Rodney Dangerfield and "AS IS": two words that get NO RESPECT!

Rodney Dangerfield and "AS IS":  two words that get NO RESPECT!

Who could ever forget  Rodney Dangerfield doing his stand up routine always lamenting about never getting any respect? 

It is obvious that he was never a listing agent who added those always followed and adhered to comments on the MLS listing sheet to fellow agents, "house sold AS IS". 

Otherwise, he would be right up there with nurses, doctors, and teachers as the some of the most respected individuals!

My wife Sharon has worked very hard with her   AS IS listing and has tirelessly moved forward with the inspection process that has resulted in the seller putting on a new roof and making other repairs of this AS IS estate sale.

The house was listed at the AS IS price point, but some buyers have no choice and have to request repairs with the type of financing they carry while other buyers want a bargain no matter what!

We reached the point in this AS IS sale where the seller just wasn't able to deal with two additional requests by the buyer:

1.  Remove the turquoise colored carpet in the front room that may have been responsible for an unknown odor upon entering the front room of the house.

2.  Remove an apparantly expired furry creature lodged in the flue pipe of the Franklin Stove in the basement.

We want the transaction to move forward so we told our seller that we would handle the situation(translation: I would remove the dead critter that had been in the flue pipe since last winter!)

Interestlingly enough there did not appear to be any odor coming from the Franklin stove where the alleged furry critter was supposed to be.

NOT A PROBLEM!   Lets just keep moving the transaction forward and I will have the rare opportunity to pull a dead squirrel who met his untimely demise last winter in a Franklin Stove flue pipe!    The big question is WHAT DOES ONE USE TO EXTRICATE A WEDGED IN RODENT FROM A WOOD BURNING STOVE?

Let's do the easy thing first and remove the carpet!

The carpet did not seemed soiled in my opinion, and the source of an entry odor but it was worth a try to keep this contract moving to the closing table. 

The TURQUOISE color was reason enough for me to remove the carpet!

Once we freed the carpet from the tack strips it was easy to cut into four to five foot long sections with a carpet knife being careful NOT to get near the beautiful wood flooring that was revealing itself.

I don't think that removing the carpet, or the TWO dead squirrels from the Franklin Stove in the basement eliminated the source of the odor the buyer was concerned about. 

However, there is now a BEAUTIFUL and gleaming wood floor in the entry room instead of ruffled and ugly turquoise carpet!

We will do what it takes to get this closed for our seller!  At least we know two things that aren't responsible for the odor the buyer is concerned about.

You have to stay positive and focus on the issues at hand and keep moving forward!  Most buyers don't seem to understand the meaning of AS IS!  So be it; let's do what it takes!

It was a week ago today that I learned through FACEBOOK that two terrible tragedies happened at the two high schools I taught and coached at for over 30 years in the Lafayette area.

My principal buried his wife on his wedding anniversary this week, and four teens who were about to enter high school were involved in a head on collision with an SUV.  Three of the girls were seriously injured and the fourth girl did not survive.  HOW SAD, and what a terrible way to start a school year at our two county high schools! 

Sometimes we lose our perspective with our work.   I sure wish things were AS IS with those families as they were two weeks ago and that they did not have to go through this terrible week that just passed! 

Dear God, give those families the strength to carry on, and may we never miss the larger picture of what is going on around us!