Canada Jane

Disastrous house visit

Today we went to see the two houses that our realtor had told us about. We had an appointment to meet the realtor at 12.30 at the first house. Because this area is quite a way from us (170 km) we had to travel for about 1.5 hours to get there. We pulled up into the drive way and from the little bit of the property we could see it looked really nice.

Well, we sat there and sat there and no realtor. Then a woman came out of the house dressed in her nightclothes and said that she had not made an appointment with her realtor and that her and her husband worked nights and they were still in bed. She told us in no uncertain terms we were not welcome, so we drove off.

I phoned our realtor but couldn’t get an answer so left a message saying we had been sent away from the house and we would make our way to the second.

When we got to the second there was no sign of the realtor. We drove around and decided we were not interested in this one anyway, so decided we had had enough and would go home. On the way back down the main road we passed the realtor. We both stopped and she came over to say there had been a mix up and the seller’s realtor had not booked the appointment properly. We were really annoyed as we had wasted the day going there, driven 350 km round trip and spent money on gas (petrol).

Apparently there is an open house there this weekend, but we now have to decide if we want to travel all that way to see this one property. Trouble was it looked ideal from the outside, it’s the right price and the internal pics look nice too. Dilemma!

Is it fate that we couldn’t get in? Is this a way of telling us to stop looking, or is it fate that we really liked the look of it and we should go back for the open house?

I guess I’ll keep you posted when we decide.