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"A good mind knows the right answers.
A great mind knows the right
questions."
 Three
Important Questions to Ask Your Realtor
Consumer
Notice
Informational
Guides For Hiring A Realtor
Points
To Ponder
For Sale By
Owners Beware!
Look for
the Designations
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Three
Important Questions to Ask Your Realtor:
- What qualifications do you have to sell Real
Estate?
- Do you have a formal and written marketing plan
for selling homes?
- Can you give me a list of client references to
call?
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Consumer
Notice
Pennsylvania Law requires real
estate brokers and salespersons (licensees) to advise consumers of the
business relationships permitted by the Real Estate Licensing and
Registration Act. This notice must be provided to the consumer at the
first contact where a substantive discussion about real estate occurs.
Before you disclose any
information to a licensee, be advised that unless you select an agency
relationship by signing a written agreement providing for such a
relationship, the licensee is NOT REPRESENTING YOU. A business
relationship of any kind will NOT be presumed but must be established
between the consumer and the licensee.
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Please call
me for your free copy of my informational guide for hiring a Realtor, "12
Questions You Should Ask Before Hiring Any Realtor" or my special home
sellers report, "How To Avoid 7 Costly Mistakes When Selling Your Home."
12 Questions You Should Ask Before
Hiring Any Realtor
Your decision to place your home for sale
involves more than simply running an ad, holding a few open houses, and
waiting for the sales proceeds check. Your decision to buy a home clearly
involves more than looking at 2 or 3 homes, making an offer and moving. Hiring
the wrong Realtor can mean the difference between making or losing money,
selling/buying quickly or taking a long time, a trouble free transaction or a
living nightmare. Unless you have experience interviewing people, Realtors in
particular, you won't always know what questions to ask. Further, you won't
always know what answers will best suit your needs when buying or selling a
home. This informational guide includes 12 important and insightful questions
you should ask any Realtor before you sign anything.
How To Avoid 7 Costly Mistakes When
Selling Your Home
This is a guide to avoiding common problems and
sell your home for every bit of its worth in the least amount of time.
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Points To Ponder
Is My Home Priced To Sell?
Factors Affecting Your Asking Price
- How quickly you need to sell
- The amount of competition in your price
category and area
- The availability, flexibility and
affordability of financing
- The sale prices of similar homes sold in your
area during the past six months to one year.
Factors That Should Not Affect your Asking
Price
- The original cost of the property - price is
determined by today's market
- Any investments you've made in improvements
- The cost to build your home today
- The emotional attachment
- The opinions of friends and neighbors
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Sale By Owners Beware!
A man and a woman stole $15,000 worth of
jewelry from an 89-year old woman, police alleged.
The pair came to the woman's house about two
weeks ago with an interest in
buying the property. And they allegedly, left with eight pieces of
jewelry, including a pearl choker valued at $3000 and a $5000 diamond pin,
police said.
The female suspect, police allege, pretended to
look at the property, while her partner questioned the home owner about the
house.
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***Don't risk your possessions or more importantly, your safety.
A REALTOR will register and
qualify all buyers who are interested in your
property and a REALTOR will accompany the buyers on all showings.***
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Look For
The Designations!
When you're buying or selling a home, you want
the transaction to be as
smooth as possible. the right REALTOR is critical to your success. How do
you choose a trustworthy, knowledgeable and experience agent? You look for
the designations!
Certified Residential Specialist (CRS): A CRS
subscribes to the REALTOR
Code of Ethics, specializes in home buying and selling, maximizes your
profits and minimizes your costs and uses the latest technology in buying
and selling real estate.
Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR): A real
estate buyer's agent
represents the consumer who is purchasing the property in the real estate
transaction. This agent owes full fiduciary responsibilities, duties and
loyalty to the real estate buyer. The buyer's agent works for the buyer
client and has the clients best interest in mind through out the entire
real estate transaction process.
For more information on the CRS and ABR
designations, please E-mail me at
jpalbert@ptd.net
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