This might well be the chant you’d expect from a Wolves fan but it’s also part of chilling day to day reality of being an estate agent in Moseley. News has reached us that top house selling shop Seekers has been advised by the Police to change it’s name and move location following a long running campaign of terror and intimidation.
Apparently the Seekers situation turned for the worst last year following a series of pretend house sales. A stream of invitations to view increasingly ridiculous properties bemused estate agents. At one point last summer Seekers were invited to try and sell a Wendy House that had been erected on the Village Green. After measuring the property representatives of Seekers were worried to see a large group of older Estate Agents standing outside the chip shop laughing and pointing at the tiny cloth house.
It was a this point that Seekers realised that rather than a group of kids having some sort of laugh this was in fact something more insidious. A series of insulting phone calls led the worried estate agents to contact the Police. Through a mixture of good old fashioned detective work and not a little conjecture the Police decided to blame the other estate agents of Moseley. It appears that the main protagonists are no lesser local dignitaries than Dixons and Superior Estates. Mr Seeker tod us yesterday “When Dixons got that new sign they began to think they were the bollocks and then when they started knocking about with the other agents from Superior they sort of began egging each other on. It’s a classic pattern of abuse, first they start sending abusive text messages and then they start drawing pictures on our conveyance forms.”
When asked what the future holds he told us “There isn’t really a lot the Police can do. They called all the agents in the area into the station last week but were met by a conspiracy of silence. They have advised us to change our name and try our luck in a new location. So that’s what we’re going to do.” Ironically this new location is in fact next door to Dixons meaning that a busy road will not hamper any future pranks.