If you want a free house, there’s one waiting for you in Clarksville, Tennessee. But there’s a catch…. really a couple of catches. First, the house is not livable without complete remodeling. The second catch is the house doesn’t come with the land. You must move the 880 square foot house to somewhere else. Further, when you move it, you can’t take the basement or the foundation - just the top floor. Want to read more? Here’s the link.
Another agent asked why people hate “us” so much (”us” being real estate agents) because of another advertisement on Craigslist. The ad was removed, but here’s a link to the original in PDF format. Jonelle noted that these words were written with such venom that she wonders what our industry has done to make people so angry,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS PLEASE READ!!!!!Unless, you are calling on behalf of a client PLEASE NO AGENTS!!!!! SERIOUSLY!!!! DON”T CALL!!! 20 agents called me today regardless of this, I am getting SUPER annoyed. If you want to call and ask about the house for a client, fine…If you want to check out the house for clients, fine, but, otherwise DON”T CALL.
In one sense, I get it. I understand why people get aggravated sometimes when an agent won’t return phone calls or agents continually ring a phone off the hook - not wanting to bring a client but trying to get the listing. People get deluged with letters from agents if their listing expires or is withdrawn. Agents are hurting right now with the slow market so they pursue any potential for business sued because we too must feed our kids. A little bit of civility can go a loooooong way.
Back to our original topic of Craigslist. We talked in our meeting this morning that many agents are forgetting to put their company name and phone number when they place a home on Craigslist. I did a quick search and found agents are all over the place. Some forget the office number, but include the company name. Others list the phone number, but forget to tell who they work for. Agents must have both the company name nad phone number or they are in violation of state law.
Here’s a house on Craigslist for $270 - a 2600 square foot home with lots of nice stuff. I think they meant $270,000.
Finally, Craigslist has a “funny” ads page which were pretty eye opening. I love this one where someone is looking for a roommate, but - again - there is a catch. One of the roommates is a gorilla,
BEDROOM MUST BE SHARED WITH APPROX. 700 LB. ADULT MALE SILVERBACK GORILLA. THIS IS AN EASTERN LOWLAND GORILLA WHO IS FAIRLY DOCILE ALTHOUGH HE DOES NEED TO “STRETCH HIS LEGS” FROM TIME TO TIME.
The ad goes into more graphic details. Want to buy a house? Call a Realtor!
I love me some Google search engine. I can find old friends. Figure out if I had a concussion the other night after falling. Compute when the space station will be flying over my house. Double check whether I’m giving my dog too much flea medicine.
