Is Accushow Really The Best Show?

August 20th, 2009 categories: Honolulu Real Estate 101, Rants & Riffs

In past posts, I have talked about the importance of making sure your Honolulu home is really easy to show. There are several components to this equation.

1. You, the homeowner, must be willing to show your home on as short a notice a humanly possible (same day with an hour notice will get you many more showings).
2. Use of a lockbox. Lockboxes give you the security of knowing that your keys are in a safe place and available for agents appointed showing times. A listing with a lockbox will get many more showings than a listing without one and here is why. If you don’t have a lockbox, one of two things will have to happen, your broker will have to meet every showing or a showing agent will have to pick up keys from your broker. In each case, the additional complexity will chase buyers and their brokers to properties that are easier to see.
3. Your Realtor and their system for setting up showings. I have found that the sooner we can respond to showing request the more showings we will have of our listings. At KU Realty, we set up our showings and it is our team’s goal is to make it as easy to show your property as humanly possible.

This brings me to a recent experience with a new showing system called Accushow. In a nutshell, the company is trying to create a business out of setting up showings for Realtors and the properties they have for sale. In concept, it sounds like a great business. However, if my experience was any indication, in practice Accushow may create more issues than they solve. The following is a chronology of the events that led to this blog post.

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