showings: A Newbie Contest - It's even better than American Idol, Would YOU try on that swimsuit, if the clerk had to accompany you into the dressing room? - 02/01/09 11:54 AM
Really!  Would you?  Would you like it if the store had a rule: the clerk has to ACCOMPANY you INTO the dressing room, and wait while you disrobe, and try on that dress, or pants or worse SWIMSUIT? 

OF COURSE you would hate it, you would probably hurry out of the store, uncomfortable, and even irritated, as you did seem to like it.....but with the clerk hovering and watching, you certainly didn't want to try it on!  And without trying it on, you probably pass on buying it.
Well, that is exactly what happens when the seller stays home for the showing!  The … (69 comments)

showings: Show my home at 5pm? Sorry, we eat dinner at that time! - 01/30/09 03:39 PM
WHAT?  Do you want to sell your house? Then JUMP if you have a showing!  Make it happen...if it is inconvenient?  Make it happen!  If you had other plans?  Make it happen!  Is that  when you usually eat dinner?    Eat earlier, Eat later, or don't eat! Make it happen!
A buyer asks to see your home. You have a chance to sell that house.  That doesn't happen as often as it used to.  And it certainly won't happen if the buyer isn't granted an appointment. 
I can't tell you how many times I have seen it, where I am working with a buyer,  … (15 comments)