DENVER - A Denver man emailed us concerned, he said there was a for sale sign in front of his home and he had no intention of selling it.
9NEWS went to the house near E. Mississippi Avenue and S. Dayton Street and spoke with Nimat Elzibair, the tipster’s wife, who said she discovered the for sale sign at about 11 a.m. March 29.
“I saw the sign, I (was) scared,” she said.
Elzibair, originally from Sudan, has been living in this house for 10 years, said she was confused. She believed someone could sell her house without her permission.
“Who (sic) gonna sell my house because I know my husband, he didn’t sell it,” she said.
Elzibair’s husband told 9NEWS he didn’t call the listed realtor Pam Pulley-Case from Preferred Properties because a co-worker told him this was a scam. He emailed 9NEWS instead.
9NEWS called Pulley-Case. She said in 29 years in the real estate business, she’s never had anything like this happen.
She said she’s had an empty lot for sale on the same block for three years. It needed a new sign and the one posted in front of Elzibair’s house actually belonged down the street.
“When the sign company installs the sign, they take a picture of it and send it to us,” she said. “When I looked at it, it was like this is not my vacant lot that’s for sale at Mississippi and Dayton, this is somebody’s house. I was mortified.”
The sign was posted at the wrong property because the sign installer was given Elzibair’s address, which is not the address for the empty lot.
It was a clerical error, Pulley-Case said. She added she asked the sign company to remove the sign immediately.
They did so Friday morning, right as 9NEWS was interviewing Elzibair about her for sale sign scare.
The man who didn’t want to be interviewed by 9NEWS took down the sign and repeatedly apologized to Elzibair.
“I hope don’t do it again for another house,” she told the man, “because really I scared about that and I get mad.”
But she accepted the man’s profuse apologies. Pulley-Case said if understood why Elzibair was so worried.
“I'm so sorry, mistakes are made and I'm sorry they were scared and I totally apologize,” she said.
While Elzibair told the man she was mad, after he left with the sign, she looked at 9NEWS and laughed.
“Yes, I’m happy now,” she said.
The sign is now posted in front of the empty lot.
