{"id":2624,"date":"2007-09-13T22:42:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T02:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ewm.com\/2007\/09\/13\/my-most-interesting-open-house-ever\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T22:42:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T02:42:59","slug":"my-most-interesting-open-house-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=2624","title":{"rendered":"My Most Interesting Open House&#8230; Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was pretty new in the biz and my daughter was only about 6 years old I listed the next-door neighbors&#8217; home for sale. My little Katie accompanied me to my first open house, so excited to see her new-realtor mommie in action. We went together around the house opening drapes, turning on all the lights, adjusting things just right to impress the hordes of people I hoped to see.<\/p>\n<p>Kate and I were playing on the family&#8217;s miniature pool table when I heard the front door open. I did a real Loretta Young (man, did I just date myself!) sweep into the living room where I was dumbfounded to see a Miami Police Officer crouched by the door with his gun pointed directly at me!<\/p>\n<p>Seems that one of the switches we flipped was actually the silent alarm!<\/p>\n<p>It took some convincing to get him to believe we were not in duress and that it had been a mistake. I think Katie&#8217;s lack of fear and intrigue at how the afternoon was progressing probably spoke louder than any words I could say to explain.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t know which switch it was that summoned the police, but about 45 minutes later another cop showed up, this one a woman, just to make sure we really were alright!<\/p>\n<p>That was many open houses ago and I never took Kate to another one, but it was the only time I got the police to visit! Twice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was pretty new in the biz and my daughter was only about 6 years old I listed the next-door neighbors&#8217; home for sale. My little Katie accompanied me to my first open house, so excited to see her new-realtor mommie in action. We went together around the house opening drapes, turning on all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1699,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}