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I just made an appointment to view a property with my buyer, and the listing agent told me:
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42 Comments on Testicular fortitude, and the art of lockbox codes
Alan,
So are you going to start a new group? You know something catchy like GROW SOME! I am sure he is just lazy and while agreeing with his seller's demands did not feel like coming out today. If he ever does.
I agree that if your seller makes a request that you accompany all showings, you either do it or you just don't take the listing. I am not sure why he felt the need to tell you that bit of information when obviously he had no intention of honoring their request.
The Moment we ignore our Clients wishes, we are no longer operating under our Realtors Oath...You can't be a little bit pregnant and you can't be a little bit serious about fiduciary obligations.
Ralph - or perhaps t'other way around?
Larry - nah, I'll not be starting any new groups this day.
Karen - I think it was his petty attempt to get me to assure him that I wouldn't tell his client, if he should show up and notice that his agent wasn't present.
Steve - a truer statement was n'aer made.
It never ceases to amaze me, Alan what people do. Several years ago, I worked as an assistant to a colleague on a luxury property in Marin, CA. I heard the homeowner explicitly tell my colleague she did not want any "vendor/person" working on the property unless my colleague was there. Not five minutes later, my colleague handed a duplicate set of keys to a window washer. Two days later, my colleague was fired from the job. Think she learned her lesson? Not - two months later, this colleague did the same thing to another of her client's. Again, the colleague got fired.
Alan,
Would you be able to surivive on that strict diet? I am a vegan, and this is sometimes tough, but having integrity for dinner cold be plain starving (lol)
Alan - Love the title. No humor here but some of our areas have out of area brokers. They say in the MLS call or text for the combo but need your Name, Company and even license number.
This is a good thing because too often someone can call and pose as an agent.
Peggy - amazingly stupid.
Jon - would I be able to survive on WHAT strict diet?
Ken - I came up with it all on my own.
I can't help but imagine that while you were showing the property the Seller would just happen to stop by and 'catch' you showing the house without his/her agent on site.
I wonder what you would say?
Chris - it's a mystery.
That's pretty odd, but I'm curious what testicles have to do with fortitude? Could I. for instance, exercise non-testicular fortitude, or would I end up just being a weenie, or something???
Dammit, agents like this piss me off!!! Actually, LIARS piss me off.
Arrrrgggghhhhh. And he gets away with it.
Janna - some of the most testicularly fortified people I know are women.
Gayle - if sellers had any idea, what their agents were doing... some of them would be fired (from a cannon!).
He will get caught in his lie at some point, maybe not this time but once a liar always a liar and it will catch up with him.
Shar - I think that's probably true.
There are kindness impaired people and there are truth impaired people.
When making appointments or giving information about my listings....I treat every phone call as though it were my seller.
BTW, Great title.
Margaret
Margaret - "truth impaired"... an interesting way to put it. I, too, treat every call, every showing, every viewer at the open house, as though it were the seller. Because you never know... it might be. It might be the seller's sister, friend, mother, brother... just testing to see how the process is working.
If you're not comfortable saying it to the seller... it shouldn't be said.
Guess that agent better hope no one leaves the lights on, or forgets to lock the door. That's just unbelievable...even more so that the agent has no compunction about telling you what he's doing. Yech!
Nina - I'm sure he'll tell the seller "oops, sorry I left the light on".
Alan, I guess that's the problem with selling your home long distance. You have to trust the people you're working with... I'm glad you said integrity was for dinner and not something else, although if that seller finds out, something of that agent might get roasted!