{"id":2303,"date":"2007-12-01T19:30:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2007-12-01T19:40:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T02:40:19","slug":"memories-of-my-dad-in-the-house-he-never-got-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2303\/memories-of-my-dad-in-the-house-he-never-got-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of my Dad in the house he never got to see"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus<\/a>? Well, Broker Greg’s theory is Men are Sellers, Women are Buyers. His observation is that prominent in a selling couple is the man — dickering over commission then exacting justification for those commissions; and when offers come in it will be he<\/i> who will haggle over the details. On the other hand, when shopping for the new house, he doesn’t want to shop<\/i>: “Garage for my stuff? Fridge for my beer? Sold!”.<\/p>\n

So Thursday night, Husband<\/i> Greg was perplexed. First, he surprised himself by doing physical labor. This is against his credo — the human mind is supposed to engineer methods to circumvent physical toil. But it was time for me to unstage Oregon<\/a>. It closed yesterday and I had to get all my stuff out. When I buy staging inventory, I’m always careful to limit the heft of each item to something I can move in and out of the house without (Greg’s) help. However, I’m just recently recovered from pneumonia — a solid month of complete bed-rest. So there was Greg, huffing and puffing with the grunt work as I daintily packed my pashminas and platters.<\/p>\n

But what really<\/i> floored Greg happened after he had packed up our last load, while we were sitting in the drive-through line at Wendy’s, waiting to celebrate with Frostys. And I broke down crying. Through my sobs I hiccuped that I would probably never be inside of 718 West Oregon<\/a> again. This brought my dear articulate Greg to speechless amazement.<\/p>\n

We Realtors know we bring value to the real estate transaction… each in our own particular way — our value proposition; but we all offer the consumer the value of our experience from sheer numbers of transactions we work with. In comparison, years and years typically pass between transactions in which any individual consumer is involved. What is so easy for us Realtors to lose sight of, specifically because we do<\/i> handle so many transactions, is the emotion involved in the process. Those of us who work with buyers get to see the elation of clients preparing Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus? Well, Broker Greg’s theory is Men are Sellers, Women are Buyers. His observation is that prominent in a selling couple is the man — dickering over commission then exacting justification for those commissions; and when offers come in it will be he who will haggle over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-realty-reality","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5944,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5944\/latest-findings-from-the-buyer-seller-profile\/","url_meta":{"origin":2303,"position":0},"title":"Latest\u00a0Findings From the Buyer, Seller Profile","author":"Dave Phillips","date":"December 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Good stuff from Greg's Rotary Club... 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