Being a Navy brat, I’ve walked through more homes for sale than I can count. The rules were very simple - you go in, look around, leave and the only evidence of your presence is your real estate agent’s calling card left on a counter.
Well, etiquette has apparently changed.
Couple weeks ago, it was black scuff marks all over the kitchen floor. Always fun to try to get those off.
Today I went over to do a quick onceover (even vacant, dust still manages to show up) and whack at the yard. Discoveries…
- A half consumed bottle of water sitting in the kitchen sink
- Dirt tracked halfway across the basement floor
- Every swingin’ door in the place left open. Sure, open the doors, find the closets, but effin’ close them when you’re done. How is that hard?
- A knob of some sort left in the middle of the basement floor. I don’t recognize it from anywhere in the house, so hopefully it’s not something important for continued functionality of the mechanical systems.
For cryin’ out loud - this is not your home. You are a guest. You buy the place, make as much of a mess as you want. In the meantime, show a little freakin’ courtesy.
September 16th, 2007 - 7:22 pm
Perhaps the selling agent needs a checklist of things to do before the door is closed and locked. It’s called presentation, and you wouldn’t want homeviewers to think that many have been through the place and not have seriously considered making an offer.
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
To say the least, some agents appear to be semi-retarded - in my opinion, of course. Such opinion was formed during two house sales.
September 17th, 2007 - 12:06 am
I’m pretty sure this all happened in the past day or so - my guy stops in every couple days to check on things and collect cards and make sure everything is OK. My gut instinct is that someone let a kid run amok in the place while they were looking at it.
September 17th, 2007 - 2:51 pm
Met w/the realtor today and he was over there on Friday and everything was fine - seems it was the weekend looky-loos, and he seemed to agree it was a kid running amok.
Trust me, when he shows a place, you would never know anyone was there other than his card. (We’ve worked with him for years.) He told me a story about a family that was looking at the place and the kid was running around so he followed the kid to make sure he didn’t break anything. Kid ran into a walk-in closet, my realtor shut the door on him and kept him there for a while… As he said, “We came to an understanding as to how he should behave.”
September 17th, 2007 - 7:57 pm
I’m in wholehearted agreement with your realtor. Children should be locked in closets prior to tenderizing, and just before being placed on the grill. ;)
Of course, I myself was perfect as a child, and in fact I can’t remember being unruly, ever. Although, there was that one time when I got my butt kicked by my dad…