Tyler Whitman‘s “in case you construct it, they may come method” is what caught producers’ eye from Million Dollar Listing New York and finally landed him on the sequence.
Whitman was an up-and-coming dealer in the metropolis and began a large video advertising and marketing marketing campaign. His sequence, “Whitman Wisdom” is each spunky and informative – it’s so entertaining that those that aren’t home searching wish to watch his movies. Whitman’s optimistic angle, coupled with humor received producers’ consideration and a cellphone name to do the present in 2018.
Tyler Whitman from Millon Dollar Listing New York | Kareem Black/Bravo
Tyler Whitman’s video advertising and marketing caught ‘Million Dollar Listing’ producer’s eye
He shared in a Feb. video that he was at the high of his sport, making extra money than he’d ever dreamed of creating, after which got here the name. “Another huge factor occurred at the finish of 2018,” he dished. “Which is I received a cellphone name based mostly off of all the movies that I had created on Instagram of a TV present that needed to fulfill with me about doubtlessly changing into their subsequent solid member.”
“That cellphone name got here on Halloween of 2018,” he recounted. “And it was a number of days earlier than I used to be leaving for Christmas break that I received the name. That I used to be gonna be the new solid member of Million Dollar Listing.”
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He headed into 2019 making an attempt to develop his enterprise whereas having cameras observe him round. “As one may think, going into 2019, studying I had simply been solid on one in every of the largest TV actuality reveals in actual property historical past, I used to be on high of the world,” he stated. “I felt unstoppable. My staff was new. But the market sucked.”
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Indeed, Whitman’s entrance into the sequence was when the market got here to a screeching halt. Brokers like Ryan Serhant appeared eternally burdened as properties that had been beforehand shifting sat for weeks even months. “You couldn’t promote an condo to save lots of your life in 2019,” Whitman recounted. “It was the hardest market I had ever skilled.”
He remembered how he had listings and patrons, however nobody was making any strikes. “I used to be like wait a second I’m about to be on TV and I’m constructing this enterprise,” he stated. Unfortunately, he couldn’t use his newly minted Million Dollar Listing cred to springboard any enterprise. “Yes, I came upon I used to be on this TV present, however I had signed all types of paperwork and was not allowed to speak about it,” he stated.
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So Whitman simply dug in and put his nostril to the grind to verify offers received completed. As a consequence, “In the second half of the 12 months, we crushed it,” he stated. Million Dollar Listing New York viewers noticed Whitman with some huge wins. Of course, he and different solid members had no concept what was coming in 2020, however viewers will quickly get to see how Whitman and the Million Dollar Listing New York solid dealt with the topsy turvy 2020 and 2021 New York market.
Million Dollar Listing New York Season 9 premieres on Thursday, May 6 at 9/8c on Bravo.
