Million-dollar "Mr. Mom".Reality TV has a new gay star in Michael Wegmann, a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. real estate agent featured on Bravo's Million Dollar Listing, beginning June 12. The series follows Wegmann, dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. "Mr. Mom," as he tries to sell an eccentric music producer's home while also starting a family with his partner, attorney Craig Gatarz. The Advocate asked Denver Realtor Jeff Hammerberg of GayRealEstate.com to touch base with Wegmann by telephone. What fraction of your clientele is gay or lesbian? I would say 60%. I also have a lot of straight clients. Is there a difference between what straight people and gay people are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. in a house? I think you'll find gay people will want a house with more character--more flair, potential for entertaining. But that's changing, where my clients now are starting to have kids, like me. Now it's becoming important [to ask], What are the schools? Is there a good kids' room? Is it safe? Is it gated? How did you get into real estate? I worked very hard for years [at] IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Paramount, and my own educational software company. I've always loved real estate: I grew up on a farm in Iowa. [After I sold my company] I bought and remodeled three homes and got my license. I've done really well at it. With real estate I have to work only about half as hard, and I make twice the money. It's the life that I really want, especially now that we have kids. How old are your twins? They'll be 8 weeks on Saturday. Every day is Christmas here because every day they do something different. It's transformational. I was up last night at 2 and 5, but one smile is worth all the sleep deprivation sleep deprivation Sleep disorders A prolonged period without the usual amount of sleep. See Driver fatigue, Poor sleeping hygiene, Sleep disorders, Sleep-onset insomnia. . I wanted to do the show because I wanted people to see that Craig and I are just normal, great caring people that want to have children and give traditions and love to these kids. |
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