A quick home selling tip
Thanks Russ, This is great advice to share with my sellers!
Let me give you a tip on how to sell your home. Make it accessible. Make it easy to show. Nothing is more frustrating to a buyers agent than to have to re-arrange the showing schedule because we have to meet some seller or listing agent at a certain time at a specific time.
If you have to be there to let the buyer in, or have to have your listing agent there when somebody comes to look at your Metro Detroit home. Then you are losing showings. Put a lock box on the home.
Sometimes it just is not possible to see the home or to re-arrange our schedule to meet you at a specific time. I myself work with a lot of Michigan relocation buyers. We have sometimes only have 2 days to find a house. So if we are seeing Canton homes in the morning and Plymouth homes for sale in the afternoon its tough to change it completely around. But you can only let us into your Canton home in the afternoon we may pass on your home. We sometimes just don't have time to run out of our way.
And we are not going to change our whole schedule to fit your schedule. It is the sellers job to make their home convenient to show. If I had to call ten different showing agents to change the schedule to see your Canton home in the morning. Then they have to remake their scheduling call to their sellers and then call me back. Then it may not work for them. Too much work.
Showing homes is imprecise. That is why we ask to see homes in a hour window. (ie from 2-3). We may be running late or early. It's like "Survivor" Having to meet somebody at 1 that throws our route off may get you "kicked off" our house tour.
Many times when we as buyers agent explain this to our buyer that we have to give up seeing two houses to go backtrack to see one. They say forget it. Unless your home was on the "I gotta see this home" inconveniencing the buyer and not having your home available may cost you selling your home to relocation buyers and other buyers.
So put a lock box on when you list a home. It enable more buyers to see your home. And in this metro Detroit real estate market you need every person possible to look at your home.
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