Perseverance Means No Cricket Sounds Allowed in Sacramento Real Estate

No Sacramento Realtor wants to hear cricket sounds when calling a mortgage lender.

Mortgage lenders in Sacramento are a crucial element to a transaction but they can also be a total bear to deal with. That’s because they tend to either over communicate or under communicate. Now, I suppose they can say the same thing about many Sacramento Realtors, and that might hold some truth as well, but I suspect agents are more likely just not to communicate at all than communicate too much. Cricket sounds are common.

Seems lately either I can’t get mortgage lenders to stop sending me all of their spammy emails or they simply ignore urgent questions. It’s one irritant or the other. Some guy called last week to say he noticed I am closing a lot of sales, so he must have just gotten his license. He wanted to know if I could meet with him because he believes he should acquire more friends. Bully for him. No. Then he asked if he could buy me coffee. No, again. He didn’t have a script for what happens when his target just says no. Not gonna happen, guy.

Dude, I flaked is the usual excuse in Sacramento real estate. Agents drop out of sight, stop communicating on a whim, and when they do pop back into the picture, it’s sorry, I was out of town for several days or wherever. Maybe I’m a bit jealous that I can’t just vanish and skip out of town for a weekend, leaving all of my business hanging, because I’m too damned conscientious. I couldn’t do that to people.

Like the other day I needed an update on a loan to keep my seller from teetering on the brink of insanity due to cricket sounds from the buyer’s lender. The poor buyer’s agent had called the mortgage lender over and over, no response. The buyer’s agent had texted, left voice mails, nuttin’, just crickets. So I thought, well, I’ll give it a shot. I called the phone number, which seemed to be the main line to this particular business, but the phone rang and rang. Then it abruptly disconnected. Cricket sounds.

I sent an email. No response. I called again and this time got dumped into voice mail, so I left an urgent  message. Hey, bet this company has a website. I clicked on the page and it bought up names and phone numbers of other people who work at that company. I started calling them one by one, voice mail, voice mail, voice mail and then voila, a person answered. I shared my dilemma that the mortgage lender has not called the buyer’s agent despite repeated attempts, and I couldn’t seem to get through, either. I asked if there was some magical way I could talk to this individual.

Three minutes later, the lender was on the line. See, I have learned to never give up. Perseverance. There is always a way to accomplish your goal. I’ve never been one of those people who says, well, I called but nobody answered. That’s a loser excuse. I stay on it until I get a response. If you’re on the other side of this, you do NOT want Elizabeth Weintraub on a mission. You do NOT want to give a Realtor who thrives on challenges this task. Just return my call is all I ask. Cricket sounds are unacceptable.