Showings

There will be showings on your home. We are a partnership and we will schedule the showings through our office. Someone from my office will call you and tell you who will be there to show your home and when they will be there. Usually they will give us a time, in about 1 hour increments, say from 1-2 on Tuesday. They will then come by between 1-2 and show your home and leave a business card. That is in a perfect world. You will have cleaned or at least straightened up and if you have just left the lights will be on throughout the house. (The house looks bigger when the lights are on and that means more money.) There can be problems with this system. My office and staff do their best to get a hold of you so if there is one main person we can call to set up the showings that is best. If we have to call Harry at the office and then Jane on the cell she never uses and then Mark because sometimes he stays there.... well you can see how it could be a hit and miss situation. And the Realtors get delayed. If a buyer wants to stay in a house we will let them because they will need to really look over the ones they want so we may be late when we show them your house. Please accept my apology now--we will try to be in that time frame but might not be--you do not have to be out of your home till we get there--and then please try to leave for a walk or ride to get ice cream! We may be in your home for 10 minutes and we might be there for an hour. The longer we are there the better chance of an offer. They may use your bathroom, that is ok--they will stay longer. We try to have all the kids in tow but sometimes that is hard depending on the number of kids they have and how well behaved they are. The agents may not show up sometimes because they ran out of time, the buyers found another house they loved before seeing yours or they just didn't want to see your house when they drove by. Please understand we do the best we can to get them in with a scheduled showing but sometimes it just doesn't work. And you have cleaned and nothing happens--that is the nature of this business--it is not a perfect world--be ready for it.