Ed sold our house after we moved. If you can manage it, that is by far the best thing to do. Ed picked an excellent stager, had the house in great shape, and held two open houses and a broker's open. A week after we put the house on the market we got six offers. Ed analyzed all the offers so that we could see the pros and cons of each one. After the sale, Ed shepherded the escrow to a successful conclusion. When Ed proposed a sale price, I was of course very uncertain. I decided to trust his judgment and was richly rewarded (literally). When someone made a good offer before the "receive offers" date that he'd set, he carefully explained his ethical obligations and was appropriately neutral in helping me decide. We decided to wait; it could have been wrong but it turned out to be right. Ed is really easy to communicate with and prompt to reply to calls or emails. My advice is, choose Ed, and then listen to him. Certainly in our case he paid for himself and the other agent too.
