it has been a whirlwind week. J's aunt was here from nuevo mexico (staying in a cool hotel, with an old *nearly* manual elevator - no pressing buttons on this one) for 2 nights, then her cousin was here from london, then one night off and my sister was here for the weekend, then kp from oz was here! fun fun fun! i love having visitors, it makes me feel like #1 i know my way around DC and #2 i can tell people things about DC that they don't otherwise know. ok, neither worked with kp since she's from here... but still. somehow it makes me feel connected to the city. i want to represent it well.
(wo)man town [read: tv room] is well on it's way to being complete. we picked up a fab couch at the crate and barrel outlet for 45% of the normal price. steal. and a huge mirror for the bedroom, allowing us to see what we look like when we walk out the door. we still need a bookcase, a new desk, and a big piece of art for above the bed. but it's coming along. we have so much wall space we don't know what to do with it. and big art = big credit card bills.
work is fine/slow. the weather took a severe turn for the cold. and all else is great. oh! i have a new theory on gay marriage. how about instead of pushing for equal rights, we just strip str8 people of the rights that marriage gives them (tax benies, survivorship rights, what have you)? then people who remain single for life don't lose out either. i mean, come on, why should you get a better tax rate because you said some vows in front of a group of people?
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
morals
hey, back again after another month off... oopsie. i don't really bring my mac with me to work anymore as i have a (piece of #@!!#@@ hp) 'puder at my desk.. and once i get home, the last thing i want to look at is a screen with tiny words on it. but hey, i have a crackberry, so you can just email me directly when you want an update and i *promise* i will respond quickly.
today i was faced with immoral, unethical and downright nasty practices here in the real estate business. i find it so frustrating, but there is nothing i can do but suck it up for the sale. a woman, licensed in another state, brought her daughter in. daughter purchased. there was a whole conversation about how mom isn't able to get commission b/c she isn't licensed here, yadda yadda, no biggie. the next day, mom calls all upset, telling me her broker (she's a part time agent) wants his name on the contract, they deserve the commission, etc. the law states that as a buyer's respresentative, you have to be the "procuring cause" of a sale. you know, YOU inform them of the property, you bring them to the property, you attend the first meeting, you do all the work, etc. the daughter found out about the property because of an email blast we sent out, the mom's broker never had anything to do with it, it's all BS. but "save the sale" and write them in.
makes me nutso. it's so wrong. not that i am trying to save the big corporation's dollar or anything. i could care less about that. but it's the practice of this other broker, the demands, the game just to get paid on something they don't deserve that makes me infuriated.
plus i am in real estate school now, so i am TOTALLY holier than thou when it comes to the letter of the law. well, as holy as an athiest can be.
in other news, it's nice being a homeowner, the gatos are really happy with the new place (i can tell!) and my big birthday is coming up. not that it's a big birthday per normal standards, but every birthday is a big one to me! wooooohoooooo!
today i was faced with immoral, unethical and downright nasty practices here in the real estate business. i find it so frustrating, but there is nothing i can do but suck it up for the sale. a woman, licensed in another state, brought her daughter in. daughter purchased. there was a whole conversation about how mom isn't able to get commission b/c she isn't licensed here, yadda yadda, no biggie. the next day, mom calls all upset, telling me her broker (she's a part time agent) wants his name on the contract, they deserve the commission, etc. the law states that as a buyer's respresentative, you have to be the "procuring cause" of a sale. you know, YOU inform them of the property, you bring them to the property, you attend the first meeting, you do all the work, etc. the daughter found out about the property because of an email blast we sent out, the mom's broker never had anything to do with it, it's all BS. but "save the sale" and write them in.
makes me nutso. it's so wrong. not that i am trying to save the big corporation's dollar or anything. i could care less about that. but it's the practice of this other broker, the demands, the game just to get paid on something they don't deserve that makes me infuriated.
plus i am in real estate school now, so i am TOTALLY holier than thou when it comes to the letter of the law. well, as holy as an athiest can be.
in other news, it's nice being a homeowner, the gatos are really happy with the new place (i can tell!) and my big birthday is coming up. not that it's a big birthday per normal standards, but every birthday is a big one to me! wooooohoooooo!
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