Just a showing
You see a house you like. You call your agent. They make an appointment. You go and look at it. It's pretty simple, right?
Why are you paying them so much?
Making appointments for showings is one step out of many to get them into a house. To start, it's really uncommon to just see one. So maybe you're seeing 4, 5,6, 7?
As your realtor I'm; making a list, checking every single listing to see if it’s still going to be available when we want to see it. Does the house have a deadline for offer submissions? Is it missing any of the criteria that we said were deal breakers? Anything I know for sure this client's going to ask about while we're there. Does it meet the criteria? Then it stays on the list. Take that list, create a route that makes sense. Make the requests to show.
Maybe some decline.
Re-Route. Re-request. Get our final list. Share the list with the client, meet the client at the first property, start showings. Answer questions. Reach out to agents if we don't have answers to questions. Wait for those responses.
Done with showing? Back to the office. Make notes. What information did I get during these showings about how my clients feel about properties? To help me better help them. Fill out requests for feedback. Every agent attached to every property that I show sends me an email asking for feedback. What I thought of the price, how my clients felt, if they had any interest. If I don't fill those out, the agent will call. Then we have a conversation about that information. If I miss that call, it's expected that I call them back to give them feedback.
Say I have six buyers and I take them to five houses a week. The amount of time I spend when not with clients dealing with these showings that we've done adds up. And we haven't even gotten to the point where we write an offer yet. That's a whole (new process).
