Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Not So Open Houses
We took friends who are here to check out TV on a Open House Tour today. We started with a pre-owned courtyard villa in Amelia. We arrived 15 minutes before the end of the open house to NO AGENT. We then moved on to the advertised open houses of new homes in Sanibel. We stopped at 3 new homes for the 1-3pm showings. NO AGENT. Are you kidding me? So I called the Sales office and asked what was up? They had no idea, but the agents were no shows at 4 homes.
We finally found a home for them to look at in Winifred, but that point, they were bored with all the driving and the hassle. Nice going TV Sales Agents. Why bother advertising homes when there is no one there to show them? I can understand if they have been sold, but these were the models. The wheels came off the bus today in the sales department. |
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us too
We had that happen to us while we were there with a new home in Sanibel only to find out that they did not open it because it had sold.
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sounds like a bad hair kind of day.. and frustating...
fortunately, The Villages is better than the sales process, don't give up |
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I can understand one of them being sold, but 4 out of the 5 houses had no sales agent.
Honestly, I could care less, personally, but our friends were only here for a two day whirlwind. I didn't leave a positive impression on them.. We were stunned.. dumbfounded. We told them that this alone is a good reason to use an MLS agent for any purchase of a pre-owned home in the future... |
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We found even if they were sold (big letters in the window) the house was still being shown. Hope their manager gets the message that no one was there.
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We went to one open house of an MLS listing by realtor Paul Carraway. He was there and had the house open, even though he had gotten a contract on it that morning. He said feel free to look around but it sold this morning: Since it was advertised I went ahead and opened it. Now THAT is a class act IMHO. If I wasn't already working with an MLS agent, I would have immediately retained Paul.
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All I have to say is that it works for them. I have never run into that many in ONE day of cancelled homes that were advertised. I bet you did feel frustrated. Sorry. I didn't read carefully.
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their are many MLS agents who would help then with resales. Check out HomeHeader.png for resales in the villages. I have my friends use that.
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Boy howdy, the market must really be picking up! Every real estate agent knows that you don't necessarily have an "open house" to sell that particular home but to get prospects (buyers) to sell ANY home to!
However, I've heard that TVs agents are not commissioned and, if so, guess they just wanted the day off today never thinking they'd be "found out"! The cats out of the bag now! Sorry your friends had to experience this "bad business" tactic! |
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Gracie, I see where you said this is the start of the big selling season. I thought that the busiest selling time would have been Jan, Feb, March, and would be slowing down about now?
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Attendance at open houses is already declining (according to an agent who has a house on our street for sale).
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