After hearing some of Dad’s war stories (commercial real estate) over the weekend for the millionth time I think I should probably have a podcast with him sometime.
They’re entertaining and would be useful for software people.
They’re entertaining and would be useful for software people.
Dad and a younger colleague are trying to put together an assemblage, which will require convincing an irascible old man to sell a house that has been in his family for several decades:
Colleague: these meetings are a waste of time. He’ll never sell. He ends every meeting w/ it.
Colleague: these meetings are a waste of time. He’ll never sell. He ends every meeting w/ it.
Dad: “When a man tells you he will never sell at his first meeting with you, it can mean many things, but when he tells it to you at his fifth, it means ‘You just haven’t said right words yet.’ He *keeps taking the meetings.*”
Colleague: “He says he could never afford two houses for the family out where they want to live for our offer.”
Dad: “So you know he is driving an hour each way to look at houses that he wants to buy with the money from the house he will never sell. I tell you, we are so in.”
Dad: “So you know he is driving an hour each way to look at houses that he wants to buy with the money from the house he will never sell. I tell you, we are so in.”
It also took me until exactly this weekend to figure out “Wait, the fact that Dad will ‘Stop me if I’ve told you this before’ and then launch into a long winded explanation of the procedural history of a transaction from 1993 *might* suggest that he is wired the same way you are”
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