Generic Answer: ‘It’s None of Your Business!’ First, a confession: when I’m swamped — as I am now — promptly turning around listing agents’ “showing feedback forms” is not my highest priority. Taking care of clients is. That said, “customized” feedback forms which pose open-ended questions — and lots of them — certainly don’t help matters...Read More
“Your Buyer? Show it Yourself!!” After my own vent, what’s next most cathartic? Another Realtor’s. So, I enjoyed fellow blogger Teresa Boardman’s recent post about having other Realtors’ clients call to have you show them properties that you’re listing. With 30 minutes notice (maybe). Nope, actually that’s their Realtor’s job. Mine is to make sure...Read More
Three Days on the Market vs. Three Months I don’t know about other Realtors, but my policy as a listing agent (representing Sellers) is to counsel that they leave Realtors’ business cards out the first few days their home is on the market (protocol is for agents who come through the Broker Open or do a private...Read More
“How Long Was the Home on the Market?” vs. “How Much Exposure Did the Home Get?” With multiple offers making a comeback in parts of the Twin Cities — I’ve been involved in three in just the last six weeks — it seems appropriate to ask, “Did that just-listed home sell TOO fast?” It’s certainly...Read More
Showing Condo’s The odds of a lockbox being unusually difficult to open vary directly with how pressed you are for time. –Ross Kaplan Q: When is being on time, late? A: When you’re showing multiple condo’s in an unfamiliar building. If you’re showing several condo’s in a building you don’t know, it’s always a good idea...Read More
“The 90 Days-on-the-Market” Showing (Preview?) Call it, “coming in through the back door . . . through the front door.” What I’m referring to is the practice of at least some agents to conveniently show any properties that have been on the market 90 days — and therefore may be about to expire. Their logic?...Read More
