Episode 187 - Laura White and Peter Mangiameli

Discussing Building Luxury Homes In The Hamptons

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Andrew Doud 0:09

All right everyone, it's Thursday. I'm Andrewr Doud. 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 NewYorktle.com. We have Steve Glick, Dave Rattiner today, Laura White, and Mr. Peter Mangiamelli. Did I say that right? You said that right. Excellent. He is with Hamptons Development Group. He is a premier builder in the Hamptons. Over 20 years' experience, I have 70 luxury homes over your career out here. That's about right. Something around there. Builds one of a kind, amazing, amazing houses. One that we are proud to represent here at Saunders' 199 Georgian Lane and Watermill. We will talk a little bit more about this incredible listing in just a little bit on Meacox Bay. Amazing views. But let's talk start with you, Peter. How did you get into this? Um how did you get to 70? I mean, that's you've been doing it for a long time. A lot of great homes in your resume. So where did it all start?

Peter Mangiameli 1:09

It starts with one gray hair, and then you get more gray hairs and then you have 70 homes. Yeah. So I'm I'm a musician by trade, and I carried lumber through high school working for my uncle, and one thing led to another. I ended up having a carpentry company, became a custom builder. I was blessed to, you know, do some work for some A-list celebrities and financiers. Um had a great clientele for a long time, a big estate management company. And you know, just snowballed from there. People were just good to me, and I guess I did a decent job.

Andrew Doud 1:44

I'm curious because when we've talked to agents, we you know, we usually have agents on the podcast, and everybody's kind of had a life before real estate. So it's interesting that you say you were a musician before you got into the development side of things. What what instrument do you play? And how did you transition from music?

Dave Rattiner 2:01

I was like, this guy's a musician. I I can't believe that.

Peter Mangiameli 2:04

I was at the studio last night working on a new album haven't stopped playing. Wait, for real? So you're like, okay, how cool is that? Yeah, I got 20 pretty cool guitars, a bunch of other instruments. I'm playing bass and guitar on this album. Nice. It's just been kind of fun. I never really played bass on the whole album not a song here or there.

Dave Rattiner 2:20

So you're a real artist. I mean, it's separate from being a businessman, you know, with the construction, you know, you must you you must have an artistic mind when you're presenting these properties.

Peter Mangiameli 2:30

So I'm I'm cursed that I have both sides 50-50 when I take those tests, right? Right. And I think I would be a lot more successful if I had one side of the brain or the other, but I have them both. Wow. And I think the the music side has helped me with the spec building I'm doing because you know, you put four or five musicians in a room and they've all got egos and want to do something different, and like you got to get it together and make it, you know, cohesive and special, right? It's the same thing I do with my design team. So all that practice of being a band leader over the years is was, you know, it groomed me perfectly for what I'm doing right now, designing these homes.

Andrew Doud 3:08

And you're so cool. Your company, Hampton's Development Group, you have in-house architects and designers, which I is pretty unique.

Peter Mangiameli 3:16

Yeah, it's almost like like a big, you know, architecture firm. I have three high-level people plus myself, and then the landscape architect comes in and out as we need, but three high-level people like you know, doing stuff on Central Park West and stuff, like real legit people and myself, the four of us all kind of equal, bring different things to the table, have conversations, come up with the wackiest ideas. We don't always use them, you know. But that's my job to kind of sift through the ideas and you know, say this is a great idea, and how do we make it fit into the budget? Right. So everybody gets to go wherever they want to go. So they love the projects we work on because they have a lot of freedom, and then of course it gets reeled in and becomes you know our project and product.

Andrew Doud 4:00

So do people approach you and say, Hey, I I've seen your work, I love what you're doing, I want you to build a house for me, or is it more that you see an opportunity and build accordingly?

Peter Mangiameli 4:11

Or both? It's a good question. Yeah, it's true, it's probably both. My my prior life for 20 years was great architects and designers bringing me into their projects, right? Because I was executing. Now, the past seven or eight years, it's been a lot more rewarding for me. I don't have a boss, right? So I literally wake up in the morning, I have a couple of partners, but I don't have a boss, and I go find special properties and you know work with my team to develop them. That's my primary biz. Um, I just sold 1953 Scuttle Hole Road. I think we're gonna be closing next week. And the buyers knew me from 342 Town Line. They love that house, but they wanted a larger property with more views. And you know, when they heard it was me, they bought the house. I don't even think it was She-Rocked. Oh wow, they knew your stuff just your reputation like you're our favorite builder, like we love your stuff, you know, we want to buy that is so cool. Yeah, they paid you know, really close to ask.

Dave Rattiner 5:09

What was like your first moment when you were starting out in your career where you were like, Oh, you know, I'm I'm good at this, like you like you like you could sense that you could do it. Because to me, you know, it's sort of a fantasy to be a builder, you know. It sounds like such an amazing idea the job buy a piece of land in the Hamptons, build a beautiful property, sell for millions of dollars. It's like a it's like a total fantasy. It's impossible. You know what I mean? When was the moment where you were like, oh, I I I could totally do this? So it's funny.

Peter Mangiameli 5:39

Um, I think it might be tomorrow.

Laura White 5:43

Um I think you're already there.

Peter Mangiameli 5:46

So there's the custom building, right, is not my creativity. It's more of organization and you know, sourcing, and you know, it's a lot of paperwork and supervision and know-how that goes into building, right? So that part I learned being in the trades. When I started doing the spec stuff, I knew I could do it because in the past, when I was in my late 20s, I bought a house in Belport and my family came to see it. I bought it like on a Monday, and my family came to see it that weekend, and it was gone. There was just a floor system. I knocked the whole thing down. And they were like, What are you doing? I'm like, Oh, yeah, I'm gonna build something way better than this. Oh, wow. So And you knew you could. Yeah, and I was in uh, I was in uh, I think I sold for 2.5x what my neighborhood was going for. Wow, there you go. Yeah, and I was like, wow, this is interesting. This just like that enabled me to move to the Hamptons and buy land out here. And Andrew, by the way, Andrew Saunders, I know Andrew since before 2000. And he didn't even have his real estate license when I knew him. Wow and he, I think I might have been his first sale in the Hamptons. He sold me my property in Sagaponic. Oh, wow. Um, when he was when he had a Sotheby's desk. No hidden. It is small.

Andrew Doud 6:56

It's crazy. Yeah. Um, so let's talk about 199 Georgian. Laura, you represent this listing.

Laura White 7:01

Um, very proud to be representing it.

Andrew Doud 7:04

Tell us Laura, tell us a little bit about this property and then and then Peter, you can kind of tell us how this all came to be.

Laura White 7:10

Well, I'm very excited to be representing. We've had a really great opening to the to the property as well. We've had a excellent showings. The house shows impeccably well because it gives you really the best of everything the Hamptons has. You drive down Rose Hill Road, past a gorgeous reserve, farm reserve, onto a privatized road, Cul-de-sac Street, and then it opens up to a wide open waterfront. I think that's every dream that someone has of living in the Hamptons. And Pete designed this home with his architects specifically to allow each room to have a waterfront view. Not water view, a waterfront view. So I think there's a really big difference between that and any other home that's on the market currently, or really that I've ever seen. It's not just a view, it's his execution is perfect. Um the the flow of the house really is today's lifestyle. You flow from one room to another, but yet you can privatize each each room. It just gives you everything that I believe a homeowner that's looking to be have a statement home wants, but it's modern living to its ultimate.

Andrew Doud 8:23

The thing that I like about this house is two aspects of this. One, the infinity edge pool, right? That's great, because I'm sure you're I haven't been in the pool. I've been to the house, but I haven't been in the pool. Uh but you're there and you're like overlooking Meacox Bay, and then you have these concrete squares that are pavers. Pavers, yeah. But like but but then there's grass growing in between, so it looks very natural and very cool. And then the other part about it that I like is actually the the primary bathroom is like amazing. That shower is like very cool with the the whole thing's like a piece of art.

Steve Glick 8:57

You you you say spec homes, but these are not a spec home. This is like a custom home. This is a custom home, you know, built perfectly for the land that's there. It's on obviously, obviously, it's on the water. It also has a dock, but you know, when you're looking, you know, Pete, when you're looking at properties and you're trying to figure out which one is gonna be, you know, the best return on your investment, or you know, is is unique and special. What what attracted you to this property here?

Peter Mangiameli 9:25

So, I mean, the property is just a special property. You know, it comes with like 30 swans too. They're in the backyard every single day.

Laura White 9:33

And a bad day. And a good day is a hundred.

Peter Mangiameli 9:36

So this property, like others, it's kind of a gut thing. You know, you walk on a property and you just get this special feeling, and then you got to make the numbers work. Um, I saw a property in Sagaponic a few years ago. I'll go back to Georgia in a minute, but saw this property in Sagaponic and two acres, reserve, you know, sounds perfect, right?

Steve Glick 9:59

Yeah.

Peter Mangiameli 10:00

But there was a house built there that really took away from the beauty of the whole thing. Somebody put up an ugly ass house. And I think it diminished the entire area. Yeah, so it just, you know, I didn't get that warm, fuzzy feeling. I'm like, this is bothering me. You know, I'm not gonna go like trying to figure out how to make this work financially if like if it's bothering me. Yeah, so you have to get that feeling. Yep. When I was there, the view was so spectacular across, right? That's so beautiful. And the previous owner had put in a seawall, and so the the land is about four feet higher than the wetlands. So you just naturally have this nice trajectory which gives you more water, right? Instead of looking across water, you're looking down at water. Yeah, so you see more of it in your different perspective, much better. And I was there and I said, Wow, this would be amazing. And I I pretty much designed the house that's there now. I'm really being simplistic here in my head. I said, I want every single room in the back of the house to have a view, and then the hallway on the front of the house. Right. So that was the the the impetus for that design. And the design team worked on it, and the hallway became an art gallery at the stairwell, and the rest of the hallway, it doesn't feel like a hallway, right? It's got these push-outs that are three or four foot deep with doors and windows. You could have sculptures and you know, furniture in these places, you know, in the hallway, so to speak. So the design team really we don't have hallways, like we have these beautiful areas within the hallway that you're walking down.

Laura White 11:33

Kind of like a gallery connection. Transitional area. That's why I looked at it connects to space.

Dave Rattiner 11:37

I think that's right. Do you imagine like what people are gonna do while living there? Because I remember we were there just doing an open house. We were in the kitchen, and we noticed like in the kitchen, there was like this you could you could walk down to this other room that opened that and the whole door opened up. The pool house. Yeah, the pool house, like right, but it was like right around the corner. So you're like looking out at the water, then like right around the corner, there's like this whole other room, and it opens right out, and then that opens right out to the barbecue. And so it was like so easy for you to imagine throwing a party where you had something going on in the kitchen, something going on in the barbecue, and you could like talk through the window out of the cloud. It was a great indoor outdoor float.

Laura White 12:19

Yeah, like very important for some guys.

Dave Rattiner 12:21

I mean, did you think like we all like we we were like, oh, that's a sign of a good builder when we were there. Like, did you think of that? Did you think that through? Obviously, I mean, I'm sure.

Peter Mangiameli 12:28

Yeah, so that that's the design team. Like, we start, we have the property, one of us brings the idea. Scut the whole road, Kristen, one of my designers, she brought the idea for this vineyard house. She had this inspiration home that we kind of modeled the exterior after, and the whole vocabulary there was so these large five foot by nine-foot tall windows every six or eight feet. And it was just a simplistic window in a 16-inch deep wall, almost like you're in Europe. That was our inspiration, like masonry walls with beautiful European windows. And that became a vocabulary so that we could see these beautiful farms and vineyard and beyond. At Georgian, I came up with the idea, and then we refined it to what it is. And when I say refine, you know, we work with a site plan first, and then we do a schematic where the rooms are gonna be, then we do a draft of the plans, the floor plans, as we're working on some elevations. And then two or three of us will go back and forth several times and modify each other's plans. And then I'll make the decisions in hey, this is better than what we had before. I can actually like what we did before here, but not there. And then everybody's ideas three or four times through kind of get put together the best of the best. And they're all really high-level people. So it's a wonderful process.

Steve Glick 13:45

And what goes into like sourcing the materials? Because I know in this property you have a lot of unique aesthetics all throughout the house. Like, where do you go to source? Is it do you have other do you go to other countries? Do you is it like what goes involved in that?

Peter Mangiameli 13:58

It's funny you say that. All the windows indoors are from Europe. Okay. Um, they're Cortizo, they're made in Spain. I've been to the factory, it's unbelievable. The factory is like a like a country, a small country. Um and the Cortizo windows in doors, I don't think there's anything better.

Steve Glick 14:12

Okay.

Peter Mangiameli 14:12

Um we work with some countries in Europe to maybe work with the exchange rate that helps us purchase them and wow you know, value engineer, so to speak. Um, we get pavers from all over the world. Those concrete pavers that you mentioned before are not concrete, they're actually a type of limestone, they look like concrete, but they don't have all the imperfections. You know, concrete has that patina, it cracks, etc. These won't, they'll look perfect forever.

Dave Rattiner 14:36

Wow.

Peter Mangiameli 14:37

So we source those. I think these came from India somewhere. Beautiful, beautiful stone. That's awesome. Um, yeah, so we're we're always working on that stuff. And then as we work with vendors, our vendors will steer us and hey, have you seen this, Pete? So it's just it's just a lot of just you know, being on the wheel and talking to people and exploring different ideas. And the designers do a bunch too, because they they work in other projects besides mine. Um, they do some other side stuff because they've had such great careers, they get called to do things, and they're always bringing cool products to the well, it really shows, you know, even walking through the house, just the simplest thing by just looking at like the door jams, right?

Steve Glick 15:13

You know, you look at a door, but then when you really look closely, you see how like how the door opens up and how it swings. It's all it's like hidden in, and it's it's something that like when you walk through the house, you're picking up little things like that, and that's just a sign of like a good builder and the quality of work that goes into it. And most people don't really notice that, but when you look closely and talk to the agent, those are the things that they're gonna point out, and you know right away that hey, this is this is quality, this is something that is unique and special.

Andrew Doud 15:40

It's like the the the devil's in the details, right? You know, you can tell the difference between a good build and a great build is all in the finish and and how things come together and move. You know, I'm looking at the the kitchen online, and there's you know lights built into the cabinets that are kind of flush mounted underneath. And who who did the kitchen? Uh everything's custom built. Everything's customed.

Peter Mangiameli 16:00

So so we we use the word spec house because it's for sale, right? But this really is it's not a spec home. Right. This is this is my years, 20 years of custom building for A-list celebs, yeah, you know, billionaires. And we're taking that same, you know, craftsmanship to these homes, and we're keeping the high level of design that my custom homes have. When I worked with, you know, Peter Cook, you know, Robert Amster and Boris Bronovich, you know, big same big time names. Yeah. And we're we're we're kind of I recognize how important design is. You know, I've I've got to some architects' websites that I've worked for, and you know, my house is on there that I did for them or someone else's, but the quality isn't what puts something on a website, it's design. Yeah, in person the quality is super important, but you're not gonna be on somebody's website if the design's not great. The design is just as important, and we really focus on that.

Laura White 16:49

I really especially enjoy your inspiration for your suites, your guest suites.

Peter Mangiameli 16:55

That was fun. Um my ex-girlfriend was with a Fortune 200 company, a C-level executive, and she'd have to have these board meetings four times a year after four seasons in New York. And the built-ins they have in those rooms were the inspiration exactly. The built-ins at George and Lane in the bedroom.

Laura White 17:13

And I think it's appreciating everyone that sees it totally appreciates and gets it and realizes that really all you bring is you include a bed and a bedside table, and you're done. It's just such a great flow and it's open and airy because you've done such wonderful built-ins in every single room. No one feels left out. Everyone's got equal level of luxury living.

Peter Mangiameli 17:36

It was it was we were thinking like hotel suite. Yeah, yeah. That was the whole thought behind each bedroom.

Laura White 17:41

Great inspiration.

Dave Rattiner 17:42

Do you have any like like it's it's frustrating frustrating for me walking into a construction and then someone will say next to me, ah, you know, I I I hate the way that they did this, and I've I I'm really unable to like see it until they point it out. Do you have any like specific pet peeves with new construction that you've seen where you're just like, oh man, I can't believe they're doing that, you know?

Andrew Doud 18:07

Like a like a like a six-inch recessed light instead of a four-inch or something, you know?

Dave Rattiner 18:12

Like I don't you know, yeah, like for example, like you walk into we we walked into a home the other day and there's it was like so obvious that there should be like a chandelier there, and the guy just had like a light bulb hanging. Anything like that.

Peter Mangiameli 18:28

That could be for a future fixture, possibly. But but to answer your question, the list is long. Yeah, I don't think spec builders really spend enough time on design at all. I think they hire a draft person, the cheapest guy they can get. You know, hallways in some of these houses are just like horrible. Like you shouldn't have this horrible hallway without windows or light or you know, you know, some type of recess and you know, expanding in different areas for furniture and you know, art and things like that. Um, another thing is, you know, we like to make the garage separate. Almost every property I do, you know, the garage being separate, I think, creates more of an estate feel. And then also you don't lose all the windows on that wall. You know, I'm in so many of these homes that have like a kitchen up against the garage and there's no light. It's a dark kitchen.

Steve Glick 19:16

It's smart.

Peter Mangiameli 19:16

It's an interesting thing. Yeah, so there's just I don't think I pay attention to that, I never thought of that until just a lot of sense. I don't think people focus on design nearly enough. And then and then there's like the anti-spaces. Like when you're in, when you go from a hallway to a room, that's a stark difference, right? So you want to, in my mind, you want to go into a recess off the hallway first, enter the room in an anti-space, and then the rectangle of the room opens up after that. So there's a there's a transition that makes you feel good, whether you're aware of it or not. What what what what's making you feel good?

Laura White 19:49

No, you're not falling into your rooms, you're going through through this beautiful space, and then it opens up to you with each one having the the head-on water view, which is amazing. Because many homes you walk into, you fall into a bedroom, and then over on the side is the closet and the bath. Here you really have that as a complete flow as an entrance.

Peter Mangiameli 20:11

I think it may I think it makes a big difference. I think other people's homes are almost like a schematic, like they didn't finish them. Right, in my opinion.

Andrew Doud 20:18

Interesting.

Peter Mangiameli 20:18

And I'm just a snob because I work with so many great designers. I've been blessed.

Andrew Doud 20:22

No, but that like I said, I mean, there's a difference between good and great. You know what I mean? It's a a a spec home can be a nice house, but you're and and I think a lot of times you'll find that people will build they'll they'll put a house on a lot instead of building the house for the lot. You know what I mean? Yes. Um, which obviously isn't the case with with this particular house.

Peter Mangiameli 20:41

And for the record, you know, it it costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time to do one-off homes. I mean it's completely opposite like with Joe Farrell or other guys do, right? They're they're more of uh, you know, reproducing things, right? Reproducing details, reproducing the same house for the most part. You know, we're taking a ton of time to create a one-off home. Yep. So it's a real different business model, I think, what I do and what other people do. For sure. I agree.

Laura White 21:06

I'd like to say it's a custom home for sale versus a spec house. I prefer to market it in that perspective. Yes.

Andrew Doud 21:13

I think that sums it up. Yeah. Um let's transition a little bit to the to the bigger picture with Steve and the data on the Hamptons as a whole. What do you got?

Steve Glick 21:21

All right. So this past week, there were just a week of October 8th. Um, and there were 29 listings that went into contract from West Hampton to Montauk. Last year there were 23. So we're looking at a year over year increase of 26 percent. Two years ago, there were 27 listings that went into contract. So again, over the past two years, it was an increase of seven percent. The breakdown of the twenty-nine transactions this week, there was four between five and ten million, four between three and five, six between two and three, ten between one and two, and five under a million. The dollar volume this past week was seventy eight million. Last year was sixty three million. That's an increase of twenty four percent. And two years ago, In 2022, it was 66 million. So that's an increase of 18%. So we're seeing increases across the board on both in-contracts and dollar volume. New listings coming onto the market. And the breakdown of those 36 new listings, there was two between 15 and 20 million, one between 10 and 15 million, four between five and ten, five between three and five, nine between two and three, ten between one and two, and five under a million. The inventory stands at two thousand one hundred and twenty-six total listings with sixteen hundred and six active and five hundred and twenty in contract. So another good week as we're in the selling season. We talk about this, you know, multiple weeks now that we're this is part of the selling season here that we're in, and that's gonna continue all the way through, you know, the Thanksgiving season. So it's active, it's busy. We had we're coming off a big weekend of the holiday weekend where we had Columbus Day, Yankee was the fall holiday open house special that we had going on here at Saunders. It was very active, and we're gonna see how those numbers translate into next week.

Andrew Doud 23:06

People are out. Um, Dave, what do you got? What's happening this week? Tell us what to do.

Dave Rattiner 23:12

Um so, well, first of all, I want to talk about the Shelter Island 5K.

Laura White 23:16

That's a great place to start.

Dave Rattiner 23:19

So that is outrunning cancer for 25 years. You can join them in the fight, and your support can make a difference by running this 5K on Shelter Island Saturday, October 19th at 11 a.m. and it starts at Crescent Beach.

Steve Glick 23:33

It's gonna be great weather. It's gonna be beautiful.

Dave Rattiner 23:35

And you know, it's it's you know, my my mother just got over breast cancer, and it's un it's like unbelievable how healthy she is now. It like blows me away. So, like all of these things now, you know, I guess because it's more personal to me, like it it like triggers me, like, oh maybe I'll go to this thing. It's it's such an important thing to do. Raise money for people.

Laura White 23:54

Go team heaven can't wait. That's direct support for Lucia's angels. Lucia was a good friend of mine, and I I will be walking, not running for Team Heaven Can Wait on Saturday. Oh, fantastic.

Dave Rattiner 24:07

That's wonderful. Yeah, I don't even know what my time would be on a 5k right now. In high school, I could do it like 20 minutes.

Andrew Doud 24:13

20 minutes would be very good.

Dave Rattiner 24:14

Yeah, it was fast.

Andrew Doud 24:14

Yeah, that is under a half hour. Sorry.

Steve Glick 24:17

Half hours is a good goal, right?

Laura White 24:19

Well, you get timed there, Dave. So come on and come on, come on over and try it. Shoot for under 25.

Dave Rattiner 24:24

I did it, 48 minutes, you know. All right. So then the second thing I wanted to bring up is this restaurant, Dopo Argento. This is one of Peter's favorite restaurants in Southampton.

Peter Mangiameli 24:34

Those are my boys, and that's a one of the best restaurants in Hampton.

Dave Rattiner 24:37

And Steve and I have been there, and it is a we've been there with a with a couple of people. Yeah. And it is totally authentic Italian food, and it's it's it's got that cool outdoor area. This is in South.

Steve Glick 24:50

We went to the one in oh we went both. Yeah, we went both, yeah.

Dave Rattiner 24:54

So I really recommend that place and this is a very good thing. Very Sunder, though. Riderhouse. And it's kind of has a cool little ball scene as well.

Peter Mangiameli 25:03

They've got a great staff, they've got Mario.

Dave Rattiner 25:05

Yeah, the bark there was really funny. Yeah, flats over there.

Steve Glick 25:08

All right, drinks are good. I remember the drinks. It's a good time. Yeah.

Dave Rattiner 25:13

Yeah.

Steve Glick 25:13

Or we don't remember. Yeah. Now I remember.

Laura White 25:18

And they had some food as well. Yeah.

Dave Rattiner 25:20

It was really good. The French fries are incredible. It was a great vibe there. I love that. Um, and then also wanted to bring up this restaurant, El Verano, in Southampton, which I've only been to one time, and it was very good, but I've only been there once. But you like that place as well?

Peter Mangiameli 25:35

That's that's my other jam.

Dave Rattiner 25:36

Yeah, there's bougie Mexican food.

Peter Mangiameli 25:38

That's exactly right. It's bougie Mexican. Lobster tacos, uh, braised duck wraps. The the owner chef has a four or five restaurants in New York, and he's totally legit, and he runs a great place there. I don't know if he's still doing it, but Thursday is at like a DJ night. Oh again, you know, it's like Argento, it's really great food and like kind of a good time. You know, some fun. He has a great lunch too.

Andrew Doud 26:01

Good spot right there in downtown Southampton, too. Yeah, locations. I know.

Dave Rattiner 26:05

And then just sticking with the Oktoberfest thing. Sure. Pumpkin spice beer. Yep. Pumpkin flavored. Everything's pumpkin.

Andrew Doud 26:14

Are you a pumpkin beer guy? No.

Dave Rattiner 26:17

It tastes like sugar. It's like pure cinnamon. I think it is. It's like yeah, it's like it's like adding Coca-Cola.

Peter Mangiameli 26:22

They add cinnamon and call it pumpkin.

Dave Rattiner 26:24

Yeah, it's right. Maybe a little bit. I don't think there's any pumpkin in it. Yeah. Whatever it is, it's it's not good.

Andrew Doud 26:32

It starts after uh, yeah.

Dave Rattiner 26:35

Yeah, like we brought in pumpkin spice for the coffee this morning, and I I had some in, and then I poured it right out in the sink. Yeah, no, that's not for me. They make a lot of money with it though. That's terrible. So that is Amber Waves Oktoberfest fundraiser. Um, we're gonna have join us for farm feasting, live music, dancing, races, and games for the children and adults, and our two an opportunity to raise funds for Amber Waves. So that's October 19th at 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. And you guessed it at Amber Waves Farm. And it's just so impressive. Amber Waves has turned a farmer into like this luxury brand.

Andrew Doud 27:14

It is without question the most popular trucker hat.

Dave Rattiner 27:17

It's funny. It's like because there's like stands out here. Like there's like there's like farm stands are all over. Amber Waves is the only one where it's like there's amber waves, and then you think of like Louis Vuitton or something. It's like, isn't it weird? Am I the only one that thinks that? Dave, I've never been. Where is it? It's in the Amaganza on Main Street. It's like a it's it's a bougie farm.

Steve Glick 27:37

It is, yes. I'm in. And they have a great hat. They sell a great hat.

Laura White 27:44

It's also community, it's community. No, it's a real community farming.

Dave Rattiner 27:50

But it they really have captured this luxuriness to it. Yeah, audience.

Steve Glick 27:54

It's a local, the local feeling. It's like you're local to the Hamptons if you go to Amber Ways.

Dave Rattiner 27:58

All right. So that's what's going on in the Hamptons.

Andrew Doud 28:01

All right.

Peter Mangiameli 28:01

Love it.

Andrew Doud 28:02

That's perfect.

Peter Mangiameli 28:02

Anything else before we let you guys go? It was wonderful chatting with you, with you kids, and thank you for having me.

Andrew Doud 28:09

Yeah, for sure. Um, if you have any questions about 199 Georgian, uh, Laura is the agent to reach out to.

Laura White 28:15

We'll be having an open house this Saturday at 199 Georgian.

Steve Glick 28:19

Fantastic.

Laura White 28:19

Uh from 12 to 2. Hope to see you there. Uh, please, anyone would like to see it another time, give us a holler and we'll be there whenever you you're ready.

Andrew Doud 28:28

Yeah, it's a beautiful.

Laura White 28:29

An excellent location, an amazing property and home. And Pete, thanks for joining us today.

Andrew Doud 28:34

For sure. We'll have you on another time. Um, that's great. We'll call that a podcast today, everybody. That's that's what's happening in the Hamptons. I'm Andrew Dowd. Everybody have a great day.