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Signless in Seattle - Signs, signs everywhere there's signs!!! But not mine :(

The ever-changing sign ordnance game. I recently took a listing for a condominium in the Issaquah Area. In the process of getting everything ready for sale I of course put up directional signs to help the public know that a unit is for sale.

The next day I returned and found my signs removed. I was holding an open house that weekend and I really wanted to have a great showing for my seller, as this is the only open I do. But when I returned on Sunday I found my sign no only knocked down I found it on the freeway to litter the freeway.(cool thing is I think you can see my name, not sure if thats a good or bad thing.) But I cannot get to my sign.

How many of you have returned the next day and found your signs missing or knocked down? This kinda bugged me because I had checked the sign ordnance site and read that I am allowed to post up to 3 signs. I had only posted 2 and in my opinion they were in very good taste :). King County is currently running a great "neighborly" program in which "trained" volunteers remove offending signs.......anonymously!!!

What bothered me the most....is the lack of courtesy. You see all my signs have my number on it. If someone had a problem with my sign, you would think that they would give me a call and ask me to remove my signs, after all they cost $$.

-Sign-less in Seattle

Posted by Dan Edwards, REALTOR® Your NW Home reSource.™ on 04/29/2008 11:02 AM

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2 Comments on Signless in Seattle - Signs, signs everywhere there's signs!!! But not mine :(

This is a problem in some areas and non-existent in others. I managed offices in an area where people would throw signs away or steal them and worked other areas where people didn't care. A lot of it is misdirected anger. People see the signs as more commercialization or have been unhappy with the housing market.

Good luck with the sale of the condo. A good friend just came back from a week in Seattle and had a great time.

04/29/2008 12:15 PM

by Peter Wolf (Coldwell Banker)

I had a sign knocked down & gone, so I thought, by a snowplow. I found the frame about 200' up the street. I received a phone call some six months later, it seems someone who knew me, saw the sign by the street and picked it up. He told me to call him to pick it up. His cell phone number is disconnected. I have no idea what his last name is, so, oops! Sign panel is history. I believe it is just an occupational hazard. I have had my posts taken, probably for mailbox posts:) I have custom made white posts.

It's a Good Life!

Fran

04/30/2008 01:58 PM

by Frances C. Rokicki, Broker~Mentor (Fran Rokicki Realty, LLC)

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