Our professional magazine has started a new series that shares funny things that happen to agents when they show houses. You can read several stories at REALTOR Magazine Online.
The following quote is from a real estate list serve community I participate in:
"I remember showing houses once when the buyers just couldn't make up their minds on "what" they wanted. My husband is a cop, and the day before had been using my SUV.... And forgot that he left his weapon in it. I rounded a curve after looking at 10 houses, and the gun ended up somewhere around the gas pedal. It was awkward because I couldn't drive properly, so I reached down, retrieved the gun from underneath the gas pedal and placed it beside me on the seat. Lol....the husband was in the back seat, wife in the front, and I jokingly said "now just how many houses DID you want to see before you buy one?".
Oh, it got worse, they laughed (it WAS funny) but I called my husband when we were at the next house to tell him he left his weapon in MY car, and of course would need it to go to work, which wasn't going to be before I got back home. He got my schedule, and said he'd meet up with me to get his gun. Little did he know, it would happen sooner than he thought.
I locked the keys in the car at the next house they didn't like, and had to call him on his cell to bring me a spare set, get his gun and go to work. Rofl! Just picture this: it's 105 degrees - in the shade!! We can't get back in my car, and a gun is sitting on the front seat. We wait for my husband to come "save us" and he is laughing about how he left his gun in my car, I locked the keys in it and it is 105 friggin degrees in the shade, so hurry up and buy a house and get over it! LOL, the next house we saw, they fell in LOVE with and bought. 5 years later they decided to sell and called me back - they have since moved to NY and we still keep in touch and laugh about the whole 'gun-locked the keys in the car in the 105 degree heat' incident."
Paula Bean, REALTOR, Orlando, Florida
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