Markets across the country are not moving with the greatest of speed...how well many of us know...we hear about people leaving the business who have been in it for decades, agents who quit before they really get started because they can't pay the continual expenses without a paycheck. Continual expenses...oh yes....Not all sellers or consumers understand the role of an INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR.
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR means that an agent pays all their own expenses. There may be computers to use and a desk to sit at....and the other charges vary from brokerage to brokerage...some agents pay "desk rent" of four figures or more besides other things like copies, long distance, signs, charges for putting signs on lawns, advertising - (some are involuntary and charged by the brokerage), website and technology fees, MLS monthly dues, health insurance, gas and car insurance, local association dues, national association dues...the list continues....it is the price we pay for a business we love and for some agents these days, they find savings dwindling, their own homes are "upside down", they have been drawing on home equity loans for living expenses, cashed in investments and retirement accounts....all because....no bad cycle lasts forever and things will get better....but I digress.
Has your agent been advertising your home ? Has she or he gone through the house with you and made sure it looks the best cosmetically and mechanically ? Have they suggested a staging company or done staging for you ? Is your home really ALL DRESSED UP AND READY TO SELL ?
As Important.....Have you reviewed the pricing of your Home ?Is it the MOST EXPENSIVE.... ? Is it just part of "the pack" all bunched together with lots of other homes so that a buyer has lots of to choose from at the same price ?
Have you been cooperative about showing regardless of how much notice was or was not given to you ? Was the house clean and fresh and yard in good shape ?
If your realtor is advertising...holding opens, keeping the price in line with the market ?
Threatening her/him with extinction probably won't make the realtor work harder....or the property sell faster....know that the frutration is not unique to you....And offer suggestions to help...Take the listing to work, church, school, the grocery store... Talk about it to friends and relatives, neighbors, co-workers...It only takes one buyer and it sure helps to have a TEAM to make the sale successful.....Supportive is better than combative.....Ya Think ?
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