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A typical day in the mad (episode 8)




Life of negotiations is definitely anything but smooth sailing and this Wednesday, August 10, 2005 will go down in my history as a concentrate of all that can be seen in the work of crazy (s)

a clear blue sky, spring temperatures and almost no pollution, yet idyllic day promised on the capital. And it was, until 10:30. Small

back.

Last Saturday I received a call from a lovely lady from Bordeaux, it is looking for a location for his son and our announcement of a three-room furnished apartment close to Gare de Lyon interests. The boy, it's good, is just about Paris with Dad and could be visited in the afternoon. No problemo, I'll Be There.

Meanwhile a student has also slipped into the schedule. With the current price charged for indecent studio or any studio rikiki as a roommate and try to offer the same price a 50 m2, the approach does not surprise me, I note the appointment.

On the way I get a call from my colleague who warned me that his client also wants to visit and will be there around 15:00

The table is full, the players are there and the play can begin. Our student

is ahead and got acquainted with Bordeaux. The father has the features of a George Clooney has taken a little belly but the handshake is frank and sincere smile, the boy, curly short hair, the posture GastonLagaffe, in shorts, sneakers, t-shirt looks like any kid who just completed his post adolescent stage to this loan, 1 / it actually comes to celebrate his 24 years and 2 / is in Paris for three years to prepare his doctoral thesis ... (sic. ..) The student, it just looks like a student, and also disappears after 5 minutes, promising to remember (I'm still waiting)

As the Girondins linger and start to take action, indicating that in general only rarely do wrong on the successful outcome of the visit, I sat on the couch and answered questions

- "yes, it is good that we will be in management, asked for bail four times the amount of rent and proof of employer to ensure there is no trial period or notice of dismissal under way about you working in what area? "
- "me?, Chief engineer at the National Society of Powder and Explosives my wife and university professor, I think the income side it should not pose too many problems ..."

At nearly twelve times the amount of rent, I do not think either (re-sic. ..)

They are interested can drop me a folder on the same day (ultra full) and return "to my liking" Bordeaux for signing the lease. I love them. I promise to call them after discussion with the owner and wish them a speedy return.

Afar town hall bells chime three times, I scan the street and waiting for my last visit. Until a record is not validated, everyone has a chance. Fair enough.

From it, since it is a client, my colleague just told me she was a doctor in "névrologie" and wore high heels with a skirt yellow flowers. She could complete the description mentioned the uncanny resemblance both in physical gestures with the singer Catherine Ringer of Les Rita Mitsouko Marcia Baila time, the weight of years and more.

Ten minutes late (on the pretext that the metro was far) the patchouli perfume, makeup overloaded on a foundation
crudely applied, five words, five "I" is on it I did not love

- "the kitchen?, yes, bof, not bad but too small, the decor?, how awful, well, you saw this bathroom? you see me live in a place like this? and overlooked (NDR: 200 meters), you've seen the opposite?, one is practically a neighbor ... Ah, it was not like that on the pictures to the agency, you made me lose time, that's all "

Damn!, But from which she graduated this? Doctor névrologie?, neurotic, yes I had like two little words to say to my colleague on his return. At the foot of the building when his client has even bothered to give me his details so that I remember. I took the penalty find a basket in which lay the piece of paper and decided to erase from my memory ad eternam.

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This morning, Wednesday, it is 10.30, Mr. Dupre is punctual. His wife is on vacation but he sent a proxy to sign the management mandate. I would submit it for the future Nobel laureate in physics and answered his questions.

- "you think it is solid?"

- "concrete" I replied, "we should have no problem with such a tenant, you have all the possible guarantees"

- "um, in this case, since it is so easy, I could assure myself Management "

Un ange passe, for a moment the silence is perfect, this is the first time we put myself through punishment to have done my job too well, so not finding the words I meditate now, mumbles some excuse and can leave in the company's management assistant.

My next appointment is set at 14:00 so, for once, I give myself time for a real breakfast. I did well because the day away from being finished, would still reserve many surprises.

Novice, I have been, do not blame this is my creed of rookie mistakes are easily made and do well in believing that my colleague has put his foot in it by offering his client (pressed) to join the scheduled visit to the studio. It and I found myself with two clients whom I do not know with whom there had been no discovery purchaser to visit the same property. Before the start I knew this was going to be crappy. I am not mistaken.
I do not recall hearing my client's sarcasm, however, the surprise guest is still ringing in my ears;

- "What?, It's not worth over 25,000 euros (a third of the list price) the paint is rebuild (due to a hook in the wall) to change the ball (he did not 2 years) if it can reassure you Madam cheeère I'll leave with a good heart "

And all this with smile and a strident voice of Castafiore (who, apart from obesity, it looks like, by the way)

A moment of loneliness came over me, the wall must contain velcro because I can not move . Finally I get out of my stupor and began to close the shutters, the visit is completed.

Gods had mercy on me probably because my next vision was that of an angel on earth

Back at the agency I was so focused on my phone conversation that I did not immediately attention to this woman's hand stretched out towards me

- "Hello, I miss Del Rio, we had you made an appointment to visit a studio street Reuilly "

Mechanically I touch the soft hand gently while my pupils adjust to the filament, before me, nice slender legs, the exquisite ripple of an embroidered dress perfectly adjusted to the size of your dreams, bare shoulders, black hair, fiery eyes, Esmeralda knew my name and my heart stopped beating

I can not remember if I said goodbye to my partner before hanging up, I was in a trance, trip to the Tex Avery, jaw and tongue on her knees on the ground held up the front door.

- "Diego my fiance with me, it does not bother you? "

-" uh, no, of course, let me just enough time (to take my mind) "will find the keys and'm Yours" (body and soul)

I should have suspected that the fop is not waiting outside his brother, therefore I am still blunder not to fall, taking my foot on a piece of language that drags the ground

For once I wish the well is more distant, walking alongside Esmeralda was like floating on a cushion of air, believing in the skin of a Gene Kelly in the company of the graceful Debbie Reynolds s 'fun of rain falling and the world in general.

Located in a beautiful building stone plastered, the studio has been refurbished and the price is not exorbitant. Diego and his beloved bride is seduced. She asks me questions, I answer yes to almost everything, she could recite the contents of a directory of yellow pages that it would not affect my concentration. Again this strange feeling that the wall is covered with Velcro ...

the stairs, already on the way home, one last question:

- "it is like district, there are no flights or insecurity?"

- "Be reassured, it could not be more tranquil "

In the lobby, plus a door to cross.

-" there is to go to court? "

- yes, you want go take a quick glance? "

The best is the enemy of the good, we could stop here and leave with peace of mind ... do not throw stones ...

A courtyard bathed sun as there are thousands in Paris, on the left a small balcony covered with flowers and the front window of an A4 sheet in a protective plastic with a preamble saying:

- "dear burglar, if you iron in the corner ... "

For the second time that day I was living a moment of solitude ...

Annoyed I go to the agency. I'm just sitting I see happening in a whirlwind fury in high heels

- "hello, you must find me a rental, I am a doctor and I do not seek anything, keep my phone number here I am very pressed "

I can not believe it is the neurotic and she does not even remember me!

I do not know if it's the proximity to St. Anthony Hospital for some time but the nerds of all kinds have decided to make agencies real estate. Perhaps because, somewhere, we are one of the last places where one can sit and talk to someone who lends an ear. Some go as far as to make visits and make an appointment to sign a compromise. Of course, the day j, and when one person calls the number left on the offer one falls on the reception of a center for homeless

ordinary day in the crazy ...

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Dead quiet (episode 7) The


is a sluggish end of July on the capital. We test the answering of which the diodes are blocked to 0, we verify that there is dial tone on phone line, we will send itself to e-mails to make sure it does not bug the ISP level.

The traditional summer transhumance empty Paris of its wealthiest residents. Tired of the negative answer to the few visitors who enter the agency (we have blocked the door open) and looking for studios to let "good and not too expensive" is toying with the idea of going to the exploration, history of fresh air. I look at the stack of flyers, my watch out. The sky turns gray as my wish, I wait a little longer.

In my drawer, the left, I keep a collection of "flyers" filed by my "colleagues" in the mailboxes.

Gleaned during my travels this is impressive mound of evidence, a sort of ode to stupidity and waste generated by the theory of the hypothetical return of a thousand.

Bah! All is not lost, I do not know if it's psychological or content but since I consulted in the bathroom I have no problem with constipation.

Two weeks ago I had the same chance of getting the pearl, ze flyer of the year! I've seen a lot, some worse than others and boat but it exceeds the lot, the "100 minutes to convince you "is an AOC, a great vintage!

After it is surprising that the image of the profession is what this is!

This post is signed on 31 July but I have not finished than now. Truth is stranger than fiction and often three weeks have been pretty ungrateful for not succumbing to the blues, coming home I feel like my energy on IVAO (scaring the birds) than talk about real estate.

And then there were all these messages of encouragement for me, the insignificant pilotaillon Sunday, Realtor by accident and we do not hate it after all.
Thanks from the heart (it's good to feel human ;-)
Next episode: the swan song?

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Scoumoune (episode 6)


An estimate without a future, a sale that falls into the water during the period SRU, a term which lacks the signature of the companion (art.215) and voila what a week that was. so start poo turns yellow.

When the shit hits The Fan .... The

episode 5 leaves only the exception that proves a rule unfortunately becoming more assertive, that, in Paris, those who could afford it have already bought or are parties, most the remaining no more than the mid point of walkers using disillusioned dreamers mid salesperson as an outlet for their frustration. Thus

and even if prices remain at stratospheric levels, property or poorly located with major defects are becoming harder to find a buyer and a price decline of nearly 15% is not sufficient to ensure sale.

Within a month it's still my third coat that then one of two things, either the market has engaged the thrust reversers, which I think is bad luck follows me (no incompatible)

The first sale overturned a Half an hour before signing the agreement for a history of 7 centimeters parking! (2.43 wide instead of 2.50) The fact that the purchaser is redneck and back constantly with his 4 / 4 would not help things obviously not face a saleswoman who bullshit aside, had been blessed in the cradle.

Second failure, last week. On the eve of the compromise, while the bid had been hotly negotiated and accepted with a substantial decrease in prices (contrary to popular belief, go live by the PAP is not necessarily synonymous with economics) and that any the family had visited, revisited and approved, the girl finally decided that the color of the dress pleased him more or something like that. Too bad for the many hours of work, running with the trustee to obtain the clearances of charge, raises for the certificates up to date, "psychologically" the wench was not ready ... Last

setbacks during the period SRU before travel abroad, a brief visit late yesterday afternoon, just to take some measures. It is nice, the apartment is sunny, no noise in the building, so good. The visit ended I shut the door and called the elevator, the purchaser has the smile, can go "Peace of mind", tutti va bene. His cell phone rings. Forgot the elevator, there he is mechanically borrows the stairs. Everyday of the week, all hours of the day the fate wanted us to meet at this precise moment the person in charge of maintenance in the process of moving Serpieri the stairs. There remained Q'una floor down.
- "Hello ma'am, I just bought the 5th, it's been a while since you work here? The building is well maintained?"
- "oh, you know, I usually do not complain, but this week I still found a syringe on the floor, probably the young of the 4th, it seems that is a junkie "

The sale was done for.

But to mark the occasion and make this brave lady decided to add a layer:
-" surprised he does not also deal "

In checking my Attendance Record I counted 11 trips to this apartment building not beautiful, it is true (a renovation would not be a luxury) but the common equity, not a paper or cigarette butt on the ground (not like some buildings, called "luxury") but with comments like that would buy in the Bronx?

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Meet good people (episode 5)

Today was a good day.

They are so rare that a page had to immortalize this happiness by nature ephemeral.

all began with an estimate in a beautiful 5 room apartment with balcony on the 10th floor near Coulee Verte with breathtaking views and an owner who, having traveled the world, acquired a certain talent for storytelling. More accustomed to the attentions of my hosts whose time is always ticking and who do not understand why I do not give them an estimate right away instead of oral obstinate desire to measure everything, peel, analyze, I confess that I 'I took undisguised pleasure to browse the 5 continents seated in a comfortable chair, sipping a mocha from Ethiopia.

There followed a signing of agreement with a seller and a buyer who immediately sympathized. As in a dream, not a single point of contention, yet it has been two years since there was no AG (the operator has blocked without warning) and major works have been predicting (and front cage stair)

The day ended by taking a mandate to market in a small 2 pieces in perfect condition and tastefully decorated. Stay in the sweet voice of bewitching Cristina Branco filtered loudspeakers in the room and my eyes fell on this beautiful poem framed Wall:

"In all the walls there is a crack,
throughout crack very quickly
there is a bit of land in
this land, the promise of a germ, germ this fragile hope there
of a flower, and in this flower

the certainty of a sunny petal of freedom "

Yes, I admit, sometimes I visit beautiful mansions, meet beautiful girls and instruct me in contact with people erudite. And then there are good people, people who disregard the real estate agent to focus on humans. People who welcomed me and confide in as if I was a family friend. People like Jean Louis, an airline pilot and expatriate, who, at the first visit, fell in love with a major studio and, with infinite patience, listened and answered the many questions that I am pilotaillon.

Yes, I sometimes smile and love this job, against all odds, some days ...

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estate agent, what future? (Episode 4)

Some would say that I'm cynical, negative and pessimistic in addressing the trade of real estate consultant as we are called today.
But how to thrive in a profession whose status has not changed since 1972? The conditions of access have made it one of the least rewarding: vendor crates salads Rungis one day, powered real estate agent the next day because the more that real estate professionals, agencies seek above all professionals sale.

Only coercion to obtain the registration card to negotiate: not having been convicted of a crimes listed in Article 9 of Law Hoguet (the status of commercial agent is still more lax) Issued annually, this card, very few have the negotiators and therefore the commissions and mandates of this could be easily exposed.

Open a real estate agency is a breeze, just to have a minimum education (bac + 2) or proof of employment in the sector for a period shorter or longer depending on the case ( a maid in a public housing agency may well open his after 10 years)

A minimum financial input, select CPR (professional indemnity) and a financial guarantee (which includes funds held) to find a room, install a desk, telephone, 4 chairs and voila!

If we consult the yellow pages of the site there are today in Paris 232 funeral, 603 banks, 635 florists, 832 bakeries, cafes and some 2602 2693 estate agents!

Fierce competition with methods of carpet merchants, the omnipresent shadow of the PAP, which is a killer, a brand adrift, commissions incommensurate with the service provided, so cynical, pessimistic, negative? not that much, realistically, simply.

To understand this we must bear in mind that the boss of an estate agency does not manage stock, made a minimum investment, that pays no more or less its stages but which relate if they sell ten times the development and otherwise are fired without compensation as they are subject to a contractual obligation of result.

The system advances on commissions, widely used in the profession and that I "enjoy" is a gem of ingenuity capitalist because every time I get to pay 1000 euros I have 1350 euros to the employer for I pay much of my expenses.

As the Committee is recognized in the best case, that after three months upon signing of the deed at the notary we easily found a negative of 4050 euros, so we don ' touched on that 3000 while working like a madman. It is not life grand?

is unfair and immoral but legal and that is why turnover is so important and that every day hoping to open new branches enjoy the windfall.

At the end of my training ESPI many headhunters came to see us, all the major networks, of course, have sent their recruiters, but there was also in the lot of future patterns of agency, two in particular are excellent examples of this perception purely venal profession.

The first "young" retiree EDF has no money worries (Bl) wants to get into real estate because it is inactive now, well he's afraid of boredom anyway it will not make it long, "just enough to buy a boat for trips to the islands"

The second has just sold his ready to wear shop in the Sentier, real estate attracts because that "selling it knows" and "there's money to be made" only take co agents at first, candidates?

And that's how we find ourselves in a city renowned for the beauty of its monuments and its cultural diversity with more real estate agencies that it does have cafes and museums combined.

forests being murdered for printing flyers where they repeat all the time it's the right time to sell. Because it is you, and you deserve it, you a free estimate is even reserved! Image she hopes to give the profession by devaluing their work to beg for a mandate?, What other job is there a benefit party without cons? How much credit in his tie conditions in these pseudo estimates, and that's the irony of this sad farce, used primarily to future sellers to inflate their reserve price on the PAP by incorporating a com agency?!

Of all the countries of the Eurozone is us where commissions are higher and the market share of the lowest.

How agencies want to get out if they all use the same methods? Some push the stupidity to put on To stay or to sell to rent the description of a property for which there are already 14 similar ads with a photo?? (Lived with a mandate that I easily entered, too ... and finally I did not put in pub)

There have been attempts at self-help groups and agencies such as Together (pooling of all orders) or MLS (Multiple Listing Service Agency or stock exchange exclusive mandates) but to no avail. Having tested both I can only see the devastation. Individualism and non-compliance with the rules of the game these are the main reasons for the failure of agencies together with the idea, however, was not bad. On the SIA, I remember at one point there must be something like 54 agencies listed, and there were only 43 mandates (unmarketable) who share in the purse! The height is that those who play the game and then fed into money to pay their dues in addition to 70 euros per pack of three terms!?

Another perverse effect of this system: we will focus on the massive recruitment of new members to make as much money as possible.
should know that in real estate are not at all complaining, some employers also agencies that are doing very well, franchises, they, suck up to 6% of annual turnover of the agency and more baksheesh's input. Large groups of ads on Internet and free newspapers for the remaining share of the spoils. Do not be surprised if upon arrival, with so much mess and mouths to feed, Prices transaction fees are so high.

It is far from the pragmatism of Americans who were in the same situation as us 20 years ago and now control 90% market share. Offering a full range of services to clean up the profession to enact strict rules of conduct, encourage training and harmonize commissions by relying on volume rather than looking for the maximum gain is what has saved Real Estate across the Atlantic!

In the land of Uncle Sam's relationship with the customer is not confined only to open the shutters and to visit the winery, our colleagues offer a turnkey service that runs from the entry of toddlers to school until the taking of administrative expenses related to the relocation. The concept of service combined with a rigorous examination of knowledge (a real estate agent in Florida who has recently told me that a degree was as difficult as a lawyer) largely explains the reasons for success. Remains to apply the same revenue in France. It is our survival.

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Rentals: The best of the worst (episode 3) The case

This Wednesday, July 6 history will mainly face elimination from Paris to London 012. No more ads psychedelic style: "beautiful studio on the 6th with no elevator work towards the future Olympic Village for athletes bad, Too bad for politicians. At least it will pull the rug under the feet of those who wanted to use it to justify or maintain (the outlier) increase in property prices.

History will again this week the conviction of a manager of real estate agency in the south of France have, for years, rejected foreign offers of housing demand of some 250 owners.

course they are not worried and that's it the saddest.

Last week a record yet validated by our management service has been unreasonably withheld by the owner. I say "valid" because, frankly, aside from the fact that the candidate is of Caribbean origin there was no reason: it was the only folder have crossed the obstacle course and in Paris, although since September things start to change, given the conditions and guarantees still required is already an achievement in either!

As unrest in the country of human rights ...

of Irony fate, the girl went back to the pink city to the capital to continue his studies, his only blemish of his skin color: black. Black as the immortal Leopold Sedar Senghor, academic and man of letters. Black as the inspired Jimmy Hendrix, touched by grace and legendary guitarist. Black also like divine Halle Berry, actress, so beautiful that the angels are inspired to paint in secret colors of the rainbow trout.

- "you find me good people, eh?, No North African or Asian or black, know am not racist, that's not it, just that I prefer, then you see ... "

Not poor sucks I do not know, statistically the category that poses the biggest problem in hiring is made up of educated and affluent whites working in the legal field. Our biggest disaster so far been the work of a "white" French, a nurse by profession and who, for the op, did not hesitate to produce false documents, the ensuing lack of insurance , the regulations late and to top it all of the apartment fire, whose origin still leaves me puzzled to say the least ...

Racism and greed go hand in hand, the Ténardier will not forget to specify that obviously did not intend to hand in their pockets and pay us for our work.

Legally it is safe, in fact, the Act of July 6, 1989 indicates that we should simply ask the landlord the same amount to the tenant agency fees are shared equally, So there is no reason that free agency works for the good of the community.

In practice, especially for properties already in management, we will make up the form book have the gift to the owner.
The tenant and negotiate, them to take the carrot, the first charge, the second being paid about half the com.

An equivalent amount of work for sale, a fee 10 to 20 times lower, state of endless places (up to one of the cellar!) Owners neurotics who go crazy just because a small hole in the wall or a stain on the carpet, endless reminders because the toilets are noisy or ill-fitting door, short but happiness ...

The award in the category lessor nevertheless returns to the happy owner of a rented 40 m2 € 750 Bd Davoult in the 20th and has succeeded to integrate foutage mouth of the lot.

This distinguished lady in the flower (faded) of the age called in May for which he is a tenant quickly because his leaving the F2 at the end of the month.

Free, of course.

In the art of negotiations, more than anywhere else, luck plays a major role, being in the right place at the right time is the secret of a good term, a successful sale.

Listed bummer I'm pretty varnished, the call was for me, I was leaving on a mission.

After one week we had received a dozen phone calls, 10 candidates were selected. Go perform on Saturday between 10:30 and 13:30, with visits spaced every quarter of an hour Unlike other "colleagues" I think the carts (herd visits) are unworthy, do not do unto others .. ..

The downside: Loved the rabbit, three that day!

But I had taken the precaution to prevent in advance - "no problem, the tenant is on vacation, it does not fit within a week, take the keys with the concierge" everything is going ... except that the gods have decided otherwise. When I arrive with the first candidate I meet on the stairs to find a tenant hand, he returned to the airport.

- "you have tours?, Ah?!, Good, well we will do with it, go, come, especially not pay attention to the disorder, I moved a little hastily"

Disorder? ... Nah, site, shambles, after typhoon yes but no disorder. It's simple to move it had to be like Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade: by not driven by stepping over mounds of records, especially pay attention to stacks of clothes in delicate balance and not to bump into boxes scattered to the 4 corners. The kitchen?, A pile of dishes and empty bottles in the room were looking vines to be able to powering up the bathroom. What an adventure! What a mess!

Fortunately humor is the best defense, overall, it was quite good. A happy and a gallery of characters parade for nearly two hours with a special mention to Professor Juan Tai Chi, Yoga translate Chinese, who, using his compass, looked at once the good vibes. The magnetic orientation relative to the axis of the entrance to the apartment being satisfactory we pushed all a "sigh" of relief.

Race Results, on arrival, we have: 1 too expensive, 3 I remind you, two were undecided and 1 I am interested (of course I counted the strokes of rabbit in the category of invalid votes )

returned to the agency owner I relate to my journey and he triumphantly announced the good news: "Habemus file!"

Delighted, she asked me just a few small details on the nationality and occupation of the prospective tenant, I reassured her and promised to call back earlier this week after studying the issue.

Tuesday morning upon arriving at the agency filed a fax on my desk delivered me from my promise, the owner had doubled! Even half-price race ended there, my passenger had to get off and walk alone. At dinner I had the place of con honor.

And yet ... there is no point in running, he must leave on time!

Inspired by the Greek fabulist Aesop fable by Jean De La Fontaine is oh so relevant in an era that saw to shatter the moral foundations of society today built on individualism and lack of scruples.

Mid June, my host at dinner con, ventured a second recall on the grounds that his protege had withdrawn at the last leaving in a minute the embarrassment embarrassing.

Thank God there is justice ...

- "I wish you resume the visits, by the way, did you not anyone interested?"

The greatest joys are often internal, without raising his voice, calmly, with simplicity and dignity I sent balls.

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Cohen or the art of exploiting the beetle (episode 2)


Tuesday afternoon is dragging on, it hangs over Paris the usual yellow halo, indicative of a new pollution peak. At the end of June is the time to storm activity and sluggish, I'm constantly sleeves rolled up, it's hot, no air conditioning, the phone rings, I pick up.

is Mr. Cohen, he owns a large studio rue Erard, wants an estimate (free) and it is pressed (do not they all are?)

Courtois and steady voice that happy owner several properties in Paris confesses his confusion about the apparent lack of sensitivity of the tenant who remained six years, has always paid his rent on time but the feet of furniture clearly imprinted on a pretty carpet (do not they all are?)

- "of course we have a camera, yes, I'd be happy to capture the outrage and so as to make, since the measurement was not done as I bring the necessary" .. . because that is your desire ...
Bishop ...
-..." TSST, TSST, but no, it does not bother me, go "... quesqu'on would not get a mandate, eh?

Rendezvous is taken at 18:30 at the foot of the building, the lobby is large and welcoming, good luck, I engulfed myself. Outside it's pouring, and as apparently I am alone in thinking that punctuality is a basic form of respect as much patience dry.

With quarter of an hour late Caesar finally arrives, I bow before the August person, Mr. Cohen seems straight out of an advertisement for Grandpa Brossart, temples bald, graying hair, backs bent by the weight of years, hint of a smile but the eyes sharp and alert business man always on the lookout.

Thus he spotted a couple without difficulty and a young man with a bag of studying and rightly deduced that they came to visit the studio on the 17th floor loc.

And yes, our friend, doubtless carried away by his delight at the idea of my knowledge forgot to tell me he also stroked the idea of re-lease his property to incorporate the increase calculated on the INSEE index multiplied by the no less consequential scale of slumlords.

Bah, I opened the agency at 09.30, took 10 minutes to eat a sandwich, 2 to 3 minutes to use the toilet (and wash my hands), 5 minutes for my cigarette in the afternoon, he 6:45 p.m. ET is here I poirot the 17th floor of a building not especially beautiful of the 80

This is not the first time I felt like the skin of a Jehovah's Witness awaiting permission from the householder to have the honor to enter in places ...

No RTT days of ten hours or more, a retreat (sic) calculated on the basis of 70% of the minimum wage, no mutual vacation at a discount, not even a restaurant or tickets phone plan, I'm patient and love my neighbor but that the Kohen, well, he began to get drunk slightly.

Finally at 19:00 he accompanies the lift prospective tenant, bad luck "they liked but did not earn enough" or "the guarantees are too light "..." times are tough ..." My heart bleeds with compassion ...

The studio is not bad, sound walls, lots of storage space, kitchenette clever, electricity standards .... 1980, single-glazed windows, bathroom to review (lack ventilation) double exposed, but nasty towards one side. In short, repainted, carpet shampooed, windows changed, redone bathroom, secure entrance gate the apartment could appeal. I immersed myself, take measurements, photographs and fact already preparing my estimation. One last complaint

my host before leaving:
- "could you please send me the pictures with your estimate?, No I do not have Internet, go, if I prepare and mail all that this I have tomorrow night to my office "

Sure he smokes the carpet and not that grandpa

picture ... It is customary to say that happiness never comes alone, it's false!, it is sh * it, which always arrive in waterfall! Same for the "Fortune favors the bold" What nonsense!, in fact she smiles especially chieur! remains a saying that he, not an exception to the rule: the money goes silver.

Mr Cohen to luck, fate has willed that I go near his office the next day Bd Barbes (inventory in the industry) and so I took the opportunity to drop him in his box Letters to the pouch prepared in the morning same.

around 15:00 when I scan with an air of vexed the latest hallucinogens appeared on live auction listings (a box that had the intelligence to make money by pumping 99% of ads on the CSP for refourguer by mailing estate agents to list) one of my colleagues wonder if I know some Coben is on the phone and calls me?

My brain, in the end computer, knows that we are still far from happy hour with 2 pints of beer available for purchase one at the pub opposite and then immediately reconnects the circuits, Mister Cohen?, yes, for me, thank you, The Show is back on the road!

From that moment everything is going very fast and yet, in retrospect, I have the feeling of having experienced a transition to the Matrix where the action is idling ...

In fact thanks to my work follows a plea for a sale price 10% higher than estimated (though to 5900 € / m2 for any property I already thought to be west)
My
interlocutor justifies this position by the fact that if a compromise is signed tomorrow, the signing of the deed, she will intervene when in three months and by then prices will anyway take at least 10 % while integrate as many already in the price of this sale (hypothetical) increase in history to be protected "

a moment I close my eyes and recalls the happy days filled with carefree, these evenings listening to Roy Orbison singing for lonely like me, who go around barefoot on the beach without a penny in your pocket but head full of dreams that only adolescence can produce in industrial quantities.

The crumbles over time more slowly, I can not remember what I responded on this exaggerated baseless anyway Scrooge was already far away, now had to "I put me in connection with the trustee of the building to untangle this legal and financial as SCI "which had acceded to my" client "to avoid the voracity of the state.

At this moment our relationship in his last moments of life.
Even before touches me the idea of offering an appointment with my principal to sign a mandate to delimit and possibly consider a fair return for the work requested This tells me firmly:
- "of course, at this stage there is no question that I sign a warrant"

It's funny, when taking refuge in the past with nostalgia, it never rains, the sky is always clear, starry nights, there is neither hunger nor thirst, a fragrance still seems to float in the air or are it my imagination?

Back in 2005 my voice ringing out on the founding principles of the law Hoguet for whom no salvation without a warrant, I am the apostle of the poor owner who I disservice to the detriment of the recipient that supports the commission I would warn against the lack of insurance in case something goes wrong during a visit without being duly authorized ...

- "Sir?"
- "uh, yes?" I replied after a moment of hesitation
- "Goodbye!"

Bang! Like that, amidst a tirade without warning, the ax fell, the discussion was over, the subject closed. A forever.

Behind me at the clock showed 3:07 p.m.

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The beetle and the pursuit of office (episode 1)


If the beetle facilitates the growth of the grass he is not sure it is the same between the Realtor and area of activity.
Yet the similarities abound.

Reminder: the dung beetle is an insect that spends his life finding feces of mammals and rolls it down into a ball. Organized and pragmatic

the beetle gives the ball a pear shape to win more easily to its burrow.

Once he tries to take advantage of the faster it and it lays an egg or two so that the larvae can thrive in peace. The beetle spends

from either the most despised, chewing his long patience is equaled only by the long twist that escapes from him to another round, another round, another quest.

It leaves the banquet that the work completed, the ball entirely recycled, the time consumed SRU, the sale.

This analogy between the animal and when I exercise reflects thinly veiled that I feel from day to day. Regardless of skill, years of study, the endless hours, the poor pay, the market is bullish, the very rare and sellers are the kings of oil.

contemptuous desire, greedy and treacherous, the worst are those who bought there are 5, 6 years while the market was at its lowest, most exceed 100% of capital gains, but their appetite is insatiable. This is the generation

Gou-mouth, they think they know everything, are able to do anything, and anyway, even then the market in their favor since this hot month of July 2005 anything and everything continues to sell at any price ...

long as it does not last!

There's even anticipating "the increase in three months" to incorporate already in the current retail price! Yes, yes, I saw him not later than this week and it Dailleurs this small drop of delirium too pushed me to do this blog so that survives the right in the middle of this ocean of stupidity.

The case in which Cohen how the beetle will operate at lower costs will be my first slice of life episode 1 in a burlesque show where the real estate agent that I'm struggling as well that evil to survive and keep their spirits up.

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