Job Security for this Portland Exclusive Buyers Agent
This week was spent showing property. A lot of property, as a Portland Exclusive Buyers Agent my office doesn't take listings. Showing property is a huge part of the overall service provided as a Portland exclusive buyers agent.
The Internet has opened up the ability for customers / consumers / client to view listings online. But there will always be the need to tour the property. As a Portland Exclusive Buyers Agent I know that we have to tour the home in order to really discern. While the Internet provides useful information and photos, there will always be a need to tour homes. I call this "job security."
These are not my comments, but comments made by my clients as I represented them in Portland as their Exclusive Buyers Agent:
- The listing sheet information isn't always accurate.
DUH!! The lisitng sheet was showing that there was a 2nd bedroom in the "L"ower level . . . slight problemo: There was NO lower level.
- The photos make the home seem so nice.
This particular property seemed lovely from the photos. Light and bright. Clean and organized. When we toured, it was nothing at all like the photos. Dark, cluttered, and very unkept. You couldn't "SEE" the house -- it was just so gloomy.
- The map didn't show how narrow the street really is.
Correct. The map only places a pinpoint of where the property is, but doesn't show the street. Are there sidewalks? Is the street narrow? Can guests park near the home?
- The listing says 3 baths, not 2 baths and a partial.
As a Portland Exclusive Buyers Agent I find this most annoying. I have to explain the "reasoning" for why that might have been entered into the listing that way: new agent doesn't know from baths?!?
And there are a host of other things that ensure this Portland Exclusive Buyers Agent has "job security": lay out / floor plans, the true relationship of room sizes, where rooms are located, the flow of the house, easy access to the backyard, easy access to the home from the garage (are there steps up?), etc.
Yes, I love being a Portland Exclusive Buyers Agent and showing properties. The ONLY way to really know if it's the house for you is to get out with your agent and tour!
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