San Diego Realtor New Construction
I had a very inteersting experience on a new construction track in Carmel Valleywhich I am putting out there to the UNIVERSE in case some of you are looking at new homes. I took a buyer who was very interested in NEW as many clients are – it’s always a great feeling to move into a house that NO ONE has TOUCHED. Personally we have had three homes together and there has not been ONE that we haven’t remodeled the kitchen and put in new flooring and some window coverings. It’s like a boy dog raising his leg on a fire hydrant – gotta make it MINE. So I can understand buyers wanting their own fire hydrants.
We took this nice man into the sales office and there literally was one home available in his price range. The sales agent took a long time explaining incentives, upgrades, details etc. We were running late as we had other appointments and asked if there was anything else we needed to know— nope not a thing. We said we’d be back at days end to “walk the lot”! Okay dookey…no problem its a fabulous house – fabulous price. Our buyers was practically in tears of happiness.
Finally Ron and I looked at each other and said to the “bursting with happiness client” – does that house sound like its too good to be true? But being the good happy agents we are we went on our merry way and looked at the homes we had left to visit. Exhausted yet exilerated about the new home we returned to the Sales Office. We were outfited with hard hats, signed waivers and given a map. Upon getting closer to the home something started to LOOM into the horizon and the closer we came the closer it LOOMED until we were faced with the LARGEST MOST IMPOSSING San Diego Gas and Electric TOWER that I have ever seen – sitting just outside of the property boundary for the “amazing house”! Needless to say there was a bit of a shock value and the poor client almost in TEARS- now of dissapointment. NOW….I am all about selling and spinning and marketing but DON’T YOU THINK A SALES ASSOCIATED SHOULD AT LEAST MENTION THERE IS A FLIPPING ELECTRIC TOWER IN THE BACK YARD! We headed back to the office where the sales associate acted like it was PERFECTLY NORMAL TO HAVE A TOWER IN THE YARD! “Oh” she says, “there are a lot of doctors buying on that street”! WHO RADIOLOGISTS? O.K. enough venting—
I just believe in putting out the pros and cons OF a property and a house were you wouldn’t need to LIGHT the BBQ to turn it on should at l least be mentioned!