Andrew Doud 0:06

All right, everyone, it's Thursday. I'm Andrew Dow. Time for Happening in the Hamptons Podcast, our weekly breakdown of the Hamptons market, new listings, and events on the East End. We are sponsored today by New York Title Abstract, the Hamptons leading title insurance firm. Visit NewYorkTitle.com. We have Steve Glick, Dave Retiner, and today a return guest, but it's been a minute. So good to have you back on the show, Miss Sarah Minardi. How are you?

Sarah Minardi 0:28

Hello, Andrew. Fun to be here.

Andrew Doud 0:30

Happy New Year and all that good stuff. Um, how have things been?

Sarah Minardi 0:34

Everything's been great. I mean, 2024 is off to a terrific start. You know, we're seeing excellent activity in the market. Um, the sale market is picking up. Rentals people have been calling for various months and all that. So it's it I'm feeling really positive about it.

Steve Glick 0:50

So people are already calling you and locking in their rentals for some.

Sarah Minardi 0:54

Mostly for months. I haven't seen a whole lot of people that are looking for the full term. I think we've kind of go by the wayside with that, unless it's maybe a corporate or an employee housing type situation. But you know, people are certainly August has been the big one that I've been hearing.

Steve Glick 1:08

I'm just gonna ask which month is the hottest one?

Sarah Minardi 1:10

So right now it's August? August has been pretty busy. Yep.

Andrew Doud 1:13

If you're doing a rental, does it like like how does that work the structure wise? I mean, obviously August and probably July are the two the two hottest months. But if somebody wants to rent for June, can you get like a bargain if you're like, let me try to do all the when it comes to June?

Sarah Minardi 1:27

I look at I've always looked at the the summer as if you think of Memorial Day through Labor Day as 100%, thinking about money. August is 50% of the amount that amount, July is 40% of that amount, and Memorial Day through June is like 10%. But if somebody's going to rent for just Memorial Day through June or June, if they're gonna give up their house for that month, which is always kind of it can be really nice, sometimes it's a little off, they're gonna want a premium for that. So you're not it's gonna be less, definitely less than what July would be. But if someone's gonna give up June, they're gonna it's gonna have to be worth their while for them to leave their house.

Dave Rattiner 2:01

Interesting. It seems like this rental market this year is hot. Like everyone's, you know, we did a lot of leases uh company wide. What do you think is the reason?

Sarah Minardi 2:12

Well, you know, there's a lot of unrest abroad. A lot for the past couple years, once COVID opened up, people went. I mean, I can't tell you how many people I know went to Italy and to Greece. Everybody went Italy and Greece over the past two years. And with what we've got going on over in Europe and Russia and Israel and you name it, I think more and more people will be staying local to the area and um and coming out to be here with us when it's the best time of the year.

Andrew Doud 2:42

Yep.

Steve Glick 2:43

It's gonna be a busy summer. We're looking forward to it.

Andrew Doud 2:45

Um you focus kind of all over the place, but heavily on the East Hampton area, right? You're I mean you grew up there. Yep. Um you live there, work there. East Hampton's definitely It's my jam. It's your yeah, it's your jam.

Sarah Minardi 2:58

I do everything from Southampton to Montauk, including Shelter Island, but East Hampton definitely holds a special place in my heart, and I do a lot of business there. Yeah.

Andrew Doud 3:06

And we were talking before, you know, we hit the record button. You were saying that East Hampton has a new the town, right? East Hampton Town uh has some changes when it comes to getting your C of O as it pertains to selling your house. So give us a rundown of what that is and and what the changes are.

Sarah Minardi 3:23

Sure. This this has happened in the villages around the East End already, but East Hampton Town as of January 1st enacted a new law, whereas anyone that's selling their home in East Hampton Town is the house needs to get an updated certificate of occupancy, a C of O for the new owner to be able to live there legally. So there what the town is trying to do is just clean up any kind of violations that people have had over the years. They've built on a deck, they've added a pool, they've put extra sheds in, they've finished a lower level, they've overcleared. You know, that's a big one. Um and that's one that we've dealt with for a long time is you know, if there's been an overclearing at a property, um that needs to come back into um compliance. And what we've seen in the past is that takes time. So it's an it's usually becomes a matter of money and the seller giving a credit if it wasn't known and it's found out once an updated survey is done. Seller generally gives a credit to the to the new homeowner and they can do it when they decide the time is right for them. Well, now that this new law has been passed and most new buyers or and if not them, their attorneys will want to make sure that these buyers are not taking on violations. So one of those violations could be, you know, an overclearing. Um it could be a finished lower level that's not on the certificate of the city.

Dave Rattiner 4:50

What happened? I've I've never been totally clear on that. Because I've definitely been in a lot of houses where there was a finished lower level and the guy was like, Yeah, I didn't get a permit for this, but you know, what do I do? You know? Well, I've never gotten clarity. Well, so what do you think?

Sarah Minardi 5:07

Well, a lot of times, a lot of times it's good to have some kind of expediter or somebody come in who says, Okay, this is what you need to do to get this cleared up. You might need a an electrical underwriter certificate. Um, you obviously have to get not obviously, but as I'm talking real estate lingo and I this stuff rolls off my tongue like my social security number, you need to get an updated certificate of occupancy, you have to have a proper proper permitting, right? All that sort of thing. And um if you go into a house and you see, oh wow, the lower level has sheetrock, sheetrock indicates finished.

Dave Rattiner 5:39

Right.

Sarah Minardi 5:40

If you see, you know, if if the walls are painted and you just see the cinder blocks or whatnot, not not finished for the most part. You can have you can have bat bathrooms in your basement and have it be unfinished, but if you're going to have living down there, you have to come into compliance with health and safety. There's got to be a way out. Of course. You've got to have a Bilko, you've got to have a deep window well. Um, and so, you know, one of the things that I immediately look for along with buried oil tanks when I go and visit a property is is there anything on the certificate of occupancy or not on the certificate of occupancy that is at the house currently? And the owners should take care of all those red flags before putting it on the market because then it doesn't become a question.

Steve Glick 6:23

Yeah, it's money and time.

Dave Rattiner 6:24

Like if the if you wrote it's not like you have to it's not like you know, oh you know, I I did I did the basement, I didn't ask for permission. And now I'm trying to sell it, and in order for me to sell, I have to rip it out. No.

Sarah Minardi 6:37

Some people do do that. Is there is there a menu are there situations?

Dave Rattiner 6:41

Like I would imagine that would happen with a bathroom. Like the bathroom's totally illegal.

Sarah Minardi 6:45

So people have it it depends on the level of finishing, let's say that. It's more it's easier for somebody to put in a deep window window well for $5,000 than to rip out a whole lower level basement. I got it.

Dave Rattiner 6:57

So as long as you get into compliance and make the appointment. Exactly.

Sarah Minardi 7:02

And it all takes time. And my my number one piece of advice to homeowners who are thinking about selling is check everything out ahead of time and get it fixed as you know, before you put it on the market. Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah, exactly.

Steve Glick 7:15

Because all of a sudden, yeah, because if you don't get it fixed, you say, Oh, I'll do it later. You know, maybe we'll get an offer in a couple months. All of a sudden, you get an offer in the first two weeks, they want to buy it now, and then you're like backtracking now. You have to make the appointment with your expertise or fix all the problems.

Dave Rattiner 7:31

I bought my house without a CEO in Southampton, and I came up and it was like, Oh, it doesn't have a CEO. And I was like, Well, can I live in it?

Sarah Minardi 7:38

It must have a certificate of occupancy, but it probably didn't have an updated certificate of occupancy. Whatever. Whatever it was.

Dave Rattiner 7:44

And so, but I didn't think much of it, I just knew I had to do something to get it, and I knew it was important, and I and I and I got it.

Sarah Minardi 7:50

Right.

Dave Rattiner 7:51

But there's a lot of other people that don't that live in unsafe houses, you know what I mean? And you can you can kind of tell which happened.

Sarah Minardi 8:01

I mean, what what happened in Southampton? What was it two summers ago when there was that horrible fire? And that was what I'm saying. You know, that house didn't have the that was a rental permit, they didn't have the the the smoke detectors. Anyway, we could go off on a tangent on that.

Steve Glick 8:13

It's in your best interest to get the CEO. Like most attorneys in your best interest. Most attorneys would advise you to get the CEO. Like I was looking at a house that I purchased in my family. The basement was finished. The homeowner said, We're not getting the CEO, we're selling it as is. If you want it, fine. If not, go look at another house. We really wanted it. There was nothing on the market. And my attorney was like, You should get the CO, get the CO. It was our uncle. And I said, Look, they're not gonna get the updated CO. I really want so we move forward with the house, buying it as is. So now when we go to resell the property, we were gonna run into that same situation because we were we didn't update the CO. We wanted to sell it, and then you're trying to find that other buyer to agree to the same terms. Luckily, we did. Um, but it gets harder and harder as the years go along. You were definitely lucky. And this was Brooke Having, right? It wasn't East Hampton. But now they're all the attorneys are requiring it. Now the town is requiring it, and there's fines involved.

Dave Rattiner 9:09

The incentives aren't just safety, there's also a liability thing. Like if somebody is injured on in your house and you don't have a CEO, uh a C of O. Like I one of the things that came up was a banister I needed on my uh on the, you know. And I was just thinking, if somebody slipped and fell down, you know, the you know, uh ankle on my steps, and they're like, We didn't have a banister.

Steve Glick 9:30

Yeah, well, the insurance company may say, look, you weren't compliant, and we're not covering, we're not covering that cost. So looking for a loophole out. Um it's always in the best interest. Um I I'm glad to see that the town is requiring that. It's just gonna help clean up some of these properties and and just keep everybody safe.

Sarah Minardi 9:45

So yeah, what I would what I would my recommendation, my recommendation is now it's going to be, it's always been the the buyer gets the updated survey. The buyer gets the updated survey once they're in contract on a listing. However, you know, things such as clearing, whatnot, can come up. And I because it's now required of East Hampton Town that you get an updated certificate of occupancy and no attorney is gonna say, don't worry about it, do it later, whatever. They don't want to take on the liability, they don't want to be sued. Correct. That it's it's really going to be the owner's responsibility, the seller's responsibility, get that updated survey before you start doing everything, because then you'll know what you need to do, and then it'll be further down the line. And I would and I would say most people that I have worked with, sellers that I've worked with, I've put that out to them at the forefront. It's money well spent. It's less money spent later on when you have an attorney involved, and then you're paying your attorney to do this sort of work for you on top of paying a surveyor, et cetera.

Dave Rattiner 10:48

You're so smart. You could have been an attorney. You're smart, you're really knowing your talking about it.

Sarah Minardi 10:53

You really know what you're talking about. I've been around the block.

Steve Glick 10:55

Dave, I think it's a good uh point to plug our sponsor, New York Title, how they can help when this whole process. There you go. You know, what does New York Title do, right? They they pull you're asking me. I'm asking you. We should all know. Look, they poll the documents, insurance. They'll let you know what when was the latest certificate of occupancy um updated, um, what the latest survey is on file. And then you could look at that report and see like if that report doesn't say anything about a pool, and you're looking at the property, and there's clearly a pool in the backyard, you know right off the bat that, hey, look, there's no uh updated CO on file for that pool or for that shed or for that deck or for that expansion. So certainly when you're looking at a property to purchase, um, work with Sarah, she works closely with New York Title. Every Saunders agent here works with New York Title, and they'll pull those reports and you can get a clear picture of what's going on in the property before you make that offer. Or even if you're thinking about listing the property and you just want to know what what's out there, what's what's my public information, what's the records out there? Um, we'll pull those documents for you. But the overall advice is to figure it out before you list a property on the market, clear all those things up because um the market is I work with an agent who's like with deep local roots.

Dave Rattiner 12:09

You know, I'm just sitting here Yeah, it's like I'm telling Sarah. It's just like I'm real I I I'm always fascinated by just wow, like you're really embedded in East Hampton. Like you've just you know, you went to high school there and then You did too, Dave. No, I know, but you live there, you know what I mean? And not only did you make it your home, you're like a leader in the community. You you were elected to this, the uh what were you elected to?

Sarah Minardi 12:34

I'm on the school board, I'm in the East Hampton School Board, I'm in the LBIS.

Dave Rattiner 12:37

So I do a like you're into it. I do. You're into the town.

Sarah Minardi 12:41

And yeah, and well, you know, it's it's where I'm from, it's where I am, it's who I am. I I love it. I love it. And I really want anyone that's buying or selling in the Hamptons to feel this way, and and to also know that you're getting a good pro a good product, a clean, you know, legitimate product. So it's uh I'm I'm in favor of the law. It's gonna have some bumps, no doubt about it. Um, just with um with facilitation and you know, just having making sure the building department's on top of everything. I mean, it it can things can take a while.

Dave Rattiner 13:18

Right.

Sarah Minardi 13:18

I don't think they've hired more people to be there to work on it, but it's it's here.

Dave Rattiner 13:22

What's your favorite like component of East Hampton? Like, what do you like about East Hampton so much?

Sarah Minardi 13:27

Uh you know, I think the fact that it's you know, as you go further out from Southampton to Montauk, the landmass gets smaller and smaller. Right. If you look at it, you know, it's like an alligator with mouth open, you know, that's how I always look at it. But you know, for the South Shore and the East End, you know, Southampton, if you think about it, it's it's quite big. If you go to Southampton Village or town, Southampton is large. You got a bunch of streets in the village. It takes you longer to get to the beach. The further you get out on um on the east end, the less land mass there is and the easier it is to get to the beach. East Hampton itself is just you know two main streets of the village. And um I don't know, it's just just I I'll never forget the story about a girlfriend of mine from college who had a friend coming to visit, and the the girl said, All right, what exit do I take? Like, what exit do I take to get to East Hampton? And my friend my friend was like, No, just just keep going.

Dave Rattiner 14:23

Just keep going. You just go. You go.

Sarah Minardi 14:25

There's no like dedicated exit for Southampton or East Hampton. It just turns into these beautiful villages with you know one street in each direction, which drives you crazy, but you don't want to be anywhere else, you know. So that's that's what I love about it. I love that it's um we're not a strip mall, we're not, you know, all these you know fast food places all over the place. You want to go to McDonald's, it takes I mean East Hampton takes you 20 minutes or maybe 30 minutes.

Dave Rattiner 14:54

I do notice like I feel like people that live in East Hampton yourself, they they're really into it. You know, they really like East Hampton. And that's so cool.

Sarah Minardi 15:03

You know, and you know, uh part of East East Hampton's got Wayne Scott and part of Sack Harbor and um and Amaganset and Montauk and you know it's you know Town Lide Road has a name for a reason. It separates East Hampton Town from Southampton town. Um I just learned Division Street as well. So there's Sack Harper right there. Local historian. Right, Swamp Road has a name for a reason too. Kind of swampy. Anyway, so um they should do that at trivia, kizzy tease, you know? So um, so you know, that's that's that's my thing. I I I I love where I live, I love what I do, I want people to have that experience and and have that kind of lifestyle as well. And it's really special where we live, really special. And um, you know, I want to make sure everybody's buying something that is in compliance.

Andrew Doud 15:54

That's cool. You've been saying this for six years since like we I remember when I first did the agent profile with you when I first got here, like that was the same thing. I was like, what makes this because I was new to the area. I'm like, what's what's it about East Hampton? And she's like, let me tell you. It was like you can just tell she has a passion for it. Yeah, yeah, for sure. But I do think as far as that law goes, I mean, I think it's this is a thing that really helps helps buyers because Steve's kind of a good example. It's like, you know, a seller could be like, uh, I'm not gonna get it. And what's the first thing your attorney's gonna say? I want an updated CFO. Right. And then you're like, uh I agree to you know, take it without. And they're like, but you really should get it, right? Well, now she now you just have to.

Sarah Minardi 16:30

Well, what what's interesting too is if if somebody's not going to live it live in this house right away, if it's a teardown, if they're gonna be gut renovating it, if they're gonna be doing things like that, I believe from what I from what I've read that you you can certainly transact, you can buy a house without an updated certificate of occupancy, but the town requires that if you're gonna live in it, then you have to have an updated certificate of occupancy within six months or whatever of the sale, something along those lines. Of course, they've got to keep up their end of the bargain and get you the do what they need to do once you once you supply them with all the information. But you know, that's it's it's not it's not a requirement to close, but it's a requirement of the town. It's kind of like you know, the different ordinances that are out there, and you know, town town code says four or more unrelated people cannot rent a house together. You know, it's it's people can rent their house to more than that, you know, it's it's it's a business decision. That's really what it comes down to. It always has been a business decision, but now East Hampton has put more onus on the on the seller to make sure that you know the the CFO is updated or the new buyer, depending on right.

Andrew Doud 17:39

Um okay, that's that's great information on that. Uh Steve, numbers. What do you got as far as transactions?

Steve Glick 17:48

All right. So this week, over the past week, there were only seven listings that went into contract. That's really low. Um compared to last year, there were 16. We're looking at a decrease of 56%. Um the year prior in 2022, it was 30 listings, that's a decrease of 77%. These seven transactions, I feel like just an anomaly, it's just the way the week happened. I don't I don't foresee that being the trend. However, the breakdown of those seven transactions this week, there was one between five and ten million, one between three and five million, two between two and three million, two between one and two million, and one and one under a million. The dollar volume this past week was eighteen million compared to last year of 77 million, so that's a decrease of 77%. And in 2022, the dollar volume was 102 million, so that's a decrease from that year of 82%. But new listings coming onto the market, this has been the trend. Um 20 new listings came onto the market, so that increases the market by 13 listings. And the breakdown of those 20 new listings, there was one between 10 and 20 million, five between five and ten, five between three and five, three between two and three, four between one and two, and two hundred million. So new inventory in all price categories. The inventory stands at sixteen hundred and thirty-four total listings with twelve hundred and eighty-seven active and three hundred and forty-seven in contract.

Andrew Doud 19:06

There you go.

Dave Rattiner 19:07

What's it all mean, Sarah?

Sarah Minardi 19:09

Yeah, Sarah, what does it all mean? It means that you know, we're we're moving on up. More more people are putting their houses on the market to sell. We're still getting activity with buying it. And and honestly, just having only seven go into contract this past week, uh there's more activity than what what it's showing.

Steve Glick 19:27

Yep, I agree.

Sarah Minardi 19:28

You know, it takes it takes a while for people to sign a contract. I'm waiting on one right now. Like, let's go.

Andrew Doud 19:34

Um Dave, what do you got going on this weekend? Uh, a lot of good stuff. I I suppose this weekend.

Dave Rattiner 19:41

I just got a text from uh Bill Wines from Southampton. He's texting me this joke. I gotta tell this joke. This is a great real estate joke. All right. Okay. Five aunts rented an apartment with another five aunts. Now they're ten ants. That's another dad real joke. Isn't that great? It's a dad real estate joke. That's a good dad joke. Yeah, I'm always on the lookout for those. All right, so we have this weekend trivia at Kizzy T's Sundays at 7. Kizzy T's is a fabulous new restaurant on 47 Montauk Highway. I am stunned by the prices. A burger is $13, a French fries are $6. We got chicken wings for $14, and you've been there, it's good.

Sarah Minardi 20:28

Yeah, a few times. It's a lot of fun.

Dave Rattiner 20:30

They've got it looked like a lot of fun on the Instagram page.

Sarah Minardi 20:33

They've got a billiard, uh, they've got a billiards table, they've got a pool table, they've got Connect for a huge um a huge Jenga game. They've got a a so it's a fun game.

Dave Rattiner 20:42

It's a good family spot, but also like a good fun spot as well.

Sarah Minardi 20:45

And the burgers are delicious. Yeah, love, love it. It's in the old bamboo location or Kizzy Tee's Sundays at seven.

Dave Rattiner 20:52

Sounds like a good time. East Hampton. I guess gotta get there. Right. In uh East Hampton. That's correct. In East Hampton. Also, I have to talk about uh the new Rowdy Hall in Amigansett. So Steve and I, you and I had lunch there. We thought it was pretty good.

Sarah Minardi 21:09

Oh fun.

Dave Rattiner 21:09

And Amiganset is almost like this new culinary capital of the Hamptons. You got a brand new round rowdy hall, and then you also have Finny Pizza, which was very highly rated by Dave Portnoy, the pizza king. Um, so I strongly recommend you check out the new Rowdy Hall for their burger.

Sarah Minardi 21:28

And then their French onion soup, delicious.

Dave Rattiner 21:31

And and for the French onion soup.

Andrew Doud 21:32

There isn't a no. Yeah, that's good to know. Real estate, restaurants, whatever you need.

Dave Rattiner 21:37

You know what I like about it? It every time I've walked in there, it's busy, but I got a table right away. That's great. But it's like you know, but it's busy. It's it's happened to jump in place. It's a great march. And then you know, you have dessert at Finny Pizza, you just you just have one more. You just polish it down.

Sarah Minardi 21:51

You did a review of Finny Pizza.

Dave Rattiner 21:52

Yeah, it was great.

Sarah Minardi 21:53

It was really good. I went there after you did.

Dave Rattiner 21:55

We bought a whole pie. We bought a whole pie.

Sarah Minardi 21:57

I went there after you did your your review. I said I gotta go.

Dave Rattiner 22:00

I did. It was great, right? I love pizza. It's so amazing. All right. And then finally, if you're gonna travel way out to Southampton, there's this event. It's called the Karaoke for a Cure Cocktail Party at Union Burger. So you can sing your heart out and help raise funds for the International Breast Cancer Surgical Mission founded and led by Dr. Edna Kapenhas of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. So this is gonna be this is obviously for a great cause. This is January 20th from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Unionburger, which is a really fun place. And sounds like you gotta do karaoke. You have a care a go-to karaoke song, right, Steve? What's your what is it? Journey. No.

Andrew Doud 22:46

No? Okay.

Sarah Minardi 22:47

I have one too.

Dave Rattiner 22:48

It was uh free fallen. Free fallen.

Sarah Minardi 22:51

Mine's Billy Jean.

Dave Rattiner 22:53

Billy Jean? That sounds hard.

Sarah Minardi 22:54

It's good.

Dave Rattiner 22:55

Really? Okay. Do you have one?

Andrew Doud 22:59

No. I've not. It's been a minute since I've done karaoke. Like a solid one.

Dave Rattiner 23:04

Yeah, but if you're on, if you're on, if you're put on the spot and you have to do it. What's yours, Dave?

Andrew Doud 23:09

What would you I've got I gotta think down?

Dave Rattiner 23:10

I think I would do there's three of them. I would either do Billy Joel, I would definitely do Vienna.

Andrew Doud 23:17

Oh, I gotta go in.

Dave Rattiner 23:18

By Billy Joel or Piano Man by Billy Joel, or I do Under the Bridge by I would do Under the Bridge. Under the Bridge is good too. It's love.

Andrew Doud 23:26

Billy Joel is such a Long Island answer.

Dave Rattiner 23:29

Yeah, man. I would say Long Island on both sides.

Andrew Doud 23:32

Fascinating by my Long Island heritage.

Dave Rattiner 23:34

Have you seen that Stanley Tucci thing yet? Have you seen that on uh it's like he's like I'm Stanley Tucci, I'm Italian on both both sides.

Andrew Doud 23:43

How about living on a prayer?

Dave Rattiner 23:44

Living on a prayer on Jervey, right?

Sarah Minardi 23:46

Oh, little BJP.

Dave Rattiner 23:47

Okay, nice. All right. That gets the crowd going. Yeah, there you go. So you should go. Sounds like a good weekend. Okay. That's all I got.

Andrew Doud 23:55

Nice. There you go. Uh well, before we wrap it up, because I know Sarah's got busy real estate things to do today. Anything else you want to do?

Sarah Minardi 24:03

Oh, oh yes. Yeah, the okay, bringing us back to East Hampton one more time before I head to my open house in Sag Harbor Village. Um, there is the anybody that lives in East Hampton town who wants to get a beach pass before they go on sale on February 1st for East for the village beaches.

Dave Rattiner 24:20

Very important.

Sarah Minardi 24:21

On Tuesday, the 23rd, that you can get them in person. You just have to show proof that you own a home in East Hampton town and you can get your beach pass for $500 before they go on sale for $750 to the general community.

Andrew Doud 24:35

So that doesn't, if you're renting in East Hampton town, or in the village.

Sarah Minardi 24:40

Okay. If you are renting year-round in East Hampton town, you should be able to do this as well. You just have to show your lease. This isn't like a summer time.

Andrew Doud 24:50

Yeah.

Sarah Minardi 24:50

A homeowner in East Hampton town for the non-resident, non-resident East Hampton Village Beach Pass. I know.

Dave Rattiner 25:00

That's okay. Do you do they run out? Do they run out?

Sarah Minardi 25:03

Yes, they do run out. Okay. They won't run there.

Dave Rattiner 25:06

It's You're safe.

Sarah Minardi 25:08

I think you're safe. You're safe on the day to get it, and you should definitely get it on the if you you miss out on it, definitely get it on that February 1st when they go on sale at 9 a.m.

Dave Rattiner 25:18

access to Main Beach, Georgia.

Sarah Minardi 25:20

Maine, Georgica, Wyborg, Egypt, and um two mile hollow for parking. You could still go to the beach. It's just about parking.

Dave Rattiner 25:28

Right.

Andrew Doud 25:29

Wealth of information.

Dave Rattiner 25:30

Yep.

Sarah Minardi 25:31

Thank you. Thank you for joining us.

Dave Rattiner 25:32

If you don't get it, you can still go to any ULs in Atlantic. Sure. You know.

Sarah Minardi 25:35

Montauk Beaches, Bay Beaches, Wainscott beaches.

Dave Rattiner 25:38

It's nice to be able to go to any beach you want. It is. You know what I mean?

Andrew Doud 25:41

Look at these East Hampton people talking East Hampton stuff. It's a real thing. I get a Southampton town sticker. You know, bothered.

Dave Rattiner 25:47

Some people, you know, they're loyal to their spot. You know, like some people will never set foot on an Atlantic beach, but they live on Indian wells and vice versa. Yeah. It's true. It's true. That's it. You know, they're very territorial about the biggest.

Andrew Doud 25:58

I like to go to the least occupied beach, which in August just kind of doesn't exist.

Sarah Minardi 26:04

Well we're lucky. We're a lot luckier than you know, further up the island or Jones Beach, where we're they're they're you know towel to towel. We're very lucky in our state.

Dave Rattiner 26:11

I did Pyre Island one day and I was I was like, wow, this is real. Like it was like a concert. It was like unbelievable.

Andrew Doud 26:18

No, it's not why I want to go to the beach. It was crazy. Too much. Yeah. But um yeah. That's good. Uh Sarah, thank you. We'll have you back on soon. And uh appreciate it. As for everybody else, enjoy your weekend. We'll call that a podcast. I'm Andrew Dowd, and that is what's happening in the Hamptons.