Several weeks ago I took a call from a FSBO who wanted to tell us that they would pay a commission to any Realtor inside our company who would sell their home located in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The home was a 3bed,2ba,2CG pool home and they were asking $365,000 for the home. As faith would have it I had a buyer who I was working with who was looking at homes in this range. I had the FSBO sign an agreement that any client we bought to their home we`d be compensated a 3% commission.
I took our buyer to the home the next day to view it. The couple who were selling the home seemed nice, they gave us a tour of the home.We partied friends and the buyer and I left.
I called the couple a few hours later and told them that the buyer wasn`t interested in their home, but the home showed very well. I told them I`d keep my eye out if we have any other buyers for their home.
I received a call yesterday from the FSBO. They wanted to ask me a few questions. They wanted to know why we as Realtors weren`t showing their home more!
The conversation is as follows:
FSBO: What do we need to do in order to get more Realtors to show our home? Besides you, we had one other Realtor show our home and that was it.We went out of our way to call every Realtor in the area. What`s wrong with you people? Don`t you like to sell homes?
Me: Interesting question, have you thought about listing your home with a Realtor?
FSBO: Why? Realtors aren`t going to do anything different than my husband and i, we can sell our home, we just need Realtors like you to help us!
Me; The market is slow, there aren`t many buyers as there once was, dealing with a professional at least insures that you`re home is being marketed properly.
FSBO: We`ve had NO BUYERS call us, my husband and I are really concerned about the way Realtors conduct business. You`re not helping us too well....
Amazing, "I`m not helping them too well".
They admit they`ve had no buyers call them directly, that i was the only other Realtor to show their home and I`m not doing anything for them!!!!
It`s hard to believe that we as Realtors need to be blamed for everything!!! To all those who want to sell their homes might I suggest that you hire a Realtor, at least that way you can blame someone!
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