Yesterday I took a course and some of the attendees had some funny stories I thought I would share a couple of  them while I still remember them.

The first one goes like this:  The agent went to give her market analysis to the owner.  He said that the 2-Family was worth at least a million.  Her price was half that.  He insisted he would take nothing less. The background on this house was that he had a large snake in apartment, rats in the basement and in the rented apartment an ex-con.

The second story was an animal story as well.  These people has lots of pets.  One of those pets was a talking bird, I think a cockatiel.  The agent asked them to remove the taking bird for the Open House.  Well, they did not and the bird did a lot of talking which turned out to be swearing for the entire time.

I am sure we all have some funny stories.  I will share this one.  When I sold my first house back in 1979, the owner was an elderly woman who lived with her son.  The closing was sooner than she was able to move by the closing date to her new home, so my buyers were willing to let her stay there and pay rent for a few days.  Every night her son called me, in a pretty drunk state, to tell me he thought the buyers should be paying his mother rent.  Made no sense.  Imagine how I felt brand new at this career.  I have learned a lot since then but there are always new funny stories.   

Pat Baker, Licensed Real Estate Broker, Associate of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage of Needham, MA Buyer's Agent and Seller's Agent in the Needham, MA area along with Boston Suburbs of Wellesley, Weston, Dover, Newton, Natick, South Natick, Holliston, Sherborn, Dedham & Westwood.  www.patannbaker.com