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April 03, 2007
Disgracefully Dull Dots
What can I say? It's been a slow few days. Dreadfully slow.
- In the spirit of both getting back on the horse and laying claim to our turf, Clara Jane, Beqi, her family, and I returned to the coffeehouse yesterday, where more smack-talk about Savior Dad went down. This guy really should watch his actions, as he's really not well-liked. Not even a little, it seems.
- For the second time this spring, Clara Jane and I were going to the botanical gardens today. And for the second time, we had to cancel. This time due to weather and possible plague. The kid's got a bug, or she's a really good faker. Either way, being cooped up in the house isn't good for either of us. Especially when one of us refuses to nap. I'm not pointing fingers, but I will say that my bed has looked so good today.
- I cleaned like a crazy lady today.
- Have I mentioned how irritated I am with our real estate agent? I don't even want to get into it. The fact that, after nearly three months, our house still isn't listed on his website. And that after being sent interior photos of our house twice, they're still not on our realtor.com page. B. flat-out asked him today if he's ever shown our house, because it seems it's only been shown by agents from other agencies. He replied that he'd driven people by, but they didn't want to look because of the brush at our curb.
Okay, screw it. I'm getting into it. For starters, we told him upfront three months ago that the house wasn't ready to be listed, mainly because of the massive storm damage in our backyard. We let him persuade us into listing anyway.
Now, as our agent, isn't it his fucking job to perhaps tell people, "Oh, that brushpile is a temporary situation. The city's working on it. In the meantime you should see awesome interior. Let's go inside!"
Nevermind the fact that I don't believe for a second that he's driven anyone by our house, since every appointment to look at the house has been made by other agencies.
The good news: I thought we were under contract with this loser agent until May 1st. B. looked at our contract, and we're actually less than two weeks from the end of the contract. Will we be signing on for another three months of this? No fucking way. St. Louisans, send your selling agent recommendations my way.
Please learn from my mistakes. If a real estate agent is working as a hotel desk clerk because he's not selling enough houses to make ends meet, HE'S NOT A GOOD AGENT!
We ordered Chinese for dinner tonight, something that has sadly become at least a once-a-week habit. I've sucked at cooking lately, and have no desire to partake. Anyway, my fortune cookie had two fortunes. Does that mean something, like when you get an egg with two yolks? I'm not sure. I just thought they were interesting:
Fortune #1: Good news of a long-awaited event will soon arrive.
Fortune #2: Your air of confidence naturally draws others to you.
Now, I try not to put much stock in things like newspaper horoscopes, fortune cookies, and such, but when fortune #2 is obviously true, and since I got a freakish double-fortune, surely fortune #1 pertains to selling the crapshack, right? Come on and humor me; it's been a bumpy day.
It's probably just referring to this weekend's family Easter wienie and Peeps roast, though. That'll be cool, too. Not selling-the-crapshack cool, but I'm really looking forward to celebrating the resurrection of the lord and savior by jamming sticks loaded with cured meat products and sugar-encrusted marshmallows into fire.
Posted by Robin at April 3, 2007 09:03 PM
Comments
Read your blog regularly and love it! Here are some city-based realtors for you to check out....
Kris Scott
http://tinyurl.com/2y7j2l
Katherine Miller or Mona Parsley
http://www.241-sold.com/index.shtml
Julia Mittelstadt
http://www.juliamittelstadt.com/
Each of these ladies has been very successful in selling city properties and work full-time as realtors.
Good Luck!
Posted by: Sue Ames at April 3, 2007 10:54 PM
Here's mine. Full-time, great guy.
Charles E Jung
St. Louis Premier REALTORS
2200 S 12th St
Saint Louis MO 63104
Primary: 314-330-2919
chuckjung[at]hotmail[dot]com
Posted by: Count Sassy at April 3, 2007 11:33 PM
Don't forget about Craigslist. I'm not sure about its popularity in St. Louis, but we got a crap-ton of traffic (and one offer) from a flyer I put in its Real Estate For Sale section.
Posted by: Big Daddy B at April 4, 2007 07:19 AM
Run like the wind to the new agent. Good luck.
Wish I was going to be with you for the weenie and peeps roast.
Posted by: Cassie at April 4, 2007 09:26 AM
You agent needs to have your brush pile shoved up his ass.
Posted by: Dixie at April 4, 2007 02:52 PM
Try these two: hartmanandwynn.com
They have worked with three members of my family. :)
Posted by: Stephanie at April 4, 2007 04:41 PM
Oh, you must call Barrett Henry! I loved him! He has a great Arkansas accent and is a sharp dresser.
His number is 314-599-2886. He helped us buy our house, then sold the Christian family's house 2 doors down. Meanwhile, the house in between is STILL for sale, at almost $30,000 less than the original asking price...Punk rock neighbors? Where are you?
And you do have an amazing air of self-confidence!
Posted by: allison at April 4, 2007 08:11 PM
Ditch that mofo, STAT.
Also, thanks to you, I have long extended fantasies about having access to a family-friendly coffee shop. WHAT A GREAT FUCKING IDEA. Damn. Sans Savior Dad, of course. What a prick.
Posted by: michelle/weaker vessel at April 5, 2007 12:44 PM
