For example, if I have a small master bedroom, I will stage it to show potential customers how to make it livable.

The buyer brokerage while doing twice the work for half the commission would have to be careful about seeing the seller as a customer and doing ministerial acts versus accidentally performing client acts and creating IMPLIED AGENCY. 

I was on the phone with Intuit customer service for over 2 hours and was sent back and forth between various departments - all of which were apparently located in India.

The husband's credit history was really short: one charged off utility account which I could not understand (the account was closed by customer at the end of 2014 but got a balance from July 2015 - Oct 2015 but later on charged off by the utility company), another one is a big phone bill on collection but they disputed and settled(paid) on an amount less than the balance.

The BBB website profiles your company's services and customer satisfaction record.

Custom kitchen w/NEW stainless steel appliances including fridge& built-in microwave.

I'm too young to be an old-timer, but honestly I thought you were referring to a totally different Dave and Pete, both of whom have many satisfied customers and offer way cheaper REI education seminars.I'd hold off on giving these people your money for now.  

I don't use an automated voicemail for two reasons. 1- I don't leave messages at businesses so I don't expect a customer to do so either.

We did a lot of the work ourselves but subbed out all the heavy lifting (windows, cabinets, plumbing, etc). 

I was hoping that they were going to ask how I liked the program, but instead were just interested in the webinar while she had no idea that I was a paying customer.