Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 11, 2018

I have a feeling it isn’t socks.

Don’t buy it. By Monday, the house won’t even exist.

If Rat was the broker, could we call him Rat/Max?

Rat is the leader of the pack.

Agents know all of this. They can tell immediately and they deal with it. The very real possibility is they make a quick sale at a good price (not to a neighbor) and the neighbors eventually call them when they want to sell.

Realtors do not hold open houses in order to sell houses. They hold them in order to meet future clients. Some will freely admit that; the rest hem, haw and mumble.

The regional manager for a national real estate firm once told me that open houses aren’t about selling the property, they’re about the agent building her client base.

When I sold my house, I refused to hold an Open House except one for the real estate agents. I know very well that Open Houses do not sell homes. I am one of those “Looky-Lous” myself. Any serious potential buyer makes an appointment to see the house through their RE Agent. Everyone else is sizing up the property against their own. Or maybe coming to see if there are free cookies.

https://youtu.be/nQdwBRJoMR8

Rat wanted to check out the size of their beer-fridge.

it’s only serious if there is a man cave.

Nice seeing Roy and Kathy come over to visit from Working Daze! Roy’s shirt color even matches today’s Working Daze strip!

On a message board the other day, a woman told of being at an open house, going into a bathroom, and finding a man going through the prescription drugs.

I go to get decorating + architecture ideas

Did Rat bring his own beer over there, or did he just grab it out of the fridge when he got there?

Tardis house, apparently

Used to live in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. NOTL is a small town full of hundred year old mansions (not our hovel) and crashing open houses is the municipal sport.

Has anybody tried lifting the mattress yet?

xxx

I’m surprised Stephan didn’t put himself in the background of this one.

That real estate agent-lady must be new to the job. Maybe indeed it is not Her Thing and she should sell cars. Or maybe not. Maybe Cartoon-Boy just stacked the deck against her for funsies. Only Rat (C-B’s alter ego) knows for sure….

Looks like an open house in an open house! Anyone dare to guess what’s in the sock drawer?