David Firestein (R) on his motorcycle rides.
As considerations about public transportation in New York continue amid the coronavirus pandemic, some agents specialize in a new technique for their homes to prospective customers: motorcycle rides.
“I still have no idea if we’re enough Amsterdam,” said David Firestein, a retail agent for the Shopping Cinput group, “however, it’s interesting, when you’re out there, how the American giants are pedaling.”
Firestein, whose customers come with Starbucks, Whollow Foods and Sweetgreen, has organized 3 motorcycle rides in Manhattan since mid-June, going as far north as 116th Street and as far south as Canal Street. It has between 1 and 20 houses consistent with the trip, and visits last approximately four hours.
The strategy was not a general balm for an industrial retreat that was decimated through the pandemic, but was useful, according to Firestein. Some languishing sites are attracting increasing interest in their tours, even as the procedure for terminating a lease remains slow.
“We haven’t signed an agreement,” he said, “but we’re negotiating those agreements.”
Firestein’s colleague Seth Kessler has also embraced bike tours and organized his first one about two weeks ago, visiting six sites in neighborhoods including Chelsea and the Upper West Side. He described it as a relatively safe and healthy way to let clients see properties in person despite the difficult new environment.
“We were all in mixing time, but outdoors with masks,” he said, “so everything went very well, just to pass out and talk to the customers.”
But cycling houses continue to offer their own challenges. The weather is a great variable, with heat waves and thunderstorms, two fairly constant threats during the summer. According to Firestein, locating a tight position to blow up the toilet can also be difficult.
“You’re juggling,” he said. “Okay, I pedal, I exercise, I’m thirsty, but I give a lot of money the volume I drink.”
It is also known to what extent police officers will adopt bicycles to reach the sites and whether they will continue with this culture once New Yorkers start taking more buses and underground trains.
Rafe Evans, a Walker Malloy racer, has been his motorcycle to come and go from the exhibitions for years and has recently added electric scooters to his repertoire. However, he maintained that he had not seen a design among other agents after his insufficient because the coronavirus began to hit the city.
“I didn’t see him clinging, which is strange,” he said, “because I do more with a two-wheeled trangame than you can be able to take subway and vehicle services.”
Andrew Katz, a developer compatible with the Prusik group, applied Citi Bike extensively to travel to sites long before the pandemic, but does not believe that the authentic real estate sector or the city’s population in general starts cycling later in the short term.
“I think the people have a long way to go before other Americans feel comfortable,” he said. “Most of the people I talk to are nervous about riding a motorcycle in New York.”
Meanwhile, however, this works no less than as an interim measure, according to Firestein. Visiting the sites on users has not ceased to be critical, as it has a harder burden to make, and bikes so far have proven to be a forged way to maintain those visits, he said.
“You have to do old-school things like that, ” he said. “He’s a great friend, something positive, and a tight workout to begin with.”
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