Spokane REALTOR® practices ‘golden rule’

REALTORS® have a pledge under the title of “I Am a REALTOR®.”

One of the items is: “To act fairly towards all in the spirit of the Golden Rule.” Robert Hansen, Keller Williams did that and more when he sold a home to a family he knew.

Aaron and Tracy Baker, a young couple with four children, had been trying to buy a place of their own for more than seven years. They were just approved by the mortgage company, and found the house they had always desired.

Before the sale was complete, the home they had been renting caught fire and burned. Everyone got out safely. Everything in the way of household goods was lost as the family did not have renter’s insurance. The items that hadn’t burned had smoke damage.

A tough situation.

A section of their white picket fence was about the only item they would be able to bring to their new home.

Hansen called those companies involved in the transaction in the hope the closing could be done earlier so the Baker’s could quickly move into their own first home. Because of the current rush of real estate business in Spokane, there was no way to hurry up the closing process. That meant a family of six without a place to stay.

Aforementioned REALTOR® Hansen and his wife had themselves just purchased a new home and had about two weeks waiting time before documents would be completed before moving into their new place. It was a gamble whether it was possible with the current real estate rush to bank on allowing the burned-out family to use their empty home in the interim.

They did.

The Hansens handed the keys to their new house to the Bakers so they could stay until the loan closed for their own home.

“Everything worked out the way we were hoping it would,” Hansen said. “The timing was perfect.”

As a gift to the first-time homeowners, Hansen presented the Bakers with new beds they were able to sleep in prior to moving again after 10 days to their new home.

All’s well that ends well, especially in a leap-frog express story.