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EDUCATE your sellers....PLEASE!
Educate Your Sellers....PLEASE!
All too often most of us see listings that look similar to this.
   
 Cluttered, messy and less than appealing to potential buyers.     
They look like this online and they look like this in person. Potential buyers move-on to the next listing and the sellers never know why. 
This house and others like it are sad houses,  


Sad houses rarely sell quickly and sometimes never sell at all.  Sad houses need attention and the seller's of those homes need help from all of us in the real estate industry to give them the information that they desperately need to turn For Sale into SOLD.
Sad houses usually have disgruntled, angry owners.
Often they are angry with their Real Estate agent, right or wrong.    
Agents, you can and should help.  PLEASE, please don't be afraid to be honest with your clients about the condition of their valuable property.  If you are afraid, you are doing a disservice to the sellers that have hired you as their Real Estate Expert.  Who else is going to tell them?
The result of not being forthright and honest with clients, from the beginning, is a house that lingers and a house that may ... more

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