Vaccinations and Real Estate

I was asked a couple of weeks ago to set up 13 weekend showings for a brand new client. Houses all over the place and a chance, they said, for them to get to know the city. None of the properties were serious prospects, but in more normal times it’s a reasonable enough way to start a real estate search. 

I’m not sure what made me ask if the buyer if they were vaccinated, but I did and they weren’t. I turned down the business (and shook my head, and paced back and forth a bit. I mean, come on!). I’ve no interest in being part of the problem.  But the thing is, there’s absolutely nothing requiring that a buyer of real estate be vaccinated and almost no one in the game is going to ask the question. It’s just not part of the screening process. And I happen to think that’s wrong. Much of what we do is in no way essential, whatever the government says.

So be warned, is I suppose all I’m saying. That buyer may well have toured your house with someone else this weekend. Sneezed into your potted mums right before you got home. It’s probably allergies, sure, but perhaps you should decide how you feel about that before it happens again.