1. Me against the moss
I was listing a home in the spring and it had moss on the front drive way. No big deal! Several people told me we could sprinkle Tide with bleach on it to kill it and it would simply sweep away… wrong. The moss turned a lovely brownish orange colour and would not budge. My client was leaving town and there was no time to have a professional come do the job. With the help of one of my dearest friends, we borrowed a power washer, got some gasoline to fuel it and headed out to blast the moss. It came up quite well with the high pressure water, but of course we were out there until it was dark, the day before the listing hit the market. I think it did the trick because the drive way looked amazing and it sold very quickly!
2. Little bird
Another time I was hosting an open house for a vacant home in Cordova Bay. I arrived at the home stocked with a trunk full of Febreeze, just in case. I wasn’t expecting to find a dead bird on the deck. Of course there was no paper towel to pick it up with and frankly I didn’t want to touch it at all.. so I left it. The first people through the house stopped at the back window.. “UGH! There’s a dead bird on the deck!” Right, the little thing had to go. I tried to kick it off to the side where you couldn’t see it from the window. The next set of people commented after they saw it from another window. So out I went, in the pouring rain, to pick up this bird thinking to myself “I didn’t sign up for this!”
3. Shopping Cart
More recently I went to host and open house. I got to the corner where I usually put down my directional sign only to find a shopping cart. What are people going to think of this neighbourhood if there’s a shopping cart on the corner?! It had to go. I went to push it away and of course, it was one of the ones with the locking wheels. I couldn’t stop laughing to myself as I struggled to get the cart across the road wearing a suit and high heels.
The things I do for real estate!
