I’m selling my house and had a strange situation during a showing today. Here’s how it unfolded:

I had a showing confirmed from 5:00–5:30pm today. For showings, I deep clean everything, become slightly neurotic about making sure everything looks as perfect as possible, and then take all the kids across the street to my in-laws house until the showing ends.

I did my usual routine and then headed across the street. 5:00 came and went and nobody had shown up yet. I kept watching out the window and finally a little after 5:30 (just as I was about to head back) a girl walked up to my house. She entered the code to the lockbox and went inside. I assumed she was the realtor.

I kept watching the entire time. Nobody else showed up. She was the only one to ever go inside. She was in there about 10 minutes before she walked out, put the key back, and left. Now I was very curious. I immediately called my own realtor and asked what was going on. She text the other realtor and informed me that the realtor text back, “Sorry I was late, but I’m gone now.” That was all the information I was given.

Something felt off about this whole thing. I went back home and the “realtor” didn’t leave her card as all the others have always done. I looked around and noticed she had been upstairs and walked in all the bedrooms. (I vacuumed and can see the footprints of where she walked). So she walked all over, stayed in the house for about 10 minutes, and had no clients show up? I reached out to my realtor again for answers and she said, “Maybe she was doing a pre-screening for her client but I’m not sure.” Pre-screening? Never heard of this and if so, I should have been told this wasn’t an actual showing. My realtor seems less than concerned and isn’t responding to my questions anymore.

Maybe it’s paranoia but I feel that it’s possible that this realtor wasn’t actually a realtor at all but likely a client who was given the code to my house by their realtor. Is that far fetched? I feel very uncomfortable with whatever just happened probably because nobody seems to be answering questions about it. It is my home and I feel I have the right to know who’s been inside and why. I certainly hope the code isn’t being given out to clients. Does this seem fishy to anyone else?

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