You've Got to Have a Special Sense of Entitlement To...
Not too long ago, I met a buyer at my listing and was stunned at their rudeness. (Not my buyer, by the way.) Parking was tight, but visitor spaces in the townhouse development were open. They were a short walk away, but apparently too far for this buyer to be inconvenienced. He parked in the neighbor's driveway! That was almost a month ago.
Today, while showing a garage townhouse to my own buyer clients, I watched a real estate agent with personalized license plates, park in the next door neighbor's driveway to show the home. Meanwhile, visitor parking was about fifty feet away. WHY? Who does that?
My buyers parked in the nearby visitor spaces. I parked in a visitor space one two blocks down the road because it was what was available when I arrived. It was a drizzly, cloudy day. Still, no excuse to be so entitled to take up a parking space in someone else's driveway. Have an umbrella, or if you are like me and hate carrying one, get a hooded rain coat.
If you can not emphathize with what a person coming home from work would feel seeing a strange car parked in their driveway, and having to wait for the owner of the car to come of the neighbor's house for sale to get it out, you aren't fit to deal with showings. Your convenience as a real estate agent is not a consideration. You should be professional, at all times.
I hate to lose faith in my colleagues in this industry, but this behavior is unacceptable. There's no crazy market or weather excuse for being inconsiderate and entitled. Unfortunately, I see more and more bad behavior each time I go out to show a property. Did this particular agent think no one was noticing her shenanigans? Did that make it okay? Matters not at all to me. It's what you do when you think no one is watching that matters.
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