When I became a REALTOR® I never thought about all the extra jobs that I was signing up for!
To help my clients sell their homes I use the feedback that we get from showings and address the issues. During the past month I have been a Stager helping a client to readjust furniture in their home to make it more open and inviting. I have also become a landscaper help to weed flower beds and spread mulch. Another of the jobs that I have picked up is painter helping clients to do touch-ups in their homes. I have also become a handyman fixing small issues that detract from the overall feel of the home.
Of course I have taken on the job of gracious host as I hold different homes open every weekend.
I wonder what additional jobs have other agents taken on as they partner with their sellers to help them achieve their goals?
Jim works with buyers and sellers in Liberty Township, West Chester, Mason, Fairfield, and the Northern areas of Cincinnati. Ohio Association of REALTORS® Presidents Sales Club Achiever 2007
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First, Check your title.
Second, I just relisted on of my homes because the agents in the area for some reason will never see something unless it is on the hot sheet. All of the sudden after having no showings for 6 days, we have 4 showings today. What is up with that. I don't even bother with the hot sheet.
Other then that, I have their houses up on my site which is first page Google for at least 10 different terms including the most commenly used terms.
I am done doing follow up open houses because the buyers seem to not come anymore. Craigs list is ok, some responce there. NO NEWSPAPERS.
Thanks Jim I missed my doing!
Here are a couple of tacks you left out: pet sitter, plant waterer, and my all time favorite, armature psychologist.
James, I don't do the actual work in my clients' homes (ever since one client presented me with a bill at closing for damage to her pillows when I was trying to clean her windows for a photo shoot). I have a list of vendors who I will refer my clients to. It sure is tempting to do some of the things that I know would help the sale, but my clients need to take responsibility for their part. I have started collaborating with a stager. I pay her $100 for an initial consultation with my clients and then they can hire her from there for more help. I take notes, create a checklist of staging items to be completed (one recent one was four pages long, single spaced).
I find that figuring out the right marketing strategy for selling the home takes most of my time and attention. I don't do newspapers, either, other than for Open Houses. I do send out mass e-mail flyers to local real estate agents. I send out price reductions and new listing e-mails to agents who attend my Broker Opens and who have sold homes in my market area in the past few years. I also post homes on Craig's List, Village Voice Back Page, New York Times online (for high end listings -- it's expensive), and I run a community blog which attracts readership and links to my real estate website which features my listings. I also put brochure holders up on the For Sale sign posts and keep the box filled with full color brochures which I design and print. In addition, I put brochures up on bulletin boards and as handouts at local cafes, coffee shops, etc. I send out Just Listed jumbo postcards for each new listing. And, I talk to folks I run into about my listings. I was going for a walk and ran into my Congressman's wife and told her about the penthouse with views of the Sound I had just listed. She knows someone who is looking for exactly this type of property. Multiple channels are necessary as you just never know which one will reach the buyer.
One of the houses I'm selling has a lot of my furniture in it! :)
It's true. We wear many hats and most don't realize how much we do.
What else....cleaning service, dog sitter, all around problem solver...I could go on.
The first thing I notice on listings is weeds growing in the driveway and sidewalk cracks. When it's my own listing, I definitely pull them when vacant or otherwise as discreetly if possible.
When growing up, my dad was part owner of an office building and there were 2 things we always did during the year: shovel the snow off the parking lot and pull weeds. Obviously, that's my pet peeve.