I prepared the guest bedrooms with fresh linens and the kind of attention I paid to the client properties, which was the full attention, not the almost-full attention that you give to things that matter less. I put books on the nightstands that I thought they would actually read.
I set out the specific things that made a room feel like someone had thought about the person who would sleep in it.
I planned the menu. I set the dining table four days in advance and looked at it from different angles to understand how it would feel to sit at it and I was satisfied with how it felt.
And then Megan, four months before any of this, without telling me, had submitted the house to a national television production company that did holiday home specials.
She did this because she knew what the house was worth and she knew what I was worth and she had decided that those two things deserved a larger audience than the regional development community and she had taken the action without asking me because she knew I would have said it was too early,
