Why Work with a Realtor® that Blogs?

I remember seeing an article a couple of years back about real estate agents using blogs, and joining the “blogosphere”.  I knew that was for me! Oh yes! One Day! It shall be mine! But wait….does anyone read this stuff?

You bet they do!  And here’s why:  Information! You get to know the agent, and his or her opinions in the comfort of your own work cubicle,…. um, home. The depth of their market knowledge is revealed. Their involvement and commitment to the real estate industry is clear, when so many agents are “dabbling”, or “doing a deal or two” after they leave their “real job”

When you call in a member of the RealCincy Group to talk with you about listing your home, hopefully you’ve already picked up a few ideas about us, the way we honestly, and without bells, whistles and tooting horns, discuss the real estate market, and maybe you’ve picked up a few tips along the way.  Our listing appointment with you started light years ahead of the appointed day and time of our arrival at your front door. Years of listing and selling, post-licensing continuing education classes, and the day to day monitoring of the real estate market, the highs and the lows, have prepared us well ahead of our appointment with you.

Listing Appointment

Sellers know we’ve come prepared by the information we bring. A typical listing appointment will involve 1 – 2 hours of pre-appointment prep-time, and it shows with the information we bring. We take the time to view the home, taking in the décor, the updates and upgrades, or lack thereof, the condition ….from “wow!” to “uh-oh”, and then do a mental calculation on how we will adjust up or down the prepared CMA. We present. Seller asks questions. We answer. We chat. Then off we go, hoping that the seller trusted our knowledge, and liked us best. Well, how in the world can you make a decision, as important as who you will hire to market your home, in 45 minutes?

Sometimes we’ve competed for the seller’s attention against crying babies, ringing phones, and distracted spouses that don’t want to move. If the other agent caught the seller at the children’s nap time, and after the office stopped calling, their presentation is going to run more smoothly.

Buyer Customer

Maybe you are moving to town, or are moving within the area, and want a good, strong advice on how this home buying process works. I can tell you that things have changed since I was licensed in 1996, and continue to morph as new issues creep into the home buying and selling landscape. How does title insurance work around here? Yes, it’s different than in most areas of the country. Bank owned homes, or short sale homes. Are they a good idea? A great value? Contingency offers…yes or no. How do you choose an agent? Start calling realtors off the signs in the yards of the homes you think you might like to see? 

Hopefully a home buyer has read ahead, and picked up a few ideas, or at least had a couple of questions answered. Reading the articles and posts can help a buyer get an idea of whether or not the agent has “field experience” and is putting it out there to share!

Choosing an Agent that Blogs

You have to trust an agent that is confident enough to put it all out there for consideration. 

 You won’t find “feeds” on this site where our site content looks like 5 other sites in the area.  No subscriptions to “ghost-writers” doing our job for us. No long lists of links to boring financial information, penned to financial experts. Even we can’t pay attention to that. You will get concise, “need to know” information that may be helpful to your situation, now or in the future. You won’t find articles that we get from our trade publications, cautiously re-written, for the obvious reason, or without due credit given, as though those thoughts were all our own. 

Will you find similar topics from one site to the other? Of course. That’s fair. There are subjects that need to be discussed and we’ll give out those tips and share our opinions, just as others will.

We hope you enjoy getting to know us through our site, and are 100% comfortable calling on The RealCincy Group to help you with all of your real estate needs.