Beards on the Street
Parry Ward and Aaron Pehrson, two Real Estate agents in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a team at Century 21 Everest called "The Luxury Agency". Beards on the Street is two seasoned agents chatting about Life Experiences, Love, Family, Friends and of course the Utah Real Estate Market conditions. Parry and Aaron primarily focus on a system coined "My Top 50" based around showing up for the people in there sphere consistently and with purpose.
Beards on the Street
Beards On The Street - Episode 45 - Disappointing High-End Dining and Real Estate Relationships: Unpacking Pricey Places, Life's Hurdles, and Building Lasting Bonds
Ever had one of those dinners where you walk out thinking you could've cooked a better steak at home – and not had to pay extra for a pat of butter? Well, get ready to commiserate with us! On this episode of Beards on the Street, we recount a visit to a supposed hot spot that, despite its vibrant nightclub vibe, had us questioning the price tag on every item, from an old-fashioned cocktail to the valet-less parking chaos. Through laughter and a hint of buyer's remorse, we explore why sometimes, the most upscale experiences can leave your wallet feeling the most empty.
Switching gears, we dive into the heart of our real estate world, reflecting on the ways we've supported clients through life's most trying chapters, like managing an estate or navigating the choppy waters of divorce. Our episode is enriched with the introduction of new team members – including a fresh face you might recognize as my own offspring – and we share the thrill of making connections at our recent mixer. We're not just building houses; we're creating homes and forging bonds with clients that last a lifetime. So, join us for a blend of personal anecdotes, professional triumphs, and a behind-the-scenes peek into the makings of a top real estate team.
Morning, morning. Good figure in a good mood, huh.
Speaker 2:I'm always in a good mood. You are Even when you're hurting, even when I'm hurting, hurting for certain Morning, morning, morning people. It is Friday the 16th. Can you believe it? We're halfway through February already.
Speaker 1:Just clipping dude, the year's going.
Speaker 2:Insane. So welcome all you people out there to Beards on the Street. Just a couple of real estate dudes that are just hanging out and talking about life and experiences, and you know what makes the world go round and round in our little realm. That's right. Happy valentine's day.
Speaker 1:Happy valentine's so do you have a good valentine's? Yeah, let's chill. Yeah, did me. I mean, who did you me? Oh, you, you did you. I'm an attentive lover.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm just going to leave, that, I'm not going to go there. So, uh, yeah, you know what here's? Here's the bottom line the, the, the atmosphere was bomb, like it was really cool, uh, really cool place, you know, music playing.
Speaker 1:It was more like eating in a nightclub with some of your best friends and your lovely wifey and my wifey.
Speaker 2:You know it was good all all for that. I mean cool place, way freaking, overpriced for what you got.
Speaker 1:Way, way overpriced. You always pay for the ambiance, experience, but you know what, and hype really.
Speaker 2:To try to sit there and have a conversation with somebody was kind of tough. The music was loud oh was it? Yeah loud. The server stud, the manager guy, come over the hostesses sitting, everybody down, all killer people. I will say this to you you suckers need to get freaking parking there. You need to get valet parking. That was a complete shit show. Trying to get into your place that night.
Speaker 1:Speaker 2. I think if it's a, if it's price the way you're talking, valet only makes sense, do people? If it's a, if it's priced the way you're talking, valet only makes sense. Dude, people are going to spend that little bit extra money to be able to walk in versus it was, so it was okay.
Speaker 2:Number one there was a jazz game, which you know it is what it is. But the bottom line is, if you're going to go in and spend you know $ $300? Have freaking parking, have valet parking for us for crying out loud. And the hotel right next to you has valet parking and I tried to get him to park me. He wouldn't park me people, because you don't have a contract with him. Get your shit together. So, anyways, ambiance was good, Food was, eh, and way overpriced. Dude, $ 13 to have and put butter on top of your steak. 24 for an old-fashioned drink. Wow, that wasn't anything. Whoops, I do that every time.
Speaker 2:That wasn't anything spectacular really yeah, it was just a woodford reserve, old-fashioned had to be better than bandits old-fashioned.
Speaker 1:It was literally just likeford Reserve old-fashioned. It had to be better than Bandit's old-fashioned. It was literally just like colored water.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no smoke, no, nothing, I mean it just literally dude it was. You know. Sorry guys, I'm just being honest with you, but it was just okay.
Speaker 1:You know what, though, but I'm not hearing you say, you wouldn't go back.
Speaker 2:I don't think I'd go back. Oh okay, seriously. Oh wow, I'm one and done. Oh yeah, I'll tell you right now Roost Crisp Steaks way better than theirs, way better. Wow, like the guy talked me into that $13 butter and they flame it or they melt it right there on your thing. Which whoop-dee-doo my Matt's wife, sheree, ordered, ordered their lobster linguine or something like that and and they paid extra probably 80 bucks to have a lobster tail on top. Totally forgot it.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, yeah, they let that roll Wow.
Speaker 2:And then it took them for freaking ever to finally try to bring it out. I just looked at Matt and said, dude, just tell them to cancel it. They did eventually bring it out and said they would take it off the bill, but still, wow, I mean, if you're going to pay top dollar and go for the experience, they better be on top of their game.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what I think. I'd prefer to cruise up park city and have a steak, exactly to butchers, or you know, there's a couple great spots, yeah, dude.
Speaker 2:So sorry, stk, man, it was. You know I'm glad I went. It was cool. We got some cool pictures in front of your badass sign.
Speaker 1:But uh, all my friends I I had probably four or five different friends there that night, it looked like. So it was the spot. It was clearly the spot.
Speaker 2:No, I mean it was a cool place. I mean in the summertime I would maybe go back just because they have a really cool patio.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just because you could park your bike.
Speaker 2:It would probably make life easy, but I'm just telling you, you know, STK, pay attention, baby, because you got some stuff to do to be primo. Your prices are way overpriced.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you. So I have some friends that have been downtown shopping. Josh Vance from Mountain West Commercial has been helping me down there. We have some friends. We're looking. They're opening an Italian restaurant so they want to do wood-burning, wood-oven pizza. They want to do homemade pasta, homemade marinara, all that stuff Like real, real deal. Yeah, italian, uh, they'll do some steaks in those, in that, in that, uh, in that in the cooker. But what are your thoughts about? You know, there's a, there's a spot right on with where tracks line is. Do you think that's a?
Speaker 2:Like what's the where? Traxline where?
Speaker 1:So 6th and Main actually that's a great spot, High traffic, but there's no parking.
Speaker 2:I was going to say what are you going to do for parking?
Speaker 1:I don't know, maybe they'd have to go to. Would they go to Grand America? Would that be?
Speaker 2:Hell, I don't know, dude, but I mean, that's something that I would 100% look into.
Speaker 1:Remember where we parked when we went down to the luncheon? It's across the street from that, just east of that, on that intersection. Okay, I mean fantastic spot I would just highly highly recommend if you're going to build a high-dollar, nice hip place. I mean we're talking a million-dollar build-out, $20-something thousand a month in lease.
Speaker 2:You need to get a contract with the valet parkers, because people like me don't want to F with it. We just want to be able to pull up. I don't want to have to try to drop my wife off at the door because she's got to hike in her freaking high-heeled shoes for three blocks.
Speaker 1:You come back, she's sitting with some young buck at the bar. This is stupid.
Speaker 2:Like STK, it's stupid that you don't have valet parking. Like I was seriously pissed off about it. Like the manager dude came by and said anything we can do and of course I, Of course. You said parking probably. Yeah, I'm just like but Dumb. That's a miss for sure, total miss.
Speaker 1:So anyways, enough about that, you know they think they're hot when they're not thinking about that stuff. Does that make it somehow more exclusive?
Speaker 2:if you're fighting for parking, I don't know I don't know either, couldn't tell you, dude, I mean it was it was enough that it seriously pissed me off. I've that bad show guys. I'm I'm not a happy camper with you. Um, you know your pricing if you guys stepped up in all the areas I'm talking about and really kind of got your shit together maybe but the experience that I had there.
Speaker 2:I'd have just as soon gone to Roost Chris where I can pull right up in, get out of my car. They take my car, park it right in front and I go in and have an amazing steak. That's just, and I know it's a chain.
Speaker 1:But no, but it's a safe bet yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:So there's definitely plenty of other state places that you can go and have a much better experience and and pay less for better service, better food again.
Speaker 1:I'd just cruise up park city probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no kidding yeah so, no, valentine's was good, dude had had a good time. Uh, gotta spend some good quality time with my wife, which is good right now, because you know this will take us right into the condo. You know where we've been talking about this condo that that we bought and we're totally remodeling it. Uh, got all the flooring done, got all the the finish work done. Uh, at least in now we're, uh, I'm back to crawling around on my hands and knees all over the damn place. Yeah, I mean, you got to fill all the holes and my wife's such a freaking stud. She went in there yesterday and I mean number one. If I squatted down the way that she can to just working on these things, I would never get back up. But she went around that whole freaking place and filled all the holes. So now I'm going around and sanding it and prepping for the paint and. But we're, we're right there, man, right there got the electrician.
Speaker 2:He was there last night, coming again today and going to finish up tomorrow with all the electrical you know finish out. So it's going to be cool there. That's exciting man.
Speaker 1:Um yeah man Surround's going in next week. Sounds like move.
Speaker 2:Yeah, next week, mid to end of next week, we'll be getting everything ready for the move and then the move Awesome, maybe next weekend or first of next week or the week after, okay, so yeah, I'm excited, I'm so happy to be done with this. I was just saying to you that I'm I'm I'm pissed off and not really happy about all the condition that that it's kicking my ass. But yeah, but when it's all said and done, it's going to be nice for us be proud of it. Yeah, it was kind of like that cabin I built, but on a much smaller scale.
Speaker 1:Right, much smaller. It's not like you're walking in the closet of your cabin. Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2:So, anyways, yeah, the, the, the condo's coming right along. We should be finishing up here real soon, so I'm excited.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Well, we have a couple new listings coming in the next week or two over in Bluffdale Talk about them Down in Independence, just shy of 4,000 square feet. He was an employee of DR Horton and so all the upgrades just kind of came and he was able to kind of do every little bell and whistle. It's got this monster island. I mean you could put a horse up on top of it. That's awesome. Yeah, dude, it's, it's pretty incredible. But they've got a full finished basement with an entertainment space, bar, what'll be listed at roughly seven, 50 to eight. Really, wow, yeah, great, great, great property, great value. Um, uh, just just around a quarter. They even upgraded and did a true covered awning or gable off the back covered patio. It's got lighting, speakers and fans underneath it. But it was built as part of the construction.
Speaker 1:So, seamless matches. It all, it's not an afterthought. And then they it's a little bit going to be a little bigger than the normal over there because they actually covered over a lot of times. They have a two-story vault over the family space where they it's open air and makes the room feel bigger. Um, it's still got nine foot ceilings, but they, they went ahead and have it cut, had it built over, so it put a loft in the upstairs space, so it's a second.
Speaker 1:So it's a second family, so it's actually living space above it yeah that's awesome, yeah, so I like it four bedrooms up and this big giant loft for for the kids to to be out of your hair and enjoying so very cool how far? How far west? Uh, so it's down around the second roundabout. Um, not quite sure what the west is there, but it's on the west side of Independence.
Speaker 2:So if you're ripping up Redwood, you know, on that south interchange, where would you?
Speaker 1:get off. It's down, there's a brand new 7-Eleven, so it's down just all the way at the deepest end of Bluffdale and you basically come back and it wraps around and it's it's. It's the new way to access off the freeway down by where the old prison was oh, okay, yeah, so got it yeah, it's down there by uh summit, uh high school. There's a private high school.
Speaker 2:Wow, uh, some great schools that are right there gonna be a great spot when they uh I just saw this morning they put some renderings out of what they're wanting to do where the prison was Mark.
Speaker 1:Alynor, Everybody's talking about that. It's I mean literally it's gonna there's gonna be some major Jeff.
Speaker 2:Lerner. I should have put up a slide for it.
Speaker 1:Mark Alynor, yeah, so we have that one. And then I have a. I have a family, a longtime friend of mine who I've helped her purchase her property. 15 years ago I was thinking about this, I was actually driving my ex-wife to go. She was in labor to have our daughter bella, when I was, when I was actually showing this woman houses, and it's a longtime friend of mine's mom and she just she just passed with pink cancer. Yeah, sucks, buddy, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, it's hard. Life's life's short life is so short and it's interesting as, walking through the office and, um, the gal with the shorter hair that's going to come in and do the classes with us. She just sold a friend's house but her just got the call yesterday that someone they unexpectedly passed as well. Life's short guys, life is short.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is Stay close to the loved ones. Tell people you love them.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Simple and easy. Simple and easy. Uh, just realize it. Every day is not a given man, no, it's not. So cherish and make the most of it so, uh, we've added a I apologize anyways, but the reason I say that we have a uh, she has a. It's a single family pud just off 96 south and just shy of 13th west. Oh, I mean amazing little area. Yeah, uh, the pud, it's gated community.
Speaker 1:So is that south jordan? Yeah, it's well, it 90. 98th is south jordan, so border south and west jordan, so in texas it'll be a little lower. Anyways, it's 2,400 square foot single family home in a gated community. Very nice finishes. I think we're going to be around that 700,000 mark for that one as well. Nice, very cool dude. I'm hoping that'll come live next week.
Speaker 2:Dude, good job, you've got a lot of stuff going on right now.
Speaker 1:Trying to keep the foot on Joe Auerbach. Keep your foot on Mike Barrett. Yeah, trying to keep the foot on Joe Auerbach and.
Speaker 2:I need to get my foot back on it.
Speaker 1:Mike Barrett, you will. Joe Auerbach, I will Mike Barrett, you will.
Speaker 1:You know it's you don't like running into opportunities that way but it you know obviously help their that estate move that through and basically help get help the their kids you know, deal with it and make it painless, yeah and uh, the other was a divorce, you know, and so some of that stuff isn't fun to deal with, but that's where we kind of come in and, and you know, utilize our expertise to to eliminate stress. As you can imagine, a divorce and then death yep and we're part of that process to be able to help eliminate that stress from those people right and make it smooth and simple and everybody can know with confidence it's being handled.
Speaker 2:And that's one last thing they have to worry about right as they move on with life I like it yeah it's good very good, I don't want to call it any of that kind of business, but but hey, you know what that's reality, that's how we serve it's life, if you're, if you're going through it and and you need assistance and people that are experienced in it, so it isn't a big pain, you know and adding to all the the, the misery and the heartache and everything that comes along with it, then that's why we got big shoulders.
Speaker 1:Yes, because we'll, we'll and thick skin. We will carry the burden, we'll manage through the process and make sure. It's one less thing you have to stress out about.
Speaker 2:Yep, for sure. Yep, all right. So moving on, we've added a few people to our team, one including your son. I'm just yes, I'm stoked, just want to throw up a quick slide and just kind of show off the team and say we're growing.
Speaker 1:We kind of show off the team and say we're growing. We have a couple of great gals that we're actively after. Yes sir, we want them very badly on our team. I think they'll really complement and add to who we are.
Speaker 2:I agree, and we're recruiting heavily. We want much more than that.
Speaker 1:We had a, we had a pretty incredible mixer this last week or the week before and it really feels it's kind of starting to come together. It feels like um uh for the value of what it was. I mean the connections that were made. I know we had multiple title companies. We had multiple outside realtors that were there lenders as well, contractors, and it was really fun because it was the connections happening and just fun relationships being made. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a good one, and that's what we're trying to create in our space is helping people identify their strengths, their talents, and help them cultivate and actually call in their crowds and be effective with it. So I think that last mention- was it?
Speaker 2:I mean, it's really cool people meeting really cool people, so it's all good Going to do a little bit of self-touting here. Throw that up there. I made the Realtor 500 again.
Speaker 1:Congratulations. You know what you really hustled man.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much Because, considering I didn't have a single deal in the first quarter of last year and I still made the VIP, that's incredible. Or the top 500, yeah, it's pretty.
Speaker 1:I'm I'm pretty proud it's also a testament to the, because you didn't buy a single you didn't buy a single lead.
Speaker 2:It was all of your, all of your people showing love coming and basically, yeah, it was all of you taking care of me and I am so grateful for my people, yeah, for my family. They showed up in a big way they do they do so pretty stoked about, uh, about making that and actually.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you mentioned that. That really is. That really is a sizable feat and especially with the kind of year we had, it was a it was a tough year yeah, it was tough. It was one of my hardest years, yeah, but you really showed what's possible in that as a process. Thanks, man. Yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2:So you know, thank you to all you guys out there. I mean I really, truly mean it. I've got an army of people out there that look out for me and it's comforting and it's very I love you guys, man.
Speaker 1:It's comforting and it's very I love you guys, man, it's also a testament to our system, because when you show up for your people, they show up for you Exactly. It's really beautiful man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have a showing today with one of my VIP 50 that wants to go look at a property man. That's awesome. It's all good. All right, brother, I know we're going to keep it short and sweet this week. You've got a lot going on and I've got a lot going on, and you know, I just hopefully next week we'll be finished with the condo and be able to get me back on track. Plug back in.
Speaker 1:And plug back in Yep absolutely.
Speaker 2:All right people. Thank you so much. We appreciate you for back in Yep Absolutely All right people. Thank you so much. We appreciate you for tuning in. Uh, this is beards on the street. Uh, you can find us on YouTube or any of your favorite uh places where you watch your podcast. Just type in beards on the street podcast and you'll find us. Subscribe if you want. And uh, thanks for watching. Thanks for watching, come.