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Your agent hits like a girlToday I will be out with a lovely couple from Wisconsin looking for their Florida home. I try to stay upbeat and not hyper critical of what other agents consider "marketing" but it's a nightmare, plain and simple. It is literally a struggle for me to show your Bonita Springs home. Should it be? My buyers are searching for a home or attached villa in the $200-250,000 price point. I will be showing them eight homes that best meet their criteria of size, style, one level, two bedroom minimum & value.

Here's what the market has to offer:

  • 144 active listings meet the price criteria (not value criteria)
  • 90 active listings have a two car garage
  • Just from this point your home has only a .09% chance of being shown to my buyers before your agent even screws everything up.

What else would sell the other 88 homes to me? Yes, me. Your house has to be sold three times, by the way. To the agents, to the buyers and to the appraiser. First, what would make me show any of the other 88 homes to my buyers?

Click here to continue reading, but only if you can handle the truth.

 

7 Comments on Why Your Bonita Springs Home is NOT Selling

Well, the problem is, most people can't handle the truth!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02/18/2008 02:49 PM by Rich Jacobson ~ ActiveRain Community Builder (ActiveRain Corporation)

I knew I could count on you, Rich, for bringing Jack to the party.

02/18/2008 03:23 PM by Chris Elizabeth Griffith ~ Bonita Springs Fl Real Estate (Keller Williams Elite Realty, Bonita Springs, FL)

I've stopped laughing (at your image tag) and can now type.  Your article was excellent!

02/18/2008 03:44 PM by Kris Wales-Macomb County MI Real estate (RE/MAX Advantage 1, Inc.)

Hear, Hear!

Haven't got to the whole truth yet but, I would hope you make mention of the "wing and a prayer....MLS entry only" listing with "all negotiations to be conducted directly with seller". Do you have that sort of thing out your way? We do. Less and less though. One thing that they do have in common though is 3 digit days on market....Hmmmm, you think they would put two and two together but, than again, if they could add.....

02/18/2008 07:52 PM by Christopher Walker Hemet CA Real Estate (Mission Grove Realty - REO Homes & Investment Property)

A property does not have to be in Bonita Springs for all of the above to be true. Sometimes I wonder if selling agents really want their listings to sell.

02/19/2008 10:21 AM by Rosario Lewis, GRI ~ DDR Realty, Orange County, NY (DDR Realty)

Price! Price! PRICE!

03/01/2008 08:26 PM by Owen Zweiback (Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate)

Absolutely, Owen.

03/01/2008 09:55 PM by Chris Elizabeth Griffith ~ Bonita Springs Fl Real Estate (Keller Williams Elite Realty, Bonita Springs, FL)

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Real Estate Agent: Chris Elizabeth Griffith ~ Bonita Springs Fl Real Estate (Keller Williams Elite Realty, Bonita Springs, FL)
Chris Elizabeth Griffith ~ Bonita Springs Fl Real Estate
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