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What a Friday I had working the floor at Century 21 Integrity Group.  You will notice that I started this post out with a huge plug.  I was on the floor that day from 9:00 until 1:00 when Chris told me that there was a call on the machine.  I listened to the message and made contact with the potential buyer and scheduled a showing at three properties all within a block of each other.  Thank God Chris was with me because it was a huge showing and being my first large sale, I needed the support.  We toured all the units when the man told us to write on all of them and he would email me the offers.  He did just that so I began to write and re-write the offers with Chris' help.  On the first presentation the owners accepted the offers but we had to clean up one or two minor issues. 

Last week the buyer came to inspect and all was well there.  We are on the path to closing hopefully on August 1st. 

Above you will see me with my very first commission check from Century 32.  I was thrilled with it.  My next one will be three times as much but I would have been happy with $5 just so I made my first sale.  My little cottage on the lake finally sold (Thanks to Denise) who could sell s---- in a bucket.  She is just fantastic at selling real estate.  I don't know what her secret is but she is busy all the time and is just a nice person. 

After the closing on the lake house Denise and I went back to the office and rang the bell hanging on the wall.  From what she says it is a sign of good luck.  I think she was correct.  I will ring the heck out of it in August.  

If you know anyone who would like a great realtor that would be me.
Brian

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Let the Games Begin

 

At long last we are able to do some decorating in our basement.  We purchased the table and chairs from Amazon in spite of the customer review which were correct. 

 

 

The table and chairs arrived in packages that could have been launched into space.  We were excited to open the boxes after we recovered from hauling this downstairs.  We put the table together without any issues and then thought we'd put together a chair to see how it looked.  We used a razor knife to cut the hard cardboard corners off the box and to remove the layers of tape.  We put the box on the floor labeled "this side up".  Steve took the razor and slit the tape and we happily opened the box. WE took one look and said "the plastic is cut".  Well, as it turned out, when Steve cut the box open he also cut the plastic surrounding the seat cushion AND also slit the seat cushion as well. 

 

 

Steve was more angry than I was.  What were we to do.  There was no sense getting angry about it.  I wrote to Coaster and told them that I thought the labeling was poor and the cushion should have been packed with the fabric side down.  I told them that I expected to hear from them but up to this writing, nothing.

 

 

I ordered another chair which came pretty quickly.  We proceeded to put another chair together without incident and then the next. The "next" went together as planned however the caster would not go into the hole even with a hammer.  So, we took the base from the chair with the slit cushion and used that to make one chair.  Then our new chair arrived and we proceeded to assemble it.  By this time we were pretty good at it and made quick work out of the last chair, BUT, as we went to attach the arm to the side we learned that they drilled a huge hole about two inches higher than where it was supposed to be.  We thought the arm would cover it but , NOPE.  We then took the back from the chair with the slit cushion and used that to get the fourth chair assembled.  So now we have a chair with four wheels instead of five, a slit cushion and a back with a drill hole in the wrong spot. 

 

Let's just say that Coaster Furniture got another  note from me, this time it was not so nice.  The long and the short of this story is "believe the reviews on Amazon'.  Everything they said about this table and chair set was correct and perhaps worse than the review.  I will write a review as well.   All in all, it turned out pretty well.