In a Monkey knife fight, I’m not so sure I could beat a monkey… they’re pretty wiley. In fact, I think they could show a houses better than most real estate agents…. I know they could figure out the keys and locks…. and if Monkeys could actually drive a car, they might beat a lot of agents. 
But being a good agent is really about giving good ADVICE ! That’s why it still bugs the SHIT out of me when people Read more »
I guess if I ask a dumb question I get a dumb answer….. like what did you think of the price? 
Almost every seller wants Feedback from the buyer after showings on their property. What they want is a honest and objective assessment of the property and what they can do to improve the saleability or if anything will entice the buyer to make a reasonable offer.
What we often GET instead of Feedback is a bit of Pre-offer negotiations with the buyer’s agent saying the property is overpriced ! So with the vast majority of responses saying the property is overpriced, I think I could be selling a $1 bill for 50 cents and they’d STILL say it’s overpriced. So does that really help the buyer in the negotiations, IF they even make an offer? I don’t think so.
Then if we do get the low offer, the agent explains all the reasons why the buyer doesn’t really like the property. Oh Really??!! Then why on earth are they making an offer ?? Now THAT’s really bad negotiationg !!
(Warning, another rant about to start) If it only happened once or twice I’d be fine, but I can’t count how often I’m showing a propety to a prospective home buyer and as we walk in to the house, there’s no furniture, no curtains, no appliances, no evidence of human life or activity for centuries. The heat is off and you can see your breath in the cold air, in fact, it’s colder inside the house than outside the house! After 5 steps into the house the buyer has a burning question that they just can’t hold back for the searing urgency of it………. Is this house VACANT !!??!!
My answer? OMG, NO !!! The homeowner knew that it was YOU coming to look at the home because they saw the nightly news flash that YOU have finally decided to enter the South Jersey real estate market to “consider” buying a home after selling your Star Wars action figure collection to raise the down payment money….. so they MOVED all of their stuff OUT of the house so that you could see the home better and as soon as your highness leaves, they will move thier stuff back in and resume thier normal life, basking in the after glow of your presence in thier humble home. Idiot.
(Warning… rant about to start) I just LOVE IT when an investor/ home buyer tells me they want a “good deal”. Thank you, Captain Obvious, I didn’t know that.
So what if you went into a diner to eat and said…. “give me something that tastes good” …they would look at you kinda funny, right? Let’s say that they played along with you and brought you out a cheeseburger, but you don’t want it and you say “no thank you”. So they go back in the kitchen and bring you a nice steak, but you don’t want that either. Ok, fine….they bring you bowl of pasta? No. How about fish? No. Maybe a nice bowl of soup? Nope. At what point does the waitress crack you in the head with a frying pan because you’re a moron? 
So I get a phone call on one of my bank owned listings from an “investor” who says he wants a good deal… any price range in any area of South Jersey any kind of house. Ok, well, what do you have in mind? do you want to rent it or flip it? He doesn’t really care but he also owns a big home with no mortgage and is thinking of downsizing and buying something for himself to live in and he’s also keeping an eye open for his daughter to buy something because the market is so good to buy good deals. Ok, Mr Super Investor, I know this is my lucky day because I’ve been graced with the honor of your phone call and you’ve just told me how you want to buy or sell 3 homes (or was it 4 homes) in the next 24 hours and I know you’re obviously a big shot, because you just kinda told me so and only the really really SMART investors remember to tell me that they’re looking for a “good deal”. After 20 minutes on the phone, I was looking for that frying pan to crack MYSELF in the head when he concluded with “call me if you find anything that you think I might like” Ugggg… if I only knew what the heck that was !!!
