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Local Experience? Show Me Your Map

By Tim Maitski

Real Estate Agent with Atlanta Communities Real Estate Brokerage GREC #208281

May 06, 2009 06:11 AM

With every home that I help a buyer purchase, I get a little smarter. I show the typical buyer between 20-50 homes before they make their decision. For every buyer who ends up buying, there are probably 3-5 who don't end up buying for one reason or another. The bottom line is that over the years, I've seen a lot of homes and slowly have acquired a lot of practical experience.

Our MLS allows you to map out search results. I thought it would be interesting to visually see where we have helped buyers buy a home. I did a search for sales with us as the buyer's agent and below is a map that shows the 78 homes that my partner and I have helped buyers purchase. The FMLS results go back between 2-3 years. I've been an agent for 10 years and my partner has been an agent for 26 years. So you can imagine what the map would look like with the total of our sales.

We get a lot of relocation people so we need to cover a pretty large area. For other areas of Atlanta, we refer out to the agents in our referral network that we've developed over the years. This allows us to hook buyers up with agents who have experience in the areas that they are interested in.

If you are shopping around for a buyer's agent, you might want to ask them to show you a map like this. Let them show you a map of their sales that they personally were involved with.

Sometimes a map is worth a thousand words.