Realtors come in many shapes, sizes, personalities, temperaments, experience levels, training and life experience. Picking up a phone book and selecting one may help you select a jewel of a professional to hire, but wouldn't cutting the glamour shots out of the home magazines and pasting them to the dart board and throwing a dart work better? Sage advice is what you want in buying or selling your home. You want a Yoda type. A real Yoda. Someone like ME for example who cares about you. But know the reality:
Some Yodas May Just Be Green With Big Ears.
Ask some qualification questions for your potential Realtor. How will they market your house? What techniques currently are working in the market? How is the market doing? How are you different than the other 1.3 million Realtors out there? Do they even look you in the eye? Do they know how to laugh? Do they appreciate your house? Do they remember your dog's name when you call them back?
There are a lot of cookie cutter questions in books and on web sites about interviewing Realtors to be your buyers or sellers agent. But don't forget the soft intangible questions that relate to the chemistry of you and them that may take you on a months long journey together.
They may appear sage and wise. Just don't find one that is "only" green with big ears!!
"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship." ~ Yoda
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