Comments on: How to Drive a Home Buyer (and their agent) Insane

By: Austin Real Estate B

Austin Real Estate B — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:44:48 +0000

It drives me insane. Sellers still act like they can pick and choose who gets the "honor" of viewing their home and making an offer. Its wierd to get the brush off from sellers and to see the property get foreclosed on in a month.

By: Faina Sechzer

Faina Sechzer — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:13:25 +0000

Because our listing are higher end, many sellers want verbal confirmation of the appointment. This means they have to answer their phone, if they don’t they have to call back the office. The office has to call back the selling agent. All this takes time. Most appointments are therefore made at least a day ahead. When I tried to get appointments on a short notice (couple of hours), I only got half of them.

By: Portland Real Estate

Portland Real Estate — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:45:42 +0000

It really does amaze me when I get no response to 3 different voice-mails on three different phones. Gotta love vacant homes

By: Las Vegas High Rise Guy

Las Vegas High Rise Guy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:52:12 +0000

Hmmm…I wonder if some of the agents here were trained by the same people.

By: Cape Girardeau Missouri Real Estate

Cape Girardeau Missouri Real Estate — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:15:18 +0000

We see the same thing on the real estate advertising side.

Us: “You want photos on HouseViewOnline – OK. We will be by tomorrow”
Seller: “No tomorrow won’t work, give me a call next week”

Following Monday
Us: “When would you like to schedule the photos”
Seller: “Not now – try later”

Friday Noon
Seller: “We are having on open house this weekend. We must have photos on HouseViewOnline today!!!!”

Sometime we just wonder if the seller truely wishes to sell.

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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:50:00 +0000

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By: Dining Room Set

Dining Room Set — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:45:26 +0000

You are right. No sane buyer or an agent will ever get it either!

By: Charleston Real Estate Blog

Charleston Real Estate Blog — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:04:53 +0000

Jay, I just wrote about it from the buyer side.

http://tinyurl.com/5oobsk

One of the listing agents called for feedback on my (apparent) showing, she was surprised I didn’t get an appointment and angry at her seller that I didn’t get to view the home. If you actually had an appointment and liked the home, can you imagine negotiating with the kind of seller who doesn’t really care if their home gets shown.

What are they thinking?

By: Jamey Prezzi

Jamey Prezzi — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:55:14 +0000

This is my favorite topic lately. Actually I just wrote about it last week. Can you imagine in my market, with all of the condos on the market that listing agents actually ask me to drive to their office to pick up the keys to show their listings? I am sure their clients would love to hear that!

By: Will

Will — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:51:50 +0000

Oh, these agents do it to clients as well. I had a couple from out of town contact me via my site and they had contacted another agent as well. They wanted to look at a few places but time was short (on the first trip) and would only be available from 9-11am on one day. I met them and got them into 3 places they requested. The other agent they spoke to said, and I quote, “Realtors don’t work in the morning.”
Well, I guess myself and the other three who showed their listings are the exception.
BTW, 2 weeks (three days) and 14 properties later we have a firm deal just shy of $1m.

The lesson: Soon to be out of work, unsuccesful realtors don’t work mornings. Ha!