Good advice for home sellers. Prospective buyers will move on to another property if you will not allow your home to be shown at reasonable times. Best to board your animals at the kennel when you are not going to be home.
This morning my assistant called one agent 4 times trying to get an appointment on a listing for sale. The morning phone calls went like this:
1. Today's request DENIED because they want 24 hours notice (we called at 9 am for a 4 pm showing)
2. Tomorrow's request DENIED because it must be after 5.
3. Tomorrow's request DENIED because oops now it must be after 6.
(and buyer only has a sitter home till 6 pm)
4. Friday's request for any time before 12 noon DENIED because seller must be home to care for the large dogs in the house.
I didn't try a 5th time.
What does this say to a buyer? A seller (or seller's agent) who denies 4 appointments in a row, when I have a ready, willing and able buyer in hand is just a fool.
The best thing you can do when your house is on the market is make it READY TO SHOW. Keep it clean and neat to the best of your ability at all times, and don't turn down showings.
This seller lost out today. The buyer was discouraged that we could not get in. In fact, the image the seller (or agent) conveyed is that this house is hard to show, and so imagine how hard it will be if the buyer LIKES it and wants to make an offer? If the seller is this difficult on scheduling showings, how difficult will he/she be in negotiating and handling the deal?
Food for thought.
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Roy, thanks for reblogging this and I agree about boarding pets that may interfer with showing a home.
Good post. I also had a lady that did not allow a very big window (weekdays only between 3-5pm) for showing. It was a listing I had to walk away from.
I've had this happen and I've called the listing agent. Sometimes they are surprised and not happy and call the seller and say something. But I've had other agents that get mad at ME (for wanting to show their listing) saying "they have every right to show it when they want". Whatever.
Roy,
thanks for the re-blog. crazy story.
Crazy. I have no doubt it is true, seems no matter how bad the market is, some people are oblivious to what they are doing to sabotage their own sale...