Tag: MLS

How To Find A Reputable Tucson Realtor

Are you about to place your home on the market and are looking for a Tucson realtor to help you successfully complete your sale? Navigating the real estate market on your own can be tricky however if you take the time to find an experienced Tucson realtor the process of selling your home doesn’t have to be stressful at all.

So, how can you be sure that the Tucson realtor you’re working with is a good fit for you? One of the very first things you can do is ask friends, family members and co-workers if they know or can recommend any Tucson realtors. From there you can head to the internet to learn more about them. There are so many different websites these days that provide reviews and credentials as well as other pertinent information that you can do a lot of the background research on a Tucson realtor yourself before even contacting them.

Once you’ve found a few potential Tucson realtors to work with there are several different questions you should ask them to ensure that they can get the job done while meeting your needs as a homeowner and seller. Ask them about the different avenues they use to market your home. All Tucson realtors have access to the MLS, but is your Tucson realtor going to go the extra step and market your home elsewhere as well? Also ask how long they’ve done real estate in the local area and what neighborhoods they are most familiar with when selling a home. Lastly, it also doesn’t hurt to ask for references from previous sellers that they have worked with as well. While you can get reviews and recommendations about Tucson realtors online, hearing them firsthand from previous clients can also help because they can give you more detail about that particular Tucson realtor.

When you need to sell your home, don’t waste your time working with a Tucson realtor that isn’t experienced. Do your homework first by searching for a Tucson realtor that knows the market like the back of their hand.

Experience Is Critical When Hiring A Short Sale Agent

Today I would like to talk to you about how you should hire someone to handle your short sale. I want to tell you right now that experience is the key thing. If you happen to be outside of Tucson watching this video, we unfortunately aren’t licensed to help you, we know someone who has done a tremendous number of short sales at a very high level. As far as Tucson real estate agents with short sale experience goes, that’s us. What I want to focus on with you is that experience in getting short sales completed is key. One of the things that is unfortunate is that the vast majority of real estate agents out there will overstate their experience when you ask them about a specific niche within the real estate market. It’s an interesting thing because we’ve been involved in roughly 400 short sale transactions and we’ll still routinely have an agent on the other end of the transaction that claims to have a lot of short sale experience. What I generally do after that is look in the MLS and often find that their short sale experience is in the single digits. The difference between an agent that has only completed a handful of short sales when compared to an agent that has completed hundreds is enormous. The amount of experience, the contacts they have at different banks and the knowledge of the different programs in invaluable. When you’re hiring an agent that claims to have completed a lot of short sales, ask them to quantify it and prove it by pulling it from the MLS. I’m more than happy to show you how many we have completed.

It is more than crucial that when you’re looking for an agent to help you with this specific niche in the market that they have experience with these transactions and that they embrace these transactions. Short sales aren’t easy, but there some agents, like myself, that enjoy doing them.