How to avoid selling a Listing: Annoy the Buyers' Agent! Or annoy the Buyers before they call an agent!

Hi Mike,  Wow, what a list.  Yikes.  I keep a checklist and try to keep on top of it.  Good things to avoid --nice and spelled out.

Mike - I think you have covered it pretty well.

or have an active hornets nest on the front door :)

Mike, I went through your list and unfortunatly I think I have run across all of those scenarios.  The other one that drives me nuts is the agent who NEVER answers the phone and doesn't return phone calls.

Nice post. We get that a lot. We have so many agents doing "business" in our area, short sales and reo's alike and there does not seem to be an interest in doing their job. They have the inventory and we are the surfs.

John Madden said, that if we are going to stumble through life, make sure we stumble foward.

Onward.

Stefan Jezycki in Napa Valley CA

Mike You do make a good point, although comically....some folks just either don't use good sense when "managing" the sale of a home or either they are just downright as dumb as a brick.

Put the lock box near cactus (this is Arizona) or other particularly thorny trees or bushes -- always a way to make an agent happy.

Nice list. You have things on the list I haven't encounter at least not yet!  I did just come across "the bee's nest" today   Haven't see the hornets though.  

okay--i'm gonna say it.  Major beyond ANNOYANCE--the listing agent who does not trust a buyers agent to show thier listings and the buyers agent is sforced to comform to the listing agent schedule and yese,even worse--they try to develop a relationship with the buyer's agent client.  My initial thougnt was "no way" this is beyond what I even want to explain--so wrong on every level.  This happens to every buyers agent with this particular local agency.  Talk about "Yikes."  I checked around with other local agents--it happens to everyone.  Holy crap,  We are licensed agents--fingerprints and all-you know, I am about to say something I will regret--so here I shall stop

Or, how about an agent that does not mention anywhere on the listing about his listing in a nice area of town being a fixer or that not only are the kitchen and bathrooms COMPLETELY empty. As in, no counters, tub, cabinets, sink, toilet, light fixtures. There isn't even any drywall in the 1984 house. Just studs. There is nothing like a drive across town for nothing.

Or another favorite: Active listings that say in the agent remarks NO LONGER ACCEPTING OFFERS.

Hahahah!   Awesome list Mike.

As always Mike, I'm smiling after reading something you've written or looking at a photo you've taken!

I'll keep this list handy for my future first listing!

Clearly you have no understanding of staging. "Thick mold" can also make great texture on the walls, no knock down necessary!

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