In years past, even the busy years, it would be typical for things to be very quiet around my office between Thanksgiving and the New Year holiday. In fact, because we sell lake property it's usually the first few pretty weekends that might come in February or March, depending on the forecast before we are running full steam into the summer rush of owning a Lake Sinclair home. This year, while for the most part was what I like to call "slow steady", December has been VERY busy.
Today we got a referral from an out of town broker who happens to have one listings in our area. She was called by a purchaser who was inquiring about her listing and it turned out not to be right for the buyer. The broker, knowing that we know more about this area than she does called us to refer this buyer. Also we had to extend one contract today. It seems the appraiser is taking a vacation and not doing his job in a timely manner. We don't even know who the appraiser is at this point. (you just gotta love HVCC when the loan officer doesn't know who the dang appraiser is) And after 10 days of back and forth negotiations we finally have a contract on a lake home that I listed just a few weeks ago. I'm really excited for my seller. He had listed his lake home with a different firm previously and said he wasn't even sure it had been shown. Maybe, just maybe that firm doesn't post their new listings to ActiveRain. I posted it there and got a call. Turned out the caller was already working with an agent, but that was okay. I still gave him the price and told him I was sure his agent would be happy to show it to him as she was in our MLS and had full access to the property anytime between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. when the supra lockbox was set to operate.
And now I just had to take a break from writing this post and talk to the appraiser. HAHA I know who he is now. I know who he is now. Seems the LO who was blaming the appraiser earlier was unaware that he just got a copy of the contract today. What a total mess HVCC makes of things. Of course also not the Loan officer's fault.... it's not she was allowed to send it to him.
Meanwhile the phone keeps ringing as I'm trying to type this post. My husband finally got his stiches out today from his hand surgery. My duty agent left early because he just "had" to get home to see the kickoff of the Georgia Bulldogs game. It's really a good thing that my 2009 resolution was to NOT complain about being busy. Frankly- I hereby extend my resolution to 2010. I won't complain about being busy then either. I hope for all my sellers that this trend continues and that January will be just this busy.
And I still have to go home, walk the dog and cook dinner. :)
And I bet you are tired from just reading this aren't you?
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