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Show Anytime The Key Is Under The Mat

When you list your home for sale security is one of the things you worry about.  So how would you feel if you knew the agent has the key to your door under the welcome mat?  Recently I called for showing instructions on a listing in the Woodbridge VA area and that's exactly what I was told.

Sure enough when my clients and I got to the front door there wasn't a lockbox but the key was there under the mat.  My clients were shocked and I wish I could say I was too.
Perhaps the sellers agreed to this arrangement but you have to wonder WHY?   My reaction is the same when I see a combo code listed in the agent remarks on the MLS.  Since I've encountered unaccompanied buyers in a home it doesn't take long to figure out that an agent gave them the code so they could see it on their own.  
Without an electronic lockbox on the property or using one of the local showing services there is no way for an owner or an agent to know who has been in the property.  Though the home we checked out yesterday was empty there are still appliances, ... more

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