This weekend, estate agents in East London are likely to be keeping a sharp eye on the boards they put up to advertise show houses and will probably be keen to take them down as quickly as possible once the show day has ended.
But at least a puzzling mystery in the town has been solved. For weeks agent Sue Brownlie, from Landvest Real Estate had meticulously erected her boards but when she went back to collect them, they were always missing.
She couldn’t understand it but promptly jumped to the likely conclusion that other agents working in the same area were removing them and carrying them away or disposing of them in some unlikely spot.
As the weeks went by she got more and more furious and even tried to keep an eye on the boards – although this proved difficult because she had to be on duty at the show house being advertised.
Finally, this week, the mystery was solved.
A hawker had carefully helped himself to the boards and then had meticulously shaped the steel into a trunk, complete with a clasp and padlock, all made from Landvest advertising boards.
A client spotted the trunk in the city and quickly photographed it and sent it to Brownlie. She apparently went around to the hawker and gave him a piece of her mind but she declined to press charges.
“We’ve never been able to catch anyone stealing our boards but at least we now know where they are going,” she says. “I’m even more relieved that other estate agents weren’t removing them and sabotaging my show days,” she adds.
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