Yesterday I showed homes for a few hours in Clintonville to a charming couple looking for their first home.  Luckily, the weather wasn't too bad and it was not snowing or raining, or sleeting and it really wasn't that cold.  Trudging through the snow to get to homes was a nightmare though.  Perhaps the biggest reason it bothers me so much is just because it snows so rarely.  In Clintonville, it appears as though the snowplows do actually come down the street occasionally, in Central Clintonville anyway, and of course it piles up in front of the drive which is unshoveled in almost all vacant homes, making it impossible to get in off the street.  So if I'm parking in the street, my clients are stepping out of the car into snow drifts if I don't let them off before parking.  While parking, I have to make sure that I'm off to the side enough that another car can get through the narrow Clintonville street so I'm afraid of getting stuck.  

Of Course, we didn't get stuck, no one lost a shoe or really complained too much beside the Realtor voice in my head but it's the principal involved.  I know if you're showing a bank owned property that chances are great it will be untouched since the listing started but if the seller just moved across town recently and they have every desire to sell their home, arrange for the kid down the street to shovel the walk for crying out loud.