I did an open house yesterday and I set off the alarm. This was not my first open house for this property and I remembered that it had an alarm. I called KW and Laurie our wonderful office assistant was working so I asked her for the code. She said she did not have a code for it and that there were no instructions that would make her think there was an alarm. Against my better judgement I obtained the key from the lock box and opened the door. The alarm gave me a demanding, agressive warning noise for about 30 seconds and then it let me have it. The alarm started to BLARE and it really sucked. It was LOUD. So I calmly step away and closed the door to call my office. ILaurie and I frantically tried to figure out who to call and what to do when she reccommended that I try and hit the #1 button. I tried it and the alarm stopped. Laurie is SO smart! It finally was quiet but as I hung up the phone I noticed the St. Paul police department rolling up to the house to verify that I was actually supposed to be on the property. (That’s the second time the cops came because of an open house alarm)
I wrote this post to mention to other Realtor’s out there to make sure the alarm info is added to the showing instructions. That is kind of important. Thanks-
Kinda important? How does the Listing Agent miss something like that? Especially when having someone do their open house? I showed a home where the Listing Agent neglected to mention anything about the pit bull that was loose in the house. Kinda important, wouldn’t you say?