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Common Agent Tricks and Lies.
TRICK 1:
1. It's hard to resist the promise of a huge price, so Agents will inflate their price estimate to help ensure they win your Listing. Always ask for evidence to support an estimate, and analyze it. (We can help with the analysis, and we'll do it for free.)
TRICK 2:
2. Agents will ask and extract your opinion of what your property is worth before providing their own opinion. Giving a disappointing estimate to a Seller lowers the chance they'll get your business, so Agents will adjust their presentation and strategy based on your estimate, even if it's not the best strategy to maximize sale price.
TRICK 3:
3. Agents will boast about selling listings quickly, and suggest to you that speed of sale as an indicator of skill...it’s easy to sell quickly if you’re selling for less than market value.
TRICK 4:
4. Agents want you to spend as much money as possible on marketing fees, because advertisements for your home will include the Agent's name, phone number, brand and logo. Good marketing is important, but Agents will recommend your money is used in ways that attract new customers for themselves, rather than attracting genuine buyers.
TRICK 5:
5. Sellers very rarely leave reviews unless their Agent asks them to, and of course the Sellers who aren’t impressed don’t get asked to leave a review. Plus, some review sites don't allow feedback if the Agent fails to sell a property. It’s very easy to manipulate these systems, so don’t be fooled by a wall of 5 stars.
For MORE of the common Agent tricks and lies, book a call with the team at Listing iQ. Our Seller advice is free, there's zero obligation on you to work with us, and whether you choose to use our services or not, you'll get more for more your property as a result of speaking with us.
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With billions of dollars worth of technology-assisted property sales behind us, Listing iQ ensures the very best technology is explained to sellers, in simple language, enabling informed decisions to be made, so that the best outcome from the sale of your property is achieved.
With years of experience developing and providing technology and training to the real estate industry, we were too often left frustrated by Agents and Agencies failure to embrace powerful advantages. Sometimes it was incompetence, but most often, they were operating a lucrative business, and happy with the way things were.
Given the Selling Fees involved in the sale of a typical family home, we believe Agents and Agencies have an obligation to adapt to the best tools available to maximise Seller outcomes...this obligation is not being properly honored, and a lot of money is being left on the table. We eventually decided Sellers need guidance from an industry expert who isn’t a practicing Agent, and Listing iQ was born.
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