Nice work Yvette! I loved reading this and am glad many Realtors are keeping up with today's market and are trying to educate our clients instead of just getting them to list, no matter what. We all need to adjust our thinking, presentations, views in order to survive and help the homesellers and buyers out there survive as well.

Congratulations as well on getting the recognition you deserve for this post.

Yvette, you are so right, it all is about EDUCATION. The better you are at that, the better you will succeed.

Yvette - What a great idea taking your client to their competition. I'm sure that will do the trick in getting the listing or walking away if they are still reluctant. Congratulation on your gold star - well deserved.

FABULOUS POST...packed full of essential information! It is so important to get past the hype and get down to business. I love it! ~GBU~

Woooo we. Something call the Fire Department. This blog is caliente-HOT!

Yvette congratulations on your featured post woman. Well written. I really enjoyed this one. Also like the graphics to this post. Is that Istockphoto.com? I am curious. And I am going to be following you too on Twitter. Great post.

Excellent points.  I think some of the groundwork can be laid with good blogging... the rest can be cemented with the sellers at the listing meeting. 

Great points. In this market if we don't educate our sellers, they'll just be frustrated.

Good advise!  After all, we can't sell the house unless the seller is willing to sell.

Great information here... Keep up the great blogging.  Sellers hire us to help them... The need to be Ready, Able and Willing !

Wonderful post -- probably the best I've read in weeks!  I think it is so important to understand the seller's true motivation for selling the home -- many agents overlook this one.

This is one of the best I've read in a whle. We are moving to put up numbers on a big screen in the office. Getting the sellers out of their comfort zone (the kitchen table) and into the office and let the numbers do the educating. It's powerful

Yvette, What a great post. I am Bookmarking this for discussion at our next sales meeting. You have put details into a great post.

Yvette,

Great post!  I never quite understood why everyone makes such a big deal out of the listing presentation...If we give the sellers the facts and numbers then we've done our job and hopefully they can see through the sugar coated fluff that some of our competition is dishing out.

Yvette~Hi! You've been awarded a gold star...and for good reason! This is a very informative post that is well written and easy to understand! Congrats!

Hi Yvette!

Liked your post so much I shared it along with a few other articles about the same subject on my recent post! Hope you don't mind. =) Sooo worth sharing.  Though I'm not there yet, I completely agree with what Lenn Harley and Peggy James shared regarding getting those sellers in the car. Will do, will do. Thanks for your wise words...

Great info. It takes a lot of scrolling down past good comments to leave one. Congradulations-Dinah Lee

Yvette, Very good post, well done, informative and right on the mark!  Thanks!

Debi

I took some of what you said and put it into my presentation for educational purposes. Hope all is going well.