Palm Beach Real Estate and Loans

Is your real estate agent SHOWING your home?

At first that might sound ridiculous, but you need to make sure that the Agent / Brokerage that you list your home with really IS available to show your property.

In other words, an Agent who will actively work to get your home SOLD, not just take a listing and sit back.....

Chris Griffith from Life in Bonita Springs just posted this article:

"Theres currently a fair sized pile of printed out property reports on my desk that have been marked up and highlighted from last weeks showings. Almost thirty percent of them have a big black slash across the page. The agents who were supposed to be marketing the properties were unreachable by phone and email. Needless to say, my buyers didnt get to see the inside of those homes. Was one of them your home?

While attempting to make showing appointments last weekend, I was met with dead email addresses and full voicemail boxes. Sometimes multiple messages were left without even a courtesy return call to acknowledge the message while they attempted to contact the owner or tenant. I have yet to hear back from some of the agents.

If youre considering selling or maybe even currently selling real estate it might be a good idea to call the appointment phone number for a trial run, especially on the weekend or after hours. Maybe throw a test email out there to see how long it takes for your agent to actually find it.

In this day and age of technology there is absolutely no excuse for a call to go unreturned, an email to be unanswered and showing appointments to not get set. Just about every human being on earth has a cell phone strapped to their hip and should be able to communicate in one way or another with consumers and fellow agents."

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Selling your home is one of the biggest - if not THE biggest - transactions you will ever be involved in, so make sure to do your homework!