Compact and Bijou
More fun with estate agents ...
We viewed a property this weekend and the guy showing us round reminded me of the chap on the BT Broadband advert.
"The living room benefits from a front and rear aspect."
Front and rear aspect?? I wonder why they are taught this unwieldy and sometimes downright bizarre vocabulary. Do they think that putting it in estate-agent-speak excuses the fact that it is a blatantly redundant statement?
We're standing in the room.
We can see it has two windows.
We can see what the windows over-look.
He continued to make obvious statements (the colour of the walls, the placement of furniture, etc) in a voice not unlike the chap in the aforementioned advert until we thanked him for his time and left.
I know I can't tar all estate agents with the same brush (and apologies to any competent estate agents reading this) but I've spoken to and met a number of them over the last few months and I've met one, maybe two, that showed any signs of ability and professionalism.
The mind boggles.
posted by Rhea at 9/24/2006 11:08:00 pm
2 Comments:
Ah, estate agents. I remember their patter well. I call it estate-alese. I'm not sure it's English myself. I love when they say " a well presented 3-bedroom property... blah blah" when its translation is: two average to small sized rooms and a box room you counldn't swing a cat in :-)
Ah but does it have a costafortunum in the back garden?
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