[graciegirl]

To be fair, it probably wasn't the sales reps fault that those deals escaped you. It is a frequnt occurance to have a house or lot come on the market and be snatched up quickly by another person or rep. It can happen in a key stroke and sometimes they are held for a certain amount of time and then released again and sometimes they are gone. We tried to hold three different view lots in one day and waited just a few minutes too long to commit.

We fell in love with a house in Hadley and we called our sales rep to find it had been put on hold for another person. We didn't believe it. That house was sold to a couple who became our best friends as we bought the house next to it. We never let them live it down that they stole our house.

Many people here are annoyed that a furnished model comes on a market and they have instructed their sales rep to hold it for them when it happens but so have many others instructed their reps too. It is announced at a sales meeting and everyone will immediatly grab their I pads or phones and it is up in the air...or the internet or the phone lines as to who gets to who first and who gets back to who first. This has been told to us many times by our rep Jim McLaughlin. I never thought to blame him when we missed a lot or a home we wanted. It is often just luck and being in the right place at the right time prepared to buy.

Sometimes it has nothing to do with a sales person being a slouch but rather the pace of business in this amazing place. The speed of selling homes in this place is unheard of before. And probably will only get worse as the build out approaches.

But if you don't feel comfortable...with your rep, switch. You may find the same thing happening with the new one.