Showing posts with label how to market and sell a home in broward county florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to market and sell a home in broward county florida. Show all posts

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Potential Fireworks between "Buyer and Seller`s".



It`s the 4th of July and it`s a great day to celebrate our independence.
People are enjoying themselves swimming,BBQ`ing,relaxing and maybe some drinking!
We received a call from a Realtor who wants showing instructions for our listing.
The agent tells us their client is only in town for two days.
We call our client, confirm the listing appointment for the afternoon and go about our business of enjoying a day off.

Three hours later I receive a call from our client,the potential buyers are standing outside their house, without the Realtor in tow!
I ask to speak to the buyers and find out where the agent is.
The clients seem confused.
They`ve been viewing homes for the past two hours without an agent!
They don`t quite understand all the fuss.
The Conversation is as follows:

Out of town`ers: Our agent was too busy to join us. They gave us Lock Box combos and told us to knock on home where the owners are home.
Me: You don`t see anything wrong with this?
Out of Town`ers: Why no! We`re in town for a few more days and we`re just looking.
Me: The owners were instructed never to open a door without a Realtor accompanying the client.
Out of Town`ers: It`s no Big Deal, we`ll leave.

I guess to these potential buyers it`s not such a Big Deal.

Tomorrow, I`ll be calling the Broker in charge of the agent who gave these nice folks showing instructions to find out what the heck is going on!


Tuesday, June 17, 2008

when FEEDBACK becomes annoying. How do you handle the situation?


Last week we showed a home in Miramar which our client wanted to view.
It was a nice home but, needed some work inside.The client decided to view others on our list.



That night I received a call from the Listing agent who wanted Feedback.
We told the agent what our buyer thought "Thanked Them" and hung up.
I believe Feedback is important to a point.It allows the seller to have an understanding what others think, about their home. Some sellers enjoy the opinions, others get insulted, we`ve all been on both sides of the fence.



On Saturday, we received another call from the same agent once again requesting Feedback, for the same house.
I told the agent for the second time the buyer wasn`t interested in the home.
"Thanked Them" again and hung up.
I thought it was rather odd,maybe the agent forgot they called,who knows, i didn`t really mind.I felt the agent was dong a good job.


Yesterday, guess what happened? We received a call from the Agent asking a 3x time Feedback from a home we`ve already discussed twice before!!


This time I told the agent not to call again in regards to Feedback.Now they were annoying!
The conversation is as follows:
Me: Why are you calling me a third time?


Feedback Agent: My seller wants to know if we can convince the buyer into purchasing our listing!


Me: You`ve called 3x`s whats changed?


Feedback: Nothing, i figure since you`re only the 4th agent to see our home, we`re trying to sway you into showing our home once again!?


Me: For What? The home needs work, the buyer was indifferent to the house, please stop calling me!


Feedback: Please tell the buyer we`ll do anything they want! I`m getting alot of angry telephone calls from the seller.


Me: So why take it out on me?I`m only doing my job which is to show the buyer homes of interest.

It`s becoming a tough market for everyone, sellers want answers, buyers want bargains and the Realtors are attempting like crazy to satisfy all parties involved.
Anyone who thinks our business is easy, guess again!