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In today’s market, hiring the right agent to sell your house has never been more important. Hiring the wrong agent can delay the sale of your house for months. You need to interview an agent to learn about their background, to see what they know about your neighborhood, and to find out if they are a good fit with you and your lifestyle. Here are some important questions you should ask each agent you interview.  Categories - Hiring an Agent Tags - agent interview, find best agent, find best realtor, find realtor, interview questions, realtor interview 
When narrowing down the field of agents to interview, analyzing an agent’s track record helps to separate the agents that can sell a house from the agents that just interview well. These stats will help you weed out the bad agents from your list of prospective Realtors. Categories - Hiring an Agent Tags - agent track record, days on market, dom, find best agent, find best realtor, find realtor, list price, realtor track record, sales price, track record 
On August 22, 2011, AgentHarvest announced that it will create and maintain The AgentHarvest Top 3, a ranking of top-selling real estate agents and share that list with its clients for free. The first metro area will be the Dallas/Fort Worth Area. Other areas in Texas and the rest of the United States will follow. AgentHarvest is a free real estate agent finder service that helps buyers and sellers find top producing real estate agents by continuously tracking the activity of top producing real estate agents in DFW to find the best available real estate agents for our clients. Due to consumer demand, AgentHarvest decided to make this list available to the public as The AgentHarvest Top 3. 
Preparing to sell your home in the Dallas / Fort Worth area? Spring is the start of the selling season for real estate so this is a good time to start planning for it. Before you talk to an agent, here are some things you should consider doing to your house’s exterior to improve your houses’ curb appeal. 1. Seriously clean all the blinds, drapes, window sills, and glass. People are going to be peering into these windows so make sure they’re clean. Categories - Hiring an Agent, Selling Your House Tags - About AgentHarvest, buying season, curb appeal, house pictures, real estate market, selling season, staging 
Homeowners should demand a minimum level of service from their agent before they’re hired. Here are some of the performance level minimums that clients should force their agents to provide. Most homeowners are not aware of what duties a real estate agent performs so it’s really easy for lazy real estate agents to get away with sub-standard performance. That’s why it’s important to let the agent know what you expect before you hire them and let them know that you will terminate the contract if the agent doesn’t meet your minimum levels of service standards. Here are a few of the services you should demand from your agent. Categories - Hiring an Agent Tags - levels of service, listing agent, real estate agent, realtor, service agreement, sla 
The biggest mistake buyers and sellers make when hiring a Realtor is that they do not do their homework before hiring a real estate agent. They end up with a house that sits on the market longer, sells for a lower price, and the time spent dealing with that agent is a nightmare. AgentHarvest helps minimize the chance of these things happening by finding agents in your area that are currently selling houses like yours, in your neighborhood, for you to interview. We don’t make you sign contracts and you are not obligated to use any of the agents we connect you with. So basically AgentHarvest is a free service requiring no obligations on your part. Here’s what our customers have to say about our agent finder services. 
If you’ve been talking with Texas real estate agents, looking for someone to hire, every agent you interviewed should have given you a copy of the “Information of Brokerage Services” form and asked you to sign a copy for their records. By now, you’re probably thinking, “what is this form and why is every agent insistent on my signing it?” First of all, don’t worry, this form doesn’t obligate you to anything and, with the exception of open houses, every real estate agent licensed in Texas is required to present you with a copy of this form on your first meaningful contact with that agent. If an agent you’re interviewing doesn’t show you this form then don’t hire them. If they fail to follow this state mandated requirement, what other disclosures or representation agreements will they forget to show you? 
In the real estate education curriculum, there are probably more seminars that teach an agent how to give an interview presentation than there are classes on how to sell a house. Sadly, most homeowners fall for the highly polished, highly rehearsed presentation and hire the agent without really knowing if they can sell a house. If you follow these interview secrets, you can find out the true worth of your prospective agent. 
Did you know that all disciplinary actions filed by the state of Texas, against a real estate agent, are available to you through the Internet? If you want to find out which Texas agents the Texas Real Estate Commission filed disciplinary actions against you can go to http://www.trec.state.tx.us/complaintsconsumer/DiscipActions.asp. On that site, you can search by month, city or agent name to find what, if any violations have been filed that fall under your search criteria. I recommend that you search this list before hiring any agent, or your complaint could be the next one filed. Categories - Hiring an Agent Tags - ethics complaint, real estate agent, search, Texas Real Estate Commission, TREC 
Does the Realtor’s Code of Ethics and the Texas Real Estate Commission’s Canons of Professional Ethics and Conduct Conflict with a Realtor’s Fiduciary Duties to their Buyer Clients? This discussion focuses on an agent’s participation in a buyer client’s potentially discriminatory request, and how strictly observing the Code of Ethics and TREC Canons may conflict with an agent’s fiduciary duties to that buyer client. None of this discussion pertains to the selling client, which I consider to be a different situation entirely. 
A real estate agent that inflates a list price beyond reality just to get the listing is deceptive and may be harmful to the sale of your house. The deceptive practice of inflating the list price is effective because the client wants to hear that their house is worth a high price. Bad agents are more than eager to feed into this delusion. Good agents base their suggested list prices on real conditions so they will be lower than an inflated price. If you want to get the most for your house, and everybody does, you’d naturally pick the real estate agent with the inflated price. Now you’re falling victim to the Inflatable Agent’s trap. I see this sort of thing happening all the time. If all of the real estate agents were honest with their recommended pricing, the list prices should be very similar. Never use price as a factor for choosing an agent. Here’s why it will work against you. 
Not every real estate agent is worth having. How can you tell a good agent from a bad real estate agent? Here are the top 10 signs that you might have hired a bad real estate agent… Categories - Hiring an Agent Tags - agent selection process, bad agent, bad realtor, find best agent, find best realtor, find realtor, list price, sales price 
Most people will tell you that real estate agents are all the same so it really doesn’t matter which one you decide to hire. If you practice that philosophy, you are guaranteed to have a hard time selling or buying a house. Top producing real estate agents know the market and know how to position your house to sell in that market. They sell houses like chefs prepare exquisite cuisine in high-end restaurants. On the other end of the scale are real estate agents that overprice their listings, don’t market them correctly and don’t aggressively sell their listings, relying solely on fate to sell their listings. Bad agents are like cooks, shoveling greasy food in fast food restaurants. Do you want to hire a chef (top producing real estate agent) or a cook (bad real estate agent)? You should focus on hiring chefs. |
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