{"id":497,"date":"2004-11-10T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T15:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/11\/10\/tumstum-tum-tumtums\/"},"modified":"2004-11-10T11:11:32","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T15:11:32","slug":"tumstum-tum-tumtums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/11\/10\/tumstum-tum-tumtums\/","title":{"rendered":"Tums…Tum Tum Tum…TUMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve not taken any Tums yet…but I wouldn’t rule it out. We met with our neighbors last night and they are very interesting in buying our unit. We’re now hashing out the deal. It’s not a given that we’ll end up agreeing on a price\/scenario – but the interest is there on both parties.<\/P>
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I’m royally pissed off at the brokerage firm. After posting my blog yesterday, I got calls and emails from the broker confirming that if we sign with them – even though we found our neighbors without their help, they’d take a commission. They also refused to tell us what amount the other offers were for and refused to tell unless we signed. And then one of them called back and blatantly lied – saying that we should sign the agreement because they served us in good faith by advertising, promoting and marketing our unit. Yet I knew that wasn’t the case because the other broker told me earlier that morning that they had never advertised our unit since an ad they place for a condo across the hall resulted in that condo being sold within two days. So they they just showed our unit instead of that one.<\/P>
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What kills me is that when I first contacted them nearly two weeks ago, I told them we were eager to sell and to leave us any contracts to sign (under our door or at the concierge). They never did it and that wasn’t my fault.<\/P>
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Anyway, yesterday afternoon I left them a voicemail that our neighbors were meeting with their financial planner at 4PM and I would know that night whether our neighbors were interested or not. The brokers never responded. But when I got back from class last night, the broker apparently slid the key under our door with no note and no explanation. It seems kind of petty to me. I mean, they’re risking the chance for a handsome commission if our neighbor’s deal falls through. Why burn bridges? Screw ’em.<\/P>
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On a lighter note, I walked by a fabulous stereotype this morning on my way to work. It was on the Harvard Law School campus and I saw a petite blonde woman wearing 100% pink. She had a short\/tight pink skirt, pink turtleneck, pink sweater, pink coat and a pink jacket (they were all different shades of pink). I swear she was trying to look like Elle Woods (of Legally Blonde). All that was missing was the dog. Anyway, it made me smile. Unfortunately, I couldn’t hold back the smile until after I had passed her so I think she may have thought I was either flirting or making fun of her.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve not taken any Tums yet…but I wouldn’t rule it out. We met with our neighbors last night and they are very interesting in buying our unit. We’re now hashing out the deal. It’s not a given that we’ll end up agreeing on a price\/scenario – but the interest is there on both parties. I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}