I was told last winter by a number of fellow Realtors to not become too attached to my client because of his mis-fortunes. I was feeling badly for him and did extra things at my expense to try and get his property noticed and hopefully sold.
He was trying to selling an unoccupied commercial property that he had purchased during the height of the real estate market in the early part of this decade. The business hadn't made it, the economy was going down the toilet and then it was compounded, all his pipes froze and had to be replaced. He kept lowering the price chasing the market down, the bank was of course at his throat, and the really cruel occurrence was that a roof collapsed because of the weight of the snow. He called me when this happened and I went over and brought him something to eat and helped shovel where I could.
I'm not telling you this because I consider myself a goody-two-shoes, but because this was a genuinely nice guy who was, like so many in the real estate crash, having a load of bad luck.
The end result is he found private financing, got the insurance company to replace what was lost, and the building is now being rented, and I'm out of the loop as the property is now off the market. The good will and human compassion I showed him is what I'm left with, and I feel ok about that.
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