Coming from an atheist country, where you do not believe in G-d or Satan, and being inquisitive as I am, it is difficult for me to accept anything that I can't figure out. My 15-y.o. grandson hates showing me the tricks, as while my wife drops her jaw, I am trying to figure it out, and I succeed half of the time (he is just getting better).
And with all that in my not that long real estate career, I have seen two clients so far, who knew their future property in such detail, that it was mind boggling.
We worked with a lady, who was originally from Iran, and she saw her future condo in a dream, and she was describing her feel of that unit. She saw her sitting and watching the ocean, and all that was at certain angle, which she, obviously, could vividly see in her mind. We showed her one condo after another, all within the parameters, and it was not what she saw in her dream. After we have exhausted the inventory, and all got frustrated, we decided to show her a unit, which was listed for $289K (our client was looking for something under $200K). She walked into a unit, looked around, and this was it, the unit from her dream. We negotiated the deal, and she closed soon thereafter. Needless to say, I am still puzzled.
Another one happened the same year. I was melting under the summer heat in the parking lot outside of a riverfront condominium with the keys from one of the units. I was supposed to give the keys to my agent, but she was with a customer, and she was late. The car with NJ license plate slowly approached. A lady in her late 60s-early 70s walked out, came to me and asked me to show her a unit in this condo. There was nothing about me, indicating that I was in real estate. I was just standing there, dressed in shorts. Stunned, I asked her how could she possibly know that I happened to be in real estate, and I happened to have a key with me, and that I could show her the unit there. From that parking lot you could only see the tops of the 12-story condo buildings. She smiled at me, and with a soft accent (Argentina), but firmly said that she knew, and that she would like the apartment (she called the condo apartment), and that she would buy the apartment there. Well, I showed her the unit, and she ended up buying not the one that I showed, but another unit in the same building. She always teased me saying that she knew it when she saw me. She and her husband George are the sweetest people in the world. The fact that Luisa "knows" absolutely did not surprise him. He is used to that. Go figure.
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