September 2, 2007
8 Factors To Consider If You Need A Real Estate Agent Or Not
In today’s real estate market, there are many options you can choose to sell your home. You can hire a full service real estate agent to list your home and sell it for you with a commission from 6 to 7% of the sale price. You can hire a flat fee listing agent, or do for sale by owner, or lease option.
If you are trying to decide whether to hire a full service real estate agent to sell your home, here are 8 important factors to consider.
1. What is the housing market conditions?
In a very hot market, everything sells so fast and probably don’t need a full service realtor to sell your home. But, in today’s buyer’s market, an experienced full service realtor and high performer may help a little.
2. Are you in hurry to sell?
You cannot afford to waste any of your time on for sale by owner if you are in a hurry to sell your home, especially you don’t have enough experience to sell a home.
3. Do you have any experience selling a home and have you ever spent some time studying a very good home selling guide from A to Z?
Selling a home is a job of the trained professional’s. It takes a lot of knowledge, experience, time, effects, and comments. If you have never sold a house and have never read a good home selling guide, you are not ready to sell your home yet. If you don’t want to hire a full service realtor, at least read some good home selling guide.You can also read all of my blogs at http://besthomesellingtips.com and subscribe my free eBook on how to sell your home like a pro.
4. It your time better spent not to answer the phone calls from many unqualified buyers?
Once your home is on the market, you try to get as many as potential to call you to increase your chance for success. If you believe that your valuable time cannot be justified to answer many calls from unqualified buyers, then you should list with a full service realtor.
5. Is home showing a problem for you?
Different situations could make your home showing a problem. Especially if security and crime are the issues to you, then you may want to hire a realtor.
6. Is your home a high end one or luxury home?
People buying high-end homes usually use a specialized real estate agent and most of them don’t go online to search homes to search for sale by owner.
7. Do you like or hate to negotiate with others on whatever deals?
Some people enjoy the process of bargaining and negotiation. While others hate it. If your skin is too thin to negotiate, then you probably should hire a realtor to do it for you.
8. Does the commission saved worth your time and effects?
Finally, this is the bottom line. You should calculate how much money you can save and weight if this is worth your time and effects not to hire a realtor.
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