I walked into an open house Gracie and Rick Nilson were holding this weekend and I wanted to see the house because I also have a house on the market in the same community. Gracie treated me fine, that's why I gave them 2 stars instead of 1.
Rick walked me around the house to show me the upgrades. When we got to the bathroom, the tub had a jacuzzi jets in it. I mentioned my background was in energy and water savings and I wouldn't use it because it wastes energy and water. I started mentioning in my house I had a large tub made by Jacuzzi as well and this is where Rick Nilson lost my interest in dealing with him. He started telling me he "knew my type" and that he was a past member of the Sierra Club and kept going over why "people like me" going after energy waste and water waste was just garbage and that I had no idea what I was talking about. We were walking towards the kitchen as he was ranting about his "expertise" in energy and water and got to the door and opened it and said to me "thank you for visiting, good bye."
I was not a buyer, but to be treated like that was so unprofessional that I am considering finding out if he was a realtor or if it was just his wife. If he was, I should put in a complaint on his license. Such a simple subject that I have expertise in and have been doing so over the last 5 years, and to have him force his opinion on me was simply a unprofessional act on his part.
We are all able to give each other their opinions, but as a Realtor to treat a walk in customer like that was beyond my comprehension. He should have just shut up and allowed me to say what I said and leave it alone. As him being a Realtor being taken out of the equation, if I had met him in a different setting, I would have just walked away. To have him try to follow me out of that house still trying to tell me his "opinion", I turned and cussed him out and told him to get back in the house and not follow me.
Realtors are held in high esteem, but this one (Rick Nilson) should be removed from dealing with anyone in public and possibly stripped from his license. read more