What, No Security Alarm?
“Code to enter the building is *76521. The lockbox is located in the dry cleaning closet which is to your left once you enter the lobby. The code to the closet is 3149#. The lockbox is marked. The code is 8147.”
–Excerpt, MLS showing instructions
If you’re a Buyer’s agent planning on showing a certain downtown Minneapolis condo, better allow an extra 5-10 minutes.
Not for the traffic — for the showing instructions.
Difficult to Show = Difficult to Sell?
Exacerbating the above: limited, poorly marked guest parking; scarce street parking near the building (when said guest parking was full); and — yes — snarled downtown traffic late in the afternoon, when my client was available to tour properties.
I don’t really fault the listing agent: whoever designed the building was not thinking about re-sale or access, post-completion.
See also, “Showing Instructions: the Good, the Bad, and the (Very) Ugly“; “You Know the Showing Instructions Are Too Complicated When . . .”; “Where Does the Realtor Lockbox Go?”; “Lockbox Combo’s“; “Clever Lockbox Codes, Cont.”; “Showing Instruction “Do’s” and “Don’ts”; and “Lazy Lockbox Codes.”
