Jonathan,

Great Post. You are right on all points, I wish that some agents wouldn't do such a dis-service to their clients.. just take the listing at any price? Doesn't make sense, but some of them just want to tell the sellers what they want to hear rather than the truth. 

Jonathan, Good summary!  I will print this out and use it to explain to my clients.  Of the four, the one I stress the most is pricing it right from the start.  The longer a listing stays on the market and goes through small, continual downward price adjustments, the more likely the Seller will not get as much for their property as if they had priced it right from the start.  Sellers think they'll test the market, but the price they pay for doing so can be steep.

Pretty good summary for your first post. The pricing summary couldn't be better. The emotional attachment owners have to their property and time and labor they put into it, they often can't see past it and realize that if they don't price their house correctly, it won't sell and if by chance they do end up in contract, what's the use if it doesn't make appraisal?

This is what gets homes sold today. Those agents that ignore these points will be explaining why the listing did not sell again and again up until the seller gets a new agent.

Court

 

 

Good information. All good points. Thanks for sharing.

Jonathan, great blog and great points. Although I would recommend to change your formating to make it easier to read, such as breaking up points into paragraph, more spacing and for some reason both my AR platform and my blog reader shows that you use bold prints to write the entire blog (could be a formating thing). It makes it very difficult to read.

Cheers,

Cindy