One of the occupational hazards of being a real estate agent is that you can walk into a home you were scouting for a client and suddenly want it for yourself.
“We were not looking to move,” said Suzanne White, a 58-year-old Realtor from Memphis. “My husband and I had never discussed it.”
She’d always wanted a pool and the space to host big parties. He wanted a music room and a wood shop. “But these were casual wishes,” Suzanne said. Not enough to drive them from their 2,800-square-foot home of 17 years, where they had raised their blended family of four now-grown children, and from a neighborhood and neighbors they