The Complete Guide to Interviewing Real Estate Agents

Here is a list of questions I encourage you to ask each agent who is interviewed to sell you home. It helps you determine quickly if they have other motives in mind other than selling your home for top dollar.

1. Do you work as a full-time Realtor?

2. Do you have a full-time assistant?

3. What area and in what aspect of the market do you specialize?

4. Do you have a written marketing plan specifically designed to sell my house?

5. Do you have a web site showing a virtual tour of my home along with a sign rider to announce it?

6. How do you market properties directly to buyers?

7. How many properties have you sold in the last three (3} months?

8. Will you produce a flyer of my home with pictures displaying the inside and outside of my home?

9. Do you have a written business plan?

10. How often will I hear from you after my home is listed with you? May I cancel the listing if I don't?

11. How will you let me know what you are doing to market my property?

12. How do you find potential buyers?

13. What other marketing techniques will you use to get my property sold?

14. In what ways do you encourage other Realtors to sell my property? How do you network?

15. What can I do to help sell my property?

16. How confident are you that you can sell my home? Why?

17. How many listings do you have? What percentage of them sell?

18. What is the market trend now?

19. Based upon what you know about my situation, should I sell?

20. If I give you the listing, what are the first seven (7) things you will do to sell my property in the first week?

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