I Win, You Lose Because You Took Sunday Off.
Everyone needs a day off, I get it. I don’t begrudge any agent for specifying a day during the week that is totally for them. But I win, you lose because you took Sunday off this time.
I sold one of my listing on Monday. What made this unusual is that the agent never showed it. The buyer was driving around on Sunday and my seller was outside and invited them in to see the house. The buyer loved it. They talked terms, negotiated dates and type financing and shook hands on it.
The buyer then called her agent and said she found a house and wanted to write it up. Now you may wonder who lost. Well the story is that the buyer had looked last week at another house several times. On Saturday late afternoon the buyer had decided that was the house for her. Her buyer’s agent called the other listing agent and told him the buyer had made a decision to make an offer. The listing agent said to just wait that he didn’t work Sundays and it was too late on Saturday so just get it to him on Monday.
Since the offer
could not be presented on Saturday evening or Sunday because the listing agent was checked out, the buyer and her agent decided to wait until Monday to write it up.
But on Sunday afternoon she found my listing and worked a deal with the seller. My seller is a handshake kind of guy and the buyer was a lady of her word. So Monday morning she wrote up my listing and not the other house. My seller agreed to the terms because they were exactly what they had talked about and shook hands on.
The other listing agent called the buyer’s agent on Monday and said do you have an offer? She said she did but not on his house. He asked what happened. She told him he took the day off and the buyer found something she liked better.
Whoopee! I Win, You Lose because you took Sunday off. It could happen to me but I would have asked for the offer then and there and sent it on to my seller.
If you need a real estate agent willing to work when you are available and will get your home sold in Clarksville TN, then call the best, Debbie Reynolds and see a Sold Sign Appear in Your Yard. 931-320-6730.
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