Buyers Agent: 9 Showings today

[Ryan Dossey]

Man this stuff is exhausting! 9 Showings today. 

Lessons learned:

Make clients atleast Google Street View neighborhoods. Showed a home today directly across the street from a women's prison. (Note: Also my first time ever being "cat called") 

Map out the homes better. I did a decent amount of driving from one end of town just to go back to the other side.

Bring a flashlight. (Typically in my car just forgot)

Things I'm glad I did:

Brought an Ipad with all of the homes on a document that the client could write what they liked/didn't about each home. (easy to keep them straight)

Brought some bottled water with me. 

Eliminated a few homes that I knew weren't a good fit. (Needed tons of repairs)

[Mindy Jensen]

Like @Brie Schmidt, I don't limit the number of properties I show in one day, but I do ask them while we are still in the house if they would consider making an offer on it. "Is this on your maybe list, or do you want to say absolutely no to this property right now?" Not to put pressure on them, but to make them think about it while it is fresh in their heads.

If it is on their maybe list, I ask them to name one defining characteristic of the property. The red walls in the kitchen or the awesome backyard. I write that down on the listing sheet and we go to the next house. If they absolutely don't want to consider it, I ask why and write that down on the listing sheet. So if they bring it up again, I can tell them, "You didn't like that house because it had no backyard, remember?" 

Taking notes while you are in the house makes it easier for them and you to remember later.