So you have seen the dime a dozen"short sales" blasted across the MLS, just about every other home my clients and I peer into are 'Foreclosure' or 'Short Sale'. What about the Real Estate agents out there that are loading up on these 'short sale' bail the seller out Listings; that you know you already have too many of them to begin with?
Let me tell you WHY I am posting this...
Recently, I previewed a property for a client, and as I was finished videoing this (trashed) pre-foreclosure home, I heard a little Squeak Squeak "I'm over here" kind of a noise"!
So I peered around for a moment to see this little guy, in horrible living conditions. No food, barely ANY water (what was left was disgusting), and a cage covered in feces.
So I immediately ran to get my phone and called the listing agent, and said "this home has apparently been vacated, but they have left this poor little ferret here, in awful conditions". She was like "oh yeah they mentioned a little animal of some sort still there". I said "Yes, that would be this little ferret still here". She said "oh yeah they were supposed to get him last weekend".
It was Wednesday, and we had a long (good) conversation, and I told her "IF they do not want this little guy, let me know, I will come back to get him, and will find a home for him". She assured me she would check on this little guy.
So on Friday, I asked a friend that lived much closer than I to go by and see if he was still there, and HE WAS!
After a week, this poor animal was STILL there and NO ONE would do anything!
We called
- the listing agent back again
- the news / TV Stations
- Animal Control
- Animal Services
- About 12 other internal departments
- Emergency Veterinarian Clinics that take wounded animals and yes...
- even my broker (didn't want to steal the animal)
Explained the situation, no luck anywhere... Finally I went back late that next night and said to myself, "I have photos, we have called everywhere, I am just going to go and get him'. So I did, only to find that FINALLY a week later, they came back to get this little guy!
Sellers or Real Estate Agents for sellersin pre-foreclosure or abandoned homes....
PLEASE TAKE YOUR ANIMALS WITH YOU!!!! Once you make the decision to be a pet owner, treat that pet like your adopted child, DON'T LEAVE THEM BEHIND!!!!
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Katrina,
AMEN to your post. I work in Michigan and work mostly pre-foreclosure/short sales. I am appalled by how many people view their pets as "disposable". We recently had a home in our community where the owner left the house and abandoned two dogs (chained in the back yard) and 3 cats. Thanks to concerned neighbors, all of the pets were rescued and are in the process of being placed in new homes.
We can never say it enough. When you adopt a pet you are making a life time committment to that pet !