Dear Mr. Home Seller. Has your agent actually seen your home?

Every once in a while I will see a home listed by an out of the area agent. I wonder why pWhy would you do that?eople would list their home with someone from out of the area.  I guess maybe the agent is a family member or a friend.  But is that agent really doing the best thing for that home seller? Does he know the neighborhood, or the local market?

One of my buyer clients asked if he could see a listing here in Turlock.  The listing agent is 100 miles away in the South Bay Area.  I'm pretty sure that the listing agent has not even seen the home. 

I have tried to make an appointment to show this home. He has not responded to my voice mail or email for a showing appointment.  The showing instructions in the MLS say to contact the listing agent for access but he doesn't seem to be very responsive to showing requests.  Maybe he has multiple offers already and the seller is ready to pick one of the offers. That's possible but it would be nice to let me know that.

Now the reason I mentioned above that I don't think that this out of town listing agent has never seen the home is because of the ONE photo he has on the MLS.  I noticed an icon in the upper left hand corner of the single photo and it looked familiar.  Then it hit me.  I've seen that icon before.  It was on a street view photo on GoogleMaps. Check out the 2 photos below.  The one on the left is the MLS photo and the one on the right is from the GoogleMaps street view.

MLS photoStreet view photo

It sure looks like the same photo to me.  So I guess this agent didn't want to really be bothered with driving all the way to Turlock to actually look at the house.  It has been on the market for seven days now so you would think he had the chance to drive over here.  It looks like he just pulled up the address on Google and snagged the street view photo and then uploaded it to the MLS. 

I wonder if the seller knows this?  Is this agent actually working in the sellers best interest?  I have to ask: Dear Mr. Home Seller has your agent actually seen your home?

 

 

Jim Patton Stanislaus County Short Sale Agent

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