My Marvelous Idea!

I’ve always been a hard worker. I can’t stand laziness! I want to see people put their noses to the grindstone. When I was a bank teller, I worked hard. When I managed a retail store, I worked hard. Now I’m a Realtor, and I work very hard!

Sometimes, though, it’s not just how hard you work. Sometimes you need a new and better idea. The age of the Internet is an amazing time. We don’t make cars anymore, after all, we use our brains!

At certain times, the person with the boldest idea reaps the big rewards. And I believe I have that bold idea.

Every time I talk to someone in California, they say they want to move up to Bend. California is the biggest state in the nation, with almost 34 million people. And nearly all of them would rather live in Bend.

So what’s stopping them? Think about your typical day. You get up in the morning and you have something to do. Some of you might have children to send to school. Some of you might have a rewarding job you love, as I do. You have pets to take care of, people to talk to on the telephone. Our lives are so busy!

We have about 1600 residential properties available (some people are foolish enough to briefly try to sell their own houses–maybe fifty of these people at a time).

Now, did you see these numbers? 34 million. 16 hundred. This is going to be simple!

We just fix up those broken BAT buses, fill them with the home sellers, and head down to California. Once we’re there, our sellers take over for the Californians who want to come up and buy houses in Bend. Our sellers do everything! Feed the pets and kids. Mow the lawn. Anything that needs done. Meanwhile the buyers have been bussed up here and are dazzled by the wonderful houses, plus lots of champagne! They’re sure to fight over the best and most expensive properties.

Such a simple idea, but no one has done it yet!

I’m going to propose this at the next Realtor’s meeting. All we need to do is get the sellers ready for a fun road trip, and get a few million dollars from the city to promote the whole thing!

With our inventory gone, we’ll be right back in 2005! The buyers will be instant winners. And proud Bendites!

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9 Responses to “My Marvelous Idea!”

  1. shannon Says:

    You could bring them up during Fall Festival and Wine by the River and impress them with our culture!

  2. sallyheatherton Says:

    Shannon, that is an excellent idea! I hope you don’t mind if I pass that idea along as my own.

  3. pre-approved Says:

    Hey Sally, I’d love it you’d be our realtor! What is your office number? Do you have a website of current listings? Thanks a bunch!

  4. Ted B Says:

    Mrs. Heatherton, do you offer that free market assessment most agents do? I bought my marvelous Broken Top home at the peak of the market. It has a marvelous view of the lake and club house. I want to sell before the lake is filled in and paved over and the club house torn down to build the monster 10 story hotel. I know you will have some marvelous marketing ideas for my 3,500 sq.ft. home. Thanks.

  5. dave Says:

    Sally,

    Bussing them up to Bend? What a Marvelous idea! They will be ‘captive’ as they will not have any means of transportation to leave. Sounds like a chapter from the Robert McColloch play book.

    Mr. McColloch provided ‘free’ plane rides to Lake Havasu to perspective clients. The guests stayed in Havasu for several days. Long enough for his RE folks to secure that sale.

    However, McColloch didn’t provide champagne…

    Good luck.

  6. sallyheatherton Says:

    Mr pre-approved,

    Somehow, your comment got marked as spam! I untagged it as soon as I could.

    I’m outraged that my blog has a spam filter that could cause me to lose business.

    You have my sincere apologies! I’ll have Jennifer get back to you.

  7. sallyheatherton Says:

    Mr Ted B,

    You didn’t buy at the peak! That would require that you time travel into the far future. If you can do that, you can afford any house you like!

  8. Jerome Says:

    Sally,

    I just got a call from an old friend in Oregon with regards to Jerome junior. Jerome had told me last month that he was visiting a stud ranch in Sisters, Oregon. He assured me it was a working horse farm.

    Today I got a call from Oregon that our jerome is being held as a sex slave. His mother would roll over in her grave if she knew he was working as a stud in Oregon to please middle age white realty women in Oregon.

    I never approved of our Jerome seeing jenifer. When she moved out of our house in Atlanta a few months ago I assumed that we had seen the end of her. I had no idea she had gotten a job up in Oregon. Last month jerome had been on a summer vacation when had told me he had gotten a job in Sisters, Oregon.

    Today a good friend of mine told me about this site, and that a young black man calling himself jethro was living in bend, oregon. He called me and provided this link.

    Mrs. Heatherton you stay away from my boy or the entire Nation of Islam will be crawling up your ass.

    sincerely, yours jerome senior

  9. sallyheatherton Says:

    Oh dear. I really can’t figure out this spam filter at all.

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