It may have been my fault. I thought that I made the appointment for 9:30 Sunday morning. My clients and I got there about 9:30. Rang the doorbell. The homeowner answered with a look of surprise. “I thought we had changed the appointment to after 11. This is really early for us.” I apologized and asked if it was alright if I showed the house in spite of the mixup. Reluctantly, she agreed. As were coming in, her husband was coming down the stairs. He stopped me. Look right at me and began to berate me for coming too early. “I don’t have to sell the house if I don’t want to. I should kick you the f@&k out. I don’t need this crap from you Realtors.”
This stopped me cold. It made me look very unprofessional in front of my clients. It embarrassed me. And then it made me angry. We, the Realtors he was unloading on are the ones keeping this market moving despite the horrendous state of things. We go to work everyday and try to make sense of this market to our buyers and sellers. We hold their hands with genuine compassion as we try to accomplish what right now seems the impossible, getting these properties shown and sold.
That homeowner should have thanked me for showing his house despite the mixup, and been nicer to my clients, the potential buyers of his ‘chalet’, instead of chasing us away with his rude and inexcusable behavior.
