You've found your dream house and the next few days 'til your appointment you are pumped up with anticipation. Showing day comes-yahoo! You jump into your car and drive to meet your real estate destiny.
Traffic cooperates and everything is zipping right along until you pull up to the curb.
Uh-oh, what is this? The house looks much smaller, the driveway is narrow with big cracks running through the now gray asphalt, the greenish-brown lawn's decorative border is weaved with the yellow heads of dandellions and other hearty weeds.
What the____? The pictures didn't look like that online. How did this happen? Let's rewind.
Hope Floats
It starts innocently enough. Your scrimping and saving has enabled you to afford to buy a house. You go online to view properties and than...badda bing badda boo...your home buying quest has become a part time job.
Your online R&D unearths so many websites, so many photos, dizzying virtual tours and house descriptions on steroids.
You've remained anonymous for three months by filling out forms with bogus names and phone numbers to be able to get to the good stuff- those covered listings for sale. You feel you've got a good handle for the prices of houses where your looking and your just waiting for the right buy.
Your waiting for the golden ticket in the sea of gold foiled offerings.
And then one day you open your email and find the contents beneath the wrapper to be delicious. You call to schedule an appointment to see the house...this could be the one.
You make an appointment with the real estate agent and mark the date in your Blackberry.
Time for a Remix
"Cut!!!", Rebecca, blogger, marketing consultant, and director interrupts the narrator. " O.k. , let's rewind, back up...and edit this film. Beginning from the scene where your filling out forms online. We can bring one of the main characters into this scene right now, a real estate agent. Let's put the real estate agent at the office on the phone with the home buyer.", she says emphatically.
"O.k. good...now let's add some more lighting and turn off the dimmer switch....o.k. good, now let's reshoot this scene...places....and...Action.", Rebecca commands.
Narrator: "You've done this now for the past month, looked at listings online. You've engaged in the assistance of a local 
real estate agent, who has added you to her real estate listing feed which is tied directly to the Multiple Listing Service. You are now receiving notification of new listings every day in your email that come unto the market. "
"You've got a good handle on the price ranges because of the market condition reports delivered to your email inbox each month by your real estate agent. A few listings that have been emailed have recently caught your eye. You also found a listing on a few websites that you'd like to check out. You send them over to your agent explaining what you like about these real estate listings."
"Your local real estate agent goes to the houses and previews the listings for you. One of the listings is much smaller than the photos. The dimensions were missing on the description- scratch that. The second listing needs major updates to appeal to your tastebuds...updates you don't have the money for.
The third listing is...well... the agent said the neglect is so prevalent you'd better bring some tissues 'cause you might shed a tear or two."
Home buyer: "O.k. Well I guess we'll keep looking"."
Narrator: "Thing is, you're looking for a decent house with a moderate price tag. Prices are not cheap in your part of town and even though they've come down you don't want to stretch yourself thin. Your almost ready to quit this house hunting search and wait, and then your real estate agent calls. There's a new listing that's about to come on the market and you have the opportunity to look at it before it does. It's in your price range, great features, and your real estate agent has already previewed it.
This could be your foil wrapped golden ticket.
Behind Door Number 4
The next few days 'til your appointment you are pumped up with 
anticipation. Showing day comes-yahoo! You jump into your car and drive to meet your real estate destiny. Traffic cooperates and everything is zipping right along. You pull up to the curb, step out of the car, and walk up the wide, black-topped driveway, past the short cropped green grass, bordered by bright yellow daylilies, irises and asters. You open the door where your agent greets you as you tour the digs that will be your new home."
Director/Real Estate Blogger: "Cut!- That's a wrap. Everyone take a break and we'll meet back at 5:15 p.m for the closing scene of "How to kick real estate ass-mptions to the curb. Great job everybody", she exclaims.
