They just keep coming!

I guess when you have a house to show, it’s either feast or famine.  We signed on with our new realtor on Jan. 2.  Then waited…and waited…and waited.   Three weeks into the listing we finally got someone through (read previous post).  Then 10 days goes by and then we come home from church yesterday and our realtor calls.  She had a message on her phone from a realtor (she goes to the same church and came home about the same time we did)  who wanted to see our house between 2:45 and 3:15. It is now 2:15.  Ack!  The kitchen was a mess from the big breakfast we made and left before we went to church.  Plus bedrooms had been messed up again and normal debris scattered about.  Quickly clean and then take the dog and leave.  Haven’t heard feedback from that realtor yet.

Today starts with a big snowstorm which drops over a foot of snow.  We had to shovel the driveway twice before DH finally breaks out the snowblower and goes at it.  Surely, no one is looking at houses today.  WRONG!  While I am at the store, realtor calls and tells DH that someone is coming through between 7 and 8.  Okay, it’s only 3, so we have plenty of time to tidy up and have dinner.  We stayed at the house until 7:50 and no one comes.  Finally we take the dog and leave, taking a little trip to our local Arctic Circle drive-through.  DH is getting a cold and not happy about having to be out and about, so we head home right after.  Of course, just as we are heading up the main street in our neighborhood at 8:04 we see a car pull up in front of our house.  Not having anyplace else to go, we pull over about a half block away from our house and watch as a man and little boy head into the house.  As we sat there, our realtor, who lives on the next cul-de-sac after ours comes around in her SUV.  She recognizes our car and flashes her lights, then turns onto our cul-de-sac and checks out the car. Then she came out and drove up to us. We told her it didn’t look like there was a realtor there, just a dad and a little boy, so she goes back to check.  Returns with the info that it is a husband and wife realtor team who are looking for themselves.  So we watch the dad and boy come out and the mom and maybe same, maybe different boy go into the house for a look around.  We’ll get feedback in a day or two about what they thought.

As stated in previous posts, I HATE having my house on the market!  Having to keep it model clean at all times IN CASE, someone wants to look through.  Then when you don’t get any lookers for a day or two, you relax your cleaning vigilance.  After all, people do live here-it’s NOT actually a model home.  As each day passes without any calls, it gets messier and messier. And then at the worst possible time, or with the least amount of notice you get the call: Someone wants to see your house in 1 hour.  AAAARRRGGGHHH! Here we go again.  I’m not sure which is better, having a constant flow of people so you stay on top of things, or having someone through every 4 or 5 days and having to do a sprint spring cleaning in a short amount of time.  Whoever came up with the concept of showing homes in the buying and selling of them should be condemned to clean a 7 bedroom, 3 storey house every hour (Which gets messed up the moment you finish) for the rest of Eternity. That would truly be Hell for me.

My realtor keeps telling me, it only takes one person to see your house and really like it for it to sell. True, but isn’t there some way to weed out all these other looky-loos so we don’t have to go through this exercise every few days for months?