The sun was out today for our 2nd Saturday open - I started with all the blinds up in the family room but then the beautiful sun highlighted what a bad job I had done cleaning the inside of the windows.... so I put them back down and settled with having them open. It was a cool brisk day today but for the first time the sun was out - perfect for highlighting what a sun drenched house this is.... and for reminding me why we bought it in the first place.
It's interesting I was thinking as I stood out front on our deck enjoying the sun, how much I actually love this house - and it takes selling it to get me to appreciate the things I love about it. At least we've got some time to enjoy the things we love before packing up and letting another family make some memories here.
The day started with a little bit of confusion, stress and crankiness if I'm to be frank about it all.
I logged onto the Internet to check my email and found an email from a potential buyer asking about inspection times... At first I thought it must be someone who's stupid because I had inspection times for the first 4 weeks listed in the advertising - this was after I got a feedback mid week that there wasn't a floor plan up on domain.com.au (there was). But just in case I wasn't dealing with stupidity I responded to the email with inspection times and jumped online to check out the ads and make sure I wasn't mistaken.
And boy was I in for a shock.
Neither Domain.com.au nor Realestate.com.au had the inspection times listed at all.
I logged onto my portal on forsalebyowner.com.au only to discover that they had disappeared.
I quickly recreated the listing times, hoping that they would be uploaded quickly (they update every 2 hours, and this was just before 8am), and then sent a cranky email to the bloke who runs "forsalebyowner" just in case they weren't aware of the problem.
Now - can you imagine how cross I was when I got an email back from the bloke who runs the shop telling me that they knew about it! And while I appreciated the apology what sort of business does he run where it's OK to know about something like that on a Saturday inspection day and not immediately notify their vendors with a suggestion that they check their listing and update if necessary.
The smoke was coming out my nose and my ears when I read that one.
Fortunately for me, someone actually contacted me and asked for the times so I got it fixed quickly. Not knowing how long it was down for means I've no idea if it affected the numbers today or not. I'm hoping it was the lack of inspection times combined with a long weekend that kept the numbers down to a respectful (?) 7.
Unfortunately again, there were no return inspectors... although, and I'm interested in your thoughts on this - there was one interesting couple.
They pulled up in an expensive car and were older than most of the people who have been looking (the others have mostly been younger with young families or obviously pregnant). My trusty sidekick who was manning the bottom of the stairs reckons that they had a brochure in their hands when they showed up. They picked up a copy of the "recent sales" and asked about price and, surprisingly, traffic... Ilana (the helpful, trusty and clever sidekick) suggested that they might be parents of someone who visited earlier... If so that's a good sign - what do you think?
Of the 7, there were a few potentials - one couple, the woman was obviously pregnant, asked about childcare centres, and a few asked how long it takes to walk to the station...
Late today I spoke to a guy who couldn't get to the inspection who wants to come by tomorrow morning... never say no to a buyer... so it's all on again tomorrow!
Stay tuned for the next chapter!
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