Yesterday while setting appointments to show homes with XYZ Real Estate here's what I heard "sorry there are no showing on that home till after 6 pm on weekdays. Would you like to reschedule?" Now unless I missed a Huge news flash we are still in a buyers market. I guess any buyers working the afternoon shift will not be able to view that home. Nor will my buyer who is a stay at home mom, with a husband in the military and Only looks while the kids are in school.
Now I know some agents spend all day with their buyers and show them 20 + homes. But I limit my buyers to 7 max, pick the best homes for sale, allow 3 hours and map out the homes. That means if I am showing someone homes from 11 am - 2 pm, I will not be rescheduling with them that evening because one seller was not available. Now when we were in a heavy heavy sellers market I will admit I was a bit of a pop tart and showed homes as they hit the market. But not now. Macomb County currently has over 8000 homes for sale and in the past 30 days we had about 800 closings. So my buyers have a lot of homes to choose from.
As for our sellers- we let them know they must have their home available from around 9 am to about 9 pm. If they have pets they need to have them in a cage or have someone come over and let them out. We let them know we'll be putting a lockbox on the home and if we call and do not reach them, we'll just leave a message, then give out the lockbox. If they have small children we'll try to have them schedule before 8 pm. That way no showings are missed.
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