The Vote is In – The House is Listed
Wow! What great thoughts on my last blog http://www.pruvoices.com/2009/10/the-shoe-is-on-the-other-foot-now/. The voting overwhelmingly said hire the fist agent team I interviewed. That is whom I chose and am very happy. They have been very easy to work with and are very professional. Know anyone whom wants to buy. A 2 Bedroom 2 Bath single family home in a real nice adult community for less than a studio here in the San Bruno or South San Francisco. The bus stops in front of the complex and it is just an hour bus ride to midtown Manhattan. My wife asked me “are you sure you want to sell it?” Here is a link to the “Visual Tour” http://www.visualtour.com/applets/flashviewer2/viewer.asp?t=2029575&sk=30.
Some of the great feedback I received was: speak with the HOA president, speak with the management of the team that was not that experienced, interview CRS members in the area, and Google the agents.
I ended my last blog saying I would make a decision after seeing their follow up. Well #2, the friend of a friend, has never been heard from. The experienced agent did call me and I asked her to send me the most recent sales. She told me to check it out on Realtor.com. She did send the link the next day but you know what I was thinking. My thought on her was she and her office had a bunch of adult community properties listed but why would she push my property being 3000 miles away and no previous relationship. She and her office represented a great majority of the sellers but did not represent many buyers. I want my property to be seen by the buyers.
I had a communication or two with the less experienced agent team. The following comment they sent me via email made my decision; “With us, it’s not about the Quantity of listings and/or buyers we are working for, but it’s about the Quality of Service we provide.” I thought that was excellent, in fact I might steal it.
Almost the first words out of the Real Estate Lawyer’s mouth was, “all commissions are negotiable and since the market is tough they are all cutting their commissions so don’t accept the rate they say.” I went on and told him what I do to make the money to pay him and he became very quiet. For a lawyer to be quiet and an East Coast lawyer at that, he must have been very uncomfortable. Brian said it was the perfect time to ask him to cut his hourly rate.
Once again thank you for your help and support and wish me luck!
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Sounds like you wound up with the right team – now onto the next step – an acceptable offer!
Lee,
Congrats and good luck with a succesful sale!
Brian