Mr. and Mrs. Seller if you are going to all the work to list your house with a Realtor it is extremely important that you go to the extra work of accepting showings when they are called in. I recently had out of town buyers in for one day only. They gave me a list of 10 homes that they wanted to see. I made my appointments through a showing service with a four hour notice to the seller's. These were being shown on a Monday in the afternoon. Out of the 10 homes I tried to schedule four sellers declined our showing.
Out of the four sellers that declined one of them gave me a legitimate reason; they were taking their house off of the market. I can understand that things change and better they cancel than my clients fall in love with a house that is no longer on the market. Since these were out of town buyers I decided to call the rest of the agents directly to see if they could talk their clients in to letting me show the homes.
The first reason given for the showing being declined was that the photographer was going to be there taking pictures. I think the agent must have had a heart to heart talk with their seller. This was a new listing and the agent quickly called me back and said yes her clients would be happy for us to see the home. The photographer was still there when we arrived but it was no big deal it was easy for us to stay out of his way.
The second agent did not have as good of news. His client's 20 year old has moved home with a dog and for some reason his client does not think the home can be shown when the 20 year old is at home. I was told I could show it the next evening after 5:00. Mind you this was an out of town buyer; they are looking t
o buy a home in a limited amount of time and were not even going to be here the next day. The agent was very apologetic and told me he wasn't sure why his clients even had their home on the market.
I really don't know why the third home was declined. I left a message for the agent but never heard back on that one.
As your Realtor we go to a lot of work to market your home and it is extremely frustrating to receive the email from the showing service that the appointment has been declined by the seller. Even though our Northwest Houston market has not been affected by the economy as much as many other areas of the United States, we still have a lot of houses on the market and not as many buyers are able to get financing as in previous years.
These three homes could have been the one my clients loved but as they are not able to look at them these three sellers may have missed out on selling their home. Long story short if you want to get your home sold there may be times when you need to show it even though the timing is inconvenient for you.
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