Many have asked for and gotten the complimentary copy of my CD "A Realtor's Secret Weapons." This is the list of 50 Questions we discuss during one segment of the program. Meanwhile, your free copy of the CD is waiting for you. All you have to do is email, write or call and we'll pop one in the mail to you right away. -- Bill Cherry, Realtor.
Financial Planner Doc Gallagher, Engineer Steve Simmons, Realtor Bill Cherry
Broadcasting a KAAM-AM "Money Doctor Show"
Saturdays, 10-11 AM
THE 50-QUESTION POP QUIZ YOU'LL WANT TO GIVE ME - AND ANY OTHER REAL ESTATE AGENT - BEFORE YOU PICK WHO WILL REPRESENT YOU
By Bill Cherry
214 503-8563
Company Image and Statistics
1. How many years has your company been in business? How about you?
2. How many listings does your company have?
3. Where does your company rank in the Annual Amount of Closed Sales in the entire Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex?
4. How many families used your company's services last year?
5. Where does your company rate in the National Relocation Top 350 Power Brokers Annual Report?
6. Does your company have a relocation division? How much business is generated through that source? (Many people are "assigned" a real estate broker by their employer when they are moving them from one town to another)
7. Who are some of the companies and corporations your relocation division works with in relocating buyers?
8. Is your company a member of a world-wide and successful real estate network?
9. Which referral networks, relocation companies, pre-marketing and third party companies is your company affiliated with?
10. Does your company have a Web site that advertises the entire MLS inventory?
11. What is your company's current market share in my neighborhood?
12. What is your company's past market share in my neighborhood?
13. What is the "Law of Agency" and how does it affect me by using your company?
14. Does your company offer a comprehensive Seller's Disclosure Notice to help me reduce my liability as a seller?
15. Does your company have a real estate attorney specialist on staff or retainer who is available for legal guidance when needed?
16. Does your company have an in-house mortgage lending service and of what value would it be to me as a seller?
Agent's Competence
1. Are you a full-time Realtor?
2. What kind of real estate training have you had?
3. What is the difference between a Realtor and a licensed Real Estate agent?
4. Do you recommend pre-sale home inspections?
5. Do you recommend that I take out a Seller Residential Service Contract while my house is on the market for sale?
6. How would you guide me if a potential buyer has a home to put on the market and that he must sell before he can close on the purchase of my house?
7. What are today's insurance concerns and how can they affect me?
8. How do would you arrive at the listing price you suggest for my home?
9. Will you provide me with a written and current Competitive Market Analysis?
10. Will you be honest with me in what you feel the market will truly bear, or will you list my home at any price I ask you to try?
11. Will you share with me your educated opinion of the condition of my home?
12. Will you give me tips for better staging and showing my home to prospective buyers?
13. Tell me about your negotiating skills?
14. What is your personal list price to sales ratio? Your company's?
15. Will you pre-qualify prospects before showing them my home?
16. What will you do to assure my home will appraise for the contract price for the buyer's lender?
17. What will my closing costs be?
18. Will you provide me with an itemized statement of my approximate closing costs PRIOR to my signing the contract?
19. What services will you provide me once a contract has been negotiated?
20. Will you attend the closing at the title company with me?
21. Once I list my home with you, how often will you communicate with me?
The Marketing of My Home
1. Who will be putting the information and pictures of my home on the multiple listing service, and when?
2. What will you offer as a Buyer's Agent Commission?
3. Will you be furnishing property picture brochures and mail-outs in the marketing of my home, and how and where will they be distributed?
4. What feature of my home will you emphasize in the marketing?
5. Do you have the ability to photo gallery (at least 10 pictures) my home on-line?
6. Do you have a "precise and customized" marketing plan for my home?
7. Will you be doing a virtual tour of my home?
8. What special marketing programs does your company have to offer in helping to get showings on my home?
9. How often and where will you advertise my home in the media?
10. Who will write the ads, and who pays for the advertising?
11. Do you use "target marketing?"
12. If your company has a Web site, what tools are available on your site to market my home?
13. How many "hits" does your Web site get a month?
Copyright 2008 - William S. Cherry
You certainly have a great list there-- How are things going in your area?
Bill, I copied and saved your list (along with the copyright) so that I can personalize it for my own use. Thanks.
Bill Roberts
Gary and Miss Nancy, your CD will be in the mail in the morning.
Bill and Scott and Anybody Else who wants to use my 50 Questions list. You're welcome to use it. Please show my copyright if you do, and please don't edit or add anything above the copyright notation.
It is a fabulous listing tool, I'll promise you. You'll get the listing if you deliver this list in person.
Bill
Miss Debra, here's what I've noticed in Dallas proper. 1) There aren't as many expired listings as there normally are. 2) In the main, houses are selling for within reason of their listed price. 3) Regular, dependable neighborhoods are acting regular and dependable. 4) While those "Homes on the Prairie" neighborhoods are not doing well at all at any price. But then they should have never been built in the first place.
Bill
Thank you Thank you Bill....this will be a great tool!
Now ...about the picture! That picture of you is wonderful, and something tells me that's the real Bill Cherry! You should crop it out and use it in your advertising and profile!
OK, Miss Joanie
I took your advice. Patty told me she thought you were right.
Thanks for your comments and for the advice. How are things way up there, anyway?
Bill
Bill...You do have a great smile!
Things up here...well I'm entering the Spring Is contest but will not be talking about flowers and budding trees! Up here is dirty snow and still snowing! Cold and potholes...Buyers are hiding in their houses cause it's so dreary...other than that, great!!