You Snoozed. You Losed.

Jared, It's a hard lesson for some buyers to learn, but no dawdling once you find the right home.  Someone else just might like it too, and I don't care that it's been on the market for 312 days, Murphy is an evil one and the day before you submit if you wait will be the day the other offer comes in.  Been there, done that.

Sometimes that have to lose one to figure out that we know what we are talking about.

perhaps this will play to your advantage where they will not take this long the next time around.

There's an old saying in marketing that you have to show or tell someone something seven times before it sticks. I sincererly hope for your sake (and theirs) that your buyers don't have to lose out seven times to get the message! No more snoozing and losing!

ah, this has happened to me as well. Never fun to have to say I told you so to a buyer.

I am sorry they lost their perfect home, but I know they have learned a valuable lesson.  They won't make that mistake again.

Good morning Jared -

Oh man do I feel your pain!  I worked with this same couple with the exception they lost not one, two but three perfect homes.  I was fed up and just about ready to fire them due to their lack of listening to my advice after constantly asking me for it.  The phone rings... it's my buyers.  They say okay John, let's go find our dream home and this time we promise we will listen to your advice.  Bingo! Found that dream home, made a GOOD, clean offer and less than 30 days later they were holding the keys to their new home.  So see... I do feel your pain.

I've been down this road too many times and I try not to be pushy when it comes to it, but like you, if you see that this is THE ONE, we owe it to our clients to light that fire. 

There is nothing worse than the pain of regret!

However one does not know this pain unless they experience it first hand :)

We let buyers know they can take all the time they want, but ask them to consider if/how they will feel if this home is owned bought by some one because that possibility increases with time :)

Live and learn

SINCERELY,

GRACE

Sucks for them, but you did try to warn them and try to get them to put an offer in. Hopefully they will move quicker the next time they find a great home.

Some buyers think it's a buyer's market.

Others think it's over heated in the face of multiple offers.

Others want to wait for prices to come down, or for interest rates to be even lower (huh?)

Oh well...best that we focus on clients who want to make a move.

Just happened to me! Sunday I showed the cutest REO property and my buyers wanted to think about it. Yesterday around 5:00pm my buyer emailed me asking why it disappeared from his MLS. I checked and it was pending. He took too long!

Jared, it is sad you showed this PERFECT home to these buyers and they did not jump on it.      In a seller's market the advice given to buyers is different when it is a buyer's market and you actually have the luxury of going home and thinking about it.   When you walk in a home --- you FEEL IT.   Maybe next time they won't be indecisive!

Jared, a lesson learned, glad they took your advice and now they might have a new home by next week!