{"id":6660,"date":"2016-11-09T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2016-11-09T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:24:42","slug":"selling-a-new-home-to-saint-nick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/selling-a-new-home-to-saint-nick\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling a New Home to Saint Nick!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6661 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/11.7.16-Selling-to-Saint-Nick-Blog-Header.jpg\" alt=\"11-7-16-selling-to-saint-nick-blog-header\" width=\"1320\" height=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s safe to say that I love my job. When you think of how we get to help people to not just pick a home, but to select a home that will be their dream home, it really becomes quite amazing. I get to help good people pick their homesite and choose a home that lives the way they like to live, whether it be a new home for a large family with kids, grand kids, and lots of family shenanigans, or a private getaway for a longtime couple that truly deserves their new sanctuary. This is an amazing job where we are fortunate enough to make some incredible\u00a0friends and neighbors along the way. And just when I thought my job it couldn\u2019t get better&#8230;it got magical!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We all have heroes growing up, and let&#8217;s be honest, we all secretly hope that we get the chance to come face to face with those heroes. Well, this week it happened for me! I got to sell a home to my\u00a0boyhood hero who\u00a0I always believed in but never really knew was real. I got to meet\u00a0the man himself, Santa Clause! Folks, <a href=\"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/santa\/\">Santa is coming to Bayside<\/a>!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6663 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/santa-frank-blog-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"santa-frank-blog-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yes that\u2019s right you heard me, <a href=\"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/find-new-homes\/delaware-beaches\/bayside\/\">we here at Bayside<\/a> sold a home to good old Saint Nick and it was every bit as\u00a0awesome as you\u00a0would expect (candy canes and\u00a0cookies galore!). Now it was admittedly a bit nerve-racking trying to stay on the &#8216;nice&#8217; list while Santa was around; after all, we aren&#8217;t always on our best behavior (sometimes we get a little silly in Bayside). Case in point: I offered him a beer with his\u00a0cookies. He graciously\u00a0declined the beer,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">but accepted\u00a0the milk of course. Just as you would think he was jolly the whole time and couldn\u2019t be more cheerful. In true fashion, we never saw him coming or going, we only knew he was here when we heard the jingle of sleigh bells and the pitter-patter of hooves on the roof.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6664 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/santa-frank-blog-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"santa-frank-blog-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Of course <em>we<\/em> know why Bayside, but we still had to ask Santa why <em>he<\/em> choose Bayside when he\u00a0can live anywhere in\u00a0the world. We were met with a boisterous &#8220;HO HO HO!&#8221;\u00a0Santa<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0then explained that since he had traveled\u00a0all over the world, he knew without a doubt\u00a0that if\u00a0was going to have a second home it would have to\u00a0be in Bayside, and if he was going to have someone besides his trusty elves build a home, it would have to be Schell Brothers.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At this\u00a0point I said, \u201cThat is awesome Santa, I knew it!\u00a0Is it the quality? Maybe the energy efficiency? The floor plans?? What is it Santa???\u201d (as you can see, the suspense was killing me) He laughed again with a &#8220;HO HO HO!&#8221; and said \u201cyes, that is all true and played a big part in my decision, but the truth is that it was all those damn billboards!\u201d He\u00a0let out a big, belly laugh\u00a0and winked with a smile. There truly is magic in everything he does!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This will be a hard day at work to beat,\u00a0but there are always new people to meet and new stories to be told. And for\u00a0those of you naysayers out there that still don\u2019t believe, then you better watch out because Santa is coming to Bayside!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6665 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/santa-franks-blog-5.jpg\" alt=\"santa-franks-blog-5\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s safe to say that I love my job. When you think of how we get to help people to not just pick a home, but to select a home that will be their dream home, it really becomes quite amazing. I get to help good people pick their homesite and choose a home that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,12],"tags":[114,116,123,322,445,826,1028,1029,1030,1038],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-get-it","category-bayside","category-fun-stuff","tag-bayside-2","tag-bayside-fenwick","tag-beach-homes","tag-delaware","tag-fenwick-island","tag-new-homes","tag-santa","tag-santa-claus","tag-santas-house","tag-schell-brothers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}