The Gathering Begins...

(9th in a series on listing excellence)

We've agreed (the seller and the agent) that we would like to work together to market the home.  Now, we have to set the price.

As the agent, I want to get as much general information as I can about pricing and then begin to "drill down" with more specific data.  Here's all the general info that I like to collect:

• tax information for the specific home
• multiple listing service info for the specific home (any past sales and/or listing data)
• an idea from the seller of what they are thinking (most all sellers have an idea of what their home is worth based on similar sales in the neighborhood, new tax appraisal, etc)
• improvements the seller has made since purchase

Once again, this is all general information that I want to collect.  None of this will give us the actual price, but it will help us begin to get on the same page.  For the specific information, I'll do a separate post for each item...

Comments

[Pat Callahan]

Hey Bud...

Stumbled on your blog and thought I'd take the chance to say hi.

-Pat