Thinking About Showing Instructions

April 15, 2008 | By Kelley Koehler | Filed Under Home Selling 

goat flower pot at a tucson home When you sell your home in Tucson, there’s a spot in the MLS where you get to tell other agents the rules about showing your home.  Can they give you a 30 minute heads up call and then go show it?  What if they call and get voicemail?  Can they leave a message and just go?  How much notice do you need?

It’s really up to you, the seller, to decide what kind of notice you need, but understand that the more difficult you make it to show your home, the fewer agents will show it.

Pretty typical around here is a 30 minute courtesy call, and if the agent gets voicemail, they leave a message and then they just go.  As an agent, if you want me to call a home and a work number, I’m more than happy to do so, as long as if I don’t reach anyone, I can just leave messages and go show your home.

I wanted to show a home the other day that said we could come between 10:30 and 2pm on weekdays.  Except my client has a full-time job, so we are only out looking nights and weekends.

There was a house I wanted to show last month where I could only show the house by appointment on weekends, but my clients were only in town from Monday through Thursday to buy a home.  With cash. 

With so much inventory on the market right now, you can’t afford to make your house difficult to show.  I realize it can be inconvenient at times to allow showings with short notice, but if we are to sell your home, we’ve got to make it easy for people to see it!

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