{"id":1148,"date":"2007-03-14T22:54:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T05:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2007-03-14T22:58:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T05:58:03","slug":"buyer-representation-fells-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1148\/buyer-representation-fells-another-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyer representation fells another one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ya see?! We should be listening to Russell Shaw. You can list all day and all night, and never be too busy to scratch your nose. It’s that chasing around with buyers that downs perfectly good Realtors.<\/p>\n

Cathy had a buyer-rich day. A final walk-through on a new build. The signing on the same. Then an inspection on a resale home. No lunch, of course. Not much water — and we’re already in the mid-90s in Phoenix. She capped her day with a hair appointment…<\/p>\n

…And promptly swooned under the hair dryer. Literally fainted. The salon called me, and I raced off to pick her up.<\/p>\n

I will get my hair cut any place that’s close, fast and cheap, and, since I’m ugly to start with, I don’t really care about tonsorial talent or post-tonsorial pulchritude.<\/p>\n

Cathy, by contrast, will only go to a tony salon that is twenty minutes from our home in no traffic. In rush hour, it’s forty minutes at least.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t even made it to the freeway when the fire department called me to say they were taking her to the hospital.<\/p>\n

I met her there, and that was beyond fun. Apparently, hospital employees are world champions at not making contact. And it turns out that the treatment for hunger, dehydration and exhaustion is no food, no water and no sleep. If this “service” costs less than a thousand dollars, I’ll be amazed.<\/p>\n

Ah, but I can bitch like a thunderstorm when I need to. Eventually we got free of the hospital. Food. Water. Bed.<\/p>\n

Jeff Brown talked about mentoring<\/a>, and I realized I have been remiss in not leaning on the girl to take advantage of those unexpected opportunities in a busy day when you can grab a bite to eat. Realtors eat like hell<\/a>, but at least they should have sense enough to eat when they can.<\/p>\n

Listing agents, on the other hand, are creatures of leisure. While Cathy was running around like a dervish, I was in the office attending to what is, in fact, her<\/i> listing:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

No Open House this Sunday, though. We had two offers at last Sunday’s Open House, and Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ya see?! We should be listening to Russell Shaw. You can list all day and all night, and never be too busy to scratch your nose. It’s that chasing around with buyers that downs perfectly good Realtors. Cathy had a buyer-rich day. A final walk-through on a new build. The signing on the same. 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