My Top 5 Bizarre Open House Moments
…and you thought being a realtor was all glamour.
I have been sitting Open Houses in Center City Philadelphia for twenty years now. If I add up all the hours I have spent alone in some strangers home, I could have taken a month off in the Bahamas, I am sure. But not all the sitting and waiting for some Philadelphia condo buyer has been in vain. Here are my top (bottom?) 5 Open House experiences that I have lived through:
1) Someone once died in the living room of my lovely Open House. I was in a Washington Square West Condo, and PA. Hospital was but 1/2 block away. Buyer Lived.
2) I once added a cat to someones home. The cat was lurking by the back door. I figured I let him out by mistake. I didn’t. This owner didn’t own a cat.
3) I once sat the wrong Open House. Couldn’t get the key to work. Sat on the front stoop for an hour. Was told a week later I was at the wrong address.
4) I once left an open house, and locked a potential buyer inside. She was knocking on the front door, from inside the house, as I attempted to leave. Good save on her part.
5) I once tracked grease from the sidewalk onto the new carpeting of a model open house I was once sitting. I didn’t tell anyone. It still eats at me at this day.
I’m not perfect, but if you own a Center City Condo, I might just be perfect for you.
Mark Wade
www.CenterCityCondos.com
Prudential Fox and Roach REALTORS®
530 Walnut St., Suite 260 Philadelphia, PA 19106
You’ve locked in there a potential client? How did you apologize to her?.:)Your top Bizarre open house moments are really cool and some are funny things that you haven’t expect might happened just like the fourth one.
Comment by houses for sale in pasadena — November 18, 2009 @ 12:27 am