Say it like it is, how a buyer would ask about cheap Maine real estate.
Who would not want something low cost, a bargain with real value? When you live in a rural state like Maine especially, not flush with wheel barrows of money, it is critical to develop good spending impulse control.We are taught it early on when so called "knee high to a grasshopper."
Do you figure cheap means lacking quality? That it's a given if labeled "cheap"? Shoddy workmanship or all corners cut severely levels of service can be expected if the word "cheap" is attached?
The way you say what you mean, what you want, desire. Life is not a series of "yes" and "no" statements for answers. And gray areas develop if further clarification is not made to clear up unknowns.
Cheap is a term everyone uses, is after when it comes to how wide to open the wallet to say "ahhhh".
Change back from your dollar was something McDonald's bragged up, pushed and did not pull any punches on being known far and wide for. Cheap, cheap cheap. As low cost, cheap priced but good quality food at the same time in the exchange of vittles for dead Presidents.
Real estate communication was simpler with the telegraph, before Twitter's 140 characters.
Smoke signals got the point across quickly, easily. Unless a wind came up mid paragraph, sentence.
Do you always try to be conservative as possible, when communicating? If you were a luxury property listing real estate agent, broker, REALTOR would that not be possible? Because lofty "few individuals, world class leaders know the level of comfort, luxury that you do" as you go on to describe in intricate detail all the fine features of your newest property listing? Laying it on thickly, fully to the point that someone not in the market for luxury real estate would say come off it, and feel sick to their stomach. Those pitches can make you ill. If you are not used to peddling blue light special, attractively priced bread and butter property listings.
The ones the average Joe and Jane needs, can use.
I find expressions can nail the point you are trying to get across well too. For example, the new woodlot listing
that the buyer on the phone is wondering about buying, cutting and getting back his entire investment from all of the virgin timber stand of forest.
Telling him the truth, that "a woodpecker would have to pack a lunch to fly across this land property acreage".
Quickly with a sense of humor but sincerity, the buyer realizes this woodlot is not anymore.
That a cutting operation of the Maine land twenty minutes ago changed the value of standing wood on the property. The commercial value that was just harvested of the wood land when the overstory was removed, thinned out.
Do you use any other expressions to get your point across when listing, marketing, selling real estate in your area? Maine, you better learn how to wave if coming to spend any time in Vacationland.
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