While walking in on someone during an acupuncture appointment is strange enough, the seller told Guggenheim Howes that she and her assistants would be undergoing the procedure, too. “It was a test,” she told the. “It was his way of seeing whether I would do what I needed to do to get the listing and follow along with him and his ways.”
Guggenheim Howes and her assistants acquiesced, withstanding the needles for 15 to 20 minutes. In the end, the house traded off market, but it showed Guggenheim Howes’s willingness to follow her client’s lead.New York City , was able to avoid the acupuncture, but her client interaction may have been just a bit smellier. To cinch the deal with a client looking to buy on the Upper West Side, she had to calm his fears about the apartment’s proximity to the building’s trash chute. D’Alessio specified that it wasn’t a cleanliness issue, but rather a noise problem, with the client worrying about being able to hear people throwing out their garbage.
To alleviate those concerns, D’Alessio carried out a “garbage test,” as she put it. They opened and closed to door to the chute several times, and dropped three or four bags of trash down there, full of either paper or bottles. Thankfully, the client couldn’t hear a thing.. “But the deal all hinged on this garbage chute … The contract was signed last week.”