Recommend your "good" realtor (not your typical DC/NOVA realtor)

[Anonymous]

OP Agent here. I waited to put a house on the market until the completion of an elementary school across the street. During the year it took to finish the school, prices increased in the area enough to compensate for waiting an extra year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are exhausted dealing with the typical area realtor who lacks business acumen and quite frankly, is only in the business because it is easy money in this area. We are in a situation where we have a home that is perfectly staged, great shape, etc, (and we have heard this from several realtors and consumers) however......we are currently dealing with a short-term road expansion behind us. Ultimately, this road expansion is going to be great for neighborhood convenience and will ultimately increase the privacy of our home once all construction is completed. It will increase the value of our home significantly (i.e. within the next two years) and we are looking for a realtor who can market that rather than just suggesting we should lower our home to way below market value in order to sell it quickly (and they still come out with a hefty commission). We agree that our home price should be reduced a bit due to the inconvenience of the expansion, but we have realtors suggesting huge drops that take us way below comps. Has anyone been in a similar situation? We have had several realtors in our home as well as potential buyers. Everyone who has been in the home raves about it......gorgeous, perfectly staged, will sell really quickly......you name it, we have heard it. The only concern is the road construction behind our backyard.

Welcome any recommendations along with a brief description of the situation this person dealt with leading to your recommendation.

So why don't you get one of these raving realtors to market your house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not wait until the construction is over? Why do you think several professionals are wrong but you are right? Real estate is about location: your home may be beautiful but its location does not warrant the price you think it does.

You are missing the point (and let me guess, you are one of the "professionals"....nice try.). It is hard to find "professional" real estate agents in this area. We had two at the house yesterday, from highly reputable firms, that spent their time bragging about their ability to present and sell but both high quality brochures they provided as samples had layout errors, spelling errors, and just general poor marketing overall. Other realtors have come to our home with repeated errors throughout paperwork, inability to articulate a sound marketing strategy, etc. As I mentioned in my original post, we are quite aware of the appropriate price due to comps in our neighborhood.

You are entertaining.

[Anonymous]

I can highly recommend Chris Pritchard. I worked for her for a while and she's simply amazing in every sense of the word. She is different from other realtors in that she is more concerned about the client than she is the sale. I've seen this while working with her several times.

Give her a call and meet her,

http://www.chrispritchardhomes.com

[Anonymous]

They are all the same more or less. Just use uploft or Redfin to lower the commission. Any buyer is going to be aware of all relevant listings in a given area due to the proliferation of aps (like Redfins)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If it's a big road expansion that means there will be more traffic right behind you & more noise/pollution. Even once construction ends I'd view those as negatives compared to houses NOT directly backing to that type of road.

This. Despite the convenience, it's a (major) negative for most to back to a large road.

+1

[Anonymous]

OP, selling a home in the DMV right now isnt rocket science. It is a sellers market. If you are not getting offers, the price is too high. You cannot sell possibilities and future noise solutions. You ARE selling as is essentially. As is today. So if you want more, I would wait until construction is complete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are exhausted dealing with the typical area realtor who lacks business acumen and quite frankly, is only in the business because it is easy money in this area. We are in a situation where we have a home that is perfectly staged, great shape, etc, (and we have heard this from several realtors and consumers) however......we are currently dealing with a short-term road expansion behind us. Ultimately, this road expansion is going to be great for neighborhood convenience and will ultimately increase the privacy of our home once all construction is completed. It will increase the value of our home significantly (i.e. within the next two years) and we are looking for a realtor who can market that rather than just suggesting we should lower our home to way below market value in order to sell it quickly (and they still come out with a hefty commission). We agree that our home price should be reduced a bit due to the inconvenience of the expansion, but we have realtors suggesting huge drops that take us way below comps. Has anyone been in a similar situation? We have had several realtors in our home as well as potential buyers. Everyone who has been in the home raves about it......gorgeous, perfectly staged, will sell really quickly......you name it, we have heard it. The only concern is the road construction behind our backyard.

Welcome any recommendations along with a brief description of the situation this person dealt with leading to your recommendation.

It will increase the privacy of your home when road expansion is complete? How would that happen?

Is this the expansion of I-66, and they are putting up high concrete walls that will shield your house from the highway noise?

If that's what it is, or something similar, then if I were you I would wait until the work is done. If you think it will improve things then you're better off showing potential buyers rather than telling.

As for the professionalism of real estate agents, there are good ones and bad ones, but it's not a profession like medicine, law. It's commission sales.