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Don't Be A Not Ready For Prime Time Listing
When your home is first listed, easy access is very, very important.
Realtors and their clients have to be able to get in the door to see the place!  If we can't see it, we can't sell it.  
Here's how it typically works:
I have some buyers for a particular part of Northern Virginia looking for a town house.  It has to be nice and it has to be near Metro.  And there are a bunch on the market we've already seen - and some have been on the market for a while now.  But the good ones go quickly.  So yesterday when a new listing came up, I immediately picked up the phone to arrange a quick preview before issuing a Red Hot House Alert to my buyers.
While the information had been fed into MRIS, the agent hadn't put the lockbox on the door yet.  He didn't have the keys.  And he had showing instructions that said basically leave a message with the seller and head over. 
So I'm wondering how many other buyer agents who, like me, had buyers chomping at the bit, got to the house and scratched their heads looking for a Sentrilock box that ... more

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