Hey Buff, I'll try to help by telling you what I believe the perfect realtor should do when selling a house, if anyone has anything to add, I love if you posted as it helps me do my job better.
Selling a home steps - Do a thorough walk through. Get the home owner to point out all the selling features especially stuff that may be easily missed, such as heated floors, underground sprinklers, etc. Make suggestions to help improve the appeal to potential buyers, reduce clutter, staging furniture, paint, etc. Do a lot of research to come up with the perfect list price, compare homes on the market as well as recent ones sold. Put the home on MLS, set up appointments make it easy for other realtors to book appointment. Do open houses at least once a month, with a lot of advertising. Pass out flyers to neighbors letting then know when the open house will take place, an ad in the local paper with the date and time. As well advertise the open house on the MLS listing. Put up flyers of your listing around the community such as grocery stores, gas station, the real estate office, etc. Word of mouth to other agents, my office has Monday morning meetings where all agents advertise new listings. Put ads in papers, magazines, wherever you can envision potential buyers reading. Hmmm can’t think of much more, anyone have anything to add to that?
Hope that gives you an idea of what the perfect agent should be doing but as other mentioned this time of the year is slow, homes are taking time to sell. With regards to your agent not showing your place it happens, he may not have clients looking in that area or people just call their realtor when they see an ad for your house, but it could be a red flag that he’s no targeting the public with his advertising, hope that helps.
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