It was funny and fun, and I loved it! Maybe because I was pretty good! One of my many Brokers once said to me, “Brenda, you have more guts than brains!” I said, “Thank you.” I knocked on more doors, got bitten by ankle biters, and had more torn pants than most agents.
I say many Brokers, because many of them were so hard to train. They had the demented idea that they were the boss. Wrong! The lowly agents produced the listings and wrote the sales! The Brokers sat in their plush offices and assumed they were in charge.
In my book, “Murder on Lake Haverly,” I allude to “The Bobsey Twins. They were real people; I changed their names, partly because they were real, and partly because after 50 years, I can’t remember their real names.
They were two women partners, and most people were scared of them. They each had rich new house builder husbands, and they thought they were hot shit! I fell under their clutches once, and that was enough!
I got a sweet listing in the country, and I knew I was in for it, when I presented it at our MLS meeting. The owners were really sweet and asked me not to allow “drive-bys,” and I stressed that at the meeting.
The next week, that “Nice” couple stormed into my office and demanded that we “Cancel the listing so they could list with a reputable company.” I would have said, “hell no!” but my Weiner Broker agreed and gave it to them. To say I was pissed would be an understatement!
At the next MLS meeting, they laid out “How they saved their clients from the clutches of an unscrupulous realtor.
You may think I slunk away with my tail between my legs. NOT! At every house or meeting, I snagged their card and wrote my name in big letters on the back so they wouldn’t miss it! When a person was so unqualified to purchase, I gave them one of those bitches cards and, with great enthusiasm, sold them on how wonderful those two bitches were. Their husbands were builders, so they would help them buy a brand-new house.
At every MLS meeting, I would seek them out and ask them how business was going. I hinted strongly that I was helping them get new business. I got many glaring looks, and most of my friends thought I should have sent dozens of “Drive By’s”, but I did not. What I did was not bad business. I just gave them lots of business! And who knows, maybe they got lucky and made a sale or two! I was sure they got the message from the bitchy looks, and most of the agents hated them, and they all knew what I was doing, and I might have had some help!
Stay tuned for more funny real Estate stories! In case you thought I was mean, my motto in Real Estate was, “Do the right thing, because it is right!”
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