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- Authors: Amelia Hall
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“I KNOW THAT IT doesn’t look like much from the outside, but I really think this
might be the perfect house for you,” I say as I lead my clients, Ben and
Jia, past the scraggly, overgrown lawn and up the sagging porch steps
of the yellow Victorian that just hit the market this morning.
I bend down to enter the code into the lock box hanging from the front
door. The house is a lot more rundown than it looked in the listing photos,
but I’m still optimistic that this could be Ben and Jia’s dream home. I hope
so, anyway.
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Over the past few months, I’ve shown them nearly twenty
properties all across Vancouver—mostly condos, all of them new or newly
renovated—and they haven’t liked a single one of them, for one reason or
another. I figured that taking them in a totally different direction, showing
them a fixer-upper, something they can put their own stamp on, might
actually be the answer.
I pull out the key, then turn around and give them my peppiest smile, but
when neither of them smiles back at me I start to worry that I’ve made a
grave mistake. What if they blame me for wasting their time and fire me? I
cannot afford to lose any clients—it’s been months since I last sold anything
and if I don’t close a deal soon I’m fairly certain that I’m going to be living
on instant noodles and boxed macaroni and cheese forever.
“You did say you’d be open to renovations,” I remind them, hoping they
don’t hear the desperate edge to my voice.
“Some renovations, yes,” Jia says, frowning at the broken porch railing,
the peeling black paint on the door and, finally, at me. “But Piper this place
looks like it’s going to need a whole lot of work.”
My heart sinks but I smile even harder at them. “It’s definitely going to
need some updating but if you can just keep an open mind then I’m sure
that you’ll see its potential.” I could tell from the listing photos that the
house has great bones—with a little love and care, it could easily be
brought back to life.
And a charming older home is so much better than a
boring, cookie-cutter condo. Surely they will see that. “This is a great
neighborhood,” I add. “Houses don’t come up on this street very often.”
And this one is priced very well, practically a bargain—as much as
anything can be a bargain in Vancouver, one of the most expensive cities in
the world. Even factoring in the cost of renovations, this house is a great
investment.
Jia shakes her head. “It’s a lot further out than we’d like to be.”
“East Vancouver isn’t exactly the boonies,” Ben says and I feel a spark of
hope—maybe he’s coming over to my side.
“It’s not downtown, either,” Jia replies.
And this, right here, is the problem, the main reason why the two of them
haven’t settled on a property yet: they can’t seem to agree on where they
want to live. It’s hard for me to help them when I can’t figure out what they
really want.
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