As the market in our area feels the effect of other markets not being able to sell their home we are having more and more sellers withdraw their listing or they are not re-listing when their listing expires.
My client is scheduled for surgery this week and called to take the home off the market because he would be house bound until his recovery. We are going to put the house back on the market within a couple of weeks. I prepared the seller for telephone calls and letters from every real estate firm in the county asking to schedule an appointment to re-list his home.
The next morning my client received 5 telephone calls from various real estate firms. That's 5 out of over 800 Realtors in our area. All 5 had never previewed the home at the broker open house we had, all 5 never showed the home the 108 days it was in MLS and all 5 told the seller that they may have a buyer for his home.
What is up with that! We need a fresh approach to securing a listing appointment. Telling a seller that you may have a buyer when you really don't is dishonest.
It gets better... The following day my client receives a letter in the mail from an over confident agent which said...
"I believe that your listing agent failed to sell your home because of poor marketing."
It went on to say... "No one can give your listing more exposure than me, that's why I am the best". Again this agent never attended the Broker open house and never showed the home.
The home was listed on his company's website via shared IDX. The home was marketed extensively and is still on Youtube.
Bottom line, PLEASE don't be that guy! Use care and professionalism NOT your over inflated ego to secure listing appointments.
It's amazing what some people will do to get a listing! I've been targeting expired and FSBOs for a while now and have found out that people don't want to hear about you, they want to know what you're going to do for them.
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