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Anyone who's been around awhile will probably have a similar story but something happened yesterday that could have been a major oops. There was a home I was showing a client, my GPS took me right to it and we pulled up to the front. I was talking discussing the area and homes to my buyers who were new to the area. Being on a corner lot, we were directed to a door on the side of the house. As we were unlocking the side door to go in as the owner is getting in his car to leave. I figure he's leaving for the showing.
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I know this post is old, but I don't buy into this story. The owner is there and sees people pulling into his yard and walking to his side door and he just leaves without asking who are you people?
Plus how were you unlocking a door to the wrong house? Was it a magical key that worked for the whole block?
I know this post is old, but I don't buy into this story. The owner is there and sees people pulling into his yard and walking to his side door and he just leaves without asking who are you people?
Plus how were you unlocking a door to the wrong house? Was it a magical key that worked for the whole block?
They didn't just pull up to any house. It was a house with a sign in the front so it was also for sale, so the homeowner was probably prepared for buyers who showed up without an appt. Also, there are lockboxes on each house with the key inside. There is no magic key we carry around to get us into houses.
They didn't just pull up to any house. It was a house with a sign in the front so it was also for sale, so the homeowner was probably prepared for buyers who showed up without an appt. Also, there are lockboxes on each house with the key inside. There is no magic key we carry around to get us into houses.
Then that's how the story should have been explained , the original post makes no sense whatsoever.
Then that's how the story should have been explained , the original post makes no sense whatsoever.
Only if you didn't actually read it.
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Originally Posted by Rakin
Anyone who's been around awhile will probably have a similar story but something happened yesterday that could have been a major oops. There was a home I was showing a client, my GPS took me right to it and we pulled up to the front. I was talking discussing the area and homes to my buyers who were new to the area. Being on a corner lot, we were directed to a door on the side of the house. As we were unlocking the side door to go in as the owner is getting in his car to leave. I figure he's leaving for the showing.
We go in this home and it is a pure "WOW" house, with a pool, character and an unbelievable price. My clients fall in love and after a few more homes we decide to go put in an offer. It was mid day, we wanted to get it in for the tax credit and were hurrying to get it put together while we grabbed a quick burger.
I spend about an hour going over the offer and addendum's with the buyer and discussing all options and how inspections, etc all worked. We had pulled the home up in the MLS and it only had 4 crappy pics with no front of home pic. We kept questioning the pics but finally decided they were just poor but the right ones.
We put the offer together, verified all the info, scanned and was about to email the offer to the agent when I ran 1 more search of the area.
We'll being rushed and in a hurry is not a good thing because we actually had mistakenly gone in the very nice house directly across the street from the very poor home we wrote the offer on. No wonder it was such a great price, it was the wrong house.
It was one of those mistakes were everything fell in (or out) place just wrong... the house was directly across the street, I was talking to client, going in a side door, an older home with no number on the curb. The POS house we were suppose to be in was listed by a discount broker (thus the 4 lousy pics) had no sign in the yard, no lock box on the door and $40k less then the home we were actually viewing.
I went where my GPS directed me and pulled right up to that very nice sign in the yard. Even the seller was leaving thinking they had a showing. I usually always verify the address but on this older home there was not one where you could see.
Luckily I caught the error before we negated the contract and got everyone all excited about the great deal on a WOW house. I've actually shown the wrong house a couple of times over the years but never almost put a contract on the wrong house.
I've almost shown the wrong house before. It was right next door to the one we were scheduled to see. It had a sign in the yard from the same agent, and the one we wanted to see did not have a sign. We walked around for a while looking for a lockbox, then called the agent and she said lockbox was hidden in back yard. So we walked all around and still couldn't find it. Finally realized my mistake and went next door. Sad bc the home we were looking at was much nicer in the back anyway but it was not only pending but $250K more than the other one.
Years ago a family in my town someone came into house in middle of night shot the parent and kids in their sleep. Nothing was taken and must have used a silencer. Never solved, then around 15 years later a Mafia hitman testifying cause he had immunity blurts out oh yea, I killed 5 people once when I got the wrong address.
It was one of the round about blocks that had a east and west but street sign only had a small e or small w in front of name. Both e and w had same numbers on houses. So he went to wrong address.
That's really weird! What I would like to know is your potential client still say yes to the wrong house? Judging from it I bet they were disappointed.
(I know it's an old thread I'm just trying to understand how this could have happened.)
So the house that was shown had a lock box -- AND the other house also.
But don't lock boxes each have their own code? If you had the code for one box it shouldn't open another box for you to have the key, no?
(I know it's an old thread I'm just trying to understand how this could have happened.)
So the house that was shown had a lock box -- AND the other house also.
But don't lock boxes each have their own code? If you had the code for one box it shouldn't open another box for you to have the key, no?
Lockboxes are opened by a program on your phone (or a dKey). It's bluetooth/infrared (depending on market) and the only code you need is the agent's personal code. There is not an individual code per lockbox, unless you're in a market that uses old combo lockboxes and not secured ones.
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