Turns our I AM the bad neighbor!!

I think you should get your self ready and call the r.e. office; make an appointment with the same realtor and ask to see the property. Do not admit to living next to it and see what happens.
Remember when something is repeated it very seldom is said in the same way or in the same tones or with the same purpose. But, just to find out what the realtor might say to a prospective buyer--you be the prospective buyer and see what happens.

I know... Tweety, isn't it a sort of hoot? I mean, I'm just the sort of person I'd want to be living next door to! People with big honking power equipment! And who shoot off guns on a regular basis to keep out the riff raff. Oddly enough we don't have a crime problem on the hill...

My downroad neighbor was gone for several weeks and asked my husband (since I was flat on the couch this winter) to "keep an eye on things." Which my husband assumed meant keeping the girlfriend plowed out and making sure she had firewood and a good fire going when the power failed. Made sure she could cook and wasn't scared to be there by herself in a storm.

Yea, I'm just the kind of neighbor I'd want to live next door to... guns and all!

On the other hand, the real estate agent is doing us a favor... because so far the lot hasn't sold to some rich guy with an issue with sheep, chickens... and the odd blast of a shotgun!

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You can be my bad neighbor anytime. Hopefully you will not get a new neighbor who wants you to move your barn.

All but the politics sounds like the nieghbor I'd like to have.

She may actually be doing you a favor. Do you really think any city folk that don't like your lifestyle are going to take a second look at that property. If nothing else you can say they where warned before they bought there if they ever complained about any of it.

Slip her a $20 along with your heartfelt thanks. That'll give her something to think about!

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That would be my question. It seems there's more to the story... somewhere.

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Maybe it was the owner that said those things to the agent?

MC maybe it was a realtor with a bad case of 'flap jaw' that she couldn't control. Dont get paranoid because of an idiot; also dont take to heart what your neighbor said, it might have been 'spiced up' a little for the drama effect.

Long ago, a realtor came to our house with a client (we lived in Va. then.) Once they got outside to look at the property, she began badmouthing me & making fun of my voice (I had an allergy pretty bad, and was speaking in a squeaky, wheezy voice). I'd never met her before; my dogs were starting to bark at her, so I spoke to them out my window 'no bark!' and that realtor shrunk about a foot, because she realized I could hear her. She quickly said, 'I'm sure she's a very nice lady!' hee hee! Sure didn't like that area, but the property was beautiful.

Dont worry about it; maybe she doesn't like your op ed pieces. Maybe you should work it into a piece you're doing, but remember, things get changed around in the retelling.

Yes ..I also thought about that possibility. Perhaps that's why the owner has it up for sale?

I would certainly tell the owners of the property. They are paying her to sell their property, she works for them.

If I was paying someone to do a job, and they were screwing it up, I'd want to know. Let the broker put someone else on the job.

I'd probably also tell her boss. If one of my employees was giving the company a bad name, I'd want to know.

She must not need the commission too badly to sacrifice it in bad-mouthing you.

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But, if that's the case, then she should remain professional and loyal to whomever she works for (unless she's an independent). I think her boss needs to know.

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I think it might be nice if you let the sellers know what she's been up to. She's hurting herself, and her sellers. What if a potential buyer wants to have livestock? They're going to be very turned off by that kind of attitude. KWIM.

Other then that, I'd just have a good laugh about it and keeping being such a "bad" neighbor.

I think I would start wondering if she knew something about the value of my property that I didn't know. Then I might let her know I don't take well to threats to my ability to live at my own place!

You might want to talk to the owner of the property who is trying to sell it. Surely he or she cannot appreciate the realtor talking down the value of his asset. She's doing him/her a disservice, and it is only neighborly for you to let him or her know they need to find someone else to do their selling for them.

Perhaps the RE agent is herself a local who wants to keep out persnickety city folks?

Maybe you AND the one it was said to, your neighbor, could go to the agency yourselves, and just ask, "WHY did the RE agent say those things?"

Why would you possibly want to call the nice real estate lady on her opinions? Didn't you say that YOU write an "Op-Ed" piece for the paper? Your opinions are published via ink and newsprint.

Hers are published via verbal communication. What's the difference? Bet yours are offensive at times as well.

Everybody in the world doesn't like you and agree with you....so what?

Personally, I'd rather stay here in the "Vast uncivilized Region" of the USA. I wouldn't have Vermont if you gave it to me...

Just my humble Op-Ed...

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Hmmm.... How many times does someone quote themselves?

In retrospect, and after reading through this thread again, I'll revise the part of my original post about contacting the broker. Maybe if the agent discourages potential buyers long enough, the price on the lot will come down and you could buy it for yourselves! Ya, but still put the pigs out there....