How to Select a Real Estate Professional When Selling Your Las Vegas Home
Finding a qualified real estate agent to assist you with the sale of your Las Vegas home should be your first order of business when selling your home.
You may want to ask friends, family or neighbors for referrals, or take note of the lawn signs and ads in your neighborhood. Interview several real estate agents and come to the table with a list of questions, such as:
How many homes have you sold in the past year?
Find out what type of properties the agent has sold, as well as the location of those properties. This should give you a good idea regarding his or her experience and knowledge of the local market conditions.
What is your commission and is it negotiable?
Real estate commissions are not fixed, either by law or by local real estate associations. Your agent may charge a percentage of the final sale price of the property, a flat fee or an hourly fee.
How will you market my home?
Ask the Las Vegas agent how he or she plans to get the word out about your home. This may include using the MLS, newspaper ads, open houses or other promotions.
Can you provide a list of references?
Get the names and phone numbers of clients whose homes the agent has recently sold. Ask them if they were satisfied with their agent and how well the agent communicated with them.
Get it in Writing
Once you have made your decision and chosen an agent, he or she will ask you to sign a listing contract or agreement. Make sure to carefully read this agreement and ask questions about anything you don’t understand. Also make sure that everything you discussed is clearly outlined in the contract.
Review the termination clause, the agent’s commission rate, the terms of the sale and the asking price before signing the contract.
Author Bio:
Richard is a Dallas real estate broker, with offices that specialize in the Fort Worth real estate & San Antonio real estate markets.
Tags: home sellers
September 17th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
An agent in my company recently published this exact same criteria in a local magazine and I took exception with what she wrote just as I take exception to what you have written. Not that it’s inaccurate or even incorrect but what it does not do is emphasise which items are the most important. I just drove through my neighborhood and found eight homes for sale by eight different agents, and there is very little chance that sellers will remotely consider interviewing eight different agents. What I found missing on all the signs was a personal website mentioned and what I would be sure to tell a seller that I was trying win over is that when they see a For Sign in someones yard and that sign does not show the agents personal website he can be pretty sure that that agent does not have all the tools to market his property adequately. I would then tell that seller that I may be a new agent or I have not had many sells this year for what ever reason, my guarantee to that seller is that most of my efforts and marketing budget is geared to getting him/her maximum exposure for their property not only for a potential local buyer but for anyone having access to the internet. Todays buyers have become to kowledgeable to to be searching for homes anywhere else but on the net.