{"id":1360,"date":"2015-10-28T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2015-10-28T21:24:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:24:46","slug":"door-to-door-realtors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"Door-to-Door Realtors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what I have to assume is a world first, I had a door-to-door solicitation from a pair of realtors flogging pre-construction condos last night. <\/p>\n<p>In true door-to-door salesman style\u00e2\u20ac\u017d, I had just taken the first bite of dinner when the knock on the door came. I jumped to answer the door, thinking it was the landlord stopping by to chat, only to be faced by a pair of ladies lugging glossy brochures of the new Tridel development coming down the street. <\/p>\n<p>I had hot food waiting so I brushed aside their sales pitch and wished them good night, but I have <em>so many questions<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u017d that I wish I had asked at the time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do people, who already live in detached homes, actually buy pre-construction condos from an unsolicited visit?<\/li>\n<li>Has anyone ever made a major six-figure purchase from a door-to-door solicitation <em>ever<\/em>? Do you think it likely to happen?<\/li>\n<li>Why does the sales literature promote shopping at Bayview Village (more than anything else about the development) when Fairview is the larger mall and closer to the development? <\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u017dDoesn&#8217;t it hurt the image of the development to flog the units this hard? Hasn&#8217;t the traditional approach been to hold &#8220;VIP&#8221; and &#8220;exclusive&#8221; sales events?<\/li>\n<li>Is door-to-door condo sales really a thing Torontonians can look forward to, or were you just trolling me in particular?<\/li>\n<li>And then the first few questions like twenty more times because seriously WTF.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m a blogger, prone to introspection and constantly amazed by the impulsiveness of people in this city when it comes to real estate, but do people really make half-million-dollar decisions by door-to-door sales?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what I have to assume is a world first, I had a door-to-door solicitation from a pair of realtors flogging pre-construction condos last night. In true door-to-door salesman style\u00e2\u20ac\u017d, I had just taken the first bite of dinner when the knock on the door came. I jumped to answer the door, thinking it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}