These are the most asked questions when we talk to home sellers about how to get their home sold and sold for the most money.
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What Questions Should I Ask A Real Estate Agent Before Hiring Them?
Selling a home is complicated, with countless behind-the-scenes intricacies influencing everything from pricing to marketing to negotiations. Choosing the best real estate agent to spearhead your sale can make or break the outcome. Forming smart questions to ask a real estate agent during the vetting process identifies the most savvy, dedicated realtor for your needs.
How to Find and Hire the Right Real Estate Agent – Key Questions to Ask a Realtor
Let’s explore the crucial areas sellers should investigate when interviewing agents and the types of responses that demonstrate proficiency. Understanding precisely what to ask helps steer clear of lackluster agents and instead form rewarding, lucrative partnerships. Keep in mind that referrals from friends are great but every situation is different. Buying or selling a house is a major life decision. Use these key questions to ask a realestate agent how they can best help you with your unique situation and goals.
Getting to Know the Local Landscape
The intricacies of real estate markets vary enormously across regions, so it’s vital to ascertain an agent’s mastery of your specific area. Pose questions like:
How long have you worked in this city/neighborhood?
What marketing strategies resonate most with buyers around here?
Do you have an existing base of buyers interested in properties like mine? If so, how will you leverage those connections?
Seasoned, entrenched agents will readily showcase their familiarity with the local landscape and how that translates into sales. Novices, on the other hand, will fumble to demonstrate poor knowledge of the territory.
Reviewing Recent Sales Track Records
While most agents list numerous homes annually, significantly fewer sell more than a couple. Study sales volumes over the past 12 months using metrics like:
Number of homes sold
Average days on market
List price to sales price ratios
High volumes, quick sales and list-to-sales ratios nearer 100% typify productive agents adept at pricing, marketing and negotiating.
Price It Right…Or Else
Over-eager agents may tantalize you with pie-in-the-sky sales prices, but statistics show overpricing often backfires, leading to:
– Longer market times
– Price reductions
– Lower final sales values
Ask pointedly about an agent’s pricing philosophies and process. Do they rely on comparative market analyses or algorithmic models? Can they illustrate past pricing approaches and the resultant outcomes? Beware excess optimism without evidence.
Navigating Shifts in Market Conditions
Seasoned agents excel at balancing pricing against supply/demand during market shifts like:
Spiking interest rates
Reduced buyer capacity
Inventory floods
Probe agents’ strategies in down markets, including adjusting prices, leveraging promotions, and tapping into niche demographics. Real pros demonstrate agility rather than rigidity.
Contingencies Create Complications
Many buyers proffer contingent offers, pending the sale of their existing home to finance the purchase. While expedient, contingent sales tend to deter other buyers and slow sales momentum. Discuss how agents mitigate risks of contingent offers while still moving forward efficiently with backup alternatives.
Cost vs. Value Proposition
Discount brokers promising reduced commissions often shortchange sellers in other ways, resulting in less net profit despite smaller fees. Carefully evaluate what’s included and excluded alongside percentages. Often, full-service brokers ultimately maximize sale prices through masterful marketing and negotiations, overcoming marginally higher commissions.
Characteristics of High Caliber Agents
Looking beyond personality chemistry, the most skilled agents demonstrate extensive training, team support structures, and performance accountability. Seek out indicators like:
Advanced designations and niche specialties
Written pricing and marketing guarantees
Access to administrative assistants and service professionals
These markers boost confidence in forming a winning partnership geared for sales success.
Questions to Ask a Real Estate Agent – Making a Smart Choice Pays Off
Finding the real estate agent who best aligns with your home selling goals involves asking thoughtful questions – then listening intently to responses. By focusing attention squarely on metrics like market prowess, sales volumes, pricing insights and down market dexterity, home sellers can identify truly talented agents ready to deliver satisfying, lucrative sale outcomes.
How To Choose the Best Realtor To Sell Your House – What Realtor Can Help You in Colorado?
Choosing the best realtor to sell your house involves a careful evaluation of expertise, experience, and commitment. The video from “Your Real Estate Voice” with Barb Schlinker provides valuable insights into the potential challenges of choosing the wrong real estate agent and emphasizes the need for a well-informed decision-making process. By asking critical questions, leveraging available resources, and prioritizing experience, sellers can increase their chances of a successful and profitable home sale.
Here’s Why Choosing Barb Has the Buyers Will Get the Best Results
The reason you want to work with Your Home Sold Guaranteed Realty - Barb Has the Buyers Team is simple. She’s the top realtor and will get you the best deal.
When you buy or sell a house in Colorado, other agents will claim they have the buyers. They’ll also claim to get you more money. But they don’t have the track record and experience that Barb Schlinker has.
In fact, our team is so confident we’ll get you top results that we’re willing to make a promise. If you don’t love the new home when you buy one with us, we’ll buy it back – guaranteed! We making selling your house simple with our Guaranteed Sales Program and getting multiple no-obligation cash offers on your house easy as 1-2-3!
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Barb sold our townhome in 3 days at $6000 over asking price setting a new high price for the townhome complex. Her team made the process so smooth and easy. We highly recommend Barb’s team to sell your home.
5214 Dovetail Ln, Colorado Springs, CO 80916 – Kate & Greg Fall
Barb Schlinker and Wendy are the two best real estate agents I have ever had in buying and selling a home in my life. Their careful attention to detail, professionalism, exactness, timing, listening to my personal needs and wants. They have respected my needs & wishes in every way. I will always will recommend them to my friends and family members. And I will always trust their care with them.
Karen Woods
Barb and her team were very easy to work with. They did an awesome job! We were under the gun for getting our house sold quickly, and Barb did just that. We got an offer after just one open house! Thanks again, Barb, for all your hard work and assistance. You and your team are amazing!
Lance Hartman
Barb and her team were excellent at helping us plan to get ready for the sale. We had such a large crowd at the open house that the neighbors were asking about it. Our home sold for over asking price and everything went smoothly as planned. Steve & Melissa
Melissa McCullough
This is the only real estate company I would use. Barb’s expertise in unrivaled. Very personal and professional service.
Sally Redd
Barb was extremely helpful to my brother-in-law, Ed, when he appealed the county assessor's valuation of his home. We learned of Barb through her very informative radio program on 710 KNUS. Barb did a thorough search of property sales and provided Ed with 3 comparables for use in his appeal. And Barb did this very quickly since the deadline for the appeal was fast approaching.
Martha Fitzpatrick
We hired Barb to sell our home in Security. We accepted 1 cash offer within 30 hours of listing and it sold for $11,000 over our asking price. Her staff was wonderful and we were thankful for the use of her convenient moving truck. We highly recommend using Barb Schlinker to sell your home. - Dennis & Joan
Joan Musick
Barb is very professional, honest and reliable. She has sold two houses for us and exceeded our expectations each time. I have found that I can rely on her completely for all aspects of the paperwork/documents that selling or buying a house entails. Both of our houses sold within days of being listed with Barb. She does an excellent job of marketing and promotion.
Mike Corbett
We were facing a short-notice PCS transfer to another state with the Army. After seeing Barb's videos on YouTube about selling a home we know Barb was the only choice for us. Barb's marketing was able to get us multiple offers over asking price the first weekend. All went as planned we were able to buy our new home just days after Barb sold our home.
Jennifer Stuart
Although we weren't a current client, Barb was super-helpful in assisting us in preparing an Appeal of our current property tax assessment. She advertised that she would help anyone do this; you didn't have to be a current client selling or buying a home. She responded immediately to our phone call, and we communicated several times until we filed the appeal. Barb was most personable and welcoming and genuinely interested in helping us. We were able to file within a short time. We were so IMPRESSED that Barb was able to give us some of her precious time to do this, given her very full schedule and many clients.
Lance Beckett
Barb Schlinker and her team did such an amazing job selling our home on Del Rey Dr in Colorado Springs. Our sweet dog, Koussie, physically could not tolerate agents offering multiple showings, so Barb arranged to only show at a single (1) open house. Her marketing strategies were so effective the results were phenomenal and she had 153 people attend the open house, and it sold with multiple offers for $75,000 over asking price. Through the entire process, Barb made sure everything went as planned and on time. We highly recommend using Barb to sell your home if you want the most money for home and you want a very easy and fast home selling process. Gus & Cassondra
Cassondra Oetken
After trying to sell our home previously and unsuccessfully with another agent, we are so delighted we called Barb. Very quickly Barb and her team helped with updated staging and great marketing. Barb was able to get a bidding war on our home in just a few weeks, and it sold for over asking price. The entire transaction was handled smoothly and closed on time. We highly recommend Barb.
19975 Wissler Ranch
Barb and her team made selling our Strawberry Fields condo an easy and enjoyable experience. Our home sold quickly for $18,500 more than our asking price. Barb runs an impressively well managed company. I mean it. You don't see such excellence very often, regardless of the type or size of business. Communication, marketing, timeliness - all met high standards. If you are considering selling your home, call the Barb Schlinker team. Experience for yourself the professionalism that comes from integrity and character. - Doug & Linda
Doug Blacker
Barb and her team at Parker St. Claire come highly recommended. After accepting a job out of state we needed to quickly get our home on the market. We heard an ad for Barb on the radio and gave her a call. She was at our home the next day. Barb was friendly and knowledgable of the local market. She’s very detailed and brought with her a ton of information so we could price our home to sell. The home was staged and professionally photographed to highlight all the special features inside and out. Barb and her staff were always available for questions and even moved the last bit of furnishings to a storage unit for us just before closing! Not sure you’ll find a more helpful real estate broker/agent – give Barb a call!
191 Elk Lane, Woodland Park, CO - Tony & Shari K
When the time comes for me to sell I will be contacting Barb. She personally contacted me with information and the Comps necessary to appeal the out of line assessment of my house. Thank you so much!!!
Philip Guttman
It was so refreshing to have Barb and her team sell my home. I moved before the home went on the market and they took care of everything including the final clean out and carpet cleaning. After receiving multiple offers, it was someone on Barb's Team who brought me the best buyer who bought my home with cash at $35,000 over asking price. The result was a smooth on-time, quick closing.
Laurie Cammack
I am very pleased with Mrs. Barbara and Mrs. Wendy. They went ALL out their way every day to make our home selling process less stressful. They were a pleasure to work with and became family instead of a business move. Furthermore, being in the Air-Force I didn’t have much time to relocate and they made it a breeze for my family and I. If I ever come back to Colorado to live. I will call them back with NO hesitation. Thank you ALL for what you have done. I have already recommended EVERYONE on Peterson AFB to Mrs. Barbara and her team. They will go out their way and beyond to make you happy. If I could give more than a 5 star rating .. I definitely would. God Bless !!!!!!
Beth Lewis
By the time I put my home on the market, I was already moving to another state. Barb not only sold my Peyton home for $40,000 over asking price. But it was a great comfort for me to know that Barb and her team handled all the things that needed to be done to close the sale including managing some needed repairs. I highly recommend The Barb Schlinker Team to sell your home." Jessica
Jessica Montoya
It was time for us to downsize and sell our Fountain home and move closer to our grandkids. We heard about Barb Schlinker on Richard Randall’s show. We hired Barb to sell our home in Fountain and buy another home. She sold our home sold for $5000 over asking price in the 1st weekend. Timing the move so we did not have to move twice was a challenge, especially because we had to complete an insurance claim from last summer’s hail damage. Barb’s team handled everything and was able to close on time and move straight into our new home. We highly recommend Barb Schlinker.
8354 Silver Glen - Sam & Tina San Miguel
After hearing Barb on the radio where she outlined her methods for selling homes, I am so pleased that we hired her to handle the sale of our home. We had already moved out, and she and her team installed very attractive staging furniture so it showed beautifully. In just one short week. Barb obtained several buyers competing for our home and she sold our home for $5000 over asking price. Her team handled everything from there and made the process very easy. Having Barb handle the sale of our home gave me great peace-of-mind throughout the entire process.
8130 Avens Cir, CS, CO 80920 - Donna S
We know many real estate agents and our experience with Barb Schlinker is by far the best! She is very personable and professional. True to her commitment, she and her team were always very responsive and timely in answering any questions or concerns we had. She not only commanded 10 offers in a weakening real estate market but she was able to help us negotiate for the top dollar and get the most money for our Mom's home. Pete & Irene
Peter Knudsen
It was such an easy process to sell my home with Barb Schlinker. I first met Barb a few years back and decided to stay in the home during the pandemic period and I’m so glad I did. That decision allowed me to add another $100,000 of value to my home in a short period of time. With the first meeting Barb provided a staging consultation that helped me get my home ready for sale on my schedule. Her Certified Pre-Owned Home program revealed I needed a new roof and because it was done in advance of the sale, her program set the stage so I could deal with the roof on my schedule and negotiate the best possible deal. Not only did Barb market the home so well that I had a lot of people come and look at the home, but I received two offers at the same time and that’s where it got exciting. Barb’s negotiating skills went into high gear and she was able to get the buyers to make their highest offers, giving me great choices on selling my home for nearly $10,000 over asking price in just 11 days. It was a really nice benefit that her program included house cleaning. That was a very nice touch that made my move effortless.
M M
Barb was able to sell our home quickly at full asking price soon after it went on the market. It was so refreshing to have an agent and a great team that was able to get us to closing right on time with very little hassle. We appreciate that they took care of all the details so we could focus on moving to our next home." - Ben and Judy Devries
Ben Devries
Barbara Schlinker to her team was very helpful and easy to work with.
Kirk Buker
We have bought and sold approximately 20 properties. No agent has even come close to the quality Barb offers. Her marketing was superb - generating 4 offers; and we had an accepted contract within a week, closing within a month. The icing on the cake though, is Barb herself. She's open, friendly, knowledgeable and most important, accessible ! Barb is worth ever dollar of the commission she will earn!
JoAnn Hodge
It was so nice to only have to show our home for just 1 hour and Barb and her team helped us sell our home for $55,000 over asking price with a cash buyer. Everything went as scheduled and it made the process easy." Bill & Judy
Willam Bremer
We heard about Barb from our contractor who is a radio fan. We knew once we hired Barb it was the right decision to help us sell our parent's home. Barb gave us great advice on what to do to sell our home for the most money without spending too much money to update the home. The results were great. In just a few days Barb had a huge crowd at the Open House, over 85 visitors and it sold for $75,000 over the asking price. They made the whole process easy for us to manage while traveling between several states and we especially appreciated the move out cleaning service as well as the help removing unneeded items. We highly recommend Barb to sell your home!
Lynn Perdue
We talked to several agents but it was clear Barb has the best marketing to get us the most money. Best of all....she sold our home for at $30,000 over what the other agents said it was worth. We moved out and left the home in her hands. Barb and her team were amazing and we did not have to worry about anything. While we were enjoying family in another state, Barb's team sold our home and it closed in just 3 weeks! We highly recommend Barb and her team!
Dennis and Angie Snyder
We work out of state for most of the time. It was so comforting to know we had Barb Schlinker and her team there to support us throughout the sale. Barb and her team were excellent communicators and helped us sell our Black Forest home from a far at a great price with very little effort on our part. – Andy and Rene
Andy Taylor
Barb is calmly confident and competent. Her knowledge of her craft is very impressive. We have sold two houses using her services, and I can assure anyone wishing to sell their property, they will be impressed and happy with the process and the results if they use Barb as their real estate agent.