With two major fires continuing to rage across the Los Angeles area, thousands of displaced residents are looking for housing. Immediately.
Top luxury realtor Dylan Eckhardt, whose clients include Justin Bieber and Rihanna, says he has received 36 calls in the past 18 hours from people whose homes in Malibu and Pacific Palisades have been reduced to ash. Displaced residents of Altadena are also scrambling to find housing on the other side of the city.
“‘I need a four-bedroom.’ ‘Get me to Newport.’ A lot of people are asking me for Orange County,” Eckhardt says. “It’s fucking utter chaos right now in the Palisades. People are riding dirt bikes around, trying to help friends and throw animals on their backs. It’s worse today than it was three days ago. And driving through Malibu is like Armageddon.”
Eckhardt represents 160 off-market…
