As a seller, it's important to choose the right agent, remember, they represent you and
only you.
Use these questions to interview several agents before you make a
choice. Use this list
of questions before you decide.
Unless
you have a lot of Real Estate
experience and time, you'll usually lose much more than you'll
gain. If
you are considering a discount realtor or FSBO (For Sale by Owner) ask
yourself
if you have the time available to do all of the following things in
order to market
your house properly:
Researching
all the pertinent information needed, not just selling prices of
comparable homes in my area but everything needed to create a high
quality Comparative
Market Analysis. The best method available to determine
market value.
Staging,and determining how to prepare my house with
minimum resources for max
return (e.g. painting, landscaping...)
Marketing :How to position my house, deciding how to
decribe its great features, its neighborhood/schools, creating
brocures, putting together profession graphics and photos,
Creating Awareness, think about it: the
maximum price you get
will
be determined by level exposure of to qualified buyers. This includes
advertising on the new media,
old media such as newspapers/mags, doing broker
tours, agent internetworking, and using the
powerful MLS (80%
of buyers are represented by real estate brokers and agents, who are
always
on the lookout for their clients constantly seeking early previews of
homes to be listed, and continually scanning Multiple Listing Service).
Qualifying.
Can I screen people who might respond to my ads, or come knock at my
door. If the ForSale sign in front of a home is a broker's sign, people
will call the broker; otherwise even if it says "by appointment only",
they will ring the doorbell at any time of the day or night.
Usually
when a broker makes an appointment to bring someone over, they are
either on time or if they're going to be more than 15 mins late, the
seller gets a phone call. With "Mr & Mrs Bargainhunter" who
called
on your ad, you could have been sitting around for 2 hours wondering if
they are still going to show up or whether they either changed their
mind when they made the appointment.
Do
I have the time available to risk waiting on no-shows and "looky-loos".
People usually don't bother wasting a Professional Realtor's time for
the same thing.
Offers,
negotiating, counteroffering.
Can I handle contingencies,
disclosures, inspections, all part of the closing process.
Rarely, after an offer is accepted, things go smooth as silk to
closing. It can be an excruciating time.
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Guesstimating Market
Value: automated web home valuing services are notorious
for
mis-estimating market value,
but like all tools and resources on the Web, they provide one
of many
data points to consider and can make a difficult process start out fun.
See Zestimate®
home valuations
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a home is one of
the most important and complex decisions we make and why I
represent my
clients before, during and after the transaction, with nothing less
than superior service.