Hunting The Muse

Well, more real estate

Well, more real estate drama today. I had made an appointment to meet with the listing (selling) agent at her request. I had pretty much already told her I wasn't interested in buying it. She said, "Well, we'll need to get together and talk about things like the lockbox and stuff."

So I show up and she shows me some paperwork, some various ways that it might be possible to buy the place, including dropping the price down to 115,000 from 129,900 just to run different numbers scenarios. It was interesting but I wasn't really interested. Then she talked about the lockbox and gave me the form to sign it. I said, thanks, I'll take it home and look it over. And she froze and said that she actually really needed it right then. So I refused.

See, my lease says that I have to allow people access to my property - the leasing agents or the owner - with 24 hours notice. I already had signed that. I don't see why I would have to sign anything else.

The form said that I would give access to folks with 24 hours notice, OR if they knocked and I didn't answer, they could come right in. So if I choose not to answer or if I'm in the shower or asleep or something, they come right in. There's no way I'm signing that.

But after talking to some other folks I find out that I don't even have to agree to the lockbox if I don't want to. That pissed me off. This lady was trying to sneak something by me.

So now I feel like I have to "look out" for my next door neighbor the vulture real estate lady. That sucks.

It's possible she didn't even know I wouldn't be interested in the box; that it didn't even occur to her. But still I feel like I want to tell her off. Posted by Curt at September 5, 2002 06:13 PM