SERENDIPITY - A REFERRAL AND A VOICE FROM MY PAST

Friends and neighbors, whether you're in Tennessee or Maryland or New York or wherever, please give me a chance to help your friends find a good agent.   It might lead to a serendipity like this one.    (Silver Spring agents, as soon as Dan tells Eva who he's found to help her find a good agent, I'll be needing one of you to help.)

Most of the serendipities I’ve blogged about are things that happened over the many years I’ve been in real estate.  This one happened half an hour ago.    A voice tonight said “This is a voice from your past – Dan Webber.”     

I told him I was sitting in sight of the beautiful cabinet with diamond panes that he had bought for me at an auction – I don’t remember how many years ago.   He knew I had a lot of books and thought this piece he saw at an auction might be good for them.   I trusted his taste and judgment and told him to go for it.   That was many years ago and I treasure it still.

The call tonight was because he had a friend who wanted to talk to someone about selling her house.    When I was an agent in Maryland, I’d helped Dan and Chrissie with a couple of transactions and although I am now in Tennessee, he thought maybe I could help her somehow.   “Of course,” I told him.     I frequently help people find good agents in other parts of the country, and I still have a lot of good friend agents in Maryland.   

He named the street that his friend Eva lived on.   I said I knew that street – I’d sold at least one house on that street and had done a lot of work in that neighborhood.   

He told me a little more about Eva.   She was thinking about selling the house and moving to be closer to her son, now that her husband had died.   Dan's naming him, putting those two names together, triggered a memory immediately.   I had known that couple many years ago and remembered several times I’d been at their home.    

When I told Dan this was another serendipity to add to my collection, he mentioned another one I’d forgotten.   When he had brought the cabinet to my house after he’d got it at the auction, he’d told me that when he was a child, his parents used to drive past that very house in Hillandale on Parkman Road in the Spring to admire the azaleas.   

That brought to mind several other serendipities associated with that house.   For more, see my blog at www.TNTriCitiesHomes.com – a few of my serendipities are there in short form.   There are a few others, shorter versions, at www.TNTriCitiesHomes.com/serendipities, which come to my web site through Active Rain, the real estate blogging group which is part of how I stay in touch with great agents across the country, learn a lot, and publicize listings.