Things that annoy real estate agents when scheduling or showing houses…167

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I was at a showing the other day and I wanted to go over some annoyances with the whole process and sort of rank them.

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Thoughts/questions:

1. As a seller, don’t stay for a showing….unless you are homebound. I know, I know, you want to be able to show potential buyers all the great things about the house you’ve had for 50 years. Unfortunately, they don’t care. They just want to walk through the house, picture what it would look like with them inside it, and move on to the next one. As a seller, your house is so important to you, and I totally understand that. But you have to give buyers space.

2. Don’t sit in your car watching buyers either. I was showing a house this weekend. My buyer texted me that there was some strange dude staring at her from his car. She thought it might be an agent, but it was unsettling anyway. There was also another car pointed at us from across the lot. While we went inside and looked around, I noticed the pictures matched the people watching us outside! Creepy. There’s no advantage for the seller to do this. I’m not going to talk to you when you are working with a listing agent, I’m going to talk to them. And, it just creeps people out.

3. Stop with the multiple showings at the same time I know that houses are flying off the market at a record pace. I know some agents who think that it helps their buyer if they can get two or three buyers to go through the house at the same time because it makes the house popular. I dunno, in the age of corona, I don’t particularly like walking through a house with other groups. It’s the same reason I avoid open houses for the most part.

On my listings, I set it up so that an agent CAN overlap a showing, but they will get a notification that someone else is showing the house and they can choose to pick a different time.

I totally understand that sometimes it’s impossible to show houses in an orderly fashion…I’m just pointing out that it might end up hurting your seller. Here are a few reasons why

1. I was looking at a house this past weekend and there were 4 other people showing the house. It was like 1200 square feet. One of the buyers had 4 young children and they were running around all over the place…now, I get it…kids are wild and no judging on my part. However, my buyer just wanted to get out of the house by that point.

2. Agents think that if you see other people at a showing it indicates strong interest for the house and your buyer will have to bring a great offer to the table to get the house. In reality, in this market, when you are likely to have multiple offers anyway, how much stronger of an offer do you think you can get after 30 have already been submitted?
3. If there are a stupid amount of people at showings, I might be tempted to not even bother writing an offer. Why should I waste my time when there are other houses on the market that may not have the perception of a lot of offers, even if they might?

4. Be upfront when there are issues with the house The other day, I went to a showing where the flooring was destroyed in the entire house. It had come apart, the slots were broken off, so the floor was in need of complete replacement. Plus the flooring was cheap anyway. Give us a heads up! You can say something like “a flooring credit may be provided”, or “the house needs a little tlc” You can put it in the agent remarks, you don’t have to run afoul of your sellers. Just a heads up is all I’m asking.

5. Confirm showings in a timely matter Sometimes, I’ll have 5 houses in a row to show…I’m sitting at my desk, scheduling the most efficient path, and there is always this one house that doesn’t confirm the showing for like 24 hours.
6. If you are going to accept any offer that comes in, let me know that too. I had a house that buyers were interested in this weekend that had an open house scheduled for the afternoon.

7. I don’t want to see a seller letter at the house. Maybe I am in the majority, maybe I’m not.

8. I like animals, but I’m not a professional cat wrangler, and I don’t particularly want to play with your dog…even if it is friendly.

9. I can probably unlock the door to your house, if I have the right key, and if the lock isn’t odd.

10. I don’t know how your alarm works…there’s only about a million different kinds

11. I don’t think chocolate covered coffee beans are good. And I usually think they are raisins, or peanuts.
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12. It’s totally cool if you put out a sign like “watch your head” or improvements you’ve made to the home. It’s not ok to make signs as if you were a 3rd grader

13. You have a big dog and a small back yard and you leave bombs everywhere.

Source: ME

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