It's Friday, it's the beginning of a new month and we are gettting our fair share of people who are 6 days over their terminated lease and are now being told to move on or resign. I have taken three calls already this morning from resident propspects who NEED to move RIGHT NOW  so they only want to look at units in "this buildling" that are vacant. My favorite nut job I will call Robin.

Robin called and left a message on voicemail this morning about 7:30 am..... then again at 8:00 am, 8:15 am, 8:23 am, 8:37 am and finally 9:02am she reached Trisha our receptionsist. We open at 9;00am. Robin was upset becuase no one called her back after she left her first message at 7:30.

Being the lucky agent on floor time, I talked to her. She gave me the whole run down on how she got screwed over by her current landlord in a verbal rent-to-own deal gone bad and now she has to relocate becuase the owner accepted a contract for sale. (I wrote the contract hee hee)

We have two listings in the building that are vacant so I offered to show them to her. She came down in the elevator and we proceeeded to got through the two units. I told here the rent price ($1450 - $1500) and assured her  that is current market rate for the building. No comments.

We came back to my office where she proceeeded to give me a full dissertation about how overpriced the rent market is here and that she would not pay move than $1000.00 for a 1 bedroom rental on the 39th flloor.  I then got an ear full of how the owners are greedy and she is confident there is a conspiracy of price fixing going on.

Of course I assure her that offering a price 2/3 of the asking price will likley be rejected without a second thought. She tells me that it is my job to get her what she wants and I should stop wasting time, get on the phone while she is there and get cracking. It was now clear she was a nut.

So I called the owners of the units and made the offers. Both owners imediately rejected the offer of a lower rental price.  She became visibly disturbed and started screaming that we were a part of the price fixing and that I should tell the owners to make an exception becuase of her situation. I explained that no serious investment owner is going to loose $6000.00 just to be a nice person. She told me that she was far too busy to move from the buildling and that I had better keep trying.  I explained that we have to give unit owners market data before they list with us and that the price they are asking for the rental is right in line with market rental price. I even pulled up a the last year worth of rentals to show her the prices were reasonable.

Without warning, she shot up out of her chair and stormed out of the office screaming "You f**cking people are not willing to get me what I want at a price I can afford.  If I have to move, it is all your fault!" SLAM!

This is all before 9:30am mind you.

Any other horror stories that catch you by suprise that early?