OK, folks. Pay attention and see how being connected helps and, thanks to Active Rain, helps a lot.....
Diane Olsen, a good Realtoy buddy of mine and a somewhat dormant Active Rainer, referred me to a great client who wanted to sell his house in MD and move into a condo in DC. Normally, this would have been a double fantastic referral but I'm not licensed in DC (which I will expand upon in another post).
Since I've been reading Active Rain posts, I knew that Pat Kennedy was a DC Realtor Extraordinarie. So I get Pat on the phone and make the arrangements for my client to get wonderful Buyer representation in DC.
My client is highly motivated to do what it takes and he had already done some huge renovations to his home and it looked like something Martha Stewart should have on her show. He agrees to price it competitively and pretty soon we get an offer. The Buyer's Agent is none other than Joyce Dawkins, another Active Rainer (although not as Active in the Rain as she could be) who was a pleasure to work with through the inspection issues and the appraisal issues all the way to settlement. I found out during the pre-settlement walk through that Joyce was (and maybe still is) a protege of the Active Rain goddess herself, Lenn Harley.
Meanwhile, Pat is busy showing our mutual client condos, finds him one and then does her negotiating thing so well that William Shatner would be in awe (you have to know the Priceline commercials to get this one).
Settlement on the listing is in the morning and settlement on the condo is in the afternoon. Money needs to flow from one to the other. Of course, the checks from Title Company A weren't exactly ready at settlement so when they were ready I raced out to Bowie to pick up the checks and then into downtown DC (more on this adventure later) to deliver them to Title Company B where the afternoon settlement was about to wrap up except that it needed money.
Pat does a nice post about this on her Blog
So, it pays to pay attention to the Rain. It works. It just does.
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