Well, so far today I’ve dealt with a couple surly callers. My favorite: another agent who was mis-directed to me. However, the property was one I was familiar with, in an area I knew pretty well, and the seller is the VA, and I’ve sold many so I figured “what the heck, I’ll help”. Plus, I know the team that did list it and they don’t generally take calls from random agents (there’s a formal process…they have an insane number of listings and really do need the steps to manage their workload). So, got most of the questions answered (one challenging one was whether this property was able to qualify for a USDA loan, but the map wasn’t loading. The main qualifying criteria is location based.) Spent 8 minutes on the phone answering questions, but when I told her that I couldn’t connect her to the listing agent, I got “well, I guess, thank you…f*#cking a$$hole” and a hangup.
Another chewed on me because I didn’t answer my phone. Of course, they didn’t leave a message, so I didn’t call them back after I got off the phone (shocking note: I was on the phone and didn’t HANG UP AND TAKE THEIR CALL!!! Ok, they didn’t say that…but…). There seems to be an assumption that I’m sitting around waiting for them to call.
Last of the crew cheerful: mad as a hornet that he had to follow the showing directions listed in the MLS.
And, so, back to it.