The Sellers Should Always Know Your Coming !!!

At an Inspection had occasion to have a quite funny and a very embarrassing situation. Not to me of course, but the Husband & Wife Buyers, wife's friend, Their Agent Paula, the lady seller and her boyfriend. Arriving early I sat and waited outside for the clients to arrive. After about 15-20 minutes they arrived with the Paula driving everyone in her car. Now I've known the agent, Paula, for some years, Funny, boisterous, gregarious, life of the party type person. But very knowledgeable in the Real Estate field.

Her clients seemed more reserved and quiet. I had already done one inspection for them a few weeks before and the deal had fallen through for one reason or another.

Paula goes to the door and rings the bell numerous times, 3-4-5, no answer, she then opens the storm door and opens the lockbox, knocks loudly a few times and then proceeds to unlock and open the door and announces loudly INSPECTION.

As we enter I head for the kitchen where I start setting up my laptop and start running and testing the appliances, garbage disposal, dishwasher, and so on, the clients, their friend and Paula are talking and discussing items they are wishing to change.

I am not following their conversation and I hear their voices trail off as they start to look around the home. Diningroom, livingroom, then into the hall and first bathroom, then to the bedrooms, first bedroom and then second, then the master,, it was there I suppose where the first SCREAM sounded from, then a second in rapid succession, then I hear rapid footsteps coming down the hall, by this time I am off and running to offer what help I may be able to not knowing what has happened, meeting Paula at the hall entrance, she rushes past me and to the kitchen, the clients in hot pursuit, I see nothing in the hall and follow them to the kitchen,, no one is saying a word, now this is a first with Paula.

I am about to ask again, Are you all OK?, when I hear, from behind me, a lady apologizing profusely and then leaving through the front door in haste, clothes disheveled, bare foot, hair in a mess, next through the hall a man appears, same condition, clothes thrown on, bare foot and uncombed hair, apologizing too, NOT to us,,but to the lady making her hasty retreat.

Seems that when Paula had made the appointment for the Inspection the other agent had arranged it with the owners boyfriend and the owner did NOT know we were all coming over at that time.

Seems the seller and her boyfriend were enjoying the morning, and had to be quite focused on their activities not to have heard anything.

To this day when Paula enters a house she now carries an AIR HORN with her to LOUDLY announce that WE ARE THERE.

PS.

I did hear that the seller requested separate rooms at closing so she wouldn't have to be face to face with the buyers again.