Exclusive

I may have my first exclusive. A guy called into the office this afternoon and it was my turn to get a call. He wants to sublet his apartment furnished for up to six months and he wants it done yesterday. It's kind of a tough situation. On the plus side, I think he is busy enough to like the idea that I do all the work and he doesn't have to (or get to) do anything. On the minus side, it's a furnished short term rental that has to get rented yesterday. Smack dab in Little Italy. Not really a trophy apartment in a businessy part of town. But I'll take it. My pocket listing got rented by the owners, so I got nothing. My open listing I brought in didn't get rented by anyone in our company, so I got nothing. On this deal I will get something no matter what, but it seems like a hard sell. Well the guy was very nice and seems like he could be talked into doing things a certain way, which could work to my benefit. I'll just have to see what happens on Monday.

Speaking of Monday, or really Tuesday, my recent graduate is sweating over the cond-op. The cond-op's agent is sweating over him. The big hold up is that the kid's parents are in Jamaica until Tuesday. They have the say so since they are going to be paying the majority of the bills. And it is gonna be up to me to sell the dad (if the kid can't do a good enough job on his own) the virtues of a cond-op over a straight rental building. Yikes if he loses the apartment, which doesn't seem likely at this point. Yikes because I may go back to showing him rental buildings if dad vetoes this deal. Either way I think I have him. Again, I'll just have to see what unfolds.