Luxury without the price! Enjoy the evenings on the balcony or sitting at the table on your private patio. This Town home features 2nd floor laundry, private baths off both bedrooms, upgraded wood floors, two car attached garage and much more. Call me for your private showing.
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Tim Wright
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Realtors say there are three things that sell a house: location, price and condition. Location is a given, price will be set by the buyer, so the seller can really only control condition. We tell you this to make you clean your house. I’d add one more to that list, and that’s access. In a perfect world, buyers would always give several days notice for showings and be happy to work around our schedules. In reality, even if you require 24 hours, you will still get requests for showings with short notice. Realize that you have to accommodate the buyer’s schedule, not the other way around.
As a buyer’s agent, we are looking at anywhere from three to ten listings at a time. We have a route mapped and a time line. Asking for your showing to be at a different time or even day may not work for that buyer. If your house is crossed off the showing list, it is very unlikely it will be added at another time. You only get one chance to make a first impression, and your first impression with the showing agent is that you’re difficult and not motivated.
Accept the fact that your house is no longer yours, it belongs to the buying public. Try to be ready for a showing anytime, while living your life. Get up a few minutes early every day and make your house 90% ready to show. Make the beds, clean the kitchen and bathroom, and pick up laundry and clutter. If you do this every day, not just showing days, it’s quick and easy. Thirty minutes before a showing, run around with a duster and a laundry basket. Put every loose thing under a bed, in a dresser drawer or in the basket. Get your family, pets and that basket into the car and go.
Try to leave at least 15 minutes before the showing is scheduled and stay away the entire hour. If the buyer is looking at several homes, and yours is in the middle or end of the list, they may show up in the last part of that hour. Tell your situation to your friends and neighbors. See who wouldn’t mind a last-minute visit from you. My friend showed me where she keeps her outside key and said we were welcome to camp anytime.
Showings should only be rescheduled for events like major illnesses or parties planned well in advance. Even if you can’t make your house perfect and you’re flying out the back door as they’re walking up to the front, accept the showing. Its far better they see a slightly messy house than never see it all.
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Barbara Bay
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