Buyer’s Agent Breaks out the Whip!

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It is not often as Real Estate Agents that we are afforded the opportunity to watch our peers work. Strange as it may seem there are as many ways to conduct business as there are practitioners.

Even somewhat stranger, most of us have received similar training in fact many of us have received the training from the same source. Yet we all seem to develop our own styles.

This last week was an extremely busy week for me. I had a couple of closings and have been busy working with a couple of new Buyer’s moving to Downtown Portland.

But this is not about my busy schedule as a Buyer’s Agent or as a Seller’s Agent. It is about Real Estate Agent’s and their different styles while working with Buyer’s.

It was during this busy showing schedule last week that I and my Client’s witnessed another agent working with her Buyer’s. In fact we bumped into them on more than one occasion. Obviously we were working the same price range and the same area in downtown Portland.

What was strikingly different to my clients and I was our different approach as to how we worked. The other Agent chose to shuffle her people through the home quickly without giving any time for take in the room or for any questions. All the while constantly chattering about her life, past buyer’s experiences and features of the home that she loved but did not seem concerned if they seen them or not.

Now I am kind of OLD SCHOOL when it comes to showing residential real estate. I prefer to let my client’s discover the home on their own as we walk through it together, carefully making sure that they do not miss any features that were on their hot list. I am always quite prepared to answer any questions that come up, as I have previewed most of the homes prior to showing.

It was obvious to all of us that this agent had not previewed any of the homes. It was also obvious that the Buyer’s, specifically the husband was beginning to grow tired of her Sheep Herding style of showing property as well as her stories of past conquests. In fact during a brief absence while the agent was trying to get the garage door open. We heard the two buyer’s having a quick discussion. The husband wanted to call off the showings while his wife was trying to convince him to hang on as they may see something they liked. After all she remarked, they could always call someone else to write an offer. They quickly agreed sharing a quick smile between themselves just as the Sheep Herder reappeared continuing with her constant diatribe.

We did not run into the couple again but they were the subject of many a conversation there after as we speculated about what might transpire with their search for a home compared with our search.

What about you? Do you drive your herd to Market with a Whip? Or do you allow them to Graze.

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March 17, 2009 by ·