Oh well, it's only MY time!

Oh, this is SO frustrating, Alan! I am so sorry you had to deal with that. At least when you got home, you had more hours in the day ahead of you than had it been 1.5 hours later, right?!! 

At one time in my career, I got so frustrated with people saying that there was 1 too few beds or baths, I started writing it in my MLS write-up, FIRST SENTENCE! "4-BED, 3-BATH RANCH in popular____[whatever the neighborhood]..." 

Oh my, you have hit one of my biggest nerves on this topic! Agents, PULEEZE read through the listing details and have these conversations with your clients BEFORE they look. We see this a lot when folks have a lakeview but wanted lake front. Well, if it was lakefront, the price would be much higher! SIGH.

This is so frustrating Alan.  I think buyer’s think maybe if they look in person, there will be a place for that extra bedroom, who knows?  Maybe they thought you hid it, but more than likely, it was just someone didn’t do their job and make sure it was the right fit for the client.  Needless to say, you did a great job for your client, rushing over ahead of time.  Just keep moving forward and those buyers will probably have a hard time finding something if they continue making that mistake.  

I had a showing recently, the buyers wanted to meet at 9:30 at night - my listing.  I agreed.  Everything went well, they were going to put in an offer, but then when we were leaving, they said, they would probably just tear down the shed on the lot next door.  I had to let them know they would not be tearing it down since it was someone else’s property.  That was the deal killer.  I drove over to meet them at 9:30 at night only to find out they had walked the outside of the property earlier, even gone into the garage, and they thought the property next door went with it.  People don’t realize the things real REALTORS go through!  

Alan, this is one of those moments where the frustration is completely understandable because the problem was knowable before anyone left the house. Time is one of the few resources we never get back, and better buyer qualification is really about respecting everyone’s time before the showing ever happens. Hope the next one reads the listing first!

Good morning! That must have been very frustrating. Geez.

I had the reverse happen once. I was the buyer's agent, and we were going to see a property with two structures - a house and a garage with a 1 bedroom apartment. All together there were supposed to be four bedrooms. There were two in the house and the 1 bedroom was a studio. I called the listing agent from the property and asked, "where is the 4th bedroom?" and he said, oh, if you add up the bedrooms in the second structure and the house, you get four. I said, huh? No, you get 2 actual bedrooms plus a studio. Oh, gee, I'll fix that. 

It wasn't ever fixed. My clients were not interested. I wasted my time scheduled, driving, showing, etc. 

Argh.

Too many people are weird like that and have no problem with wasting other people's time.  Those are the clients that I couldn't care less about working with, haha.

Alan- either they knew and didn’t care that they wasted your time or thought they might be able to make 2 bedrooms work. In any case, as we say in the South “ Bless there little hearts!” as we grit our teeth

Alan, I feel for you, and I have been in similar situations, not nice. I presume the Seller client wanted you to attend the Buyer showings and that's why you had to go. Otherwise, isn't this the Buyer's agent problem, if the Buyers don't read the description?

Good morning Alan,

That is SO frustrating when someone steals time like that away from us because time is one of the few resources we never get back. Two bedrooms don't work for the vast majority of buyers so I would have thought they would have known.

as Thomas Payne once stated, "these are the ties that try men's souls"

We have all experienced this.  They called about it.  They knew the details..and then....

Alan May I had buyers like that.  They knew the house was not big enough, but they just wanted to see it . I decided I did not, and we parted ways. 

Oh you remind me so much of what I don't miss in real estate. It's frustrating, annoying, disrespectful and so much more. But it got a few steps in for your daily exercise :).