Because I love her.
Have you been going out a lot in Dallas?
-Yes. That's a yes.
-Of course.
-That was a rhetorical question.
-[laughing]
Work hard, play hard.
-You need some help there? Look at you.
-[sighs] What? How do I always ruin stuff?
-[Melissa] Did
-This does not look normal.
[laughing] No, it does not.
-Hello, ladies.
-[both] Hi.
Farrah, look how nice
your house is looking.
You like?
-[Melissa] I told her it looks so good.
-Thank you.
-I would live here all the time if
-[Farrah] You could.
-you didn't have cats.
-[Melissa] Oh, my gosh.
-Farrah's cats have it out for me!
-No. That's rude. No, they don't.
-[Alexia] Yes, they do.
-Well
You better get your act together
or you're not coming over.
It's their house.
You know,
I'm leaving my cats to her in my will.
-Yeah, I'm in her will.
-[Alexia laughs]
-[Farrah] Yeah.
-[Melissa] How are you?
-I'm good. How are you? How was your week?
-Great. Happy to be here.
You seem like a little busy bee.
[Alexia] I've been running around
like a chicken with her head cut off.
Milldale. I'm trying to brainstorm
for having an open house.
I've been trying to come up
with a bunch of ideas.
To get it all the way to the finish line,
I mean, there's so many
things that happen, so many nuances.
There's so many things that go wrong
that have to be fixed, so
I mean, at the entry level
to become an agent is like this,
but the skill that you actually need
to get a deal done is like this.
I want to be encouraging with my sister.
I don't know if she understands
all the things
that she's gonna have to do.
Mauricio wants Alexia to dive right in,
but there's a lot on the line.
I'm just looking out
for the best of all of us, you know?
[Melissa] I have to unpack.
I have an early morning.
-[cat meows]
-[Melissa] Janet! Hello.
-[Alexia] Hi, Janet.
-Let's go inside and hang out with Janet.
-[Farrah laughing]
-[Melissa] The queen.
[upbeat music playing]
-[Melissa on phone] Hello, my dear.
-Hi, how are you?
[Melissa] We're about to pull up
in a few minutes.
Okay, perfect. Was just letting you know
that I'm here and ready for you guys.
[Melissa] Okay, baby, we're about
to pull up, so I'll see you in a second.
This morning, Melissa called me
when I was eating breakfast
with a very last-minute showing request.
I'm like, "Hello?
The house is still off-market."
We don't have any of the staging done.
There's still so much to do.
Coming!
This is not typically something
I would do with some clients,
especially at my first big listing.
But Melissa and I are friends,
and I lived here, so how bad can it go?
-Oh, my God! Yay.
-[Melissa] Hello!
-Hi, baby.
-[Alexia] Thank you.
-[Natalie] Hi.
-[Melissa] So this is Natalie and Olivia.
Hi, guys! Alexia. It's a pleasure.
[Melissa] Olivia and Natalie are cousins.
I think this could be the perfect fit
because of the charm,
the character, the privacy
And, I mean, to do a deal with Alexia?
I mean, this is her first huge listing?
It would be huge. It helps us both out.
[Alexia] Here we are
in the formal living room.
Like, this is the room that they walk in
and it's the first "wow" factor. So
[Natalie] Yeah. Exactly.
-[Alexia] Here is the bar.
-[Olivia] Cute.
[Melissa] Like, the sexy room.
Handsome and sexy,
just like I like my men.
-We all like our men like that.
-[Olivia] Yeah!
[Melissa] Yes!
[Alexia] The kitchen
is the heart of the home as always,
but this one is extra special.
Do you know what kind of stone this is?
[Alexia] This is, um
Calacatta stone, I believe.
Or "Cacarra"? Calcara? Calcutta.
[laughs nervously]
Fuck.
Do you know what year the house was built?
It was built in 1960
1969?
Yes, I lived here, but am I reminding
myself what year this house was built
every day that I had breakfast
at that kitchen counter?
No.
Here we are in the primary bedroom.
Also amazing bathroom.
[laughs] This wall in the shower,
I really like.
Do you know that material? Is it like a
-[Alexia] Just some fancy-schmancy tile.
-Yeah.
Yes, exactly.
[laughing] Fancy-schmancy tile.
I understand
that this showing was last-minute,
but I'm a little disappointed so far.
When a listing agent doesn't know
either the littlest detail or the largest,
it's questionable, and you're thinking,
what am I about to put my buyers through?
[Alexia] This leads to the backyard.
-[Melissa] This is like
-[Olivia] Wow.
[Melissa] This is where the magic happens.
[Natalie] I feel like
I can feel the '70s energy back here.
-[all exclaim]
-[Melissa] Oh, look who it is.
Hi, everybody.
[Alexia] You guys might not know this,
but I work with my sister
and my dad on the team,
but this is my first time on my own.
-[Natalie] I love it!
-[Olivia] You did great.
Why don't y'all just take it all in,
just you two?
I'll stay out here and talk to them.
-I love it. I love you.
-[Farrah] So good to see you.
[Natalie] Yeah, nice to meet you.
[Farrah and Alexia] Love you.
-[Melissa] Love y'all.
-[Alexia] Bye, you guys.
[Natalie] Thank you.
-[Alexia] Oh, God.
-[Melissa] Okay, my dears.
Okay, tell us the low-down.
-Yeah, so I'm going to grade you.
-[Alexia] Oh, please.
-[Farrah] Oh, wow.
-Yes.
I'm gonna give you a B+.
-[Alexia] Okay.
-[Farrah] What? B+?
Mmm-hmm.
We need A pluses.
-We're But this is her first showing.
-[Alexia] There's improvement.
Okay, let's hear why.
For the kitchen, for example,
find out if it's Calacatta.
-'Cause you didn't know for sure.
-It's Carrara.
-It's Carrara.
-It's Carrara.
Or, like, the year the house was built.
Maybe have a quick cheat sheet
just on your phone.
But try to know it before.
It's it's hard.
There's a lot of pressure.
[exhales]
Fuck. I don't want to cry, you guys.
This is stupid. Over a B+?
[laughing]
It's fine. I don't care.
[exhales sharply]
I don't wanna disappoint anyone,
and I'm trying to do
a good job for my family.
It's only the first showing.
I'll do better next time.
[tense music playing]
[upbeat music playing]
-[Brandon] Yo.
-Brandon.
You're late.
-What time is it? I don't have my watch.
-It's all good.
[Joey] Good to see you, man.
I ordered your coffee.
That was sweet of you. Thank you so much.
-Black.
-You know my order.
-[server] Oat vanilla latte.
-That's me.
[server] That's you.
-[Joey] So much better than what I got.
-[both] Thank you.
So let's figure out
how we're gonna do some business together.
-But first
-Yes.
So I heard that you guys went to,
I think, Rexford?
Yeah.
Mauricio showed up
and put you guys on the spot.
-It wasn't the best.
-Yeah, I heard Sonika fuckin' blew it.
If he's challenging you like this already
-Does that mean he likes me?
-Yes. You're gonna be good.
How was growing up with Mauricio?
You and Alexia
have been friends for a while,
so you must have
known Mauricio a while too.
It was always fun. Like,
they always had the greatest parties.
Do you think Mauricio
knows you and Alexia dated?
-Or whatever that was?
-[laughing]
Um
-Dated. Uh, whatever that was.
-Is that what you'd call it?
Uh, no, we we had we had
fun together. We had a good time.
With the potential to be together,
or was that, like, platonic?
We were really vibing.
But there was a lot on the line.
-Too close.
-With both of us starting our careers
and, like,
both of us working for her father.
Alexia is, uh, Jesus Christ's daughter.
[laughs] No.
-It was short, casual.
-A little blip.
-It was a little blip. But it was fun.
-Okay. Yeah! Okay.
Alexia and I would go on work lunches
and do inappropriate things
that you wouldn't do
with someone that you're working with.
And especially not your boss's daughter.
So we would make out. Yeah.
[producer] Behind Mauricio's back?
In Mauricio's car.
But it's not just me.
The Agency is fully incestuous.
I'm just so
I'm just so grateful that, like
-Coming over here? I'm about to get some?
-Yeah.
Babe, I wanted to just
do something special for you.
-Thank you.
-You boss lady.
[both laugh]
It's one big family
that just gets together and fucks.
Hey, hey, hey. Guys, guys, come on.
Everybody can play nice here.
[producer] Have you fucked
a lot of people at The Agency?
No.
Not a lot.
Do you ever wonder
what would have happened
had you guys maybe pursued it?
Sure, like, that is something
that I've maybe thought about before.
-Why are you laughing at me?
-[both laughing]
"Sure, that is something
that I maybe have thought about before."
That's my impression. [laughing]
Goddamn it, that sounded exactly like me.
Holy shit.
Um
So, Mauricio, did he inspire you
to get into real estate,
or were you already on that path?
He for sure
was one of the biggest inspirations.
I have a ton of respect for Mauricio,
for what he's built at The Agency.
And he's welcomed me with open arms.
But for me, it is a little intimidating,
because the nepotism.
I cannot compete with Joey or Alexia.
They'd kinda been born into the industry.
They have the connections I don't have.
It's a hustle.
Nobody puts anything on my plate.
I gotta find it all.
What was your first sale?
My first sale
actually came from door-knocking.
I've never really done that before.
I'm kind of afraid. I'm a Black man.
I gotta have on, like, a fuckin' suit.
If I come casual at all,
they're gonna call the police on me.
Gotta worry about Karens.
Like, I have to be careful.
That's just so fucked up that
that's even a thought.
Yeah. I've had security guards, you know,
wanting to follow me.
They don't believe
that I'm there to do a job,
threatening to call the police
because I'm trespassing.
At an appointment,
I'm not in street clothes,
I'm dressed to the nines.
You can tell that I'm a
professional person ready to do business.
But for whatever reason,
people can't get past this.
My colleagues have not been followed,
they don't have to verify their identity,
you don't have people
threatening to call the police about you.
They don't understand
the things I go through.
I gotta get back to work.
Ready to get out of here?
-Same. Let's close some deals today.
-Let's go.
[upbeat song playing]
[Santiago] How much did we sell that for?
Can you look it up and let me know?
Send me a text.
[Sonika] Yeah! It's so funny when he runs.
[Farrah] Did you hear that Wallace Ridge
is being rented out by Drake already?
-[gasps] Stop it! We were just there.
-I know.
And I was really hoping
to find a buyer for that.
Or at least represent Drake on the lease.
-[Sonika] Hello.
-Hi, Sonika.
-Look how cute your outfit is.
-Look at yours. You look cute too.
-[Alexia] Thank you. You're looking cute.
-We kinda match colors.
-You look hella cute.
-Thank you. You look hella cute.
[Sonika] All right. Well, thank you.
-I have things that I wanna tell you too.
-What?
[Sonika] This morning,
Kevin called me, and he's like
Oh! Oh, my God.
There he is. Fuck. [laughs]
Kevin is my boyfriend.
He is, like, a real estate prodigy.
He's like a mini Mau.
He almost did, I want to say,
close to $80 million last year in sales.
And he's only been
out here in LA for four years.
This morning he told me,
"I'm interviewing this girl
to be my assistant."
-And I was like
-Have you seen a picture of her?
Yeah! I looked
I was like, "Oh, my God! What's her name?"
[Alexia] Can I see the
Can I inspect the photo?
[Sonika] Yeah.
[grimaces]
-That is so like like, "Hello."
-"Look at my butt."
-Look at my, like, deep-cut dress.
-[both laughing]
I feel insecure about it.
And this is how we started.
He asked me to be his girlfriend right
after he asked me to be his assistant.
Dumped his ex-girlfriend a couple,
like, weeks before.
Kevin and his assistants,
he knows how to pick 'em.
I know, I I'm like, "I know."
-[both laughing]
Kevin is a wonderful person.
But he's dated
a lot of people at The Agency.
It's something I'm really insecure about,
and Kevin is on Jon Grauman's team
with Amanda.
I definitely don't think anything's
going on between the two of them,
but when I first started dating Kevin,
I felt like Amanda and he were so close.
He was like,
"I'm grabbing lunch with Amanda,"
"I'm going to a broker's caravan
with Amanda," this, this
Like, it's scary.
He and I don't talk a lot, in general,
because we're always working all the time.
So I'm like, "Can you
hop on this call with me right now?"
-"What does your schedule look like?"
-Yeah.
Because I'm trying to pick up
all these tidbits of knowledge.
[Alexia] You know,
I'm still trying to prove myself.
-I feel so much more pressure
-So much pressure.
even at Milldale.
Like, I just want to do really well.
-For sure.
-And prepping for my open house.
I'm ready to start studying everything,
being amazing and everything,
because I had a great 20-minute showing,
and three details I had slipped off.
It was the difference
between Carrara and Calacatta marble
that look and sound the same.
Melissa gave me a B+,
and I got so, like, emotional afterwards.
She gave you an even lower grade
behind the scenes to Brandon and I.
I don't want to hurt your feelings.
What'd she give me?
Oh, my God.
[Melissa] Didn't know the year
the house was built.
She got the stone in the kitchen wrong.
Alexia was like, "How did I do?"
I was like, "If I gave you a grade,
I'd give you a B+."
But I wasn't honest.
Because I would have given her a C.
[Brandon] Hmm. Wow.
What?
[Sonika] Just Stop, no, no
Shh. Shh. You're fine.
Do you wanna talk about Kevin's assistant?
I think that's unfair.
The house wasn't even ready.
-I was doing her a favor. Like
-Yeah.
[stifling tears]
I welcome constructive criticism,
but to say that grade behind my back?
Now, knowing that grade,
I'm gonna be so scared to do a bad job.
[hoarsely] Fuck. That's so bad.
Stop You can't actually cry.
Oh.
[sighs]
[Alexia] I feel a little betrayed.
[sighs]
I told Farrah
and I told my dad that I was ready.
[stifling tears] I just want them
I want them to know that I am.
I really, really want this,
and I really care about this.
Ugh. I don't do well under pressure.
Don't let it get to you.
Just take it with a grain of salt.
Just be a badass bitch
and don't even think about the pressure.
Know your shit
and just don't leave any room for error.
It will just flow out of you.
It's Calacatta. Done.
It's Carrara.
-There I go! See? There's the confidence.
-[both laugh]
Carrara.
Ugh.
-[upbeat song playing]
-We are, we are ♪
We are the new generation ♪
-[plastic scraping]
-[Farrah] Oop! Oh, man.
[Alex] Farrah, don't hit anything else.
-Ahh!
-[plastic scraping]
Um
-Is it bad? Can you fix it for me?
-$2,500.
-So this came off here.
-[Farrah] Oh.
-Who cares about that?
-[Alex] Okay.
[upbeat music playing]
[Farrah] Alex is my boyfriend.
We met four years ago
out and about at a party.
He is very confident, very hardworking.
Some people say that Alex
looks like Mauricio.
That's a little awkward, but
Alex actually owns the largest
classic car dealership in the nation.
Whoo!
Oh, my goodness.
He loves cars.
He knows so much about them.
And they're absolutely his babies.
[Alex] I mean,
what car do you gravitate towards?
[Farrah] Um
Ooh! That cute little Mercedes over there.
[laughing]
The most expensive one in the room.
-Is that the most expensive one? Really?
-Yeah, I swear.
[Farrah] I have expensive taste.
What can I say?
So many things I love about Alex.
He is a self-made man.
He has huge goals in life.
Not just goals that are just out there.
He literally is working every day
towards those goals.
And it's very inspiring to me.
-[Alex] This is over a million dollars.
-Over a million?
The 190-SL,
this is like the baby sister of this.
Hugh Hefner owned one just like this.
Are either of these automatic?
I really want to learn
how to drive a stick shift.
If we're together, you definitely need
to know how to drive stick.
-Okay, so, teach me.
-I'd love to.
[Farrah] We are truly happy together.
We have the same long-term goals in life.
We love spending time together.
But I have my own house.
And then I also have our house,
which is the house
that Alex and I live in together.
I'm definitely still living
out of my trunk, basically,
schlepping my stuff
back and forth from both houses.
It's getting a little tiring
at this point, to be honest.
Are there spiders in here?
[Alex] By the way, look how amazing
this car is. This is from the '30s.
-From the '30s. 1930s.
-Almost a hundred years old.
I'm ready for the next chapter in my life.
I'm ready for everything
that a woman would want.
The marriage, the kids,
the warm home
with all the chaos and all the fun,
and I feel like just
there's something missing in my life,
and I'm ready to get to that next stage.
Whee!
-[engine stalls]
-[Farrah laughing] Oh, no!
-Okie dokie.
-[engine clanks]
But I'm the cat's meow.
I'm the full package.
I have brains, I have a career,
I have my own house.
I'm a nice person.
I mean, I don't think that he's
prepared to lose all that.
If he's smart.
-[engine clanking]
-[Farrah] Hmm.
-Maybe we should take another car.
-[laughs]
[upbeat song playing]
Let's get to work! ♪
Get busy and let's get to work
Yeah, let's get to work ♪
Melissa, of all people, should not be
talking about me behind my back
in a way that's embarrassing.
And that anger has become a fire in me
to prove everybody wrong,
and I'm putting all my energy
into just being as great as possible now.
-Hello! Hi!
-Hi.
-[Alexia] Francesca Grace!
-Hi!
Thank you so much for meeting me today.
I'll take you upstairs,
and we can start discussing details.
[Francesca] Yeah.
[laughing] Oh, my gosh.
I have the same chandelier in my house.
-[Alexia] With the antlers?
-Yeah!
[Alexia] Oh, my God. That's so cool.
The Milldale open house is coming up,
and there's still so much to do.
I mean, I have to get the staging done,
marketing, advertising.
So this is the formal living room.
Within 30 seconds of being in a home,
someone decides if they're gonna buy it.
This is a space
where we need to step it up.
-Should we get rid of these?
-Absolutely.
-[Alexia] Okay.
-[laughing]
But once I bring some good furniture in
with the staging,
this house is going
to feel like a home again.
And it'll sell itself.
-[Francesca laughing] Ooh!
-Okay.
-Purple dining room?
-So here's the purple dining room.
-Don't get me started about this.
-Tell me.
[Alexia] I don't know
where that came from. It's humiliating.
I guess I have one last question,
just 'cause it's my first time
doing this completely on my own.
Before you come and you put everything in,
am I gonna know what the room looks like?
Do you do renderings? How does that work?
No. It's kind of like a trust thing,
which is crazy.
[Alexia] I'm just angsty.
I wanna make sure
all this is done correctly.
Because I need to prove to my family
that I can do this.
Because I know I can do it.
I'm gonna sell this house so fast.
I'm gonna sell it faster
than anybody's ever sold it before.
I know I am.
-My job's on the line here.
-[laughing] I know.
I would never mess that up for you.
That'd be really bad.
[upbeat music playing]
[Mauricio] What's up, Jonny?
[both laughing]
[Mauricio] Oh, my God.
I'm dying right now.
I just received an email from Belack
and I just opened it up,
you know, his "marketing emails."
It's like, "Hey, everybody!
Ben Belack here, realtor to the stars!"
-[Jon] "Beverly Hills super realtor!"
-[laughing]
Hello.
[Mauricio] Belack!
Hey.
-[Mauricio] What's up, my man?
-How are you?
-[Ben] Good to see you. How are you?
-I'm good. And you?
-Oh, Jon's here, of course.
-[Jon] Exactly.
You're everywhere I go.
I thought this was gonna be quality time.
-How are ya?
-[Jon] Haven't seen you since yesterday.
[Mauricio] By the way,
I just got your email from Friday night.
I was watching it
right before Jon came in.
[chuckles] "Ben Belack,
realtor to the stars."
[Jon] Yeah, no, it's
it's "Beverly Hills super realtor."
By the way, I invited Joey
up to my Bel Air listing last week
-Yeah.
-and I was like, "Hey, let me help you."
"I think content creation's
really important to brand building."
And he was, like,
kind of observing me do my thing,
and then I directed him doing it,
which was interesting at first,
and then I tortured him.
-I did torture him a bit.
-Good!
But he actually really pulled it together.
And I told him while we were there,
I was like, "You're a funny guy."
He's very likable.
You know,
"Don't try to be someone that you're not."
Joey Ben-Zvi is the archetypical
Angeleno kid,
who basically floated through college
after graduating, you know,
Beverly High or something like that.
And then now is at a company
because his friend's father started it.
But what I will say is
is that he knows how to work me.
I think he knows how to work
a lot of people,
which ultimately will serve him,
because he naturally
is a very charming guy.
[producer] If you lost a listing
[chuckles] Don't.
[producer] to Joey Ben-Zvi
I knew you were gonna
That's why I started laughing.
If I lost a listing to Joey Ben-Zvi,
I would quit immediately.
[Mauricio] These young agents,
I want to coach them.
[Jon] Totally.
Like, the exercise that we did
with Brandon and Sonika,
when she's uncomfortable,
she uses laughter to deflect, right?
That's not a good trait,
because that shows very
you know, that shows weakness.
Right? And, um,
Brandon, I think he's awesome.
-Like, I think he can be great. Right?
-[Jon] Yeah.
But he's missing that last little piece.
I mean, the guy is super charismatic,
super good-looking.
-Like, fuckin' own it, right?
-[Jon] Own it. Right.
-Fake it till you make it.
-I'm faking it right now.
[Jon and Mauricio laughing]
It's tough. I came to LA, like,
literally not knowing anyone,
and I had to knock or die.
I had to, like, go meet sellers,
and that was the only way,
like, I built a business, was like
-I had to literally go door to door.
-Yeah.
I didn't know that I wanted
to be a real estate agent for a while.
I found an outlet
in the most unlikely of places,
which ended up being the rave scene.
And then fell into the music industry.
I toured with Guns N' Roses,
and Ozzy Osbourne, and Marilyn Manson.
I was a roadie.
I did all kinds of things that
don't necessarily match the appearance.
You never know.
You never know
who has what it takes to cut it.
I built my business on open houses.
Like, that's how I started.
-[Mauricio] That's how I did it.
-Yeah.
By the way,
Alexia pitched me on her being the lead
on our house in Bel Air on Milldale.
Right? And so I gave her the listing.
No surprise, right?
And I'm super excited to have her lead,
you know, that that transaction.
-[Jon] Yeah.
-[Ben] Cool.
It's gotta be so good
being the boss's daughter.
She's on a six-million-dollar listing,
and she's, like, just turned 22.
So, yeah. I think for agents like Alexia,
they get a lot of opportunity
that is not the same for me.
I don't live on the
former Smokey Robinson estate,
and my dad isn't the founder-owner
of The Agency.
It's just kinda nice,
you know, me working with my daughter.
You know, she came in and she said,
"Listen, I know this house."
"I grew up in this house."
"You guys have taught me
everything I need to learn."
"Like, I'm ready." Right?
And, so, really excited to give her
the reins and see how she acts on that.
-It's kind of a
-[chuckles]
Why do you keep laughing?
I'm just like, "Will you adopt me
so I can be on more listings with you?"
Like, make me your son. Finally.
[Mauricio laughing]
The son you always wanted
and then you get him.
If I knew you were gonna be my son,
I'd be happy I only had daughters.
[Jon and Mauricio laughing]
["Outrageous" by THE K!X playing]
In my parents' basement ♪
Bubble gum and braces ♪
Stuck on being dangerous ♪
Ran across the babies
And I did it naked ♪
Look at me now, look at me now ♪
Woo-hoo! ♪
Ferris Bueller-famous
Ain't even gonna say this ♪
Nothing gonna change us ♪
Flirting with the waitress ♪
Dancing on the tables ♪
Look at me now, look at me now ♪
Woo-hoo! ♪
So I've gotta say,
right now, Milldale is looking gorgeous.
The staging is just absolutely stunning.
[sighs] Thank God.
-Goodness ♪
-Goodness ♪
-Gracious ♪
-Gracious ♪
I'm outrageous ♪
[Alexia] I had an idea
to do a dog adoption at Milldale.
I mean, who can't have fun
looking at puppies?
I feel like it's something that's
different and something new to the mix.
I have done everything in my power
to make sure
that everything goes perfectly today.
Showtime.
Let's sell this house.
[Terek] Oh, we've got some,
uh, people arriving.
[Alexia] Hi, everyone.
-Welcome to Milldale!
-[indistinct chatter]
Yeah, the puppies are over here.
[woman] Oh, my goodness, so tiny!
Have you ever
done an open house like this?
At my open houses, I have six bottles
of water and maybe, like, some cookies.
[Farrah] Wow. Wow, wow, wow.
This looks so good.
[Ben] Hmm.
-All right, here we go. Hey. How are you?
-[man] How's it going?
[Ben] Good to see you.
Is anyone showing this house?
Like, I We came here.
This is weird. Hey!
[Alexia] Hi, you guys.
-This is Fiona, she's my client.
-[Alexia] Nice to meet you.
[Ben] Can someone show us through
or do you want us to walk around?
-No, I'm gonna give you the grand tour.
-[Ben] Okay.
I just really feel like
everyone is going to be, like,
watching me with a magnifying glass.
Like, "What is she gonna mess up today?"
[upbeat music playing]
[Alexia] So right off the bat,
I'll give you some numbers.
It's about 6,229 square feet,
and the lot is approximately
20,000 square feet,
which is about a half-acre lot.
So, Fiona, this is actually
my family's former home.
-And we are standing in my bedroom.
-[Fiona exclaims]
So wait a minute. You would break into
your parents' alcohol cabinet,
and then in which part of this room
would you illegally ingest it?
-How long ago was that?
-High school? How long ago was that?
-Like, almost ten years ago.
-Ten years? Really?
-Well, like, since I started high school.
-[both laughing]
[Ben] Okay, fair enough.
-Oh, my God.
-Ben, don't make me look immature. Hi.
[upbeat song playing]
[Alexia] It's being offered at $6,750,000,
and it's an incredible area.
It's got incredible natural light,
as you can see.
Especially when the roses bloom,
the view from the bedroom is so magical.
It feels like
there's fairies living around here
and they're bopping around the window.
[Ben] Oh, my gosh.
You know what? Selling things
definitely runs in your family.
What you're doing right now,
this is working.
It's working on me.
I don't know if it's working on you.
I literally made a map of what I was
gonna say in each room,
and I just want everyone to see that
there was time and effort put into it.
Especially after my poor grades.
-[Farrah] Hi. Oh, my God.
-[Alexia] You look so beautiful.
-[Farrah] You do. The house looks amazing.
-Thank you.
Sorry, I don't want to interrupt.
-Hi, guys!
-Guys, this is Farrah.
[upbeat music playing]
Oh, my gosh. It looks so good!
-[Alexia] You've got Sub-Zero appliances.
-Mmm-hmm.
-[Alexia] And Carrara stone.
-[Fiona] Yes.
[Melissa] Hi! Hi!
[man] Hey! How are you?
-[Alexia] Here's the den.
-[Ben] Yeah.
[Alexia] We would
like to call this the den.
Um, this was the room that
The
My father,
he decided to take this on his own.
I think Melissa being here right now
is awkward. I think it's uncomfortable.
It's my big day,
and I just don't even wanna
I don't wanna talk to her.
This is the room that he got to be like,
"I'm making this my project."
He chose the wood paneling.
-[Melissa] There's a showing going on.
-[man] No, you're good.
[Alexia] We wanted to make this,
like, the cozy cabin.
Wood, fire, whiskey, games, like
He knows what to do.
He knows how to make a house.
You're like
proud real estate mom over here.
-I'm just, you know minding my biz.
-[Ben] Observing.
-[Sonika] Hello, friends. Like, cheers.
-[Brandon] Hey! You're here.
-Hello.
-Hello, guv'nor.
[Brandon] We were
talking about how good it looks.
It looks amazing in here.
-Alexia's doing a good job.
-[Sonika] She is.
[Joey] Have you guys seen Melissa?
-I have not.
-No.
There might be an issue with the grader
and not the student.
I was wondering,
did they have that conversation yet?
They didn't.
It made me a little uncomfortable
because she was telling us
that stuff before she told her.
-[Sonika] Well, I told Alexia.
-[gasps]
-[Sonika laughs]
-So Melissa's the problem?
-You think so?
-I think so.
Where does she come from?
Do you know her, like
-Did she just pop up
-I
Did she just pop up one day
in the hot circles or what?
-She seems to be connected to everybody.
-Yeah, in a way that's convenient for her.
[Sonika laughs] I'm like
I keep turning around.
I'm not, like, a pot-stirrer,
but it's kind of shady to talk about
someone else's sister behind their back.
Especially if you're so close with Farrah,
like
At least tell Farrah
so Farrah can tell Alexia.
[Joey] I didn't know Melissa that well.
But I'm starting to kinda figure her out.
-He's got her number.
-[Joey laughs]
-Oh, all right. Say no more.
-Seen it all before.
-Ting!
-[both laughing]
The fucking gossip circle over here.
-This furniture is so cool.
-[Alexia] Incredible.
[Farrah] I wouldn't have thought or know
how to pull the vibe together like this.
You did a really fantastic job.
-[Alexia] Thank you.
-Does it feel weird to you or happy?
[Alexia] I'm happy.
You're like,
"I'm just happy to be relieved."
-"To be done."
-I I want to sell this.
And I, you know, practiced really hard.
I feel like I still got a little flustered
with everyone coming all at once.
-[Farrah] Like, the specs?
-No, not the specs.
I've been so anxious
leading up to this open house
because the other day in the office
I was talking to Sonika,
and I was telling her
about the showing with Melissa,
and how I thought
she was being a little unfair.
I don't think I deserved a B+,
and then Sonika goes,
"Well, if I'm being honest with you,
she had a conversation with Brandon and I,
and it turns out that she doesn't think
you got a you deserved a B+."
"Turns out she thinks
that you actually deserve a C."
[gasps]
-What? "C"?
-And she said that to Sonika and Brandon.
I don't know about her standards,
but a C is not acceptable.
That's a harsh grade. [laughs]
And her talking to Sonika
who she doesn't even know that well,
it just is not adding up to me.
I broke down and started bawling.
-Like I
-You did?
[Alexia] Ugh. It killed me.
-Because I wish Melissa said that to me.
-Yeah, she told you B+.
Yeah!
And she claims that we're like sisters
It just seems very unlike
Melissa to do that. It's very weird.
-Come on, you did an amazing job.
-I just felt so like I was
-[Farrah] You killed it.
-I'm my own worst enemy.
We all are.
-[Alexia] Yeah. Ugh.
-I'm the same. We're all the same.
But, by the way,
hello, look what you've done.
You did an incredible job.
No one's waiting for you to fail.
But it's still not fucking cool.
-So I'm going to have to talk to her.
-[emotional song playing]
Don't you know
That you gotta take some of the blame ♪
You said those unkind words
'Cause you think it's a game ♪
-We've got to get burgers before they go.
-Okay. Good idea. We should feed you.
Yeah, before my
next wave of buyers comes in.
You could be anything you like ♪
So why do you choose to be so unkind? ♪
[Farrah] Can I chat with you for a moment?
[Melissa] Yeah. Of course.
[Farrah] Yes. We'll be back, guys.
[upbeat song continues]
No joke, 'cause it's broke
Who's gonna fix it? ♪
[Melissa] I want to see the house.
It looks so great.
We're gonna have to
find housing for Melissa.
[Brandon] Anybody have
an extra bedroom for Melissa?
She might be put out of the house.
She has no place in LA.
[Ben] It's one thing to say,
"It didn't go well."
But then to not share it
It's like, go share it.
-That's not someone who genuinely cares.
-[Ben] Well, cares about something else.
-[Brandon] What does she care about?
-I don't know.
Probably positioning herself
to get more business.
Like, a social climber.
You can't bite the hand that feeds.
[Melissa] Do I need my rosé?
[Farrah] Oh, what a trek.
-I just wanted to talk to you because
-Yes?
She's not here.
-[Melissa] Who?
-Alexia.
Okay. Didn't get to say hi or anything.
I called her earlier. She didn't answer.
Um, well
She's obviously very stressed.
She has an open house.
-She's so stressed. You know how it is.
-Yeah, of course.
And she pulled me aside,
and she was like, "I'm really upset,"
because she had the showing with Olivia
and you gave her the B+.
-Mmm-hmm.
-Only to find out now,
Sonika told her that you said that
actually you really gave her a C.
-Okay.
-And she feels very betrayed.
[Melissa] I need to be
completely honest with you.
You sitting right next to her
made me really uncomfortable,
because I felt like
I could not tell her the truth.
-Why?
-You're my best friend. I live with you.
This could seriously jeopardize
what we have
if I spoke to your sister saying,
"You need to do X, Y, and Z better."
The last thing I ever wanna do with y'all
is seem like I'm talking shit, but
I know. I was honestly shocked.
Like, I really was shocked.
It just doesn't seem very like you.
I just want to make sure
that you fix this.
Okay, so I'm in deep shit then.
[tense music playing]
Ah I'm shaking.
[tense music continues]
["The Strength I Need"
by Wolfgang Black playing]
Give me the strenth I ♪
Give me the strenth I need ♪
Oh, oh, oh ♪
Give me the strength I need ♪
Oh, oh, oh ♪
Give me the strength I need ♪
No more standing in the cross-fire ♪
No more hung up on a precipice ♪
Won't be a shadow of myself ♪
Gonna shine that light from within ♪
Oh, I hope you see me now ♪
I'm on my knees and crawling out ♪
So let the waves wash over me ♪
Break out the chains, they gonna ♪
Give me the strenth I need ♪