by Peggy Blair | Apr 12, 2017 | Featured
Well, colleagues, we’re in the busy spring season, which means we’re all rushing around like crazy. The upside of busy-time, of course, is more bloopers for me. I laughed when I saw this new listing that features “bathroom efficient toilets”. Better that they be...
by Peggy Blair | Feb 7, 2017 | News
Sometimes the typos in a sales rep’s listing read like they’re written in dialect. For example, in my last novel, Umbrella Man, one of my main characters is a charming, flirtatious Russian intelligence officer named Slava, who speaks English well but with a heavy...
by Peggy Blair | Nov 8, 2016 | Featured
Ah, fellow Realtors: You’ve been getting better at catching those typos and errors, so it’s taken me a while to gather enough for another column. But here we go! I love listings that have a Shakespearean quality to them, like this one I ran into this week: “This home...
by Peggy Blair | May 13, 2016 | Featured
Spring has sprung and some real estate salespeople seem to have love on the brain when it comes to their listings – and the resulting listing bloopers. I keep running across properties with “hug decks.” (Forget hot tubs; I’d pay extra for that feature.) Ingrid...
by Peggy Blair | Nov 18, 2015 | Featured
Auto-correct is not always our friend, colleagues, as demonstrated in this new batch of listing bloopers. For example: “This spacious property was formally a bakery.” Although there is something rather charming about a “formal” bakery, don’t you think? I have visions...
