Real Estate

Straight from the agent: Our real estate roundtable for 2014

Mattituck (Credit: Grant Parpan)
Mattituck (Credit: Grant Parpan)

What is the most humiliating thing you’ve done as a realtor, because we all know clients take advantage of their realtors from time to time?

Moore: I don’t know if I would call it “taking advantage,” but rather people sometimes don’t think things through and consider what they are asking their real estate agent to do. I have cleaned houses, taken wet garbage to the dump, left a sit-down dinner to open up a house when a client has forgotten their keys, among other things.

Thomas: I have washed dishes in the sink, made beds, taken in garbage cans and cleaned up before a showing. I have also cleaned out the entire contents of homes in order to sell them. Probably the most humiliating thing that I have done was to pick up a dead raccoon that was laying on a living room floor and airing out the house before a showing. I have also been bitten by a few dogs.

Cibulski: On a late Friday afternoon showing with a busy weekend of scheduled appointments, I noticed next to the front porch a baby deer had passed away during the week prior. Knowing the owners were not going to be available for removal, I grabbed onto both front legs and pulled with the hope all parts would travel intact to the curb.  After completing the trip to the desired destination with a sigh of relief and a phone call to the Town Highway Department, I reflected on that moment wondering how many times that would reoccur in my real estate career.

Uhlinger: I practically accepted an offer on the wrong house once.