# 🏠 Vacant House Horror Stories, Sellers Who Blame Everything but the Price, Verbal Counter Offers Gone Wrong 😑 Selling Commercial Property in PEI, Free Home Insulation for Islanders πŸ’° & the Surprising Origin of PEI's Roadside Lupins 🌸 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-and-patty-real-estate-show-6692071/vacant-house-horror-stories-sellers-who-blame-everything-but-the-price-verbal-counter-offers-gone-wrong-selling-commercial-property-in-pei-free-home-insulation-for-islanders-the-surprising-origin-of-pei-s-roadside-lupins Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-and-patty-real-estate-show-6692071/vacant-house-horror-stories-sellers-who-blame-everything-but-the-price-verbal-counter-offers-gone-wrong-selling-commercial-property-in-pei-free-home-insulation-for-islanders-the-surprising-origin-of-pei-s-roadside-lupins.md Podcast: [The Michael and Patty Real Estate Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-and-patty-real-estate-show-6692071) Published: 2026-07-25T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/princeedwardisland/2966132 Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/238229/2966132/princeedwardisland/2026_07_06_11_49_57_064cb653-7c1e-4a34-b6d0-155d24faf6c6.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-michael-and-patty-real-estate-show-6692071/episodes/vacant-house-horror-stories-sellers-who-blame-everything-but-the-price-verbal-counter-offers-gone-wrong-selling-commercial-property-in-pei-free-home-insulation-for-islanders-the-surprising-origin-of-pei-s-roadside-lupins Duration seconds: 2911 ## Resource 🏠 What really happens when a house sits vacant for five or six years? And why do sellers blame everything except the price? This week on PEI's favourite real estate podcast, Michael and Patty pull back the curtain on the situations agents actually run into β€” from mouse-filled vacant homes to furious vendors, verbal counter offers gone wrong, and the surprising truth about Prince Edward Island's famous roadside lupins. If you're buying, selling, or just curious about Island real estate, this episode is packed with practical advice you won't want to miss! πŸŽ™οΈ 🐭 A HOUSE LEFT VACANT FOR YEARS Michael shares a jaw-dropping story from the field: a property left empty for five or six years, still filled with food β€” and, unsurprisingly, mice. With just one mouse trap and some poison on site, it's a cautionary tale about what happens when homes are abandoned and why proper preparation matters before listing. 😑 "YOU LET ME OVERPRICE MY HOUSE!" Patty gets an earful from a frustrated owner who accuses her of being unprofessional β€” for allowing them to overprice their own property! This sparks a candid conversation: should agents get a disclaimer signed for over-priced listings? Why does the second or third listing agent so often win? And why is it never the price according to the vendors? Instead, sellers blame a lack of open houses, a lack of agent open houses, or insufficient marketing. Michael even shares how he lost a listing over a missing sign β€” on a property that was simply overpriced. Spoiler: a sign was never going to make the difference. πŸͺ§ πŸ“ž SHOULD AGENTS FOLLOW UP AFTER SHOWINGS? A listener wonders: when a buyer views a home and says there's no interest, do agents usually follow up to find out where those buyers eventually ended up? Michael and Patty agree it sounds like… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-michael-and-patty-real-estate-show-6692071/episodes/vacant-house-horror-stories-sellers-who-blame-everything-but-the-price-verbal-counter-offers-gone-wrong-selling-commercial-property-in-pei-free-home-insulation-for-islanders-the-surprising-origin-of-pei-s-roadside-lupins/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-and-patty-real-estate-show-6692071/vacant-house-horror-stories-sellers-who-blame-everything-but-the-price-verbal-counter-offers-gone-wrong-selling-commercial-property-in-pei-free-home-insulation-for-islanders-the-surprising-origin-of-pei-s-roadside-lupins.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.