Colorado Real Estate Sellers - In this market, you need every advantage. You still need proper staging, signage, brochures, curb appeal and pricing, but to neglect the largest source of buyers (online) by not hiring a broker who is familiar with online marketing (and can demonstrate it) to represent you is starting your real estate selling experience with a handicap.
Some questions to ask:
- Do you blog? where? This may demonstrate committment and understanding of the web as well as keeping up with the latest in buyer and seller demands
- What's your web site address? Take a look at their site, what is on it? do they even have a site? Amazingly there are some agents out there that still don't have their own website.
- Do they have their own site, or are they just a tagline at the end of a larger companies site? They may point to rankings, brag about 'their' site, and then you find out that it is a company site...
- Where does your MLS propagate my listing to? Realtor.com is the most viewed site for listings, but even they only have a small share. There are many sources online for listings these days. It takes a lot of work and upkeep to maintain them all, but isn't that what your agent is paid to do?
This is not a comprehensive list of all the things you could or should ask a prespective listing agent, but it may give you some questions to ask that you haven't thought of before.