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Selling Your Home in the Virtual Market: Top Ten Reason I’m Not An e-Pro

Coldwell+Banker+Davis+CA+Real+Estate+Agent+Carmen+IsaisI’m not an e-Pro.

For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, an e-Pro is a real estate designation given after taking an approved course from NAR, the National Association of Real Estate. After paying some amount of money for said designation, and after looking over the course work, I quickly saw I had been had– and so was the public, if they cared much about this particular designation. In short, if I took and learned anything at all from the e-Pro course it would mean I wasn’t nearly qualified to market your property on the Internet. If you are interested as to why this is, read Real Estate Tomato’s, “e-Pro is a Tinfoil Badge”.

And if you want to see what I’m doing instead of studying to be an e-Pro, take a look at my list….

Top Ten Things I Do As a Realtor Instead of Studying for the e-Pro Designation

  1. Posting via postletts and quickblog, New Listings every week  to Posterous, Craiglist, Sac News and Review and more.
  2. Updating my Hyper Local Real Estate Blogs to showcase new listings and find my sellers buyers who, might be other’s agent’s clients, but visit my site regularly for updated information.
  3. Exposing your home, should you sell with me, to Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, Facebook Marketplace and Craiglist audience– because these online venues are visited more often by home buyers than traditional print advertising.
  4. Texting, facebooking, emailing, and twittering my clients to keep them abreast of any market changes in the quickest, cleanest communication method they are comfortable with and…
  5. Oh yes, I actually still phone clients and even better, meet with them face-to-face. :)
  6. Creating out-of-the-box virtual presentations of your home and embed them on mutiple sites from Vimeo to You Tube, From Blog posts to Facebook– NOT just MLS.
  7. Networking online with literally hundreds of agents from San Francisco to Pollock Pines, From Sacramento to Los Angeles to expose your home to the largest market possible– NOT just Davis.
  8. Holding your home open,  personally, because despite it all, there is no replacement for the face-to-face. And along those lines…
  9. Networking offline with Realtors, Mortgage Brokers, CPA’s and other professionals making “keeping the deal together” much easier should things get rough– and they do.  An agent with good social skills and the ability to negotiate calmly is harder to find than you might imagine.
  10. Keeping it real. Today’s market is a tough one. Seller’s might not want to hear that their property cannot sell at “X” price, and I know you can find an agent who will tell you exactly what you want to hear. But, I promise you, unless your agent is being straightforward and genuine– which includes sometimes delivering news you don’t want to hear– your home will be sitting on the market, unsold and most likely not even shown for months to come. So, I like to keep it real, using trends and data that I keep up with daily and are concrete.

In short, I’m busy using my advanced internet skill sets selling your home or finding you one to buy. If you’d like to reap the benefits of my work ethic, everyday stamina and dynamic tech-skills call me (530.601.1003), skype me (carmen.isais), twitter me, facebook me or otherwise contact me. I’m always connected.

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Selling Your Home in A Buyer’s Market – The Price is Right

Selling Your Davis HomeWhat is the difference between listing your home and selling in your home? What makes one home sell?  What keeps another home a lingering on the market?  The answer is usually price.

Determining a home’s were value requires some homework. Not only do we need to look at comparable sales in the neighborhood, we should also take into account other criteria that may effect the price. For instance proximity to freeways or busy streets, schools, bus lines, and shopping all influence the price of homes in the same neighborhood.  In the current Davis Real Estate Market, even a slightly better home on the same street as another home for sale might not sell as quickly or at all priced incorrectly.

Popular real estate wisdom says that the first three weeks of a listing are most important.   Around 30 days interest begins to fall. This is why it is important your real estate agent do their homework. Pricing a home well from the beginning is better than having to reduce the price later in the listing. Not only can you save yourself the frustration of having your home sit on the market month after month, in the long run my experience shows that homes priced accordingly actually sell for more than homes that were overpriced to begin with and were later reduced.

If you’re thinking of selling your Davis home, enlisting the help of Focus Realty Group will provide you with two Realtor opinions for the price of one. That being said, please know that all consultations are free, of course.  A meeting with me will provide you with a comparative market analysis, also known as a CMA. This will give you, the homeowner, with detailed information about the local real estate market. At this time we can also outline marketing strategies for your specific home and recommend a selling price.

Those first meetings and CMA preparation are all about information… certainly more information is a good thing.

With mortgage interest rates at a historical low, it is a good time to buy a house. What I see at Open Homes every weekend, are buyers… buyers that are active, prepared, and ready.

If the price is right, one of those buyers could be your.  But, to make that happen, you have to call me first.  Simply put,  I can help.  And I can get things done.

Carmen Isais
530.601.1003
carmen@focusondavis.com

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