Do you Print a Copy of the Listings for your Buyers?

Joan, Having the buyer decide lets me know their preferences and helps start the relationship on mutual understanding.

Joan Cox  it is my desk lol ... Right now, my printer is on the blink. It just is not communicating. but I agree with you; great post Joan 

100% digital these days.

Portable Document Format

yes I do, and a pen so they can make notes if they want. something they can use to review when they get home.

Joan- the title to your blog got my attention. I have always wondered what practice other realtors utilize when showing properties.  Before I became a realtor, I don't recall any of the realtors that showed me property providing me with hard copies (around the year 2000).  What do I do?  it depends on my clients age but 99% of the time, I provide the MLS copy when I meet them along with a spread sheet. As many commented, buyers like to make notes on the hard copies. 

When I provided a hard copy of the excel spread sheet. The list on the spreadsheet is composed in chronical order.  The nice thing about the spread sheet, I begin to see that they begin to prioritize their favorites and eliminates the ones they will definitely not consider.  I have found the spreadsheet  very beneficial.

It all depends...I always send an MLS link to the properties we will be looking at.  I'll print them if we're seeing 3 or more, but if it's just one or two properties I usually just refer to the link.

My short answer is that it all depends.  I used to religiously, now I just print out a summary of all the details.  just one sheet or paper with all my contact information on it as well   Of course. 

GOOD QUESTION!

Back in the old days, the only was a buyer got an mls sheet was if I provided it. And I did.

Now, I send them a digital copy or they are the ones to tell me about the listing because they saw it on Zillow or some other digital platform. I am not going to print out one of those for them but I will look up those listings in the mls to verify they are legit and print a copy for me and for them if showing the property.

Face to face with a seller or buyer, we always use printed information that can be left behind.

With buyers I generally hand them the pages as we enter each house, generally they appreciate the pages as you said to take notes. I have tried the digital listing presentation and found it not helpful. People like something they can look at and understand, keep it simple is right for a reason.

Hi Joan Cox , I liked your idea to check with clients, especially younger ones, if they liked the paper copies. I usually have a paper printout of the listing, too. I noticed that if I did not print a copy of the MLS printout clients asked me to peek in my hard copy, and that was my prompt to have a copy for them, too, when we were touring listings.