How Rare Is It for a Sacramento Realtor to Work on Sunday?

How rare is it for a Sacramento Realtor to work on Sunday?

The impression the public gravitates toward, that it’s unusual for a Sacramento Realtor to work on Sunday, where do they get that? Every successful Sacramento Realtor I know works on Sundays. You might see a Realtor at an open house, which we typically hold open from 2:00 to 4:00, and think the agent works only 2 hours. But what you don’t see are the signs loaded into the vehicle, the setting up of signs about town. Getting to the house early to turn on heat and lights. Sweeping leaves off the steps. Assembling buyer handouts at the home. Last minute market research and then preparing to welcome guests. Combine the drive and we easily work 4 hours or half a day.

Throw into this mix the last Sunday of November is the last day sellers and buyers can go into escrow by financing a home and hope to close before the end of 2017. Unless maybe the lender is Wells Fargo. I heard from a reliable lender that Wells Fargo doesn’t issue the CD until all loan conditions are met, so you can add another 5 to 7 days to any loan with Wells Fargo.

What a crazy Sunday. For starters, I slept in an extra hour. So I missed the 7:30 AM voice mail from a frantic buyer begging us to take his offer, which we don’t have. While it is not rare for this Sacramento Realtor to work on Sunday, I am usually at my computer around 7 AM. Next on the agenda was a fully executed counter offer that aced out the offer not yet received from the 7:30 AM frantic buyer. Bingo, another into escrow.

Then an offer on another listing arrived. The seller almost signed when a new agent called to say her buyer loved the home! Welcome news, especially since the first agent raked me over the coals. He was very upset because when he called, he put the call on speaker phone in front of his buyer. I pointed out that perhaps he should let an agent know when she is being broadcast. If not law, etiquette demands it. I said it appeared as though his buyers could not afford to buy the property. Because they didn’t have enough money to pay for their own closing costs.

What’s wrong with the truth? Since when does a seller become a charity in a seller’s market? The agent called me names. What? Then he continued to attack me professionally while blurting out even nastier things to me. What a way to go when you’re trying to get your buyer’s offer accepted, huh? Those poor people.

Another seller emailed to say buyers somehow talked to the seller’s mom about buying his home and she wanted him to sell to them. I do not argue over things like this. I contacted the agent, obtained an offer, but it wasn’t to the seller’s liking. We issued a counter. No, Siree, not rare at all for a Sacramento Realtor to work on Sunday.

In a different escrow, I dealt with the standing issue of a bad pest inspection. I usually don’t see too many wrong pest inspections, like calling out subterranean termites when the termites were long ago eradicated and the tubes empty. A new guy at the pest company apparently produced the bogus report. The buyer’s agent did not review the pest inspections. Multitude of problems there but I smoothed them over.

My husband knows it’s not odd for a Sacramento Realtor to work on Sunday, but I worked all day yesterday. No breaks at all. Didn’t get up from my computer except to grab a quick lunch. This is the last chance we’ll have to go to lunch until next year, my husband prodded. He really hoped to go out to a restaurant for lunch. I told him no can do. Reluctantly. A typical Sunday at the end of November. What a mad house this year.