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Welcome to another episode of 
Golden Nuggets, Tea and Tails 

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powered by Husby, served today 
by Taher Hussain. 

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Welcome to the show. 
Thank you. 

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Can I have a drum roll? 
What are? 

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You about to spill some tea or 
tell some tales? 

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That's what the show's about. 
We've got people that have been 

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in the real estate industry for 
many, many years or just a few 

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years, spilling the tea, telling
the tales on what goes on behind

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the scenes, deep in the 
trenches. 

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And one of the scenarios in a 
real estate agent's career that 

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causes the most drama or has the
most wild stories is what 

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happens on a viewing or showing,
as they like to call it in the 

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US. 
So what is your most memorable 

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showing or viewing story that 
you can tell us? 

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Spill the tea. 
Yeah, so I have. 

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I had the the seller, he's 
originally my my client and I 

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had to deal with another agent 
who called themselves a realtor.

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Did you know everyone that's 
calling themselves a realtor? 

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Yeah, I'm surprised, except for 
me. 

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I'm not calling myself a realtor
because people, they don't know 

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what's realtor is. 
That's why everybody, I'm a 

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realtor. 
Yeah, no, you're not. 

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You need to go through the 
process through NAR, Yes. 

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And unfortunately, I would say 
98% of Dubai real estate agents 

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call themselves. 
Realtors. 

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Yeah, and they don't know what's
the realtor is so. 

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Just to be clear, a realtor is 
first of all the the name or the

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term. 
Realtor is a trademark term. 

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Yeah, and you can only call 
yourself a realtor if you are a 

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member of the National 
Association of Realtors. 

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Now it is possible to be in the 
UK or UAE and be a realtor if 

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you've sat the SIPS course, 
which is the certified 

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International Property 
Specialist, which I you did that

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course. 
I was, yeah, I was one of the 

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first in the UAE to to do it and
and then you pay for membership 

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to the NAR, then you are a 
realtor. 

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Of course, OK, it's like a RERA 
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internationally, but here 
they're not so we. 

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Digress back to your story about
this realtor. 

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So another agent with the buyer,
we, it was a handover unit so 

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there is no DEWA, no electricity
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They're coming directly from 
lunch so it's a nice four 

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bedroom villa I'm showing the 
client with. 

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Lunch or lunch? 
Lunch. 

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As food. 
OK, got it. 

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So I'm showing the house, very 
nice house. 

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The client is so lovely with his
wife. 

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All of a sudden their agent 
disappeared and he got himself 

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locked in the powder room doing 
some business there. 

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I'm put in mind, as I mentioned,
there is no diva, no 

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electricity. 
Nothing. 

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And I just received a WhatsApp 
messages like Taylor. 

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Please help me I need water and 
as you know I'm I don't drive. 

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I'm a very professional 
passenger. 

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I would sit, put my seat belt 
and I would intern you and we 

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are in the middle of this gated 
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Closest supermarket is like 
within the communities like 10 

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minutes. 
OK, so he's gone into the powder

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room, done his business, Yes, 
not realizing that there is no 

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water, electricity. 
Yeah, which is, I mean, that's 

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just like he said. 
He said we had the spicy food. 

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I was like what the fuck? 
He said. 

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He needs to eat. 
Yeah, he's prepping you for how 

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bad it. 
Is it was really bad and and I 

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just told him I I don't have a 
car. 

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I'm sorry bro. 
You need you need to do 

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whatever. 
And he was keep thinking like, 

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please don't steal my client. 
I said, first of all, I'm a 

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person with integrity. 
And if you're going to be rude 

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with me, I'm just going to leave
you locked there. 

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So I'm here to help you. 
So wait, was he also locked 

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inside? 
Yeah, he. 

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Was inside, he can't move. 
OK, so there's 2 problems here. 

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The fact that there's no flush, 
yes. 

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And he's locked inside, yes. 
OK, how? 

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Did he lock himself? 
He didn't. 

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He can't leave because he need 
to wash. 

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He need to do many things, so 
he's. 

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Not physically locked. 
No, not physically. 

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Locked. 
Yeah, so I had to just to take 

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my brutally honest bill and I 
would just came to the buyer. 

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I was like hey, we need to go to
Carrefour, we need to buy water.

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They were like no, we have our 
ads like not for you, for your 

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agent nasty one. 
We went 2 packs of water and we 

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just put it in front of the the 
powder room and and it's a kind 

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of the houses where you walk in 
the corridor and the powder room

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is under the stairs. 
So there is no windows, there is

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nothing. 
I couldn't do viewings for like 

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almost four months in that house
because it stinks. 

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And he was one of those Realtors
with the shiny suit, the short, 

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the socks, sweating. 
Here. 

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I was like, bro, no, no. 
He was like, please can we write

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an offer? 
I was like, you destroyed it, 

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you destroyed it. 
Everything smells from the nice 

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smell of paint. 
Disappeared. 

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Ruined. 
Like this? 

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That would probably be the 
number one thing you shouldn't 

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do in a property. 
An empty property. 

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Yeah, exactly. 
It's not your house. 

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How how? 
Yeah, it's not it's not a mall. 

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At one point I had to take Bahur
at like fam and to to be 

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creative to and then just put so
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Lingering in month after. 
Man is just is it was getting 

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worse because the humidity you 
could feel the walls are stings 

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like I was like and I'm blessing
my seller. 

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We have a very good 
relationship. 

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He was like, but why the village
is not selling? 

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I I was afraid to tell him like 
there is an agent destroyed it 

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and it smells like a diaper now.
Like it was it was bad. 

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It was bad. 
So even Behore didn't do it. 

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Behore did work and I had the 
these heroes, the Urban Club 

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company, they did the deep 
cleaning and the lady, bless 

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her, she was like, Sir, what's 
happening with this smell? 

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And I was like, I don't know, 
it's normal because maybe there 

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is no air circulation. 
Very bad Clorox, but it was it 

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was too much. 
That's hilarious. 

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Anything else on that story? 
Yeah, but no, that's it. 

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The buyers were just disgusted 
and and I didn't want to stop a 

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knife behind his back. 
I could have easily take the 

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buyers, but I I work on 
something that is missing in in 

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the market here. 
It's credibility because the 

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clients found me through 
LinkedIn and they contact me and

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they were like we want to work 
with you. 

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I even though I was pissed at 
the other agent, I just told him

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the clients contact me and 
through LinkedIn and I sent him 

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a screenshot and I was like, you
need to find a way to apologize 

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for what you did, even though if
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you can refer your manager or 
one of your colleagues and I 

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will be more than happy to do 
that. 

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And he will guess what he said, 
brother, go close them and share

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the Commission. 
I said I'm not working for 

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charity. 
I left working for humanitarian 

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field back in the days. 
I'm not going to do it again. 

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I'm here. 
I'm focusing on my money. 

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I'm not sharing shit with you go
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You're a type of agent that will
give money to a client. 

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No, I'm not going to share my 
income with you. 

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Simple. 
And that was it. 

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And I'm still every time I post 
on LinkedIn, he like my the 

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client. 
His client like to sometimes 

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comment. 
That was like. 

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So how did the story end? 
I I have no idea. 

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They the guy wash He left, they 
left with him in the car. 

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I said, no, I'm going to calling
myself an Uber because he was 

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expecting, because he was there 
for a good half an hour wearing 

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a suit. 
So you can imagine poor clients 

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had to ride with him in the car.
So I was like, I'm ordering 

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myself a Uber. 
I'm not going to be associated 

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with this. 
And how how many months did it 

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take you to sell it after the? 
I think it was five months, five

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months, good four months because
it's it's a nice unit, A corner 

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unit, but it there is no air 
circulation where the powder 

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room is and it's just that 
powder room is made to wash your

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hands. 
That's it. 

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Or do number one, that's it 
maximum OK or freshen up fixed 

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makeup. 
That's it, not made for number 2

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at all. 
Even for the people who will 

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live in the house, they're not 
allowed to do that. 

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And it's old after after on the 
5th month, four months, every 

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time I go pass by, it's just 
like a soul is buried there. 

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Just the the smell was getting 
worse and worse even though 

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Clorox Ditto deep cleaning 
everything but then it 100 

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laughter, the Clorox and the 
cleaning. 

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Thanks to Urban Club it's gone 
and I managed to sell it. 

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This is why I keep telling 
agents, yes, you can be friends 

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with your with your clients. 
You can go for drinks and food, 

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but you don't go for a spicy 
lunch where your stomach it gets

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upset and then you just find the
toilet and you just want to go 

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there and be comfortable. 
I don't know how you do that 

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right. 
Yeah, OK. 

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What are the tips or what are 
the things to avoid on a viewing

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from Tahir Hussein? 
So number #2 definitely #1 is 

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that crossing the line if you 
need to go for a #1. 

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No, it's not, but you need to do
it in a public place, not a 

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private home because now clients
are educating themselves, 

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especially the sellers. 
They're doing a staging. 

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Before it was just you go on a 
dusty empty house. 

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Now they doing a staging and of 
course they the bills that they 

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need everything to be neat and 
clean. 

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So if you want to do something, 
there are petrol, petrol 

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stations everywhere, Mohammed 
bin Zayed, every street there is

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a petrol station and there is a 
public toilet there. 

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So you need to control your 
things. 

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Like before you go in on a 
viewing or in a meeting, yes you

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need to check your hygiene, 
smell, you need to be in a 

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comfortable clothes where the 
client will be comfortable with 

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you. 
You don't need to be in a suit, 

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three piece suit with a tie and 
it's so hot you will be melting 

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and you're doing viewing so you 
come up. 

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All right, we want to know from 
you what is the worst thing you 

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could do as a real estate agent 
on a viewing? 

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Drop it below in the comments. 
Thank you, Tahir. 

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You're welcome.