This morning, shortly after I arrived to one of my listings to meet an appraiser, a large black SUV aggressively pulled up to the curb with a vanity license plate that read, "THELAW". A well-dressed man got out of the car, quickly walked up to me and asked if I was the real estate agent. This man had a badge on one hip and handcuffs on the other. 
I should have been afraid, right? Well, not really. The thing was, we had to get a court order to force the tenant to allow us access to their unit of the two-family home in order for the sale to proceed. This was just the constable with a deputy sheriff in tow to execute the order. The tenants were being uncooperative because the seller had started the eviction process and the they in turn decided not to return my calls and requests to get the appraiser in.
In all my years as a real estate agent, this is the first time I've had to get the courts involved just to get an appraisal done. I've had uncooperative tenants before, but nothing that the landlord couldn't resolve.
The appraisal went fine and we all went on our merry way. Has this ever happened to anyone else before? Have you ever had to get THELAW involved to keep the transaction going?
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