Crazy Realtors

The house has been up now for a couple of weeks and we've been showing it like mad. Last weekend we had a lot of showings.

Saturday morning we had someone over to clean the house to prepare for an open house on Sunday. At 9:30 I got a phone call from the realtor. The nice woman asked me if anyone had contacted me about a showing at 10:15. I said no. I told her we had someone there cleaning the house and as much as I wanted to say yes, we couldn't possibly be out of the house in 45 minutes. However, if she wanted to come see the house at noon that would be fine.

The nice lady from the realtor hung up. I was expecting a call back about a showing.

Instead, at 10:15 we get a knock at the door. It's the Crazy Realtor (whom I will call CR --she's not the same person who called me). CR is there with a couple in tow. Could they please see the outside of the house? CR said the couple was trying to decide between our house and one other, and they wanted to decide today. My mother told her we were in the process of cleaning the place, and she could look at the outside all she liked. If she wanted to come back at 11, she could see the inside. CR agreed.

We scrambled and managed to get the dog tranquilized, got the house clean, and sent my Grandmother off to her hair appointment.

When we returned at about noon there was no indication that CR had been there. Realtors are supposed to leave cards when they show the place. We don't know if CR showed up or not.

So, my mother calls our Realtor, Darcy. Darcy is great. We're very happy with her.

Darcy said that CR is known for muscling her way in to showings --for saying anything she has to in order to get her folks in to see houses, including that there might be an offer on the table shortly. Not only that, but CR had called Darcy Friday night to set up the showing and Darcy told her no, and that she could come back on Sunday between 2 and 4.

So CR called the office directly. When we said no then, she just showed up and told us a story about a possible offer.

Right. We won't be holding our breath for that particular offer.

Sunday we had 2 showings and an open house. The first people were late getting to the house --they showed up an hour and a half late to look at the house. We had already left and come back, and I was out scavenging for lunch for everyone. But it's all good. They looked at the house with Frangelica, my grandmother and our two dogs on site. They stayed for all of 3 minutes. One person didn't get out of their car.

We won't be holding our breath waiting on that offer either.

The other showing and the open house went very well. The open house was supposed to go from 2 to 4, but everyone didn't clear out until 4:30.

Hopefully we'll hear something soon.

Everyone cross your fingers and hope for a good offer.

And while you're at it, hope for less Crazy Realtors.