I received an email late last week in regards to a listing I have for rent. I emailed the customer back asking her what was the best time to call her in the morning. She emailed me back and said any time in the morning.
Next morning I called her at 9:30 am and I asked her if she was working with any other real estate agents and she said no. She said she wanted to look at the house soon even though she just got up and her hair was a mess, she still wanted to get in right away. She then asked if the property was vacant and I said yes. We agreed to meet at 10:30 am at the property. She was too rushed to come into the office first and knew where the house was.
I am at the property 10 minutes early just in case she comes early. She ends up showing up a little late, no big deal. She comes walking in the house and I ask her to sign our agency disclosure form letting her know who I represent. She says, Oh, I know that form I'm a real estate agent. Wouldn't you think she should have disclosed that to me on the phone originally? I said who do you work for? She says I used to have my license in Boston it's inactive now and just hanging at the real estate commission.
Ok, now my blood is starting to boil a little. She signs the paperwork and she is with her girlfriend and her friend looks at me and says we've already been inside the house. I said excuse me... She said, yeah we've already been inside. She said the door was unlocked. I turned to her and said why would you go inside just because the door is unlocked...especially being the fact that she is/was an agent and should know the rules?
She said "because the door was unlocked." 
Well, she was correct the door was unlocked....but does not give her the right to just walk in.
The door was unlocked because there have been workers going in and out that last few days. It simply shocks me that someone would enter someone's home just because the house is unlocked. Why make an appointment and then show up way early...remember I was early and she was late...that means she must have been there very early!!!
Then she starts telling me her life story....she is going thru a divorce and has a set of triplets and another child. No big deal but then as we are walking thru the house she starts making demands that the owner must fix this and fix that because she has little kids. Geez, now I know why you're getting divorced I'm thinking. Then I have to hear the story about how she has bad credit because of the divorce, blah blah blah. I'm thinking to myself and I dropped what I was doing for this????
Two days later she calls me on my cell phone and wants her husband to see the house. He walks in and is as big as me and we seem to hit it off.
He has a NY Yankee logo Tattooed on his neck. We build rapport by talking baseball and he begins to tell me his story while his soon to be ex-wife is sitting in the car. He said he wants to covert the screen porch into a bedroom and he'll live there on weekends and his father will co-sign the lease.
I had asked his wife at the first meeting if they owned a house now. She told me they owned a condex but they just bought it last year and they owe more than it's probably worth.
They would need to sell it but won't have enough to pay off the loan...in the meantime she figures they can afford to rent the home...make alterations to it...put everyone and their mother on the lease with ex hubby staying in the screen porch/converted to a bedroom!! Plus expect the owner to fix everything on her list!!
Man was I ripped! Is she playing me or what? I was worried that she may have been a fair housing tester...especially when she was going on about soon being single and a mother of 4 little kids...Am I off base thinking that?
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I think she was a tester and I bet you haven't heard the end from them/her yet.