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showing appointments: Showing Etiquette While Another Agent is There Too - 05/28/09 05:02 PM
What is the showing etiquette where you are?
What I'm used to is calling a showing service and scheduling my showing.  The showing service then tells you if there is another showing already scheduled during that time, but it's just to let you know that someone else might be there too, no biggie.  You don't reschedule or anything.
You go to your showings.  If someone is there showing their buyers, you politely knock on the door (as it's usually wide open), walk in, and introduce yourself.  You then proceed to let them know you'll go ahead and take your buyers upstairs, … (42 comments)

showing appointments: A Buyer Sees a House How Many Times Before Writing an Offer? - 01/26/09 09:35 AM
When buyers look at a house more than 2 times, do you think they're trying to "talk themselves into the house"?  For the most part, a buyer looks at a house, decides to submit an offer, negotiates, and during our Texas "option period", they go back to the house and look at it again during their inspection and decide if they want to really move forward.  Sometimes, a buyer will look at a house twice before sbumitting their offer to make sure they're ok with the "option money" they might lose, though it's usually just only $100.
If you're a seller, and you see … (16 comments)

showing appointments: Showing Properties with Appointments - 09/10/07 10:35 AM
I've been reading a lot of blogs lately about how people are having problems controlling their sellers and getting showing on their properties for some reason or another...
Why do you allow this?  When I list a property, I tell the sellers how it works, I don't allow them to tell me how it's going to work.  I'm the professional and I know how to get people into looking at their house.  They don't understand how Realtors and Buyers actually work and how they want to make appointments.
In the listing agreement, there is a place to enter the showing information.  I tell … (44 comments)

 
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