Hi, I have been by a few times and haven't left you my sweet note as yet. Well, the first time I read this, I was laughing out load with what you found in that other home's MBR. Then I was laughing thinking maybe it had nothing whatever to do with Halloween. So I left trying to straighten up my act and then when I can back, got stuck again in that remembering something I had seen once that was far worse but along the same lines ,started to laugh again and figured I just had to get serious and finally read the whole thing.

So I did. Your're excellent but we already knew that. Nosey people can become our biggest advocates. I know this from experience. I suspect she will fast become one of yours. ( biggest advocates that is)

Hi Sally,

I am responding to one of the comments you received but also to many comments about this subject on other posts that I have read that I feel are wrongly based. I would like to be heard once again as a skilled professional to debunk some poorly thought out response to a professional effort to properly market a property. This should give you at least another one or two new articles to write.

I have always been an advocate of ( and I limit this to me), Open Houses and when done well ( properly exposed, marketed and prepared for the ensuing guests that will see it) introduces the property to the buying and selling community and can be very useful and beneficial. For as many years I have been in the business, there are those that say Open Houses don't work. What exactly  does " don't work" mean? In my agreement to market the property for the seller, I take it to mean that whatever we have agreed to do, I should do. That includes any and all things to professionally market that property. If that means passing out flyers to neighbors and or business , so be it. What works is the agent, not just an internet or print ad, not just an open house , not just a stack of flyers in a box on the sign. If the Buyer came from a print ad or an internet ad, then all the other things that were done, could also be said to "not have worked".

The point is we agreed to market the property in any and all ways that might lead to a possible buyer and discounting one or another of possible ways one can do that is making a judgment that because one thing or another didn't work in the past or on another specific property, it has no usefulness. I totally disagree. What is and has always been a part of my efforts is that I don't limit but expand the possibilities for marketing and the harder I work at it, the luckier I become with results.

So many have the wrong idea of what marketing is, what it can do and what the possibilities are. And we are dealing with possibilities here. The greater the effort , the more likely we will have a successful result. I have always stated that 90% of any good marketing plan is getting the price right for the property. The other 10 % includes, staging, advertising, Open Houses, proper counsel to prepare for contingencies and the work ethic that increases the odds by exposing the property in all possible professional ways . That includes showing off the property and the pride of ownership, how the property is currently used and what the possibilities are for other ways of utilizing it. We can do that hands on, as in the Open House.

My clients work very hard as I do to do detailed and careful preparation and when it is ready, I am proud to represent it and "show it Off". What my clients get in return for their hard efforts and correct pricing are results. To show that to the community is leading by example. And I get the honor of being the spokesperson for their hard efforts.

If that is not the scenario a professional is dealing with, they are not getting the sellers and the property to its best and natural optimization. As much as many may not like this answer, perhaps they are not the best agent for the sellers or the property. If the situation and personalities are NOT working together, there is a wrong match for the agent seller and property.

But, if the agent, seller and property are working in sync as a team effort, the results are amazing. There , I am done preaching now. Thanks for allowing to me to comment further. I should have written this as a post instead of a comment,lol.

Sally, the system is sending duplicates and quadruplicates of comments right now. We had the problem once before. I got credit twice and had to delete.