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Finding out why your home has not sold yet after being on the market is a valuable step in making effective decisions that will lead to the sale you had intended. Remember, some homes have sold while yours has not. What’s the difference? What can you do as a homeowner to get yours sold? As a re-list specialist, I offer my customers a free professional analysis of their prior listing to find out why. There is no obligation for me to meet with you to review the efforts to sell your home and to make recommendations. I can only provide this free consultation, however, to homeowners that are not currently under a written and active listing contract with another agent. Sorry, it’s a matter of professional courtesy and ethics. I do have a free checklist tool that you can use as a self-review if you now have a current listing. Please call me when your listing has expired. It happens often. I would be happy to discuss your options to getting your home sold. Determining why your home has not sold is like getting a second Doctor’s opinion. A professional opinion based not only on my Real Estate knowledge, but my experience in business consulting. Trouble shooting a poor performing listing starts with an analysis of the present, or getting a picture of “what is”. We start by taking a frank look at the big three reasons a home does not sell: Presenting the Home as a Product, Marketing Effectiveness, and Presenting the Price, all from a potential buyer’s perspective. Looking at successful listings then provides a picture of “what could be”. Why and how some homes sell quickly. What is left is a gap that offers you the homeowner with some decisions of what you can do to insure your home sells. If this sounds like it may help you, please call me. I will take the time for you. I don’t mind at all. It’s what I do.
Bob Ashauer Your Personal Realtor 618 581 1695 email dcbob@charter.net | |
And by the way, if you are reading this because your home has not sold, I know you may be frustrated. I’m sorry, and I hope I can help . Here is a little consulting story that may make you smile:
A consultant’s True Story
I have a friend George, who came to this country in knee pants as a little boy. His family had fled Eastern Europe during WWII. As George tells about it, you can picture a very long dusty road, packed with families fleeing the approaching battle, with the sounds of cannon in the near background. They carried as many belongings as possible, on their backs, on horses, in any way. George’s family was relatively well off, as they had a wagon, pulled by two horses, fully loaded with theirs and their neighbors’ stuff. One horse was a little grey one, and the other was a big black one. The black horse was a “slacker”. If you know horses, a slacker is one that pulls just hard enough to take the slack out of the harness so as to appear to be pulling hard. Slackers work really hard at the appearance of working hard. Sure enough, in the middle of the first day, the little grey horse fell to the ground in exhaustion. This caused a welcome disruption in the procession, as the neighbors gathered around the poor horse, all shaking their heads and expressing concern. George’s father, being a horseman, knew his responsibilities as he went to the back of the family wagon, fetching an old pistol. He came forward, through the crowd of neighbors, took careful aim, and shot the big black horse dead!
“What have you done, silly man?” they exclaimed!
“I shot the black horse for not pulling his share of the weight, of course. The little grey will be fine after she rests a little,” he replied.
The moral of the story is that if you are fixing a problem, make sure you shoot the right horse……….