Roosters and Luxury Rentals - what's the connection?

Me!

As you might know if you read my blog, we live in the couuuntarrreeee part of Miami Dade (yes, there is such a thing!).  The part MOST Miamians have no idea even exists.  I have an office is shi-shi Coral Gables where I work from 70% of the time, but, when I can, I prefer the 30% sitting on my covered porch, coffee in hand, laptop in lap, with wide open blue skies and not a sound for miles other than the birds flying over. 

The only problem with this is that we are what is known as "hobby farmers", we have a host of farm critters for no other reason than the pleasure of being with them and sharing the day.  Currently we have three peacocks (this number fluctuates slightly), five chickens (same fluctuating number, a new rooster just showed up out of the blue yesterday and is hanging around), two cats and two dogs.  There are big plans for a goat, bunny, horses, etc. but that has to wait until we recover from the damage Hurricane Wilma did to our house and fencing....

Since I work in Coral Gables and do much of my work there, I am often on the phone with new clients from that area and they know my office is there.  However, when I am at home, I let the chickens and peas run free (we hand-raised almost everyone from eggs and they didn't leave our kitchen table until they were 6 weeks old, these are true PETS) and they like to visit with us alot to be petted and fed.  They actually like to come sit around me when I work and

here is the  dilema ->>>

Roosters don't just crow in the morning, they crow all day long!  and they like to wait until I am on the phone discussing with a new client a $1,000,000 home when they jump up on me and crow their little hearts out!  The clients who know me know where I live and find it really really funny, but I don't know how to handle the ones who have just called me as a new lead.... there is often silence and I try to pretend nothing happened and keep talking, then one of the roosters will do it AGAIN!  This just happened yesterday.  I am starting to think I need to get up and take all calls from inside when I am working from home...Or should I just tell them I live on a little farm in west Dade?  What do you think?  Also, for some reason, a rooster crow sounds LOUDER on the other end of the phone than it does to the person sitting next to him!

Just for fun, here are the kind of animals we have: 1 blue male peacock, 2 female green peahens, 1 white silke male (looks sort of like an angora cat), 1 white sikle hen, 1 blue silkie hen, 1 road island red hen, 1 craz-ass black rooster (plus the new one that showed up), 2 mixed bag cats and 2 mixed sheppard dogs. 

 *** by the way, a male peacock sounds like an alternating cat imitating a trumpet horn and a rattlesnake (which, by the way, often sounds more like a hissing tire loosing air than a real rattle) ***

Janie Coffey
Owner/Broker, GRI, TRC, QSC
cell: 786-252-4970
email: janie@papillonllc.com

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