Up, down, up, down

1. $8000 lady and her boyfriend can't come to agreement with the listing agent on times for him to see apartment. There is a difference of fifteen minutes. It has now been pushed to Sunday. I will be upset if this falls through due to these little stupidities.

2. The morning meeting was full of good stuff but also mostly newer people who asked a bunch of stupid questions over and over again. Two of the people in the meeting are hard of hearing. So it all took a while. When I was new I just wrote as fast as I could, looked at other people's notes, looked things up in the computer. I didn't bog down the meeting shouting out questions like, "What's the address at the Milan?" Jeez.

3. Did some previewing with a co-worker, that went well. I don't think we saw anything that wowed, but some decent things.

4. I got a call on a craigslist ad I placed when I thought I would still have that guy's furnished rental exclusive, which by the way, fell through but I am going to get a moving company commission when he moves his stuff. Anyway, I got a call from a guy named Gideon from San Francisco, living in the W Hotel right now (on vacation) with his girlfriend, looking for a 1-2 month furnished sublet, ok with the one month fee, can look this afternoon. Will spend up to $5000. Sounds great, right? Not really. He sounded fishy right off the bat. I made some calls on his behalf when I got back to the office, then called him to say let's meet tomorrow instead of today. I got his voicemail. Left a message. I expect never to hear from him again. I'm not doing anymore work for him until I hear back from him. Plus the dummys at Furnished Rentals didn't answer their phone or call me back. Not cool.

5. I got another call from some freaky lady whom I met at a showing of another apartment months and months ago. She wanted to do an illegal sublet without her landlord knowing. Having just dealt with this situation, I was able to tell her with confidence that I could not put a tenant in her apartment and collect a fee without the landlord's knowledge and approval of the situation. She went on and on for about 11 minutes, asking me if I could help her in any way. I offered meager solutions to her dilemma. She also told me my company should go after the contract to place thousands of relocated Macy's employees. Thanks dude.

6. Another co-worker asked me to show his $2.5 Classic Six on Gramercy Park (open listing) on Saturday since he'll be in Las Vegas with his pack of dudes for Superbowl Weekend. I said sure. We went over to the property and he gave me a tour, told me what to tell the clients, etc. Kinda cool apartment.

7. $2000 studio kid is on hold "for a while.." How long? "Months." Ok.

8. Someone who answered my ad for a cool building in a crap neighborhood hasn't returned my calls or email.

I think there were more things that happened today, but I can't remember and don't care right now...