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Just like Show Business, Real Estate Business is never BLAND and BORING because it could be intertwined with UNPREDICTABILITY. Think about it. But what other business opportunities could give you the myriads of adventures, events and discoveries other than this business?
Setting aside the experiences wherein scaffolding tears and sorrows were enveloped, in one sitting, I could enumerate my share of a few events which had either shaken me up or the clients. Or somebody else.
Yesterday, during a home inspection, while I was trying to unlock the garage door, the home inspector told me calmly that someone broke into the house. The basement door was broken and all the copper pipes were stolen.
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The property is not a bank-owned home. It has an alarm system installed and the thieves did not seem to touch any of the personal belongings in the main floor.
That was my first experience as a witness to fresh case of vandalism. The breaking in seemed fairly recent as the water from the pipe connected to the furnace was still dripping. Well, I am not Nancy Drew to collect facts about the break in. But the event made our home inspection unfinished as the heating system could not be tested.
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Last year, in a very remote location on my way to a showing appointment, my car’s tires got buried in the snow because I maneuvered the wheels the wrong way. My ever-so reliable GPS kept on telling me to make the turns until I realized that I was back where I was before.
I got out of the car and tried to clear the snow blocking the wheels with my two hands. Then a good man who was passing by stopped. He told me to get inside the car and hit the gas while he pushed it forward. Wheeew. I was relieved when my car started moving --onto the right direction.
This one that I am about to tell you was a sort of comedy and tragedy combined. My clients were desperate to find their vacation home. We searched high and low until we found this lovely lakefront property close in the northeastern part of the State.
The sellers did not leave while we were previewing which was not a problem to my clients. The owner even offered to give us a tour of the lake in his pontoon. So my clients and the kids happily obliged. It was too late to find out that the seller was under the influence of alcohol.
When the tour ended, the seller tried to grab the rope tied into the pole to anchor the boat. But he lost his balance and off he went down into the water. My male client tried to grab his hand to help him out but the seller refused.
It was an awkward situation that we just wanted to be out of there right away because when the seller surfaced with his soaked body, hair and clothes, we could not tell from his red face if he was fuming mad, embarrassed or just plain drunk. His wife ran towards him and asked what happened.
We made our gentle exit by thanking the couple for the reception. It was sad that the seller had to go through that trouble but my clients and I could not help ourselves from bursting into laughter as soon as we had the chance to reconvene.
So, if you are planning to get out of real estate, think it over. We are no actors but we get to play different roles and see varying scenes. Sometimes we don’t get paid in the end. But there are things, people and events still worth remembering-- and they could be priceless.
