Here is another fun trend in real estate I'd like to share! In todays real estate market many sellers are using discounted real estate services, and not getting real advice from any agents. The consequences for this are obvious. Home are not selling! Or better yet, they are selling for much lower than they should! Yet at the same time I'm sure the agents are getting an earful from the sellers that no one is showing their home. A listing agent may think their clients are "GOLDEN" but here is what is really happening when you are trying to show a home:
- Sellers are restricting your showing times. You ask to show at 12:30 they tell you could you come later!
- The seller says, "I've out of town guests, how about next week?"
- Seller's don't leave the home when you arrive and follow you around...running interference.
- The seller in front of you asks buyer to deal directly with seller! So No Agents will Be Involved in Sale!
- The home is absolutely filthy! It smells funny, dishes are piled high in the sink.
- The vicious pets were not secured!
- You called the seller twice to make an appointment to show, when you arrive, seller says "Why didn't you call first?"
- Beds are not made, soiled laundry in strewn about the home. Dirty underwear on kitchen table!
- They've been smoking big time!
- Someone threw a major party and did not clean up!
- Beds are not made, ashtrays are full!
- Someone was just smoking pot, and your client is a police officer!
- The pets could just not hold it anymore, and the carpet and floors have been soiled.
- Teenagers are having a sex party in your master bath suite!
- The lockbox you called for the seller to put out is missing.
- No matter what time you want to show, it is inconvenient!
- For those divorcing, one spouse says show the home, the other says "NO!"
- Condo seller says "I'm to tired! Show the unit next door, and if you like that, write a contract for mine, I'ts better!"
- The seller tells you all the details about the home, that any good agent would tell them not to say!
I know I 'm not alone here, and that many of us had similar stories to share. Sometimes home seller's are their own worst enemy. With the chnaces of homes dropping, you would think that most home sellers would be appreciative of someone trying to show and sell their home in todays lackluster real estate market! The word "Grateful comes to mind!"
Or perhaps they have listed with a discount company, or an agent that has absolutely no experience i
n selling a home. All they did was list it! Home sellers need to prep the home, keep it clean, accomodate showing agents, and stay out of the way! The last buyer through the door may be your last! Bad news travels fast!
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How right you are Jim.