December 10, 2008

Whatchu talkin bout Willis Wednesday

As you know, our house has been on the market for quite awhile and have been living in it since summer. Since that time, my appreciation for the realtors in this town has gone way down. What I thought was a service showing agents were providing isn't really a service to anyone.

My listing agent is great. This is about the idiots who show the place. Here is what has happened in just the last couple weeks.. (just a note, the listing sheet clearly shows the house is occupied and we request 24 notice for any showing. also, we have to be gone during the showing)

-"Can we show the place, we'll be there in 20 minutes." Great, glad we had left and didn't get a chance to clean up at all.
-"Expect and offer this week." That was 3 weeks ago.
-Knock knock. "Oh, I didn't know anyone was living here." Stop feeding Makenna and wait for them to leave.
-"We'll be there at 1:15." Allison leaves at one, runs a bunch of errands and comes back about 1:50 and begins feeding Makenna. Here comes the realtor, 45 minutes late. Allison leaves and finishes feeding her in the car at a nearby park.
-"We want to show the house tonight." I say ok, just wait until 5:15 so I can come home, get Allison and take off. Guess who shows up at 4:55?
-"We'll be there at 2:15." We leave, drive around, come back. Half an hour late, still haven't been here yet. Drive around more, still haven't come. We decide to just sit in the car a block away. Finally they show up 50 minutes late.
-We just get home from the previous showing, do a few things and a different realtor calls up (she is sitting in the driveway, and wants to show it) We say give us about 15 minutes so we can get Makenna in her seat, get organized and leave again. The wonderful realtor apparently decides she wants coffee or something because they leave and don't come back for a long long time...while we are again waiting in the car in the street with a crying kid.

My favorite part is, I think a lot of them are just out looking for ideas on the house they want to build. They know they really aren't going to buy our house.

Enough of the negatives, at least the house is still getting showed a lot. Sooner or later someone will be smart enough to realize what a great house it is. Hopefully that is soon!

4 comments:

todd said...

i'm sorry to hear about your disappointment brother.

Jared said...

Realtors suck...oh wait, I am one, that must mean I suck too. Kidding Willis. Sorry this has been such a headache for you. I think it's mainly a product of how old some of these people are in the business. They are a few light bulbs short of a chandeleir if you know what I mean. I'll keep on them and enforce all the more the importance of sticking to their time frames since there is a mom and newborn at the house. I'm pulling for ya!

Andrea H. said...

Wow. It's amazing what the Internet turns up. Hi Jared (and to your wife and daughter)...it's Andrea, formerly Dani's roommate. I'm now married too, and living in PA. We have all four-legged children (a yellow Lab and four cats), but hopefully that changes in the next year. Good luck with your house. We just bought our first home in Lancaster County this fall. Take care!!

todd said...

jared, what is up with chizik moving on? he seemed like a quality guy. what are your thoughts on the matter? is isu better off, or did they just lose one of the more quality individuals they've had in past years?