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Thoughts on selling a house w/o a realtor?
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<blockquote data-quote="Blk04L" data-source="post: 16401323" data-attributes="member: 48574"><p>That's why it's good to interview and find other listings by that agent.</p><p></p><p>It's amazing what gets passed off as realtors and who they use for pictures at time. Terrible lighting, bad angles, seeing a flash in the mirror when they take a pic in the bathroom etc. Pictures of crappy staged houses or no staging at all. Like you can tell the people have 2 kids and a kidnado hit the house.</p><p>Then the listings have tons of misspellings or incorrect data on the house like SF, lot size, HOA fees etc or they type like they are having a stroke and IN ALL CAPITALS. The other listings we would see in our neighborhood made us wonder if the realtors were teenagers.</p><p></p><p>But, finding a good one can make a huge difference in presenting your house on MLS and other user based home searching sites.</p><p>The photographer ours used did a very good job of taking pics with lighting without overdoing it. Staging of the house too is key. Ours was very active with us, came over a handful of times to talk with us over any concerns and IMO did a good job with the tight timelines the buyers had. Our realtor didn't do open houses which we liked, as our neighbors realtor did them a lot and it was pretty much a bunch of dreamers walking through your house. Ours also made sure any showing were with people preapproved for the size of the loan to purchase our house. </p><p></p><p>But my market was getting flooded with new builds and resales at that time. 6 months later my house size/model tanked in that neighborhood. If we missed out on that buyer, then I doubt we would of sold as the average price for our house dropped 20-30k.</p><p></p><p>Maybe your area is still hot/your house is more desirable. That decision is purely up to you and your set of variables that weren't present with us.</p><p></p><p>You can haggle over a % if need be. My wifes parents house sold for 820k and they agreed to a 5% fee, where the seller took 2.25% and the buyers agent took 2.75%.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blk04L, post: 16401323, member: 48574"] That's why it's good to interview and find other listings by that agent. It's amazing what gets passed off as realtors and who they use for pictures at time. Terrible lighting, bad angles, seeing a flash in the mirror when they take a pic in the bathroom etc. Pictures of crappy staged houses or no staging at all. Like you can tell the people have 2 kids and a kidnado hit the house. Then the listings have tons of misspellings or incorrect data on the house like SF, lot size, HOA fees etc or they type like they are having a stroke and IN ALL CAPITALS. The other listings we would see in our neighborhood made us wonder if the realtors were teenagers. But, finding a good one can make a huge difference in presenting your house on MLS and other user based home searching sites. The photographer ours used did a very good job of taking pics with lighting without overdoing it. Staging of the house too is key. Ours was very active with us, came over a handful of times to talk with us over any concerns and IMO did a good job with the tight timelines the buyers had. Our realtor didn't do open houses which we liked, as our neighbors realtor did them a lot and it was pretty much a bunch of dreamers walking through your house. Ours also made sure any showing were with people preapproved for the size of the loan to purchase our house. But my market was getting flooded with new builds and resales at that time. 6 months later my house size/model tanked in that neighborhood. If we missed out on that buyer, then I doubt we would of sold as the average price for our house dropped 20-30k. Maybe your area is still hot/your house is more desirable. That decision is purely up to you and your set of variables that weren't present with us. You can haggle over a % if need be. My wifes parents house sold for 820k and they agreed to a 5% fee, where the seller took 2.25% and the buyers agent took 2.75%. [/QUOTE]
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