When you’re selling something, it’s a good idea to make it as easy as possible for buyers to buy – especially for big-ticket items like real estate. You’d be astonished how often sellers’ agents violate this basic, commonsense rule, creating outrageous roadblocks for potential buyers for your home.
Here are some easy tips to keep your agent from doing this to you.
Video Transcript hello hello hello peeps
this is all of our little fellow pickle
peeps out there um we hope that you are
having an amazing day
we sure are we’re having a good day i
think we’re having a pretty good yeah
we’re having a very good season
off to a very good start randall bro
realtors in
prescott arizona and so something we
talking about listings we want to talk
about
um this is kind of out there for our
people who are considering selling
and are starting to think about well i
think i might want to go on the market
something to think about that we’re
running across right now in this crazy
intense on fire uh
market is uh because i handle a lot of
buyers
this is something to keep in mind when
you’re getting ready to list
try to make your home make the showings
as easy as possible
um encourage your agent we always do
this go
on you know make sure your agent is
registered on showing time
so they can easily make appointments
yeah it’s easy
um don’t do crazy times don’t you know
uh or three hours in advance right don’t
do three hours in advance
invite the bullet here’s the thing yes
it is difficult to bring
people in to see homes into prescott yes
most of the buyers are coming from out
of town people like us have to reach out
find them convince them to come and
visit this town right
and before we even have a chance to sell
your home
so by the time we are scheduling a
showing of your home
we’ve already like done a lot of heavy
lifting for you right
so the last thing you want to do is to
make it hard for people like us to bring
you
our buyers because you can undermine
you know if you’re trying to get a uh
you know a good price for your home
you’re trying
what you need is a lot of showings and
the easiest way to get a lot of showings
is to make showings easy correct just
bite the bullet because what’s gonna
happen is the market’s moving so fast
just accept i’m gonna have two maybe
three days of hell
yeah of constant showings but for
instance i’ve had several clients come
in ready to go and i’m like oh this is a
great listing let’s go look at it and
they’re like
we won’t start any showings until i’ll
just make up a date
until thursday well it’s monday and then
you don’t find that out until you call
right so you go to call and it’s like i
want to start on a certain day that’s
fine put it in mls put it well in
advance so everyone knows
right don’t wait until someone’s calling
you with the buyer to schedule the
showing
oh we’re not going to show until
thursday we decided we’re going to wait
until thursday and then we’re going to
have it
or you know some of the uh some of the
some of them are like it’s uh
uh we’re gonna have one day of showing
and we are only gonna have appointments
between
ten and two okay well my people are
going to be here that day
they’re gonna be the next day and
there’s no way to get back in
so as you as a potential seller
think about making your home easily
accessible
easy for the buyer’s agent to make an
appointment for you
just be welcoming let it go fast this
market’s so
fast moving yeah your house is going to
sell in one or two years
it will and but if you make the showings
difficult you get
fewer showings you’re gonna have fewer
options you’re gonna end up with less
results
one key too is to make sure your listing
agent understands at least the basics
of real estate technology um so diane
mentioned before there’s showing time
yes which is an online app that agents
use to schedule showings for your home
and if you know how to set it up right
it kind of takes care of everything for
you
it’s great it’s great for all parties
involved it’s great for the agents
involved it’s great for
the the seller so they know they can
even be contacted when you’ve left so
they know when to come home
yeah it’s an amazing thing so make sure
you tell your i want showing time
i want to be i’m showing you if you
don’t do showing time then you need to
figure out how to do showing time
because it’s going to make a difference
in selling
your own it absolutely is so you know
and you shouldn’t have to email to make
an appointment you shouldn’t have to
call and then you call them
you have to call one and they say oh you
know what actually this is the wrong
number to call you need to call this
number
and then listen
this market we don’t have time for that
i don’t have time for that make it
simple make it easy make it yeah as
worry-free as possible for all parties
yeah if it were a slow moving market
everyone would have time to work out all
these kinks for the one showing that
you’re getting
when you’re getting lots of showings
it’s going to run like a well-oiled
machine or it’s going to crash
now the pickle lady brigade as your
listing agent we have all those things
in place absolutely
we’ve got it simple we’ve got it fast
you won’t have to worry about that
but i just wanted to kind of pass this
tip on to those of you who are thinking
call us we’d love to help you list we
will have
all of these things in effect and and
ready to go
uh so when you’re ready to go on the
market your appointments will be super
easy
yeah and it’ll be handled you know
stress-free worry-free as best as we
possibly can
so these are just some little tips when
you’re thinking say hey
i want to be on showing time and only
showing time yeah
you know i want to i want to get this
thing done and
limit your uh your showings to specific
target days
and just bite the bullet on those things
get up early stay out late
and that’s you know fill the day with
jones and get it over with
and we appreciate that it is it really
is we really made every effort to show
up on time
um but you know it’s easier than you
think
yes to get people and you have buyers
that show up late and
you know if we could if we only brought
buyers out that are
punctual and you know all these things
we would have maybe one buyer a year
buyers it’s difficult sometimes things
happen
people are driving in flat tire that
throws off the pace of all the other
they’re not familiar with the city and
which is why
you know you should have showing time in
effect because
then if something should happen the
agent can quickly get on and say
i either need to cancel or reschedule
when we’re driving
it’s hard to i gotta look up that phone
number i gotta
so these are things to keep in mind of
course i would call uh we would love to
help you list
again you won’t have these issues but if
you’re looking at other agents or
thinking about it these are things that
you should
educate yourself about so you are ready
and uh willing able to show that home
in a timely and easy fashion absolutely
so that is all we just wanted to share
that with you it’s just one of the
things we’re sharing that’s one of the
things we’re sharing we share a lot
if you want more you can find it at
pickle411.com.com
and it’ll take you whether you’re buy or
sell or somewhere in between lots of
free tips
uh tools information ratings
about the city about the real estate
market you name it
just about anything you can we try to
cover a lot we try to cover a lot
so if you’re thinking about listing your
home give us a call
we’ve got everything systematized we’re
ready to go
get your home sold for you in this hot
hot market
okay that is our tip for the day have a
fabulous day
and uh we look forward to hearing from
you that is all folks
this is all of our little fellow pickle
peeps out there um we hope that you are
having an amazing day
we sure are we’re having a good day i
think we’re having a pretty good yeah
we’re having a very good season
off to a very good start randall bro
realtors in
prescott arizona and so something we
talking about listings we want to talk
about
um this is kind of out there for our
people who are considering selling
and are starting to think about well i
think i might want to go on the market
something to think about that we’re
running across right now in this crazy
intense on fire uh
market is uh because i handle a lot of
buyers
this is something to keep in mind when
you’re getting ready to list
try to make your home make the showings
as easy as possible
um encourage your agent we always do
this go
on you know make sure your agent is
registered on showing time
so they can easily make appointments
yeah it’s easy
um don’t do crazy times don’t you know
uh or three hours in advance right don’t
do three hours in advance
invite the bullet here’s the thing yes
it is difficult to bring
people in to see homes into prescott yes
most of the buyers are coming from out
of town people like us have to reach out
find them convince them to come and
visit this town right
and before we even have a chance to sell
your home
so by the time we are scheduling a
showing of your home
we’ve already like done a lot of heavy
lifting for you right
so the last thing you want to do is to
make it hard for people like us to bring
you
our buyers because you can undermine
you know if you’re trying to get a uh
you know a good price for your home
you’re trying
what you need is a lot of showings and
the easiest way to get a lot of showings
is to make showings easy correct just
bite the bullet because what’s gonna
happen is the market’s moving so fast
just accept i’m gonna have two maybe
three days of hell
yeah of constant showings but for
instance i’ve had several clients come
in ready to go and i’m like oh this is a
great listing let’s go look at it and
they’re like
we won’t start any showings until i’ll
just make up a date
until thursday well it’s monday and then
you don’t find that out until you call
right so you go to call and it’s like i
want to start on a certain day that’s
fine put it in mls put it well in
advance so everyone knows
right don’t wait until someone’s calling
you with the buyer to schedule the
showing
oh we’re not going to show until
thursday we decided we’re going to wait
until thursday and then we’re going to
have it
or you know some of the uh some of the
some of them are like it’s uh
uh we’re gonna have one day of showing
and we are only gonna have appointments
between
ten and two okay well my people are
going to be here that day
they’re gonna be the next day and
there’s no way to get back in
so as you as a potential seller
think about making your home easily
accessible
easy for the buyer’s agent to make an
appointment for you
just be welcoming let it go fast this
market’s so
fast moving yeah your house is going to
sell in one or two years
it will and but if you make the showings
difficult you get
fewer showings you’re gonna have fewer
options you’re gonna end up with less
results
one key too is to make sure your listing
agent understands at least the basics
of real estate technology um so diane
mentioned before there’s showing time
yes which is an online app that agents
use to schedule showings for your home
and if you know how to set it up right
it kind of takes care of everything for
you
it’s great it’s great for all parties
involved it’s great for the agents
involved it’s great for
the the seller so they know they can
even be contacted when you’ve left so
they know when to come home
yeah it’s an amazing thing so make sure
you tell your i want showing time
i want to be i’m showing you if you
don’t do showing time then you need to
figure out how to do showing time
because it’s going to make a difference
in selling
your own it absolutely is so you know
and you shouldn’t have to email to make
an appointment you shouldn’t have to
call and then you call them
you have to call one and they say oh you
know what actually this is the wrong
number to call you need to call this
number
and then listen
this market we don’t have time for that
i don’t have time for that make it
simple make it easy make it yeah as
worry-free as possible for all parties
yeah if it were a slow moving market
everyone would have time to work out all
these kinks for the one showing that
you’re getting
when you’re getting lots of showings
it’s going to run like a well-oiled
machine or it’s going to crash
now the pickle lady brigade as your
listing agent we have all those things
in place absolutely
we’ve got it simple we’ve got it fast
you won’t have to worry about that
but i just wanted to kind of pass this
tip on to those of you who are thinking
call us we’d love to help you list we
will have
all of these things in effect and and
ready to go
uh so when you’re ready to go on the
market your appointments will be super
easy
yeah and it’ll be handled you know
stress-free worry-free as best as we
possibly can
so these are just some little tips when
you’re thinking say hey
i want to be on showing time and only
showing time yeah
you know i want to i want to get this
thing done and
limit your uh your showings to specific
target days
and just bite the bullet on those things
get up early stay out late
and that’s you know fill the day with
jones and get it over with
and we appreciate that it is it really
is we really made every effort to show
up on time
um but you know it’s easier than you
think
yes to get people and you have buyers
that show up late and
you know if we could if we only brought
buyers out that are
punctual and you know all these things
we would have maybe one buyer a year
buyers it’s difficult sometimes things
happen
people are driving in flat tire that
throws off the pace of all the other
they’re not familiar with the city and
which is why
you know you should have showing time in
effect because
then if something should happen the
agent can quickly get on and say
i either need to cancel or reschedule
when we’re driving
it’s hard to i gotta look up that phone
number i gotta
so these are things to keep in mind of
course i would call uh we would love to
help you list
again you won’t have these issues but if
you’re looking at other agents or
thinking about it these are things that
you should
educate yourself about so you are ready
and uh willing able to show that home
in a timely and easy fashion absolutely
so that is all we just wanted to share
that with you it’s just one of the
things we’re sharing that’s one of the
things we’re sharing we share a lot
if you want more you can find it at
pickle411.com.com
and it’ll take you whether you’re buy or
sell or somewhere in between lots of
free tips
uh tools information ratings
about the city about the real estate
market you name it
just about anything you can we try to
cover a lot we try to cover a lot
so if you’re thinking about listing your
home give us a call
we’ve got everything systematized we’re
ready to go
get your home sold for you in this hot
hot market
okay that is our tip for the day have a
fabulous day
and uh we look forward to hearing from
you that is all folks
