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Strange Moments in Real Estate

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Real Estate Agent with Long and Foster Real Estate VA License # 0225089470

Strange Moments in Real Estate

If there is one thing the real estate agents in my market who know me on a personal level have heard me say time and again, it's that real estate agents should have their own open mic night at their local comedy club.  We get together over a cocktail and you wouldn't believe the stories.  (Actually, the members of Active Rain would.  I seem to recall hosting a contest with Erica Ramus forever and a year about our most embarrassing moments in real estate.)

Once you open up with a story or two about your experiences as a real estate agent in a non-real estate agent crowd, you can easily become the life of any party.  I think it would take a homicide detective to beat some of the stories we have.  My dream is to have drinks with Homicide Hunter Joe Kenda one day so I can be wowed for a change.  It could happen.  We have a mutual friend.  And that friend happens to owe me for the autographed picture of G. Gordon Liddy I got him when I was selling Gordon's radio show for Westwood One Radio Networks.  Guess real estate stories aren't all I've got.  Gordon did put an end to a sexual harrassment situation for me when I was but a young college grad.  Ahhh memories.

Anyway, I was recounting one of the stories I had nearly forgotten to a fellow agent the other day.  Have you ever had a buyer want to return a house?  I have.  Talk about an uncomfortable conversation.

What is a truly strange moment from your real estate career?

 

 

 

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Debb Janes
Nature As Neighbors - Camas, WA
Put My Love of Nature At Work for You

Nicely written and makes us want to hear the "rest of the story." Have a great afternoon/evening.  D

Nov 21, 2020 02:59 PM
Chris Ann Cleland

Feel free to click the link for the whole story.

Nov 21, 2020 03:08 PM
Debb Janes

I did!

Nov 22, 2020 09:18 AM
Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, CRS
Fathom Realty Washington LLC - Tacoma, WA
South Puget Sound Washington Agent/Broker!

I'm looking forward to getting back to normal stories about real estate or non Covid stories about real estate. I followed your link back to your post and I just shook my head. 

Happy Saturday evening Chris Ann Cleland 

Nov 21, 2020 03:11 PM
Chris Ann Cleland

I don't even have any good COVID stories relating to real estate.

Nov 21, 2020 03:16 PM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Chris Ann,

I agree with Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, CRS .  I read the story, glad you helped him sort it out.  A

Nov 21, 2020 03:16 PM
Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, CRS

I always keep my receipts for that purpose 

Nov 21, 2020 03:38 PM
Chris Ann Cleland

It's rough when someone thinks there is a receipt with which you can return a home.

Nov 21, 2020 03:20 PM
Anna "Banana" Kruchten
HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ
602-380-4886

Hi Chris Ann Cleland you're right we agents have hilarious stories.  When the happy hour girls get together it's non-stop fun! 

 

Your clients scared himself!  Thank goodness you were able to talk him off the ledge and come to his senses.

Nov 21, 2020 04:03 PM
Chris Ann Cleland

It was one for the books.  And at the time, I was a newer agent.   Listening goes a long way to helping.

Nov 21, 2020 07:46 PM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI
HomeSmart Real Estate - Scottsdale, AZ
Arizona Homes and Land Group/ Buy or Sell

Certainly a lot to laugh about or run from Chris Ann Cleland.  Ran into sleeping Diamond Back Rattler snakes this year sleeping under the porch. Yikes! Jeff

Nov 21, 2020 09:01 PM
Chris Ann Cleland

Oh that would be terrifying.

Nov 22, 2020 08:34 AM
Brian England
Ambrose Realty Management LLC - Gilbert, AZ
MBA, GRI, REALTOR® Real Estate in East Valley AZ

I would much rather listen to the stories from agents than homicide detectives, haha.

Nov 22, 2020 04:22 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

We have some interesting tales.  DEA Agents are fun to talk to with as well. 

Nov 22, 2020 08:34 AM
Will Hamm
Hamm Homes - Aurora, CO
"Where There's a Will, There's a Way!"

Hello Chris Ann,  bet a TV show could be may out of this with many agents having lots of stories like the time we did not do a walk through and we should of, sellers did not want to give up their home so they put dirty diapers in every room.

Nov 22, 2020 07:23 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

That's so petty and gross.  Like dirty diapers are going to stop a buyer from buying?  

Nov 22, 2020 08:35 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

All of us have experienced unexpected moments in real estate. You never know what will happen next. I have viewed hundreds of foreclosures where the conditions have been far beyond the imagination of the typical home buyer.

Take care, be safe and have an outstanding week.

Nov 22, 2020 09:13 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

I remember seeing one so bad it looked the owners had taken a sledge hammer to the walls.  

Nov 22, 2020 09:39 AM
Hannah Williams
HomeStarr Realty - Philadelphia, PA
Expertise NE Philadelphia & Bucks 215-820-3376

Chris Ann Cleland  I have had a buyer complain until I said let's put your house up for sale and you can buy something else - This was not the house for you .Believe it or not it stopped the calls 

Nov 22, 2020 11:50 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

I am not surprised.

Nov 22, 2020 02:09 PM
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