We had our first viewing! That is the first time we let potential renters into our home. It was not as bad as expected, although the preceding few days have been!
We met with our property manager Wayne last week, signed all the paperwork took some photos etc. His next step was to post our house as available on his website and Craig’s list and Kijiji. Yep! Even the folks who do this full time use those sites……. its free and easily accessible by potential renters. The only downside if any, is that your home address is posted with the rest of your details, this allows people to check out the area before they come to view. Makes sense right?
What we didn’t expect is that some of these people, who drive by, see that someone is home and come knocking on the door asking to see inside! We turned them away with a request to call our property manager. Wayne had already filled us in on his vetting process and part of it is how people react when they arrive to view a place. Do they take their shoes off without being prompted? Are they polite? etc.
I was really surprised at how perturbed I was by this….. it was then that I noticed that we were having a few people slowly drive by, turn around and do another drive by…… just like people do when a house is for sale (after all we did when we bought this place). Difference is there is no sign on the lawn and these people are not buying they are renting your space.
I have sold homes before; the last was in the UK after the breakdown of my first marriage. That was a traumatic time of course mainly due to the separation, however selling the house and walking away from the place that had been my home for the last 5 years was emotionally easy.
The thought of letting someone else live in my home, while I still own it is actually rather perturbing! It is not just me either, we have both been going through some ”mindfrick” over this, causing sleepless nights and yes some irritability. Perfectly normal after all we are going through some major perturbation here. Every time we have gone through this perturbation before we have survived and thrived! Thanks to some of the things we learned at various Peak Potentials courses we know that intense pressure can cause irrevocable changes- after all a simple lump of coal can become a priceless diamond if enough pressure is applied.
Here’s to the positive changes that pressure brings!
