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The house was listed Thursday. As of late Friday night he had received two above listing price offers and was aware of another 11 or 12 scheduled showings to be held Saturday and Sunday. As you indicated, there must be some time of automated scheduling system, otherwise he would not know about today's and tomorrow's showings.
When I first heard the term I had the impression it was more of a free-for-all Open House. With my son's comment and your comment it is obviously controlled by some type of scheduling method.
Our son is staying with us this weekend, 45 miles away, to keep the weekend open. I believe his Realtor set this up even before the house went into the Listing Services on Thursday.
If the agent encouraged them to vacate, anticipating a horde of visitors, smart agent.
Showing an occupied home in a hot market is maddening for sellers.
The "Show and Go" concept on a listing that normally requires an appointment, sounds like a variation on an open house, but for agents with clients, where between certain hours on a certain day, agents can bring clients without an appt. Interesting, but I'm not sure I'd go out of my way for it.... if the client and I can make an appt for the Show and Go... we could make an appointment for any time good for us.... Unless appointments are also severely limited, for whatever reason.
The "Show and Go" concept on a listing that normally requires an appointment, sounds like a variation on an open house, but for agents with clients, where between certain hours on a certain day, agents can bring clients without an appt. Interesting, but I'm not sure I'd go out of my way for it.... if the client and I can make an appt for the Show and Go... we could make an appointment for any time good for us.... Unless appointments are also severely limited, for whatever reason.
Well, "at least in my area," "Show and Go" is just slang that means one can set the showing up without prior notice, but that agent still has to request the showing.
Entering a house without specific approval is a significant rules violation.
We get that specific approval over the phone, via text and/or email, immediately, so we can immediately enter the property.
Well, "at least in my area," "Show and Go" is just slang that means one can set the showing up without prior notice, but that agent still has to request the showing.
Entering a house without specific approval is a significant rules violation.
We get that specific approval over the phone, via text and/or email, immediately, so we can immediately enter the property.
Yeah, when buying it was more just told to us by the agent if we were running late or something, “this one is a show and go, so let’s come back to this one afterwards since this other one is occupied.â€
But can a “show and go†refuse to allow more than one showing at a time? In which case you might not get “immediate approval�
Yeah, when buying it was more just told to us by the agent if we were running late or something, “this one is a show and go, so let’s come back to this one afterwards since this other one is occupied.â€
But can a “show and go†refuse to allow more than one showing at a time? In which case you might not get “immediate approval�
Yes, we can bounce the schedule if we get behind. That is one reason I like to mix a couple of vacant houses in a showing schedule when possible.
Yes we can refuse multiple showings at one time.
That is a setting in the ShowingTime dashboard.
Have you EVER had a full day of showings actually stay on schedule?
"Ever?" Well, yes.
"Always?" I wish....
They give me a list of 7. I add 2 or 3.
And, sometimes I tell them we need to get a wiggle on because the next one is occupied and we need to honor our showing window.
Gotta manage the tour. I schedule by the map, with attempt to get to the "best" prospects first when possible.
But, I have also cancelled showings at last minute, rearranged things, etc.
And, when #4 out of 10 is "The House," we spend the time we need to there.
Not sure how agents coped with these problems before cell phones, and scheduling software, and GPS. My hat's off to them though.
Our normal stomping grounds are rural properties... they may be 30 minutes apart, in different counties, sometimes. I use the showing time map and honor the predicted travel time between appointments.... But we have farm clients who sometimes want to walk the whole property, and look in the many outbuildings... I sometimes have scheduled them for an hour and still ended up running late.
And yes.... when they get to THE HOUSE, all bets are off for the rest of the day.
Not sure how agents coped with these problems before cell phones, and scheduling software, and GPS. My hat's off to them though.
Our normal stomping grounds are rural properties... they may be 30 minutes apart, in different counties, sometimes. I use the showing time map and honor the predicted travel time between appointments.... But we have farm clients who sometimes want to walk the whole property, and look in the many outbuildings... I sometimes have scheduled them for an hour and still ended up running late.
And yes.... when they get to THE HOUSE, all bets are off for the rest of the day.
Here in Taupetown, we can see 15 in a day, if there were 15 on the market, and if buyers don't have to look in the attic for 20 minutes when the first two floors are a slaughterhouse....
We can debate what's preferred, whether cards can be taken or seen by other agents, or if agents should or should not leave cards as they choose but forbidding the leaving of cards sounds legally dubious and like an anti-competitive practice. DoJ where are you?
When we do mail outs there is always fine print at the bottom that reads something like "Not intended to solicit property already listed".
It's conceivable a business card left at a home could be considered a solicitation and would be against our code.
As I mentions, in my part of the world we stopped leaving business cards at homes probably 15 years ago. It's pretty much old school like office tours and newspaper ads.
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