Aug. 2, 2007 - Slow And Unsure
So I do all of this groovy stuff in order to market a listing. It makes me soooooooo happy, because that is what I do. That will get the word out to the public, now I need to rally the troops. Wing off some just listed stuff to the other REALTORS® and we'll be all set.
I throw a Brokers open and offer a bribe of pizza and soft drinks so I can get every agent for miles around to attend. I indicate that if you are the kind of person that needs something a little stronger to wash the pizza down you are more than welcome to bring your own personal flask. If I'm lucky, Chicago Agent Magazine will send a photographer sometime between 11:00 and 2:00 to record the event. Couple all of that with the opportunity to come face to face with Gene Molloy himself and I figure we have ourselves a real Tuesday afternoon wang dang doodle.
Can you imagine my suprise when the clock struck 11:00 and I was all alone in my lovely listing? Not to worry, I tell myself, everybody must be sleeping in this morning. They will be arriving soon. Low and behold, the clock stuck high noon and I was still all by myself. At 1:00 I started to worry about looking foolish serving cold pizza when the last minute rush of hungry REALTORS® came in. By 1:50 I had everything cleaned up and put away. At 1:55 a married REALTOR® couple I had never met before rang the bell. Too bad they arrived so late. We could have had a party.
The open house I held last Saturday was not to much better. My first first visitor was a Hanover Park Police Officer who had one of my open house signs in his hand. It turned out to be the one from Barrington Road. He said I had placed it too close to the public way. He said I needed to put it about a foot further in from the roadside. He effectively cut off any drive by traffic I could hope to attract from busy Barrington Road. Now I'm not alluding to anything here, but there was a Century 21 open house sign right where mine used to be when I was leaving that evening. The exact same place I have put my sign during many other open houses. Go figure.
The only other person that showed up was in fact a prosective buyer. Her son is a REALTOR® and he has her Townhouse listed. She indicated that whenever she got a contract on her Townhouse she would be ready to make on offer on something. She was sure doing her research.
I called a few of my associates this week. I was thinking that maybe I was loosing my touch. I was feeling washed up. Fortunately, they are all telling the same story. Nobody is out shopping. They too are spending lonely weekends in empty open houses. I guess I'm not so all alone after all.
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