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- From: alexg@austin.ibm.com ()
- Subject: Re: REALTORS ARE WORTH ...
- Originator: alexg@madrid.austin.ibm.com
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- Message-ID: <Bzo7rH.yzz@austin.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:11:41 GMT
- Reply-To: alexg@austin.ibm.com
- Organization: IBM Austin
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- >>In article <BzIKM1.1Jqu@austin.ibm.com> alexg@austin.ibm.com writes:
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- >>=I feel, some of them are worth every penny and more, and others aren't.
- >>=As in every other profession some excell, most do just mediocre or
- >>=sometimes really bad.
- >>=
- >>=We had listed 3 residential lots with realtor. The listing agent worked
- >>=for an agency plus he was a new homes salesman for several large builders
- >>=in our area.
- >>=
- >>=Our consideration was clear. When a buyer comes to look at a new home,
- >>=(s)he likes a home but does not like location, our agent would point out
- >>=to our lots.
- >>=
- >>=Lots were listed for about 4 months, we have'not got a single offer, not even
- >>=a low ball one. And this is in the market with a tremendous amount of new
- >>=homes being built and sold every month.
- >>=
- >>=Listing expired, we put our own signs on the lots and nearby intersection.
- >>=Sold all of them within a month.
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- > Two questions: what were the actual selling prices compared to what you
- > were asking through the RE,
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- We sold at $10,000 per lot. Original listing price was $13,000
- per lot, and was reduced to $10,000 after a month on the market. I later told
- our agent we'd take $25,000 for all three .The listing price was not adjusted
- though. We didn't have any takers and wanted to move the lots.
-
- >>and to what do you attribute his/her failure
- >>and your success?
-
- His failure I attribute to a couple of things:
- a) he was never in the office to take calls and do SELLING. Even the name
- on the agnency's sign was not his, but somebody else's.
-
- b) Even though we provided all pertinent information about those lots to him,
- whoever it was who took calls in the office could only deliver to a potential
- buyer a bare minimum that was in the MLS file.
-
- c) Given the low price, hence low comission, the motivation was not
- there either. He did much better selling new homes in the range of $85-120K.
- I can certainly relate to that. Although we thought it might be beneficial
- to him to sell somebody a lot along with the new home to be built.
-
- As far as our success:
- a) An overall market trends were very favorable. A lot of new homes building
- and sales all over the city.
-
- b) We owned a rental house on the same street, drove there every other week
- and followed this particular subdivision trends very closely. We were able
- to do better selling, that is to provide more info on the lots than anybody
- would even ask for including water/sewer availablity, tapping fees, plat
- maps, flood zone certification, preliminary title committment from a
- title company, etc..
-
- c) We were prepared to suggest a couple of financing options
- to a potential buyer that would reduce their out of pocket cash outlay (no,
- I don't mean seller financing; we only wanted a cash deal).
-
- - Alex Gurevich alexg@austin.ibm.com
-