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Chaperoned Showings

MLS Agent Remarks: “Listing Agent Must be Present for All Showings” Most listing agents ” myself included ” are usually not thrilled when a home-selling client insists that you be there for all first showings. For one thing, it’s an imposition on your time; for another, prospective Buyers and their agents can view it as...
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MLS Agent Remarks: “Update the Upstairs Owner’s Suite to Realize This Home’s Full Potential!”

Recognize This House Today? Me, Neither When the listing agent (OK, me) wrote the marketing verbiage above a year ago, I was contemplating a standard overhaul. You know, gutting the dated Owner’s Suite upstairs, opening up the almost 400 square foot space, and putting in a new, larger Master Bath. So much for my crystal ball....
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MLS Agent Remarks: “Bring Your Client Fast as it Will Not Last!”

How Many Real Estate Marketing Errors Can You Spot? To my eye, the listing agent marketing a certain Fern Hill Rambler now commits not one but two mistakes trying to push Buyers’ “Fear of Missing Out” button: One. In an ongoing Seller’s market with too little inventory, it’s certainly plausible that any new-to-market listing will...
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MLS Agent Remarks: “Fully Licensed Chicken Coop Can Stay or Go!”

“Cock a Doodle Doo Don’t!” Nope, that “For Sale” home isn’t in the sticks somewhere, miles from the nearest neighbors. It’s less than 2 blocks southeast of Minneapolis’ Lake Harriet, in a neighborhood where homes fetch from $500k to triple that (at least) on the lake (this one’s listed for $525k). My Realtor understanding is...
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Seller Terms: “FHA Rehab 203k, Conventional, Conventional Rehab, Adj. Rate/Gr Payment, Cash”

MLS Shorthand for “Potential Tear-Down” Test your knowledge of today’s housing market, and field this question: How can you determine that a “For Sale” home on MLS is a potential tear-down? A.  The MLS photos show a home in decrepit condition — or, there are no photos. B. In the “Seller Terms” field on MLS,...
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The Seller Who Owned Their House For < 2 Hours (110 minutes, to be exact) Before Going Back on the Market

Resale Mystery Amongst the new Twin Cities listings debuting on MLS today, this Minneapolis home caught my eye: 5/31/17 (1:03 p.m.):  Closed 5/31/17 (2:53 p.m.):  Active Why would someone buy a home — in multiple offers, no less — than immediately put it back on the market? No, it’s not a flip:  the Seller paid $330k, and...
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