Archive for July, 2010
July 8th, 2010 - Idiot buyers need not call me!
Ok people this is really making me mad. Recently I spent several days with potential buyers who came to Atlanta specifically to buy a house. (so they said) They didn’t care that they came on the weekend of 4th of July without asking me if I had any plans! They spent days in the car with me, I showed them at least 20 houses and they didn’t bother to tell me that they were not really even moving here. How rude and inconsiderate can someone actually be? This was WAY rude and inconsiderate of them.
I have spoken with several agents who are telling me that this is also happening to them as well. One agent told me that the buyer just didn’t show up for the closing. After she spent months, finding him a house, negotiating the contract for him, going to the inspection with him and then he doesn’t even bother to show up for the closing! What these people don’t understand or care about is that this is our livelihood, this is how we make our money. I can assure you that anyone of these buyers would not go to work for two solid days and then be told that they won’t get paid! That they just came to work for absolutely nothing….and they spent hours doing research, spent their own personal gas money and didn’t make plans to do anything else because the time would be spent working for someone who will pay you nothing. And then not even an apology. Don’t send me any frigging fruit. Last time this was done to me I got fruit!
Listen up people: Real Estate Brokers and Agents are people too. We work very hard, maybe you don’t think so because we are not in a cubicle or out side doing landscaping, but we do work extremely hard. We trust the people that we put in our cars, who tell us that they are actually going to buy a house. We wouldn’t spend the time with people who aren’t going to respect us and our time if we knew a head of time that we were going to be stolen from: Yes stolen from: It isn’t even harsh: You are stealing our time, our faith, our gas money, our confidence… it is thief any way you look at it. It is fraud… it is mean.