We’ve received plenty of great feedback from our readers regarding our current topic…”Bizarre Listing Appointments”.

Today, here’s some more strange accounts from agents…

The first story today comes from Ben in Adelaide…

“I attended a property where a lady called me and told me that she and her husband were separating and needed the house sold. She said that he was reluctant to sell but was the one living in the home. I turned up at the agreed time to appraise the home, knocked on the door with business card in hand. Guy answers door, I instinctively reach forward to hand him my business card…notice he’s completely butt naked. I said “Is this a bad time?” He said “No please come in” in a creepy way. I turned and walked away quickly. The home never went on the market funnily enough.”

I’m not sure exactly what I would have done in that situation but I’m sure I wouldn’t have gone inside either.

Our next account today comes from Lisa on Gold Coast…

“So.. it started when i got to the property and there was a grassy hill at the front of the property. They had built the house and it still needed a fair bit of finishing off. As I looked over to the house i saw some writing burnt onto the grass. It said ‘S*** lives here’ (burnt into the grass) so.. I went in the property.. husband and wife were there together.. they were separating (yes I guessed that) and they argued the whole time i was there.. I listed it and found a buyer not long after at a great price. Negotiations were difficult as they tried to get me to negotiate everything including the kids… I told them I could only negotiate the property. We exchanged contracts and was ok.. for a little while. Then the husband refused to sign the transfer.. no matter what the solicitors did.. no matter what anyone did.. The sale fell through and the bank took over. The property eventually sold for a lot less than the offer I presented to them. Devastating.”

Unfortunately, agents often deal with separations and given a house sale can be reasonably early in the separation process, some couples do just disagree for the sake of disagreeing. It’s sad when we see this sort of thing happen and despite logic, we see so many sellers make decisions that negatively affect their financial position but no amount of reasoning is able to help.

The next account comes from Anthony in Sydney (this is a cracker)…

I am conducting my appraisal as usual, and as I enter the garage, I found a dead body. The body was laying there with blood coming out of it, and at first my brain is trying to make sense of everything….why is everybody so jovial inside when there is a dead body in the garage. Did they not know this? Were they not aware? Is this a long lost relative? So, as my brain is trying to put these things together and I figured out that it was actually a mannequin. The seller was a professional employee at a movie Studio that constructed dead bodies. That was his job and that was his work. Just to make the story a little funnier, after it was listed, instead of telling the building inspector what I had found I just asked him to go and investigate the garage because something funny was in there. When he entered everybody heard “Holy F***”, I had forewarned the owners and we all got a nice chuckle on that one.” 

I’ve heard numerous agents and Property Managers actually find the real thing so I suppose I’d rather experience the above story…despite the fact that it would have scared the living daylights out of me.

As mentioned, I’ve received countless stories from real estate agents involving unpleasant divorces, illegal substances, adult toys, compromising situations and defecated properties – these are definitely the most common situations that agents encounter.

 

Next week, we’ll move on to a brand new topic.

 

Until then, Happy Listing & Happy Selling.

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We’ve received plenty of great feedback from our readers regarding our current topic…”Bizarre Listing Appointments”.