Today’s showings
I had a home showing today. Normally realtor’s get an hour block, but this realtor is special and asked for a two hour block. So from 3 to 5 today my house is off limits. In the early afternoon the countdown begins:
- 1:30 pm With the showing at 3:00 it’s time to hop in the shower.
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2:10 pm I smell much less now, loins are girded. I grab the broom and sweep up the extensive tile floor. Then I go online and print out a page on using mod_rewrite in an .htaccess file (geek stuff) for reading wherever I go to.
I’ve been telling myself that I want to get pictures of the house; with the sun up high and no clouds in the sky this would be a great afternoon to snap a few. So I go grab the camera and head outside. I take pictures approaching the house and then spend 20 minutes chasing angles throughout the inside.
- 2:35 pm I head out to the backyard to take what I hope to be are the last pictures I’ll ever take of the backyard. As I open the back door and go out I realize I forgot to sweep the patio after I spread some Texas Tee on the lawn this morning — mental note.
- 2:40 pm Pictures done, I head to the garage to get a broom. I return to the backyard and sweep. Ahh… now my house is saleable…
- 2:42 pm I’ve told myself that my deadline to be out is 2:45. I still have to vacuum.
- 2:47 pm House is now cleaner than I was at 2:00 (and thanks to the reed diffuser it smells better too). I set the alarm and head into the garage. With the garage door open I run back out onto the driveway; I don’t have any pictures of the Civic lounging in the garage. A few quick snaps and I’m in the car and heading out.
Last year I met a girl a Pei Wei (ok, maybe I go there a bit too much). The day I met her she was sitting eating dinner and waiting to be able to go back home. She couldn’t go home because her house was for sale, and there was a showing that evening. I joined her and we talked. I remember her telling me that she hated having to find places to go all the time when people wanted to look at her house. I thought of her today as I drove away from my house.
Not being hungry crashing at a restaurant, Pei Wei included, wasn’t an option. So where to go? I sat in the car parked along the curb 200 feet from my house wondering where to wander. Not having A/C in a Texas summer encourages you not to stand still for too long. So I put it in gear and got a gasoline-powered breeze going. I hit the highway still not sure where I was heading. Eventually I settled on borders, with the intention of sitting down in the cafe with a chai latte and the netbook (I really do love this netbook).
I prefer to go someplace with wifi but the only places I know of that have free wifi are restaurants. So without internet I “blog” into a text file; I’ll upload it later on when I’m plugged back into the web. So I kill my time, hoping that whoever is looking at my house is falling in love all the while.
As I’ve been typing this out, I got another phone call. Another showing between 5:45 and 6:30. An hour I’ll likely kill with dinner. More time to occupy, but without doubt happily so. I can’t have enough showings. My chai is done and so is this entry. Where to next? I think Kohls is having a Father’s Day sale this weekend, and my pants are getting pretty ragged. Maybe I’ll see if they have any cargos.