Ooops!!! I Still Have A Key In My Pocket From A House I Showed Today!!

So you’re out to dinner with your family, you reach in your pocket and you notice a loose key. Then you figure out that this key belongs to a house that you showed earlier in the day, but you forgot to put it back in the lockbox. “Oh S…..,” you exclaim. You may immediately think to yourself, “I’ll just wait until tomorrow…no big deal”, or “I’m sure the key was replaced by now…”. In my opinion, there is no grey are on this one. The only right thing to do is get back over to the house as quickly as possible to return the key to its lockbox. Although this may be terribly inconvenient, there is no sense in crying about it at this point….you made the mistake, now its time to make up for it!

If you are struggling with the proper way to handle the situation, I recommend you that you take a step back and think about it for a minute. If you have been in real estate for any length of time, you can probably remember taking some clients to a home that they wanted to see, but when you opened up the lockbox, there was no key to be found!! I’m sure this was very frustrating to you and your clients.

When contemplating whether you should put the key back now (or ever), just do the right thing. It was your fault that the key went home with you in your pocket. Now is the chance to correct the situation so it doesn’t have a chain reaction of messing things up for others as well. If you just decide to throw out the key, and forget about it, then shame on you. You are definitely not the type of agent that I want to be working with.

Pete Reese, Broker/President
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