Thinking about selling your home or your investment property is a big decision. You have worked hard to own it, it has been a big part of your life, and you have invested a lot of money and energy into maintaining or improving it.
You deserve to get the maximum amount for it when it comes time to sell, but despite what many people think, most people don’t sell properties very often and don’t fully understand how things really work behind the scenes.
Real estate agents know this, and unfortunately, there are many agents more than happy to exploit that lack of knowledge for their own personal gain.
Time and again we see owners losing many thousands of dollars (sometimes tens of thousands) at sale time, as agents take advantage of unsuspecting sellers.
It is frustrating to attend Sunshine Coast regional meetings of sales agents and listen to agents boasting about how they squeezed every last cent out of a seller, and ‘high fiving’ one another as though this is something to be proud of.
There are lots of them around. They can appear slick and professional, show you their glossy pamphlets, boast about their latest sales, smile and have an answer for everything – but are they actually doing you a good deal or ripping you off? The reality is, most people have no idea!
Many thousands of dollars are lost over and over again because sellers believed sales agents who can quickly assess that the seller is vulnerable and just as quickly take advantage of them. Often the sellers have engaged the agent in the first place because a friend recommended them, or the agent sold a similar property in the complex or down the street, or the agent sent them a glossy flyer, or somebody rang them or something similar.
That is pretty crazy – but it happens all the time. Owners are selling one of the most expensive assets they own, often to retire, and they simply do not do their due diligence. They just believe the smiling guy (or girl) in the suit.
Typically, when the sale has gone through and the dust settles, most people have no idea they just lost thousands of dollars by over-paying commissions, or paid thousands for premium marketing campaigns other agents offer for free, or paid for extra services such as ‘staging’ that were unnecessary, or lost money by cancelling holiday bookings or removing tenants from their properties because the agent told them ‘it will make the property easier to sell’ without ever suspecting that an investor will actually pay more for a tenanted property!
But don’t you worry, the same agent will congratulate you on the sale, buy you a $100 gift from the thousands you overpaid them, then ask you for a 5 star review and hopefully a referral to a friend. Then your property will become the latest addition to their ‘Recently Sold’ glossy flyer.
Local Agent understands selling property can be confusing and stressful, and there are lots of sharks in the real estate industry.
There are always different deals being offered by different sales agents and it’s confusing. Different commissions, different marketing packages, different selling approaches, list now-pay later options, pay nothing until you settle … and the list goes on! No wonder sellers get bamboozled. Slick talking agents will soon have you signed up to sales contracts that can cost you tens of thousands at settlement time unless you know what you’re doing.
So, how do we help! Well, it’s pretty easy, and it eliminates all the risk!
There are two options:-
Option One:
Ask a number of agents to present their full costs to you, including their commissions, marketing costs and anything else they expect you to pay. Bring us the other agents’ offers, and we’ll help you understand what their offers really mean. We’ll tell you what you are actually getting for your money. We’ll explain what is good and what is bad about their offers – and once you fully understand it, we’ll beat them. Every time!
Option Two:
Come to us and we’ll explain what is standard practice in the industry, and what the typical costs are that other sales agent’s are charging. We’ll then show you how we offer everything they offer (or better), and detail how we’ll save you thousands by listing with us, while still ensuring you maintain every chance to achieve the best possible price for your property.
It is that simple! With more than a BILLION DOLLARS in past sales, we obviously know what we’re doing.
Don’t be confused or unsure. Don’t suffer ‘sellers regret’ down the track when you realise you paid too much and you were taken advantage of.
Bring any other agent’s offer to us, we’ll crunch the numbers and explain it in terms you understand, and then we’ll beat it.
That’s our Local Agent … BEST DEAL GUARANTEE!!