Browse Forums Real Estate Home Seller: Advice on Real Estate Agents. 7Feb 04, 2016 1:39 am We interviewed four and to be honest it all made itself clear pretty easily. I had one shocking experience of someone senior in a reputable firm, who talked "at" me for an hour droning on about the minutest detail of an auction he'd conducted the weekend before, which had absolutely no relevance to what we were selling. He just had this weird vibe that made me feel uncomfortable and nervous that he'd scare off potential bidders. A few weeks later I received this Christmas card Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Oh, and one of the others, from basically the most successful agency in our area, was impressive in person but his only follow up was a fill-in-the-blanks letter with such poor English that I wanted to claw my eyes out and/or attack it with a red pen. Oh and he forgot to put our correct address on it (had someone else's) and spelled my name incorrectly. So he was very quickly crossed off the list as well. For me it was all about rapport, clear communication and attention to detail. All pretty common sense stuff! Building a Porter Davis Livingstone 23 in Mayfield, Cranbourne East | Our thread 18/05/15 - Contract Signed 24/12/15 - Land Settlement 30/1/16 - Slab poured 9/06/16 - Handover Re: Home Seller: Advice on Real Estate Agents. 8Feb 04, 2016 11:37 pm Where are you selling? We sold our house in November.. It was listed for 4 days, sold for $35k more than we expected in QLD simply because our agent was amazing... We chose him because we'd seen his for sale signs go up in our area and then sold signs go up within a week or two which made us feel that he must be a good agent. Meeting with him he had a great no cow manure vibe and also had a fantastic photographer and great advice on house presentation... Definitely take note of what agents are selling in your area and if they are selling quickly... Re: Home Seller: Advice on Real Estate Agents. 9Feb 05, 2016 2:26 pm Wowee Wayne, lucky you, that's amazing, considering that the boom is over and prices are flatlining in metropolitan areas, and already going down in most of the non metropolitan areas of Australia, plus rents are falling, Im really surprised you sold a house 35K more than what was being asked for in 4 days. Can you explain how this happened? My guess is your asking price was way too low to start with, which indicates your agent was hopeless. What would be even better is if you could PM me the address, so I can check the details for myself. But I wont hold my breath. Re: Home Seller: Advice on Real Estate Agents. 10Jul 14, 2016 7:21 am Buying and selling any real estate is alot of negotiation. As you can only talk to the realtor, find someone with a personality and skillset that you can WORK WITH. In the above, the 'senior' realtor who was talking 'at you', well he'll likely do the same during buyer negotiations with you. Above again, badly worded card (likely written by a junior to all 'warm leads'), negotiations would likely be email and 3rd parties. And if hes busy you'll probably go thru his PA. There are alot of assumptions here made, but all you have to go on is how they come to you. If you can WORK WITH a personality and they aren't completely hopeless (as above bad photo work of house) then you can only TRY. As long as your property has decent pics (touched up sky and grass, usually evening with lights on for the glow) and realtor advertisers on RE.com and Domain, has a sign board on house that is large and decent (pics too?) and holds open houses, then you'll find 95% of active buyers for your home. Hopefully they answer the phone and email enquiries that come in and followup ALL interest from open houses. Good luck Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 17540 Can anyone recommend a good/affordable retaining wall and fence builder that I can get a quote from located in Sydney? 8 45795 |