The worst-best condo walk-through I ever went on
If you plan to sell your home, skip partying the day before
I side-eyed my real estate agent when she looked back at me and said, “Just keep an open mind.” I was in the middle of trying to find a new condo to purchase, and we’d arrived at a condo with a Christmas wreath on the door — in April. I expected this place to be interesting, but I was not prepared for what was inside.
She opened the door, and the first thing I saw was a massive photograph of Al Capone above a large-screen television. My first thought: A man owns this place. I looked from the framed picture to four La-Z-Boy chairs in the center of the room. Next to each chair was a table filled with a bowl full of sunflower seeds. But these weren’t sunflower seeds that you could pick up and snack on like the amount that fits into a candy dish. Nope, these were just the seeds that someone spit out—and they towered over a cake bowl. My second thought, My gawd, how much sodium does this guy inhale in a day?
“Oh hell no, let’s go,” I said to my agent.
She repeated her original line, “Just keep an open mind. You can redecorate it. Let’s just imagine it’s empty.”