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Do you want it Listed or do you want it Sold?
 Are you looking for a good Michigan Realtor that sells homes in Lapeer Genesee, Oakland and Macomb Counties? I put together a few things that might help you decide if Jeff Davis is the right Realtor for you and your Michigan home.
First I always recommend that you interview at least three Realtors when you are about to list your home. This will help you to find the one that is right for you. There are many questions you should ask them and I have listed a few important ones below to help you under What Questions Should I Ask a Realtor When Listing a Home?
What happens when I Interview a Realtor to List My Home?
When you have me come out to your home first I'll make sure I have from you every question or concern that you will want me to address and will make sure I answer ever one of them before I leave. I will explain my Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) prepared for you, by the way you can get a free one here. Comparative Market Analysis
Then we will tour the home which is when I will ask you to pretend that I am a buyer and that you are trying to sell it to me. I find this really helps me to get all the good selling points of the home down in my notes.
Commission is always a big question for a Listing Realtor unfortunately there are many laws and rules keeping me from putting my commission rate on here for public viewing so that question you will have to ask me when I talk with you. What I can tell you is every one of clients have been and are have very satisfied in knowing that I work hard and that the commission was well spent on me. Whatever the commission is, it is split between me and the Realtor that brings in the buyer. Sometimes I am the Realtor that brings in the buyer but there are thousands of Realtors out there and the chances of me being the one are actually slim. Obviously I will be trying my best because if I also bring in the buyer I will then earn the full commission but it only happens about 15-20% of the time.
Next I'll explain my marketing strategies for getting your home sold. When you hire me we'll sign the paper work and I can email or hand you the copies, your choice. I will take pictures and video of the inside and outside and measure the home. Time permitting, I can place your home on the MLS and make some flyers for you to have and post at work, all while I am still there with you at your home. Also before I leave you, will have a lock box and a full post sign in the yard.
During the listing you will have updates from me but by no means do you have to wait for me to call, I fully encourage all of my clients to contact me whenever and every time they have a question or want an up to the moment update.
A lot of what I do for you is not explained here as it is trade secret and if I put all my strategies and secrets on here other Realtors would see it, definitely use them, and then I would be back to being no different then any other real estate agent out there. So have me out to your home and I explain it all to you.
Closing costs are another big question. The sellers have closing costs and the buyers have closing costs and these are different. The seller pays for the Realtors commissions, title policy, deed stamps and transfer tax and all these costs are on percentages based on the sales price. I have created a calculator that allows me to quickly punch in several different sales price possibilities at the same time and it will give us a really close estimate of what your closing costs will be. It's close, but not 100% dead on because it will depend on the title company's title policy charge and that will be determined by which title company you choose to use for the closing. The buyer's closing costs have to do with their mortgage company. So basically the sellers have the house closing costs and the buyers have the financing closing costs.
I would like to tell you up front that I do not like to list homes that are either over priced or under priced as I see this as a huge injustice to my clients. If I list over priced homes, sure it makes me look like I have a lot of listings and will pick up buyers from the sign and ads but the over priced homes don't sell. Knowing that I would in a sense just be using you and thats not right. If I under price it, sure it sells fast and I get paid quickly but you were not able to get the most out of your home and I just helped to lower the market value of all of your neighbor's homes which is not right either.
I have sold homes in the last year in as little as just 17 days, these were not foreclosures and the sellers were happy with the price they received for it. There are certain ways to get a house sold, price is huge but it is not the only way. You don't have to give your home away, it just has to be priced according to current fair market value. I can determine this with a FREE market analysis. And it also has to be marketed effectively.
What Questions Should I Ask a Realtor When Listing a Home?
Whether you need to, have to or just want to sell your home then you need it done right and done quickly. The Realtor that you choose has everything to do with if you sell, when you sell and for how much. I encourage you to interview a few different Realtors. Some of your questions should include the following list of questions to ask your Realtor to help you determine if the Realtor is the right one for you.
* How do you come up the asking price on a home?
* How are you going to market my home?
* How and how often will you update me on whats going on with my home?
* What do you think we should do to help prepare our home for a showing?
* What are your office hours?
* How many ways can someone contact you about my home.
* How soon will it be on the MLS?
* How soon will you have a sign up?
* What kind of information will you have available for the other Realtors that show or home?
* What kinds of things/information do you put on the MLS that you have found most effective in promoting and selling a home.
When I am out on a listing appointment the sellers always ask questions like what commission percentage do you charge, how long have you been a Realtor and have you sold anything lately. While these are good questions and I always give a straight forward, blunt answer, I think there are more important questions they should ask like the ones above. As far as commission, you get what you pay for (but its not that I charge a lot), a Realtor could have been in the business for 20 years but may not understand the new ways of marketing and if a Realtor has sold several listings lately maybe they just under priced everything to get a check in their pocket, its hard to say.
So when your ready to interview me as your Realtor you can give me call, text or email me anytime and we'll set up a time that is good for you.
A Recent Client's Experience
I had a listing in Berkley, the sellers and I were out shopping for their next home when I received a call from a Realtor that had put in an offer on their home a day before that we had countered. The Realtor was from West Bloomfield, we were driving through Royal Oak on our way to see a house in Clawson, he said he had a new offer for us. He faxed it to me and by the time we got to the house I had the offer printed and was able to hand it to the sellers. They liked the offer, full price minus a little for seller concessions, so they signed it. After I showed them the house and on our way to the next house I sent the accepted offer back to the Realtor in West Bloomfield. Knowing that their house was basically sold (after only three months) they wanted to go back to a home that they really liked and had seen the day before in Sterling Heights. We stopped in a parking lot some where in Macomb County, I logged on to the MLS, set up the showing and printed off the MLS sheet for them to read over as we drove there. They decided to put in an offer so I typed it up, they signed it and I emailed it to the listing agent who was a Clinton Township Realtor. While I was talking with the agent about the offer my buyers just put in, the West Bloomfield Realtor that had the buyers for my clients home, he faxed back the bottom lined purchase agreement (buyer's acknowledgment of seller's acceptance) so I jumped back on the MLS and changed the status of my listing to pending. When we got back to the seller's/buyer's home at the end of the day, I put up the pending sign that I had with me.
Now if you have ever bought and/or sold a home you realize how much time and days of waiting, wondering and worrying I saved my clients. For a non-Mobile Office Realtor this would have taken days, and many trips to and from their office to get all of this done. It took me only a few hours and we were shopping for a new house for them. Most of the time the speed of your Realtor is the difference between a great deal and no deal at all. Ask anyone that has ever used a Michigan Realtor before if they think they could have had a better deal or less stressful time if they would have used a fast Mobile Office Realtor.
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