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In real estate, the price of success is...failure!

It's common knowledge that in order to sell a home, you must first get prospective buyers into the home to see it.

Your REALTOR's job is to market your home to attract as many potential buyers as possible. As a seller, you will no doubt get frustrated because many buyers will view your home, but ultimately decide that it is not the right one for them.

These "failures" are necessary to the "success" of selling your home!

Just as in baseball, your odds of success increase with the number of times you are at bat. In real estate, the odds are that your home will receive an offer within 10-12 showings (if priced correctly).

So every time a buyer walks through your home and you "STRIKE OUT" you are one buyer closer to a "HOME RUN!"

BATTER UP!!!!

Posted by Kelly Sibilsky on 07/19/2007 12:23 PM

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Originally posted at: lake zurich...and beyond: In real estate, the price of success is...failure!

13 Comments on In real estate, the price of success is...failure!

JUL

2007

Failure's motivate me to do better, they are a great way to learn and to grow. No one is perfect!

Leo, I guess it should be "In life and in real estate, the price of success is failure" because you are so right, you can't have one without the other! Thanks for stopping by.

Hi, Kelly!

This is a great post - simple and to the point and so relevant. I am going to remember this each time we have a showing and our sellers mourn a "lost buyer."

~Maura Gebhardt

IT IS ALL SO TRUE!!! Only if we can remember it when we hit the taugh times.

Maura & Arina - there's a way to keep positive spin on everything, isn't there? Thanks for reading my post.

Hi Kelly, OK I had to jump over here to help you out with comments:) My goal on my listings is to get an offer within the first 10 showings. If I don't something needs to change.