How not to sell a house

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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 :)

Comments

[frenchiephish.livejournal.com]

I hope you remembered to point out the fact that you're an important doctor!

[evil-megz.livejournal.com]

$30/hour consultation fee for a Dr is as discounted as a rugs-a-million rug! Did you miss a 0?

[firvulag.livejournal.com]

Thanks to Lee I'm much nastier when it comes to helping with computers. I saw the Harvey Norman charges board the other day and considered copying the charges and then knocking 10% off, just cos I'm 'nice'. I no longer will look at someone else's machine without it being on the clock unless they're nice to me and don't do it often and it isn't complex.

[edible-hat.livejournal.com]

Cam needs one of these:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations/388b/?cpg=ab

[stephiepenguin.livejournal.com]

DO YOU HAVE A REALESTATE AGENT? you may be all "we don't need a stinking real estate agent" but you PROBABLY DO.

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

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

[frenchiephish.livejournal.com]

I hope you remembered to point out the fact that you're an important doctor!

[evil-megz.livejournal.com]

$30/hour consultation fee for a Dr is as discounted as a rugs-a-million rug! Did you miss a 0?

[firvulag.livejournal.com]

Thanks to Lee I'm much nastier when it comes to helping with computers. I saw the Harvey Norman charges board the other day and considered copying the charges and then knocking 10% off, just cos I'm 'nice'. I no longer will look at someone else's machine without it being on the clock unless they're nice to me and don't do it often and it isn't complex.

[edible-hat.livejournal.com]

Cam needs one of these:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations/388b/?cpg=ab

[stephiepenguin.livejournal.com]

DO YOU HAVE A REALESTATE AGENT? you may be all "we don't need a stinking real estate agent" but you PROBABLY DO.

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

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