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Sean ([personal profile] sqbr) wrote2009-01-04 06:58 pm
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How not to sell a house

So Cam and I are looking into buying a house. We first met a guy from Mortgage Choice. He was kind of weird.

We then met a woman from Aussie Home Loans, who was much nicer and suggested a much better sounding loan.

Just now Mortgage Choice guy rang up and asked for Cam. The entire point of his call? To figure out how to format a broken memory card.

I'm pretty sure one of the rules of salemanship is not randomly ringing up potential customers and asking them to do you a favour.

According to Cam it's one of the hazards of telling people you're a computer programmer. Which is unfortunate, since he hates helping people(*). Luckily while having a pure maths major got me lots of random "Omigodgrouptheortyishardandmyassignmentisduetommorrow" emails at uni it's not so bad now :) (That and I learned to say "Sure I'll help you, I charge $30 an hour")

(*)Well, helping them with their computers :)

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/ 2009-01-05 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
I can recommend a good mortgage broker to take away all of the pain (well most of it).

email me at karen at difference com au if you like
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[personal profile] alias_sqbr 2009-01-08 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, thankyou. We like the woman from Aussie so will probably stick with her, but if that falls through for some reason will definitely give you a holler.