How Do You Secure Your Seller's Vacant Home?

As a listing agent, our seller's expect us to help keep their home secure by tracking home showings. The most common ways of doing this in Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa real estate market is:

My local area has about a ten months inventory of homes on the market. If the agent doesn't call back timely to tell you can see it anytime, you've prevented your seller from a potential sale!

Many times a buyer will ask to see the vacant home down the street, one not on the original showing list. If the seller's agent isn't accessible and there is a coded lock box, you've again, prevented your seller from a potential sale!

Do you really want your VACANT HOME showings restricted like this? I've also noticed a trend listing an obviously vacant home as Owner Occupied. I understand wanting to secure access to the home, but there are much better ways of doing this! This is why you hire a Technology Savvy Realtor!

Would you believe the same thing can happen with an electronic lock box? Just because your agent is using an electronic lock box doesn't mean they know how to use it. Did you know they don't just allow access at anytime? They can be programmed to:

Allow access between certain times
Allow access only with a code
Provide additional marketing information
Provide a marketing flyer
Request showing feedback

One of the advantages of hiring a Technology Savvy Real Estate Agent, is we are notified immediately when the home is shown. We can provide an electronic paper trail of everyone who has accessed the home. No more searching for the paper that we wrote that agent's name on.

Here's the showing feedback I received less than an hour ago when David Matney, from Alliance Real Estate, (Hey David, here's some google juice for you!) showed my listing at 14451 Erskine Street. Thanks for showing my listing, David. Right now it's 2:21 PM and I've already received property feedback from him! How cool is that?

So when you are ready to sell your home, who are you going to call?
That's right, a Technology SAVVY Realtor!