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Showing Appointment...It’s Not Always Negotiable
Agents! Did you ever feel like you need to negotiate with a seller BEFORE you even get through the front door with a potential buyer?  Don't we do this all the time when we call to schedule showing appointments?  How often does it happen that a seller tries to finagle a different showing time?  Well, it happened to me twice today. And, I am still fuming.   
Late this afternoon I called to make appointments to show 8 properties tomorrow morning and early afternoon.  I consider this to be ample notice.  I still don't have confirmation on half of the showing appointments, but the extent of my frustration is due to sellers who think I should accommodate their schedule. 
I was expecting the listing offices to call back with confirmation and access information.  Instead, the first call was a request for me to come at noon instead of the 10:30-11:30am time range I had tried to coordinate.  "Let's see" I told the lady at the appointment desk at the listing firm representing the seller, "by noon I plan on being 3 towns away with this buyer."  She was quiet at the other end.  She understood when I told her that I have a relocating buyer who ... more

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