PET PEEVE: Out of Area Agents with Out of Area Lock Boxes

Wow that would be a mess and much un needed frustration. Cant you just join the Supra MLS and get a key?

John, that would be frustrating. I'm with Laura on this. Can you get the Supra key in addition to your Sentrilock? I believe it costs around $195 for the year.  I know the thought of spending more money isn't appealing but if your market uses both I would do both. I am a member of both of our MLS's in Atlanta. Not every agent is a member of both due to the cost, but it gives my sellers the best exposure for their homes and gives my buyers the most choices.

Yes it is a pet peeve of mine too....in fact our whole board. We just dropped one vendor because of data sharing the agents out there couldn't get in the houses.

That is what we do, get and pay for a key, just in case. Realty Estate life is not fair and often does not have a level playing field. Guess that is why it is commission driven the fastest, best prepared often get the cheese.

Sounds like your association is the one that is out of step.  You are surrounded by the prevailing system and your association needs to consider falling in line. They can't continue to effectively say, "It's not me, it's the world."  They could probably make a deal with Supra for an even exchange of their current boxes for the ones everyone else uses.    

John, It's not allowed "legal" in our area. All boxes must be the same "Sentrilock".  I believe we have a reciprocal agreement with one MLS near us, where we can get a "key" for viewing their listings. But that's such a hassel IMHO.

Steve

At the least, if they do that they should put a regular lockbox on as well.  We have a problem here.  Most of the Westside agents show their own houses, we don't generally use lockboxes.  The Valley agents mostly do and they are are supra.  But they are aware of that and often do put on two kinds of boxes because they know they could lose business.  If those agents are doing that down there make them come and show the listings.

John - We have heard other agents we work with complaining about this same issue. We have followed some of your other posts and you put up alot of really good content so we decided to subscribe to your blog. See you around.

Arrowhead Escrow

John I am in your area and am very frustrated with this too.  They could leave a combo box also and just have us call for the combo so they can keep track of who is going in and out of their listings.  I have called and asked if there was a way to show their listings and they are usually very rude and tell me no if I want to show their listing I have to join their MLS. 

Now that's looking out for the sellers best interest.  How would the banks feel if they knew the property wasn't available to the agents that are going to show it the most?

That's rough.  Supra and SentriLock have both tried to come into the Denver area.  It still has not happened.  We haven't had any problems with the combo locks, so why go to a system that costs more money and is a little more inconvenient for those that do not have the right key?  I feel your frustration, John.