June 28th is National Handshake Day…a handshake is the part of our first impression…make sure yours is one that gets you off on the “right foot”.
Market Watch for Today from NABOR Sunshine MLS
119 New
154 Expired
186 Price Change
27 Pending
14 Back on the Market
40 Sold
15 Extended
19 Withdrawn 5
6 Terminated
Again, we are seeing a lot of price changes happening today…as well as a lot of listings expiring.
For some ideas of what turns a buyer off this is an article written for NAR.
Survey: Listing problems that turn off buyersARLINGTON, Va. – June 28, 2007 – Buyers can be skittish and reject a listing out-of-hand based on easily-fixed problems. The National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (NAEBA) recently conducted an online survey of their members to rate the items they found most annoying when helping buyers search for a new home. The survey results are revealing and sometimes weird.The top five things exclusive buyer’s agents find most annoying when previewing a home:1. Broken door locks preventing access to the house.2. Pet deposits in the back yard or dirty cat boxes.3. Missing light bulbs in the basement.4. Sellers that ask you to remove shoes and then have wet carpet or dirty floors.5. Loose stairs on a stairway or missing banisters.Other reported annoyances include:6. Low hanging dining room light fixtures in a vacant home.7. Closet doors that fall off or are not adjusted properly.8. Going into a vacant home and hearing animals in the walls.9. Halloween decorations that are left out.10. Dangerous children’s toys left out.11. Dead cars in the driveway or yard.12. Homes on large lots without a survey or description of the lot boundaries.13. Political signs.14. Graffiti.15. Dead birds or animals in or around the home.“Once I was previewing a fairly expensive home by myself,” says Jon Boyd, president of NAEBA. “I go into the huge basement and I can’t find the light switch. As I’m reaching around a corner I catch a light switch and turn it on. About eight feet in front of me is a life-sized model of the alien monster looking right at me! My heart starts beating again in a few minutes when I figure out what the stupid thing is, but whose idea was it to leave the thing there while the home is on the market?”Boyd says these problems seem small but they can do great harm to anyone who wishes to sell a home. “The buyer’s attention is diverted from evaluating the home to something mildly disgusting or frustrating,” says Boyd.© 2007 FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
