I work with buyers. While I usually maintain two or three listings, the brunt of my business comes from buyers. On any given weekend, I may have three or four different clients scheduled for showings. I feel blessed to have the business, but there is one persistent problem with this scenario... listing agents.
I call Saturdays, "Sleepy Saturdays" because trying to get a listing agent to answer the phone before 10am on a Saturday is impossible, and trying to get them to call you back before noon is extremely rare.
Seriously! I haven't slept that late since I was in college. What are these guys doing?
On a typical Saturday I'll have my afternoon appointment call and ask to add a couple of more homes to the list. I'll call the listing agents and, of coarse, get voice mail. This past weekend, I called one that indicated on the listing they needed 2 hours of notice. I left the message at 9am to schedule the showing at 3pm. The listing agent called me back at 1:30pm to tell me I couldn't show the property until after 5:00pm. We wrote a contract on another home in that neighborhood.
My point is this. If you have listings, get out of the bed on Saturday and answer your phone. Agents who don't answer their phones deserve to go broke too, but that's another post.
Thanks for the chance to vent. This is therapeutic!
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