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5 Off-the-Wall Questions To Ask a Real Estate Agent in Line at the Grocery Store
Many real estate agents wear their name tag around town, even when they’re out running errands or food shopping. It’s actually a great way for them to spark up real estate conversation with people while waiting in line to pay for their groceries.
Typically, people will ask something like:
- “How’s the market?”
- “Any good deals on the market right now?”
- “Do you know how much the house on ________ Street sold for?”
Of course an agent will gladly answer those, or any other real estate related questions you might have, while you wait for your turn at the register.
But if you want to make it more fun and memorable, here’s a list of 5 off-the-wall questions you can ask an agent in line at the grocery store to spice up their day:
1) “How much do you think this grocery store is worth?”
People often ask agents for on-the-spot values of their house, expecting agents to be able to give them an accurate estimate without even seeing the place. But probably be the first person to ever ask an agent to come up with a fair market value for the grocery store!
2) “Is it annoying that you have to look at your competition’s face on the grocery cart?”
Real estate agents are pros at working with their competition in order to help their respective clients achieve their goals. But how do they truly feel when they have to see a rival agent’s smiling mug plastered across a grocery cart, claiming to be the best agent in town?!
Let’s see if they’ll confess to giving those carts a little “extra push” down the parking lot, or at least covering up the ad with a stack of canned goods so they don’t have to stare at it for 18 aisles!
3) “Are those real estate brochures up to date, or are they still the ones from 1988?”
Who still looks at real estate brochures when you can see any house for sale online?! For that matter, who are the agents paying to keep those things in print?! The odds of the agent you’re talking to being one of them are slim, but not zero…
It’ll be hilarious if they still spend money advertising in them, and you end up making them question their marketing plan.
4) “How often do people mistake you for the manager of this store with that name tag on?”
When you wear a name tag as confidently as a real estate agent does, you’re bound to be asked where the canned peas are. Dig a little deeper and ask the agent if they’ve ever tried to fire someone due to a customer complaint they received.
5) “Are you holding an open house, or do you plan on eating all of those cookies you’re buying?”
Make sure to really emphasize the word “all” in this question, just to make them think twice before scoffing down an entire package of Chips Ahoy on the way home from grocery shopping.
