In the Trenches captures the odd and funny incidents that invariably happen in real estate. Here are the stories submitted this month from real estate professionals all over the country. When you're done reading, submit your own story.

Great View of the River

I spent a good deal of time setting appointments to view waterfront properties with an out-of-area buyer. We spent an exhaustive day looking but not finding the right home layout. I had one left to show her — a riverfront modular home. She had told me she was absolutely not interested in mobile or modular homes, but I took her there anyway. While enjoying the view of the river and chatting, a 50-foot yacht rounded the bend with music blaring. Someone was dancing alone on the front deck. As the yacht came closer, we saw the dancer was a shapely female who was completely naked. My buyer's conservative nature had me convinced that this incident, combined with the fact that the home was modular, meant this home surely would not be the one for her. Feeling a bit of humor was appropriate, I quipped that I had been looking for a party like that for 30 years, but now I'm too old to be invited. She laughed and said her husband would like it here, and she bought the home!

— Sam Richards, broker-owner of Richards Real Estate in Rio Vista, Calif.

A Tight Time Frame

I was speaking with a woman and her 15-year-old son in an office conference room before all three of us went out to see homes. I asked them, “What is your time frame?” — hoping to find out when they hoped to purchase a new home. The son spoke up and said, “I’d like to be finished in time to eat dinner.”

— Dixie Touzalin, a sales associate and training specialist with Realty One Real Living in Cleveland

The Window Shimmy

I accidentally locked my car keys and lockbox key inside of the home that my client and I had just seen. I frantically called my office but no one there had a lockbox key, either. My client and I circled the house, looking for a way to enter without a key. I spotted one of those transom lower windows with a screen that you could pop off. It was slightly open, so I reached the lever and opened the window. My client gallantly tried to climb in but was too portly in the middle and wouldn’t fit. So I ended up shimmying through the window in my dress, giving my client an awkward shot of my bottom disappearing into the window! Luckily, I was able to get my keys and readjust the window, but I had bruises on my legs for a few days from that experience.

— MaryAnn Caulfield, a sales associate with Colwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Deerfield, Ill.

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