We tried to sell our house just as the market slowed. Despite no sale, a realtor made me laugh with this true story.

Imagine an East coast realtor meets with a Venezuelan guy, his wife and her mother to show them some properties. After the first showing, to be helpful, he takes the three Latin Americans in his car, under the impression he is dropping them all off in town so the guy can attend a job interview. Afterwards, they will all meet up again and continue viewing homes. Wrong!

The realtor pulls up outside the address downtown and the guy says he will be an hour. The realtor says he will return to pick them all up and continue as planned. Before the husband can even step out the car, his wife has jumped out and screeches through the window that she is going shopping and will be back in an hour. Off she runs leaving mom in the back and the husband lost for words.

In order to keep a potential sale alive, there is nothing for it but to let him go for his interview and take a doddery 85 year-old Señora with two words of English back to the realtor office for a coffee and a quiet sit down in a back office.

Who says nobody has a heart in that business? And who can imagine the atmosphere when it came to meeting up again with the wife and husband?

"Here, Mrs So-and-So, I brought your mother back. She says you're quite the bitch!"