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How Many Hats Do You Wear?

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Real Estate Agent with EXP Realty NCREL #258287

I was cleaning up my hard drive and deleting old photos, when I found this one of some of my earliest cleints' "babies". They couldn't bear to leave them alone, so I ended up babysitting them for several showings:

cute doggies

For those of you not up on dog breeds, the one in the middle is a Rottweiler, and the two on the sides are American Pitt Bull Terriers [aka, "pit bulls"]. All three are trained guard dogs. They ended up staying in the house with us, because I didn't know if they'd get along with my outside dogs, and they were very calm and well-behaved, but my broker thought I was nuts when I told her I was "babysitting the guard dogs".

I know a lot of agents who've ended up being painters, marriage counselors, carpet cleaner, repairmen/women, pet-sitters, cat-finders, and all sorts of crazy things just to help get a home sold.

 

For those of you in the business, what's the strangest "hat" you've ever put on as a real estate agent?

 

 

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Kari Battaglia
Veterans Realty Inc - Venice, FL
Who You Work With Matters!

I keep getting new hats.  Whatever it takes that I think I can handle I take on.  Babysitter, counselor, housecleaner, mover, etc.

Oct 04, 2009 07:49 AM
Susan Brown
Keller Williams NE, Kingwood Texas (Humble & Atascocita too) - Kingwood, TX

Raine, It's usually pets of some sort.  Putting a cat or dog up before a showing and making sure they haven't left any "presents" for us to step in. 

Oct 05, 2009 01:00 AM
Claude Cross
Homes By Cross, Inc. - Charlotte, NC
Charlotte NC Homes For Sale

Raine - Nice healthy animals that look very happy! Love the rottie! Smiles from an old Rottie lover/owner

Oct 05, 2009 09:31 AM
J. Philip Faranda
Howard Hanna Rand Realty - Yorktown Heights, NY
Associate Broker / Office Manager

Mover, house cleaner, and cook. One old guy needed help moving on time to avoid a deal dying from missing a bank-imposed deadline. I took 2 full days to help them empty 40 years of their life. I've helped a number of clients get their pathologically filthy homes ship shape. 

Oct 14, 2009 02:02 AM
Erby Crofutt
B4 U Close Home Inspections&Radon Testing (www.b4uclose.com) - Lexington, KY
The Central Kentucky Home Inspector, Lexington KY

Philip, sounds like you need to team up with a good stager!

 

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Oct 25, 2009 11:07 PM