How do you even begin to find a suitable real estate agent who will deliver excellent services? Follow some of these tips. Click here to contact Dave the property guy.
It need not be a headache to find a helpful real estate agent. In fact, it’s very simple. It’s as easy as putting up a sale sign at the front of your yard and your phone will start ringing just as soon as you have put the sign up. That said, the question here is where do you find a GOOD one? A good place to start is the newspaper.
Get yourself a copy of the weekend newspapers or the one where there is the listing for home sales in your place of residence. Arm yourself with one or two real estate guides that you can peruse. Go through listings and find properties that resemble yours. If you want to sell a cabin for instance, look under cabins for sale. The same if you are selling a mansion facing the lakefront.
Once you locate properties similar to the one you are selling, make a record of the names and telephone numbers of the agents who are charged with selling them. What you are trying to do when you do this is to find a real estate agent who is seasoned in the field of selling property similar to yours. For instance, a real estate agent who is selling million dollar condos would not be the best person to sell your mobile cabin. Always choose the agents who have experience selling or have sold properties resembling yours.
Questions To Ask A Real Estate Agent
When you call to speak to a real estate agent (and it’s advised that you call more than one) seek to find out if they have experience in selling property similar to what you want to sell. Ask them to give you examples as well.
Ask about the marketing process. Even an inexperienced agent can put up an advertisement in different listings. Find out more, like if they have leads at that particular time. Ask to know if they share with fellow agents about the property on sale.
Find out how often they show the listings they have. Some real estate agents just list the property on sale and then let others pitch for the sale. It makes sense for them but that’s not good for you. If they are good at what they do, they need to be out there showing the property to people who are potential buyers.
Are they available personally to close the sales? Just like in the case of showing off the listings, it makes more sense for the real estate agent to outsource this process but it won’t be the best option from where you stand. You want one real estate agent to go through the whole selling process and not delegate some steps to another person. Things change so fast in the real estate scene so adding more people to the process only makes it complicated.
Most real estate agents you meat will most likely try to defend this style of conducting business. Much as this happens, keep in mind that they will not tell you everything. For instance, were you aware that real estate agents use open houses as prospecting tools? Newer agents (not the one who has put up the listing) will be given the duty of hosting the open house and then they will use it to get buyers who they can in turn work with. There is no expectation that they will sell the open house during the entire process.
It’s also important that you understand the message behind ads talking about home for sale and yet they do not quote any price. This is also a prospecting method. When an interested buyer makes a call to inquire about a $100,000 home and the agent is selling it at $300,000 the agent will not try to coerce the buyer to buy the $300,000 home. What they wanted was for them to call so that they can suggest any other home to them. At the same time other buyers who would have been able to comfortably buy your home will have skipped the ad as there are many other homes on sale that have the prices included. For this reason, always request that your property has a price included on it.
Listen to your sixth sense when choosing a real estate agent. If you meet them are feel uncomfortable just as soon as you meet them, chances are that potential buyers will feel the same way you did. Don’t just settle for one you think you like. Find the right one then make a decision. For more info visit, Dave the property guy
