Just a bit of humor to lighten everyone’s mood on this spectacular day. 

 

Our office has been doing this aggressive open house campaign for weeks with a great deal of success and today was my day to sit one of these open houses.  Now it is Phoenix and we are in the midst of a heat advisory as yesterday’s temperature was a blistering 115 degrees, not to mention gas well over $4 a gallon, but what the heck a plan is a plan!

 

The lender and I arrived at the house with our signs, balloons and tasty treats only to discover that there was a small problem.  It seems the owner had decided to turn off the power and water without informing the listing agent.  Did I mention it was 115 degrees on Saturday?!?!?

 

The situation came as a surprise to the listing agent and we sent a few texts back and forth.  Having a grand sense of humor I informed him the power was not on and that we were “hot” and not in the good way!

 

Now weaker souls would have turned around and headed right back out the door, but alas for several reasons we were determined to stick it out as long as we could until 3PM came or the delirium of the heat over took us.

 

Luckily another agent from my office stopped by and brought us some ice cold drinks, thank you George!  It was a miserable two hours (we left at 2PM), but we did actually have one person stop by that was an actual potential buyer.  Did I mention that it probably will hit 115 degrees today too and the interior of this fun fest open house was 95 degrees?!?!?

 

It was a cute house and under better circumstances would make a great location for an open house, but today was not those circumstances.  As I sit at my desk back at the office chilling in the AC I wonder if someone actually came or if it was the heatstroke providing me with a delusional vision of a person like a desert mirage…

 

Open houses and a Phoenix summer are never a good combination, even when the property you are sitting is chilling with the AC blasting.  Without that AC though it is a lesson in Heatstroke 101!!!