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Questions Not to Ask a Sacramento Short Sale Agent

By Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

Real Estate Agent with Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker DRE #00697006

January 22, 2013 12:16 AM

Well, this could take me all day, to write a blog about questions not to ask a Sacramento short sale agent. Because I get a ton of questions all of the time, and some of them would simply blow you away. I'm not going to tell you who they come from because I try to have empathy for my fellow agents. We all had to start in this business somewhere.

Not everybody cares about short sales the way that I do, and I know it. There are agents who won't touch them with a ten-foot pole, and I respect that, especially since it leaves a lot more business for this agent. However, probably the most intrusive question an agent could ask is what is the seller's hardship?

Read more on my personal blog today about the Seller's Hardship in a Short Sale.

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Dan Hopper

Dan Hopper - Gold Way RE - Westminster, CO

Colorado Broker / Referral Services

Elizabeth ... we get that asked all the time!! If the buyer is working with a good broker, that broker can discover a lot of things on their own, like is it in foreclosure, property empty.... just common sense things to investigate for their buyer.

Reality is ... we are still marketing a property based on it's current market value and condition!!

Jan 22, 2013 12:18 AM

Gary Woltal

Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX

Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

From a buyer perspective, short sale or traditional sale Elizabeth, mainly it is about business, and the home becoming new for them. Confidential is definitely the word to be put out there about defining hardship. Great blog article.

Jan 22, 2013 02:24 AM

Melanie Ross

Coldwell Banker Solano Pacific - Benicia, CA

Benicia CA & Vallejo CA Real Estate, 707-319-2828

I always feel invaded when an agent asks this question and I am not the seller!! I did read the rest of your blog and I confess if I have the buyer I will ask who the bank is. ONLY because if I can spoon feed the listing agent an offer......for example getting the buyer to sign any forms that I know the bank will want.

Jan 22, 2013 05:24 AM

Chris Ann Cleland

Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA

Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

All an agent representing a Sacramento buyer needs to know is that Elizabeth Weintraub won't take a Short Sale listing she doesn't think she can get approved.

Jan 22, 2013 06:55 AM

James Dray

Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

Elizabeth good morning young lady. Do you find is it the timing or just the question in general that will set the tone of the relationship?

Jan 22, 2013 07:19 PM

Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA

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Hi Dan: LOL, yes, I had an agent call me yesterday on a home that is pending. I told him MLS shows it as pending and asked did he see it as something else? It's been pending for a long time. The guy said, no, his client called him and he thought he'd just call me instead of looking it up in MLS. Looking it up was evidently too much work for him.

Hi Gary: Sometimes people think the world revolves around them and they don't stop to think that what they are asking is too personal.

Hi Melanie: You are one of those agents, no doubt in my mind, who would know how to process that kind of information.

Hi Chris Ann: As usual, you hit the nail on the head. I mean, come on, why would I list a property if I didn't think it would close? I wouldn't.

Hi James: I think it's the annoyance of answering the phone, just kidding!

Jan 22, 2013 10:47 PM

Melissa Zavala

Broadpoint Properties - Escondido, CA

Broker, Escondido Real Estate, San Diego County

No, it is not cool to inquire about the seller's hardship. But, there are so many other nonsense questions that we do get all the time, as you state.

Jan 23, 2013 09:04 AM

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