Episode 5: Why do you need to hire a listing agent?

Can you sell your home on your own? Definitely. Will it go smoothly and according to your preferred price? That's another matter. 

In this episode, Rama explains why there's a need to hire a listing agent who fully knows the ins and outs of the home selling process. 

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Transcript: 

So you're in the market to sell your property and I've heard this from so many sellers that;

“I don't need to hire a full service agent,”

“I'm looking for a discount broker somebody who's gonna sell my house for cheap, because guess what all I'm gonna do is put a sign in my front yard and I'm gonna have the agent put it on the MLS and there you go boom I'll have 20 offers sitting on my table.”

Is it really that easy?

You actually have to ask a listing agent how tough it is to get your house

• ready for the market
• to present it in the best condition possible where you have that first 15 seconds of catching a buyer's interest in that home
• and then marketing it to that extent where you do land up getting a lot of offers.

Now discount broker is on one side, experienced agent is on the other side. I'm not going to say much about what the discount services do. That's not my place to say it. I'm just going to speak for myself. We are in that property from day one getting it prepared, making sure all the small small things are taken care of, along with the big ticket items, get all the inspections done, make sure that most of the items in the inspection reports are taken care of, because guess what when the buyer is giving you a non-contingent offer they do want to see all the inspections up front. They want to see what is the scope of work that the seller has already handled or that they have to land up handling the scope of work so those are important things.

Now don't forget that even though it is a seller's market, there are buyers out there who will still find ways to get out of a transaction using some kind of excuse or the other. I've had that experience recently where a buyer was just talking nonsense about the seller not disclosing it. We had to get attorneys involved in that situation.

Crisis management and knowing how to control a situation that is spiraling out even happens today in this seller's market, these things happen and you need an experienced hand at the wheel that is going to not only prepare your home market your home. That's one aspect but finding the right buyer, making sure it's the right buyer's agent, the right lender, those things are important because when things do spiral out of control the listing agent has a handle over those things and reduces the impact of the stress on the sellers. So when you're making a decision to sell your home please make sure that you take these things into consideration because you need somebody who's going to give you undivided attention and make sure that your file goes from start to finish without any major hiccups.

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Rama has been a listing agent for almost 2 decades already! If you want to work with someone of integrity, expertise, and great care for her clients, call her at 925-415-0835!