And the awards continue……

We move on to the agents and all the great things that they do

Winner of the most embarrassing lie division.

Agent A and Agent B (don’t know why I’m using pseudonyms, I was agent B) were running with a client who we were meant to meet at one of a thousand flat complexes in our area…… and of course we are running late for a number of reasons.

#1.We don’t exactly know where the complex is so after cruising past every complex like a car full of gangsters  on a drive by (except wearing suits and not baggy shorts and 4kg’s of fake jewelry). I think a car full of agents is scarier than gangsters.

#2. The car we are drivin in has not only seen better days but nights,months and years. Has a wobble at the back, broken windscreen wipers, smooth tyres. All in all a beaut.

SO we finally make it to the complex , 15 minutes late, where there are a few people hanging outside . So Agent A (to my amazement) pulls out his phone, calls the client and asks him where he is as we have been waiting for 15 minutes.Silence…..then I see Agent A’s face drop a little.  The client asks if he is driving a blue car and is it us that has just parked in front of them. THEY WERE STANDING OUTSIDE ALL THE TIME WAITING FOR US. Another reason I believe that you must never lie to a client.

Blindest moment in my career division.

I’m living in London and working as an agent there. Been at it for the better part of a week and starting to get the hang of it. I call the tenants of a house that I need to show to ask if it would be okay if I came around. No one answers so i call the Owner of the house and he says that he will call them and if I don’t hear from him it’ll be okay to go through. I have a set of keys for the house and when my client arrives I ask them to wait outside just to make sure that the house is okay to go through. I knock…..knock……knock and then open the door and start walking down the passage…. The bathroom door flies open and out runs a young (about 18 or 19) girl with what looked like a hand towel wrapped around her screaming blue murder. So when I finally stopped shaking I had a lot of explaining to do to the young lady who actually let me through. It turns out that the seller got too busy at work to call me back. F%&ker!!!! No wonder his house didn’t sell.

On a quick note. I have noticed that a lot of sellers are still signing sole mandates with agents. This is fine but make sure that they are going to be doing a lot of marketing, show houses (no matter what they say the show house is still one of the best ways to sell your house and get it out there) and bringing clientel through. In this market you need as many people through your house as possible.

Later

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