Just read where more moving vans leaving CO than entering.
Read this blip today on a real-estate blog.
9 a.m. I am on the phone with a nervous seller trying to explain the latest crazy shift in real estate here. In the last few weeks, it’s like someone turned the tap off. Things in Montana went from absolutely insane to kind of dead!
This particular client is in a panic because her neighbors’ house — a mid-century ranch near Bozeman — sold in a day, for $200K over asking price, all cash, just three months ago. And now, listings just aren’t selling.
I try to tell them that you can’t just sit around and sulk. You have to come up with a plan. You host a broker’s open — where it’s like, “Stop by for lunch and a raffle drawing!” You go old school and market your house really creatively to try and make it stand out.
Everyone wants to blame the Realtor. But I turn it back to the house. Let’s reevaluate price, condition, location, and marketing. Also, curb appeal. How do we make it the nicest looking house possible? Over the last two years, we didn’t have to use stagers at all. Houses sold without lifting a finger. But considering the state of things today, I suggest we stage this house, or at least stage it virtually — which means you have your photographer come in and take pictures of the house without anything in it, and then the stager Photoshops in furniture. My seller is open to that idea.
Read this blip today on a real-estate blog.
9 a.m. I am on the phone with a nervous seller trying to explain the latest crazy shift in real estate here. In the last few weeks, it’s like someone turned the tap off. Things in Montana went from absolutely insane to kind of dead!
This particular client is in a panic because her neighbors’ house — a mid-century ranch near Bozeman — sold in a day, for $200K over asking price, all cash, just three months ago. And now, listings just aren’t selling.
I try to tell them that you can’t just sit around and sulk. You have to come up with a plan. You host a broker’s open — where it’s like, “Stop by for lunch and a raffle drawing!” You go old school and market your house really creatively to try and make it stand out.
Everyone wants to blame the Realtor. But I turn it back to the house. Let’s reevaluate price, condition, location, and marketing. Also, curb appeal. How do we make it the nicest looking house possible? Over the last two years, we didn’t have to use stagers at all. Houses sold without lifting a finger. But considering the state of things today, I suggest we stage this house, or at least stage it virtually — which means you have your photographer come in and take pictures of the house without anything in it, and then the stager Photoshops in furniture. My seller is open to that idea.
