Not long ago my team was in the process of selling a condo down in the Renton valley area in a pretty popular condo development. At the time, we were competing with about 3-5 similar condos plus there were other townhome style units for sale as well in the same complex. Since the community had a place for a single sales sign and a few flyer boxes at the entrance to the community we tried to use that first in our work to sell the client’s property. Because there were more units for sale than flyer boxes it turned into a battle over who could usurp another person’s flyers to get attention of buyers looking in the boxes including people taking out another person’s flyers and supplanting them with their own. We had to ask our client to regularly check the boxes to make sure his flyers were showing up and not taken out or covered up.
After a while I tried to get a little creative and I started thinking about how we could get a sign and a flyer box away from the competition. The result was that we put a sign closer out to the main road that passed by this development. That worked for a while, but lo and behold, at some point my assistant drove by the property one day to check our flyer box contents and the whole yard arm and sign was gone!!!! Where o’ where could it be? For now, we are stumped.
My first thought was that the City of Renton may have decided we couldn’t have the sign near or on the public R.O.W. and they took it down. But, in researching it they don’t have any (pardon the pun) sign of it in the place that they would put a confiscated sign. We also called the sign company (Sign Pros) to see if perhaps they had been called to take it down – no such luck, they hadn’t been called. So, now we’re wondering who would care to take a Team Reba sign? They are custom designed (and paid for) so perhaps the thief doesn’t realize the financial pain they inflict on a small business owner by stealing something such as this.
If anyone happens to see our sign around, please do let me know so we can reclaim it.
