Showings 101 - The "What I Wish I Would Just Pack and KEEP IN MY CAR ALREADY" Edition
For instance, last night my clients decided at the last minute that they wanted to go see a vacant home that they had left off their list. I had time, I knew I could get an appointment on the fly, so I scheduled the showing. We arrive at the home, a vacant short sale, around 7:15. It's dark. And wouldn't you know it....the electricity to the home has been cut. Perfect. Luckily, all three of us have our handy dandy cell phones to give off a little bit of light. So we maneuver around the home, viewing it with the brightness of three little LED lights.
What ticked me off is the fact that several months ago I had a very similar situation. I told myself .... "Self, you should pack that extra large flashlight when you get home and keep it in the trunk because you KNOW this situation will present itself again." Did I pack it that day? No. And while it wasn't a life or death situation without the flashlight, it is a simple lesson that every Boy Scout (or so I've heard) and Girl Scout (??maybe...I'm guessing on this) learns... Be Prepared!
Here are a list of handy things I keep in my car for showings:
-Measuring tape - always handy! ALWAYS!
-miniature level/highlighter/LED mini-light on a key chain all-in-one (it was a freebie convention handout - and unfortunately the "light" was just as good as the one on my phone)
-napkins - for those dang messy kids...and their messy Starbucks drinking parents.
-cell phone charger - duh.
-compact little "car sickness" bag (my hubby swiped one from the ambulance he works on - and if you know me, then you know that I have a severe phobia of vomit. And car sickness. And the two combined. And combine that with the fact that my job often times requires me to drive around clients and their kids in my car for several hours, then do the math and statistics are high that one of these days I'm bound to get a spewer. And in such case I will *drum roll* BE PREPARED (*stands proudly with fists on my waist much like Wonder Woman*)! In the words of Mike Myers in Wayne's World... "If you're gonna spew...spew into this!"
-a granola bar - low blood sugar = cranky, ill, super grumpy Realtor who bites the heads off of innocent clients.
-children's books - these my 10 and 4 year old kids keep in stock for me
-gum/mints - nothing worse than being trapped in a car with nasty breath man/woman - in which case could bring about the use of the vomit bag sooner rather than later! A scenario I'd like to avoid!
Buyers...what items do you WISH your agent had handy in their car?
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