Home Showing Went South Real Fast
The WSJ asked RE agents about any “fear for my life” moments, and a Miami Beach Realtor story included an A/C water leak, bad wood and a near-death experience.
NEW YORK – The Wall Street Journal asked real estate agents if they’d ever feared for their lives while on the job. Eli Faitelson, a real estate agent with Compass Florida in Miami Beach had a tale from about three years earlier.
“I was working with the sellers of a single-family home on the water in Miami Beach that was listed for about $1.5 million,” Faitelson says. “ I got to the home an hour early to set up for a showing, and I noticed that the ceiling near the kitchen had a huge bubble in it. There was water all over the floor.”
Faitelson says an air conditioner on the roof was leaking and had rotted all the wood. The sellers had no idea because they’d been in Spain for about a month.
According to Faitelson, he started cleaning up but then heard the water “start to drip a little faster. Then the whole ceiling collapsed on my head. There was wood and A/C equipment all over the floor. I was pretty close to getting really injured. I was terrified. .… My arm was injured, and I was in shock – but I was still able to cancel the showing.”
Source: Wall Street Journal (06/19/23) Friedman, Robyn
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