For sale by owner: A dangerous way to do business especially with a psycho broker
This is an adorable story about a real estate agent who went nuts on a
prospective client, while checking out his for-sale-by-owner at an open
house.
From Property Grunt
cite="http://propertygrunt.blogspot.com/2005/03/for-sale-by-owner-dangerous-way-to-do.html">
The
couple advertised the open house, and Gia Wang, an agent with Prudential Douglas Elliman, was one
of several brokers who showed up to look at the apartment. It is common for brokers to go to open
houses where owners are handling the sale themselves, either in the hope that they may be able to
persuade the owner to turn the listing over to them, or to meet buyers shopping for an
apartment.
Mr. McNulty said he allowed the brokers to look around but asked them not
to stay. He said that Ms. Wang lingered in the apartment and that he had to ask her several times
to leave.
"She left and reappeared a couple minutes later, just ranting
and raving," recalled Mr. McNulty, who worked until recently as a graphics editor for The New
York Times. "Her rants got more incoherent and we said, ‘You’re really scaring us and you
have to go now.’ "
She continued to be belligerent, he said, and when
he tried to remove her from the apartment, she began to claw at his face, scratching him and
drawing blood. "She was dragged kicking and screaming out of my kitchen," he said.
Finally, he said, he got her into the hallway and she fled the
building.
