One of my favorite memories of meeting with buyers to write an offer happened several years ago. I received an call on one of my ads in the paper. The buyer said her name was Mrs. Green. After discussing the property, she made an appointment to see it with her husband. They really liked the house and we went back to the home they were renting to write an offer. She forgot she had told me her name was “Green”. When I started to write the offer, she had to admit she told me a phony name to because she didn’t want me to “bug” her about buying a house. We had a good laugh. When we closed escrow I had a large keychain made for them with “GREEN” in big letters with the keys to their new home. We have become good friends and I still call her Mrs. Green after 20 years.
Another fun memory of that day writing the offer was their 2 year old son running around the house naked while we were writing at the dining table. At one point he just climbed up on the table and came over and sat down on top of my briefcase and folded his arms like he was part of the group. Telling him about it years later as a teenager was fun.
Tony Stafford has another great story about and open house event
Steve Bianchi has a good one about an open house too. Check it out.
