Wow, this weekend was something. Not all days are stellar, 100% glorious shining examples of life... some days you just take it on the chin and say ok.. tomorrow will be better.

I lost a listing, a mutual agreement between me and the sellers, they want a faster sale at a higher price than the market demands so we agreed they could be better off with another realtor.. I don't have a magic wand to change things here so .. pfffft .. and its done, cancelled listing and back on the market with another realtor.

Not a bad thing really, saves me money every month on expenses and I really like the folks so I hope the new realtor does have a magic wand or can pull that bunny (buyer) out of a hat.

After I unloaded the prior listing house of all my staging artifacts, 4 trips with boxes up and down stairs, in and out of the heat of 100 degrees, I rushed to my office to get balloons for an open house I was scheduled to do across town.  Thinking if I'm lucky and the traffic isn't too bad I can be almost on time.

Wow, the balloon gods were smiling on me, the new Marketing Group in our office had left a whole big bunch of balloons ready to go with a "please take me sign"  oh yeah!!  thank you CHAD PEEVY GROUP! Wtth this pleasant turn of events I knew I had time to stop at the supermarket and grab some water and Ice for prospective clients and viewers to the Open House... remember its 100 degrees outside.

Back to the car with balloons in hand, I am again smiled on, traffic is light and I made it in great time, first sign up.. yippeee, I'm truly blessed today, another KW agent has a directional at the main intersection pointing just my way!!  I won't have to do that one... on to the next street, ok.. its short and I only had to place 4 signs today.

Open the house, its sparkling, but warm, turn down the AC, put the ice in the kitchen sink and the small bottles of water around in the ice to cool, (this is a great trick because the ice melts right down the drain) all the lights on, set up my chair. Catch my breath. 

First prospect enters an hour later, gees its been slow today.... this lady has a huge ball of fur in her arms, that I see is one big fat siamese cat.  I don't think I've ever had an  Open house visitor bring her cat I'm thinking, wow, well ok.   You know how your brain thinks in nanoseconds, fortunately that time my mouth didn't catchup with it... I said Hello.. she said.. who are you and what are you doing here?

HUH?  I have open house signs all over the front yard, the corner, the streets leading in to this house... but I said, I'm Gail with Keller Williams... she said... who sent you , I didn't know we were having an open house today, how did this happen.. the lady was quite flustered.  Then she says, Im the owner, ok.. that makes a bit more sense now. After a bit of discussion the owner of this home says, I need to put the cat in the laundry room for today.  I agreed, not knowing the cat had the lungs of a 2year old child throwing a tantrum.

Minutes later Mrs Seller comes back  into the house and tells me, oh we need to use the garage to do a brake job on our car here today.  HUH? so now the cat is caterwauling and the garage will be a mechanic stop? I said, well.. thanks but I think I should come back another day. After a few moments it was settled that the open house wouldnt be open, so what about tomorrow? Well, Mrs Seller said, our home we live in is on the market too and it will be held open tomorrow so we thought we would spend the day here. OK... not tomorrow either.  Thank you for letting me know Mrs Seller.

I went home and emailed the listing agent and explained no open house today and please cancel the one for tomorrow, and henceforth notify this particular seller if planning future open houses on their vacant homes.

BONUS TIME, I got a day off!!!!  Unexpected but totally enjoyed, I met with my sister, we had a leisurely brunch, shopped, and goofed off all day.. what a treat!  So even when things are rushed and hurried and the course of the day changes in midday..  roll with it.. something good could happen to you.