Of course you can show that property this afternoon... a few simple instructions:

* The owners may be home, but if they're not:

* Use the combination lock box... it can be found on the gas meter, near the back door, with the key for the front door.

* the combination is the square root of 1,522,756

* Use the top lock only, the key is a little sticky, pull the door toward you while you jiggle the key.

* Remove your shoes, or use booties, we have new carpeting.

* Please don't let the inside cat out (he's fast)

* Don't let the outside cat in.  He tries to come in all the time, (he's fast, too!)

* Don't close any interior doors, they automatically lock behind you.

* Please turn out all the lights

* Leave a business card on the front hall table

* If you have any time left after following the instructions, please enjoy the home.

* When leaving, please exit via the front door, and lock the bottom lock only... the bottom lock also sticks, so PULL the door toward you while you wiggle the key, while hopping up and down on your left foot, with your right index finger in your left ear.

* Return the key to the back door lockbox.

* Watch out for the dobermans... (Romulus and Remus) they're "frisky", and they're just learning the invisible fence system.

Next!

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Good doggie, good doggie

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Specializing in Evanston Real Estate and North Shore Real Estate
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2011
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Margaret - sorry to sully your sensibilities...
5:40pm • #90
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I feel like we're missing out on so much with lock boxes!  We don't have them in Manhattan (as a result of the condos and co-ops that dominate our inventory.  For better or worse, listing agents show nearly every buyer whether they have an agent or not.
10:37pm • #91
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Akerly team - we use them on condos, here, too.
10:47pm • #92

Thomas Haught

Hilarious! And yes, true!

Lockboxes are invaluable to me.  If a seller really wants to sell their home it is almost a must!  We can't be there for every showing sometimes, and the lockbox allows potential buyers to still view the property.
11:23pm • #93
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I expected that you could only hop through the house on your right foot because the left creates the wrong karma! Great stuff. I agree - NEXT.
11:40pm • #94
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2011
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Alan, s funny as your post was, many Buyer's agents can't even follow the simple "call first" and use common courtesy of knocking before entering after not calling to let the Seller know they will be showing on Sunday morning at 9 AM.  And if agents actually turned the lights out and locked the doors on their way out, listing agents would not have to mention that in their remarks to remind the showing agent to do so...
12:49am • #95
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Thomas - there are those, on the "must accompany" side of things, that would disagree with you.

Gerard - I hadn't thought about how karma might come into play.

Gwen - a few bad apples spoil it for the rest of us... okay, maybe more than a few.
7:37am • #96
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And if you do any condo's or high rise buildings, it's the one on the left......

 

Lockboxes

 

 

 
9:17am • #97
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Steven - wow.. now THAT's a lockbox rack for a serious building!  You'd have to add 15 minutes to every showing, just to find the lockbox!
9:20am • #98
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This post and the comments are really funny, but I think the best reply is the lockbox rack.  I've never seen anything like that before, but Steven is correct, you'd have to allow 15 minutes just to find the right box.  There would probably be instructions for that as well.  "It's the blue one..."
9:44am • #99
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Well at least they had a key.  I went out yesterday and there was no key - I am still waiting for a call back.
1:04pm • #100
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Very funny.  I always tell my clients that Real Estate Class 101 is all about:

1) finding the property with no street sign or house # (before the days of Garmin)

2) finding the elusive lockbox

3) how to pick a lock, jiggle a key, position the door

4) how to chase down the cat

5) how to get past Romulus who has been left loose in the house

6) quietly close the door on the person sleeping in bedroom #2 (at 3 in the afternoon)
1:28pm • #101
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Brad - yep the blue one.

Gene - I've had that problem too.

Catherine - regarding #6)... I have had to "quickly and quietly close the door on the very atheltic young couple having wild monkey sex, who haven't yet noticed ('cause they were otherwise distracted) that someone had opened the door.
5:00pm • #102
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Hmmm..    My clients know that they will have to step in to open the doors, because few keys seem to work for me.  Isn't that one of those things we are supposed to have our sellers do?  If the lock sticks, change it!
10:41pm • #103
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Dagny - it sure is...
11:05pm • #104
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2011
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The square root one was the best.  I figured it out.  Quick somebody change the combination to my luggage.
6:59pm • #105
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Mike - I needed a calculator... fortunately I had one that did square roots.

 
8:50pm • #106
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2011
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Great blog.  I always get paranoid when I am told "not to let the cat or dog out."  I hate having that responsibility and HAVE chased after dogs and cats who have snuck their way out.  Certainly not a way to make the most of a showing - we are all too distracted about where the animals are to actually look at the house.
2:30am • #107
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John & Kasey - I once chased a cat around the house, because my client opened the laundry room door that said "do not open... escape cat, within".... yikes!
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day traders - well, I have written plenty more, so feel free to read on.
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