Promoting Good Realtor Karma Why go to a home on tour that you don’t have a Buyer for, in a part of town you don’t normally work, on a day when you’ve got 17 other things to get to? (And no, there’s not a deluxe lunch waiting there, at least as far as I know)....Read More
Artfully Sloughing Off Seller Requests for Feedback — or, “Minnesota Nice — Realtor Version” The Realtor equivalent of “How are you?” or “Have a nice day!” is telling would-be home Sellers (and their agents) that their client is “just starting to look.” While that may occasionally be true, more often it’s code for one (or...Read More
Updating Showing Instructions on MLS It’s not required by MLS. And the property isn’t in multiples — at least not until Buyer #2 shows up. But, in my experience, it’s smart to update the showing instructions for a listing to advise Buyers’ agents that an offer is being negotiated. I see two advantages, in fact: 1)...Read More
Jewelry, Prescription Meds, Valuables . . . $1,500 Vases In the “hindsight is 20/20 department,” I’m sure that the Plymouth home Seller — and their agent! — certainly wish that that $1,500 Living Room vase had safely been put in storage before prospective Buyers showed up.* Instead, the listing agent got the unenviable task of...Read More
“You’re Represented? Terrific! Please Have Your Agent Call Me” At least a couple times a year, I field phone calls from folks who are already working with an agent, but call me directly to get into one of my listings. When I ask why they didn’t go through their agent, I hear things like: “I...Read More
Deciding Which Way to Err, or, “A Picture Showing is Worth 1,000 Words” In medicine, a “false-positive” refers to a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist. Unsurprisingly, the opposite of a “false-positive” is a “false-negative” — a test result that is incorrect because the test failed...Read More
