The real estate market fluctuates every year regardless of the state of the economy or the current condition of the real estate market. These cyclical fluctuations have traditionally fallen along the seasonal calendar year. Spring and summer are the best times to sell, fall is okay and the winter months are usually the slowest time of the selling season. Another way to look at this cyclical selling season is by comparing it to the seasons of flowering plants and convertible cars. The time of the year to sell your house is when plants are blooming and pretty, and when you have the urge to drive around in a convertible. « Continue reading article »
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Top producing real estate agents know the market and know how to position your house to sell in that market. They sell houses like chefs prepare exquisite cuisine in high-end restaurants. On the other end of the scale are real estate agents that overprice their listings, don’t market them correctly and don’t aggressively sell their listings, relying solely on fate to sell their listings. Bad agents are like cooks, shoveling greasy food in fast food restaurants. Do you want to hire a chef (top producing real estate agent) or a cook (bad real estate agent)? You should focus on hiring chefs. « Continue reading article » Not every real estate agent is worth having. How can you tell a good agent from a bad real estate agent? Here are the top 10 signs that you might have hired a bad real estate agent…  Categories - Finding An Agent Tags - agent selection process, bad agent, bad realtor, find best agent, find best realtor, find realtor, list price, sales price  Beware of the Inflatable Realtor A real estate agent that inflates a list price beyond reality just to get the listing is deceptive and may be harmful to the sale of your house. The deceptive practice of inflating the list price is effective because the client wants to hear that their house is worth a high price. Bad agents are more than eager to feed into this delusion. Good agents base their suggested list prices on real conditions so they will be lower than an inflated price. If you want to get the most for your house, and everybody does, you’d naturally pick the real estate agent with the inflated price. Now you’re falling victim to the Inflatable Agent’s trap.
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Here’s what our customers have to say about our agent finder services. Categories - Buying a House, Finding An Agent, Real Estate Industry, Real Estate Investing, Realtor Interview Materials, Selling Your House, What Agents Don't Want You To Know Tags - About AgentHarvest, agent selection process, agent track record, find best agent, find best realtor, find realtor, realtor track record
Because we’re operate differently from the typical referral company, many agents have expressed interest in working with AgentHarvest to receive client referrals and want to understand our agent selection process. This article offers tips on how to stand out from the pack to receive referrals and get future referrals. « Continue reading article » Categories - Tips For Agents Tags - About AgentHarvest, agent selection process, agent track record, find best agent, find best realtor, find realtor
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No matter how bad the market becomes, there will always be buyers and sellers. Make sure that you fall into one of those categories. If you are getting ready to list your house, there are several things you can do to ensure that your house sells as soon as possible for as much as possible. « Continue reading article » Categories - Selling Your House Tags - competitive pricing, find best agent, find best realtor, find realtor, sales price, tough market You also need to interview an agent to learn about their background, to see what they know about your neighborhood, and to find out if they are a good fit with you and your lifestyle. Here are some important questions you should ask an agent and the type of answers you should expect if they are a good agent. [Read More...] . . . → Read More: Effective Real Estate Agent Interview Questions When narrowing down the field of agents to interview, analyzing an agent’s track record helps to separate the agents that can sell a house from the agents that just interview well. Use these stats to eliminate the bad agents before you start interviewing. [Read More...] . . . → Read More: Analyzing a Real Estate Agent’s Track Record
Great house pictures attractive buyers while bad pictures repel home buyers. Make sure your agent follows these tips to get great looking pictures to make your house stand out from the competition. You’d be surprised how bad some MLS photos look. I even found a website that makes fun of bad real estate photos. That site is www.lovelylisting.com. While pictures featured on that site may be extreme examples of bad photography, many MLS pictures do not do the featured house justice. If your agent uses a pocket-sized camera with a built-in flash or worse yet, a phone camera to take pictures of your house, you are in trouble. |
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Imagine this scenario. It’s been 120 days since your agent put a for sale sign in your yard. On the day you hired your Realtor, she promised it would be a successful working relationship. Weeks later, this “relationship” somehow turned into a “one-night stand.” She doesn’t return your phone calls, she never drops by and now there’s a bird’s nest occupying the empty Info Box that use to hold your house’s brochures so many months ago.
According to the book Freakonomics, written by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, real estate agents sell their own homes for 3% more compared to what they get when they sell their client’s houses. The authors suggest dishonesty and double-standards as the reasons for this finding, but I think there’s a more honest reason why Realtors may be able to get a higher selling price for their homes compared to their clients’.
The Amazing Jonathan, a famous comedian/magician, once said, “There are three types of people in the world, those that can count and those that can’t.” You may have to read it a couple of times before you catch the joke. I believe real estate agents can be similarly categorized too. I rank agents according to the title of a Clint Eastwood western. I believe there are three types of agents in the world, the good, the bad, and the ugly. You want the good agent, you should avoid the bad agent and you should live in fear of the ugly agent.
In the real estate education curriculum, there are probably more seminars that teach an agent how to give an interview presentation than there are classes on how to sell a house. Sadly, most homeowners fall for the highly polished, highly rehearsed presentation and hire the agent without really knowing if they can sell a house. If you follow these interview secrets, you can find out the true worth of your prospective agent. 
