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Currently I have several clients for whom I am trying to find houses . As most of us, my first stop is in my MLS to set up a prospect account. After inputting all the information which helps me eliminate houses to look at, I get excited to see what the final search will reveal!

Here is where the disappointment begins. When I am looking for an inexpensive home more often than not the listing agent has not bothered with all the photos, room sizes, room description, or anything else other than putting the house on the MLS !

What should be on every MLS?

• Clear photos of interest!
  • With a digital camera you know if a photo is fuzzy before you leave the house so take another one! Photos sell houses!
  • Please don't have photos of pets, rocks, or items non related to the home
• Number of Rooms
  • foyer, bathrooms, and hallways are NOT rooms!
• Room sizes
  • When someone has a pool table that needs a 14' X 18' room it would be nice to know if the room fits before showing the house!
• Sq footage
  • Adding in Sq footage that is actually a basement is fine, but put the square footage of under ground areas in your agents notes.
• Tax assessment
  • We will find this out even if you don't put it in
• The correct days on market!
  • Please don't let your listing expire just to eliminate the days on market history! Everyone is checking the archival history and it messes up all of the statistical data!
• Please warn us if dogs or cats are living on the premises. One of my clients walked into the house and broke out in hives due to his allergy to cats!

As listing agents we have been hired to sell the house the best way we know how. The MLS is the biggest marketing tool we have! Make it work for you and your seller by taking the time to put in as much information as possible.

As a buyer's agent I thank you! Maybe next time your house won't be overlooked by the buyer due to lack of information!

As a student in classes offered by VAR I have thoroughly enjoyed, and learned from the asides made by the teachers as well as the class participants. In "What have I gotten myself into" , a class about contracts, we spoke about how to handle multiple offers. Here is my favorite answer:

In the scenario set forth in our class the seller of the home asked the listing agent to call all of the agents who had placed an offer to the house at the same time. Here is what happened:

• Owner showed all the agents the offers on the table
• He explained price, and concessions that were asked for and which he preferred
• Owner then asked the agents to contact their buyers to see if they could agree on what he wanted.
• He also gave them a time frame, of 30 minutes, to get back to him

From what we were told two of the four offers were immediately eliminated because of price - the buyers could not afford to go higher. The winning contract ended up being lower in price but did not have the first right of refusal attached to it.

I think it was great to have all of the agents know the same thing, and be able to work with their buyers using that knowledge. And as a buyers agent I would love the opportunity to present my side of the story!

How do you like to handle multiple offers?

I was taking down my sign in Countryside Subdivision today as the house was closing this afternoon. While stuffing it into the back of my car two neighbors walked by and stopped to talk. One of the ladies is a Realtor who also does a lot of staging, and now has a warehouse full of furniture in anticipation of listings. The other lady is contemplating putting her house on the market once prices start going up, but has already purchased another home. She was questioning whether to move into the new house, leaving the first home empty of furniture. In her eyes, seeing the property without any signs of another family living there, made it easier for a new family to move in.

We two Realtors immediately jumped in and said "oh no! Furniture helps sell a house" . Why is that? We came up with:

• Most people can envision their own furniture in a home once they see how someone has used the room already
• Buyer's have a tendency to look at the furniture instead of the house. They may overlook the walls with fingerprints if there is furniture to see.
• Seeing a lived-in home, with smells from the kitchen, and a happy feeling makes a great impression on someone also looking for a home. A house with no furniture does not give that warm welcoming feeling

So- Do you agree? Furniture or not?

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