starstarstarstarstar over 2 years ago
Not JUST an agent!
There are so many great real estate agents to choose from, it leaves your head spinning when faced with the choice, especially when the market is changing and you must sell quickly to move. For most, our choice of realtor isn't going to impact how quickly or for how much our homes sell. Realtors all use the same listing and comp services and watch the market. In reality, houses sell when the buyer who wants them shows up. Maybe your buyer shows up in the first week, leaving you wondering what your realtor really had to do with it. Maybe your buyer shows up after six months, leaving you wondering if your realtor did enough. Maybe you are someone more grateful than those left wondering. Hopefully, your buyer shows up at exactly the right moment, chosen for reasons you will never unlock. So then, does it really matter whom we choose to wade through all the legal and paper to keep us out of trouble? If so, how should we choose? Well, if your home is on the market for six months, or longer, heavens forbid, the most important thing to look for in an agent is someone who handles all the business, all the conversation, all the deadlines, all the important real talk and sensitive discussions like feathers and not stones. For whatever reason, you're selling your home, and that task is already tied up with mountains of stress. Choose someone who doesn't add to it. Someone who shows up to help you paint or vacuum last minute, or who shows up to tidy up and skootch your cat into a crate when you're stuck in the waiting room at a doctor's office with your kiddo. Someone who walks you through the questions, five times if necessary. Someone who checks in with you, asks how you're doing, and really wants to hear the answer. Someone who shows up and does the job, well, but does so as a human being who sees and hears you, your concerns, and your needs, and strives to be of true service to you, a human being, not just a future commission. Choose Theresa Lauer, then exhale, and repeat.