Is Your Home Really on the Market?
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I am currently working with several buyers. I have been running into something very frustrating! The lack of availability to view a home. Now I don't know about you, but there is no way I would consider buying a home sight-unseen. But this seems to be what people expect!
More and more homes are appearing on our Multiple Listing Service (MLS) without pictures! Not even a front only picture! Many of these homes are vacant, so don't tell me this is a privacy issue. This is a lazy agent issue! I have noticed my clients pass over these homes when they give me a list of the homes they want to see.
A.. Make sure your home has plenty of pictures in the MLS. The majority of today's buyers start home shopping on the Internet.
Last weekend we pulled up 9 homes that our clients were interested in seeing. They gave us their list late Friday night, so I started calling agents and/or sellers Saturday morning to make our appointments. Many of the listings were vacant, but I still needed to call the agents to get the combo for their lock box. Most of the lock boxes in our area are electronic, so waiting to hear back from a busy agent to get a combo is most frustrating! I left messages for 4 agents that morning and only 1 called me back. Two of those properties were appointment owner. Both the owners were too busy to allow us to show their homes, even with 4 hours notice. One property was a drive by only, do not disturb tenants. All offers to be faxed to agent. HUH? I can't even see an investor buying a tenant occupied property without viewing the condition of said property. Unless of course it was priced way below market and that was not the case with this property.
A. Request that the agent put on an electronic lockbox preferably one connected with that areas board. Silly to use an out of the area key box that will not allow the area agents to get in.
B. If your home is by appointment only you need to make sure you are available to show your home. You cannot afford to turn down even 1 buyer from seeing your home in this market! (Within reasonable viewing hours.)
Out of the 9 homes on our clients list, we were able to view 4. In my opinion the other 5 homes are not really on the market. If we cannot show, we cannot sell.