You have a house for sale, and it has everything most home buyers want, plus some really nice features that home buyers love.
Why would a homebuyer NOT write an offer immediately?
Your house is for sale at just the right price, number of bedrooms and bathrooms meets or exceeds expectations, perfect size, great location with no negatives to overlook, great big yard. And yet - tick, tock, tick, tock - day after day and showing after showing goes by with no one writing an offer.
*** If you're showing the house yourself, or staying home and watching the showing, that could very well be the reason no one has written an offer. ***
I recently found a house that met all my clients needs AND wants, and they DIDN'T buy it. The house even had the extras they craved - backed to a park, great mountain view, huge yard - and yet, they didn't write an offer. Instead, they bought a house they love, but that didn't have a mountain view and didn't back to a park.
Why didn't they buy the 'better' house for sale?
They just didn't 'feel good' about it.
Now I'm going to tell you something you didn't know - out of all the homes I showed these clients, this is the only one that was shown to us by the seller themselves. The seller (who was 'saving' big bucks by hiring an agent who offered lower service for a lower fee) scheduled the showing around her job and family needs, was there late to let us in while telling us how inconvenient it was for her to be there, showed us around at her pace, talked about a bunch of features my clients didn't care about, complained about the tenant who was currently living there, had to keep screaming out the front door at her kids to stay in the car, etc.
This house came closer than any other house for sale to having everything my clients wanted. I had previewed it for them (which the homeowner found interesting, she commented, "I wish someone had done that for us!"), and I was worried that it would go under contract before my clients were able to get out to see it because it was immaculate and priced right.
But they just didn't have that good feeling. The feeling a buyer will get within the first few seconds of walking into the home that they end up buying.
Instead, they were uncomfortable from the start.
Is that uncomfortable feeling enough to screw up the sale of your home?
You bet it is!!
If you're serious about selling your house, you would do well to consider hiring a full-service agent and letting them do their job.
Good luck to you on your upcoming home sale!
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