bad showings: Why Won't the Agents Showing my House Say Something?
- 07/31/11 04:28 PM
As Yogi Berra says, you can see an awful lot by watching. And as a broker who oversees 20+ agents, 50+ listings and who still works in the field with select buyers, I do see both sides of an issue that sellers often bring up in the discussion of listing and selling their house. Many of the people who list their home for sale with me already experienced failure with a prior broker. They often tell me in our preliminary interview that they were frustrated with the lack of "selling" they witnessed with the agents who showed their home when they … (71 comments)
bad showings: Buyers Draw Conclusions About How Sellers Live
- 06/26/11 03:52 PM
Interesting day of showing homes to a buyer client. Of the 5 homes we saw, 3 were an instant "NO." And they all had something in common: Poor upkeep and, shall we say, optimistic asking prices. Home #1: Lots of updating was needed, but the deal killer was, if you can believe it, drop ceilings in two rooms on the first floor. Sadly, a 3rd room gave the reason- there was water damage at one point which was never completely repaired. It wouldn't take a 2nd mortgage to fix this, just a long weekend and maybe -maybe- as much as $2,000. … (44 comments)
bad showings: The Story of the Closet
- 08/05/10 03:48 PM
I'm going to indulge in one of my real estate pet peeves. Thanks in advance for your patience. Imagine you are buying a car. You sit in the driver's seat, smell that indelible new car smell, and the sales associate dangles the keys in front of you as you prepare for a test drive. Then, just before you put the key in the ignition, the salesperson begins a 5 minute soliloquy on the glove compartment. After enduring that little, strange episode, you start the car and roll 5 feet, just as you begin to pull out of the spot, the salesperson asks you … (54 comments)
bad showings: Sheer Stupidity
- 05/24/09 02:03 PM
Dear <agent> Here is my feedback on my showing of your listing. Please instruct the sellers of <address> that selling a $675,000 house is far easier when more is done to restrain a rather powerful looking (and sounding) German Shepherd than having a little girl hold a breezeway door ajar while the dog barks it's ass off at us. I say this as a dog lover and the owner of a German Shepherd myself. This was extremely disconcerting, and the minutes of confusion before the lady that I assume to be the grandmother showed up and we were told that the … (12 comments)
Phil Faranda is broker and owner of J. Philip Real Estate LLC in Briarcliff Manor, NY. Since founding the firm as a sole practitioner in late 2005, the team has grown to over 80 agents & closed 1000+ transactions valued at over $1 billion. He was 2014 President of the HGMLS and a 2017 Inman Influencer. This blog commentary is geared toward consumers and industry colleagues alike. You can reach him at (914) 723-8900. Warning: *Sarcasm and irony advisory at all times.*
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As Yogi Berra says, you can see an awful lot by watching. And as a broker who oversees 20+ agents, 50+ listings and who still works in the field with select buyers, I do see both sides of an issue that sellers often bring up in the discussion of listing and selling their house. 
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