Don’t know about the rest of you, but I found a whole lot of sunshine and choruses of “Hallelujah” Thursday morning at the Brookhollow Country Club where David Griffin & Company Realtors and Virginia Cook Realtors celebrated the two companies’ annual awards meeting in Brookhollow style. After fun chat and a champagne brunch, top producing agents from across the company were recognized by their office managers, from the Sherman office to Fort Worth to Preston Center.
They were all great, of course, but it was Brenda Sims, sales manager and vice president of VC’s Fort Worth office, who got us (me!) laughing the hardest. She detailed the dedication and difficulties her top producing agents have overcome getting properties shown and sold through adversity. One agent walked into a candle-lit home only to discover three naked people in the master bedroom closet. Whoa! Well, at least the closet was large enough to hold all 3! She found a demonstrable selling point out of that “sticky” situation.
There was the hoarder who answered the door in a silk robe with porn playing on the big-screen TV — OK, guys, what is it with Fort Worth? Conservative my behind!
Speaking of behinds, there was the agent who crawled through a doggie door because the listing agent had locked the house keys in the house — she was bound and determined to show this house!
Then she talked about a top producing agent with an unusual listing — the owners had a pet hog. The hog lived in the inside laundry room, with a custom-made “hoggie door.” Of course every time she showed the house, she had to bring a bushel of potatoes to get the hog out of the laundry room through his door. Hurling potatoes into the backyard, she’d send the hog fetching to keep him happy for a showing or two. Just something about a hog walking around a house that might give off a negative perception, ya think?
A whole lot of Virginia Cook agents were honored, and Kyle Rovinsky was honored for his $25 million in sales as the top producer in the company. He gave a remarkable, inspiring thank you at the podium, then said time to get back to work. We agreed.
Moi, Kyle Rovinsky, Virginia Cook, David Griffin, Sheila Rice
