THOSE AWKWARD MOMENTS beware selling the Sheriff's house

Funny when I saw this request to come up with an awkward moment I realized that I

had no shortage of stories.  The life of a real estate agent sure comes up with

some doozies doesn't it?  My next conundrum was figuring out which weird and

awkward event might be unique.  We all have the showings or events that we put our

foot in it,  where someone’s naked, a gun is pulled, its flooded, on fire, locked

up, something breaks or is just plain gross.

So to keep away from the "been there done that", hopefully not too many of you have

had a showing quite like this  one.

I had  been showing houses to all day in rural areas to a pastor and his wife. We

were just about to give up for the day when they decided to see just one more.  So

I called the agent and set it up.  The owner was going to duck out and leave the

door unlocked.  We get to the house and the woman was heading out the driveway

quickly and we waved.  When we got up to the house I realized the doors were

locked but I knew that there was a lock box  in the  solarium at the front of the

house so we went in to grab the key.  The next thing I know we have a big German

Shepard charging us and I slammed the door closed with the clients and me inside.

Glad to be in and not out, I called the agent and she said no problem, stay inside

and I will call the owner to open the door and collect the guard dog.  So through

the glass this guy pulls up in the garage, collects the dog outside and another

inside and quickly left.  We laughed about it and went to go inside only to find

that all the doors were still locked.  So I call the agent who had to call me back

to tell me she couldn't reach the owner this time, but she would give me to code

to the garage door and we could go in that way.  So I punch in the code the garage

door opens and we go in and proceed into the beautiful gourmet kitchen.  All of a

sudden an alarm starts blaring.  This is a really safe area, who on earth has burgalar alarms?

So I once again call the agent who can't quite hear what I am saying, but can guess what my showing from Hell has produced now. 

While on the phone with her the sheriff cars show up.  (I didn't know we had 6

officers in this rural area)  Guns drawn, yelling orders, not quite the memorable

impression that we wanted the buyers to have.  It turned out that I had just set

off the burglar alarm on the house of one of our local Sherif’s homes and the

address prompted them or react very quickly. We got it sorted out, finished the

showing with some very shook up clients and left. 

To make matters worse, I am heading back to the office glad to put the day behind

me and I get a call.  Yes this is Deputy whatever his name was and I need to speak

with Rain Silverhawk.  He proceeded to tell me that he was following up on a call

involving the address.  In an authorities voice that something was missing.  I was

trying to assure him that the clients were always with me, he is a pastor, we had

officers at the showing. etc.  When he finally got a word in edge wise he said the

thing that is missing is some feedback from you, how did they like my house......

I don't drink often but I think I did have a glass of wine that night after this

very awkward moment. smile