Our home is a magnet for stray cats. We live on a dead end country road just off an interstate exit (can you say PERFECT for anyone wanting to dump unwanted cats??).
We suspect there's a cat language road map that points them to our house as a great place to gain food, water and shelter. We maxed out the inside of our home long ago, and the two outside cat enclosures are full occupancy, so any other furries that show up can duck into one of the houses on our front porch or in the back yard, and we'll feed them as we see them on the front steps.
But not ever cat that shows up is a true stray. There's a black cat we've named Inkwell that shows up periodically, and based on a neighbor's Facebook page posts, we're about 99% sure that Inkwell actually belongs to the neighbor. When we put out food for Ansel (a black and white cat that is a stray and spends most of her time here), Inkwell claims a share. We don't chase Inkwell off and the cat gets a full belly.
How does this apply to real estate you may ask?
Well, I'm in the business of collecting "stray cat clients", home buyers and sellers that don't already have an agent relationship established. We put out detailed information to bring them to our virtual front door so both sides can determine if we're a good fit for each other.
We're not looking for home buyers and sellers who already have an agent. Their agent SHOULD be the one providing them all they the care and information needed.
You want to know more about a listing? Your agent has access to full information.
You need to schedule a showing? Your agent can set up a time for you to tour.
Does this mean that we don't provide food/information to other agents' clients? Nope. Our webpages are fully open, no registration required unless you want to save a search.
The information food dish stays full on the front porch at all times with the latest listings, so if someone else's cats are acting like they're strays, we wouldn't know at first. But it usually doesn't take much of a conversation before you find out which "cats" are strays and which ones are "straying" from their agent and are in need of being pointed back to their agent.
Time meow out!
Until next Tuesday, just Ask An Ambassador if you need help!
Bill & Liz aka BLiz
The cat in the picture is Lily, one of our senior kitties at about 19 years of age. She started as stray kitten found at the top of our driveway as part of 2 mom cats and 5 kittens. We adopted them all. Of the Magnificent Seven, she and her sister Paisley are all that remain (from that group, we still have a total of 14 cats that we care for in addition to the Chis and the Bees).
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