Search Results for listing agenttag:searchlightcrusade.net,2024:/mt//feed/listing agent2024-04-25T16:29:16ZMovable Type 4.21-en1661166How to Sell Your Home Quickly and For The Best Possible Pricetag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48462024-02-26T15:00:00Z2024-02-26T15:03:35ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
There's really nothing mysterious about this. There are some subsidiary tricks and issues, but the most important thing is obvious. The economic games theory is crystal clear, as is the research into what really happens. But most people don't like...
Buyer's Markets: Time for Listing Agents To Earn Their Moneytag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2008://3.37672024-01-15T15:00:00Z2024-01-15T18:40:47ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
One of the most common things I'm seeing as I roam about the East County looking for bargains: Agents not doing their jobs. Even when there were 40-plus sellers per buyer, single family detached homes that are priced appropriately were...
The Future of Real Estate Agency is Expert Consultants, Not Controlling Market Accesstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48412024-01-01T15:00:00Z2024-01-01T17:01:17ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Expertise and attitude, not control of an informational chokepoint, is the way that things are going. Let's analyze this from both sides of the problem. The current owner looking to sell really needs a marketer. For better or worse, most...
Full Service Agent For Discount Price? Demand Specifics!tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48392023-11-27T15:00:00Z2023-11-27T13:22:45ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
There is no such thing as a free lunch, but lots of people will pretend there is. It seems to me that many people consider compensation earned by real estate agents as paying some kind of toll. They think of...
Which Makes More Difference To Your Future - Buyer's Agent or Listing Agent?tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48242023-06-12T14:00:00Z2023-06-12T14:04:45ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Having done both, there's no question in my mind. For the average person and the average transaction, the buyer's agent makes a lot more difference. In the aggregate, a good buyer's agent has the opportunity to make a lot more...
Asking Price Versus Sales Pricetag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2011://3.50412023-05-16T14:00:00Z2023-05-16T14:42:06ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Hard as it may be to believe, I've never done an article comparing asking price to sales price. It's way past time. Asking price is quite simply, a written representation of an offer the seller would be willing to...
The Era of Make Believe Loans and The Law of Unintended Consequencestag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48092023-02-21T15:00:00Z2023-02-21T16:05:35ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
One of the things I've heard and read other agents complaining about is that they can't find qualified buyers to represent. Welcome to Unintended Consequences 101. The way that the market had been working is this: Young, often unmarried, buyers...
Some Offers Are More Equal Than Others (Even If They Are For Less Money)tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2011://3.50392022-11-21T15:00:00Z2022-11-21T16:35:52ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
The phrasing in parallel with Animal Farm is intentional. Sellers need to understand this, and so do buyers, especially in a hot real estate market. Some offers are more equal than others, and knowing how to choose between competing...
How To Keep Listing Agents From Filtering Out Offerstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2010://3.50362022-10-03T14:00:00Z2022-10-03T16:32:57ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
This is a real, major and pervasive problem in the industry. For a while, it mostly went away as listing agents were desperate for any offer, but it has come back. At least two properties my buyer clients have...
When Selling, You Need To Understand Your Target Markettag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.47872022-09-19T14:00:00Z2022-09-19T13:45:29ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
One of the hard things to get through to sellers is to understand the characteristics of the sort of buyers they need in order to have a successful transaction. If a given set of prospective buyers can't afford the property,...
Short Sale Negotiators and the Interests of Potential Buyerstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2010://3.50352022-08-29T14:00:00Z2022-08-29T15:58:49ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
I am seeing a very disturbing trend these past few months. Rather than do the work they should be doing, listing agents are treating the entire short sale process as a kind of "Black Box", delegating the negotiations with the...
For Sale By Owner (FSBO) and Low Agent Concessionstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.47792022-08-01T14:00:00Z2022-08-01T17:24:01ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
I want to sell my home for sale by owner. Is 1.5% a good amount to co-broke? Or will agents avoid me? In most of the country, this is a buyer's market right now. You need to compete more strongly...
Why Sellers Should Counter All Reasonable Offerstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2010://3.50322022-07-18T14:00:00Z2022-07-18T16:29:24ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
I just got off the phone with an agent who claims to have three offers on the property, but he doesn't want to counter the offer. He just wants my client to voluntarily throw more money (or more something)...
Failure to Disclose a Known Material Fact to Buyerstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.47652022-06-20T14:00:00Z2022-06-20T16:13:32ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
My husband and I bought a golf course-view house in DELETED. We closed 5 days ago; moved-in 4 days ago; and 2 days ago found out that the golf course is scheduled to close. It was announced by the golf...
The Tollbooth Model of Real Estate Agencytag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.47622022-06-13T14:00:00Z2022-06-13T16:48:24ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Over the last couple of decades, there's been a rising movement, mostly on the part of those who want a piece of real estate agents business, to sell agents as a toll booth. Tollbooths sit there, guarding the entry to...
"I'm Working With Someone Else, But Could You Just Help Me With..."tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.38372022-05-30T14:00:00Z2022-05-30T15:03:23ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
I recently got an email from a reader that was coming into a property as I left. I dropped my card and we did the lockbox shuffle thing, then there was an email when I got back to the...
Some Secrets to Good Transactionstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.47342022-03-07T15:00:00Z2022-03-07T14:16:57ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Be prepared for trouble before it happens, know how strong your position is or isn't, and don't ever overplay your hand. Real estate transactions are the largest transactions most folks get involved in. Even small percentages of $500,000 or more...
Don't Rely On Reputation - There Are No Silver Bulletstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2007://3.35492022-02-14T15:00:00Z2022-02-14T19:01:34ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
On a regular basis, I get emails that ask me what I think of a particular company. When I check out public forums, I see questions about particular companies every time. "What do you think of X Realty, or Y...
I'm Competing Against Multiple Offers. How Do I Proceed?tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2010://3.50252022-01-24T15:00:00Z2022-01-24T17:07:32ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
The first thing to consider is that maybe you shouldn't. You never want to get involved in a bidding war. There's a classic riddle I ask every single one of my buyer clients at least once. "How often does...
Why the Real Estate Buyers Agent's Commission is Paid by the Sellertag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.47032021-10-29T14:00:00Z2021-10-29T10:45:37ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
I have to admit I'm uncomfortable with it and don't like it. As a buyer's agent, here I am getting paid by someone who not only is not my client, but whose interests are aligned, in most issues, opposite to...