After being listed with me and with no reasonable offers, the sellers decided to take if off the market and then relist several months later at a lower price. Due to personal family and healthy challenges, selling their property became even more critical.
The horse friendly property did go under contract and not without considerable angst to stress to the sellers as well as to me as the listing agent. However, I held their hands, figuratively and stayed in communication with the lender to ensure close of escrow would happen at the agreed to date.
This real estate transaction after being accepted was quite time consuming. My best committed time estimate between phone, text and emails calls to the lender, to the buyer's agent, to title and to the sellers exceeded 20 hours. Add in the time to drive 30 minutes one way to the seller's house on a weekly if not semi-weekly basis, the hours exceeded 30.
To help the sellers who were older (my age), I stayed with them on moving day. Being old school, I helped clean the refrigerator, vacuumed the carpets in 3 bedrooms and did a final check of the interior of the home to ensure all items were removed. My sellers had undertaken all the packing allowing the movers to be in and out in about 2.5 hours.
As professional real estate agents we must protect and promote our clients. Helping them on moving day was part of protecting them. My seller were very pleased I was there for moving day as well as for when they signed their closing documents. Since they “wet signed” all documents, I stopped by and picked up their closing documents and hand delivered the documents to them.
Yes, this is all in part of protecting and promoting one’s client because professional real estate agents will go the extra mile.
Leanne M Smith, The Grit and Gratitude Agent Who Goes the Extra Mile Because Life Begins Where the Pavement Ends.
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