Showing

Originally posted October 27/2007 on "Allison Wonderland"


Man, oh, man, that one's gonna bite her in the ass, just like I said it would...

People just left. It was a good showing- they came in, were wowed by the size of Gus the dog-cat, told us not to think of waking Simon up... nive people. I'd like them to buy the place. We talked about how nice the yard is, how big the kitchen is... and then on the way out they asked about heating costs. I think they mostly asked because it was so warm in here, since Clompie insisted that we turn up the heat for showings.

Ummm... what were we supposed to say? Clompie specifically told us NOT to answer questions about that stuff, so all I could say was "Holly said she'd prefer that she be the one to answer those kinds of questions." Very nicely, but ouch! How suspicious does THAT sound?

The worst part is, my honest answer would have been, "in the summer, we don't need the heat on at all. It was pretty expensive last winter, but we're going to put up some plastic sheeting and see about doing some extra weatherproofing, so it shouldn't be as bad this year."

Seriously, as a buyer, what would you rather hear?