The High Road: Where in world has trust gone?

(Flickr photo by So gesehen)

I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised.

During my routine tour of open houses on the Upper West Side one Sunday, I saw two listed by the same seasoned broker in one building.  Although I wanted to photograph them for a future Out and About post, I didn’t have my camera with me.

A week and a half later, I returned with my camera and, naturally, asked for permission to shoot the living room.  That’s what I always do, and I can think of only one occasion in years that a broker declined.

Eyebrows arced, the listing broker — call her Faith — asked, “What for?”