Don't Call Him on the Weekend!

My husband and I were recently interested in a property listed by Kirk Welch and Lisa Welch. We drove by the property and there were three numbers listed on the sign - one for Kirk, one for Lisa, and one for the company they work for. We had our realtor try to contact him starting Tuesday and Kirk did not return any calls. We had our preapproval letter ready and were waiting to write up an offer since we had lived in the neighborhood before and loved the area and the house. Finally on Saturday, since our realtor had left several messages for Kirk and had still not heard back from him, I called the realty company and told them of the situation, that we had been waiting since Tuesday for a call back from Kirk with the access code, so we could see the house. The receptionist transferred me to Kirk's phone and I left him a message asking him to call my realtor with the access code. Mr Welch immediately called my realtor and angrily told him off, stating that he only works Monday through Friday from 9-5 and doesn't want people calling him on the weekend. He lied and said he had never received a call from my realtor, but the truth is he would not have had my realtor's number to call him back if that was the case. So to state the obvious, Mr. Welch had four "weekdays" to return the call so that he would not have been bothered on the weekend. Anyone who enters the real estate profession knows they will receive calls on the weekend. If he doesn't want to receive calls on the weekend, he should not have his office phone, his cell phone and his wife's cell phone listed on the sign because the weekend is when people are out house shopping. And he could have advised the receptionist not to forward calls to him on the weekend, or he could choose not to check messages on the weekend. So in short, he appears to selfish and hotheaded and in the wrong profession.