We recently put our own home on the market, listed with us of course!!! Who better to sell our home than two highly qualified licensed REALTORS® with Century 21 Annapolis Valley Realty? We are the BEST, humbly stated.

Yes, well, the first thing I noticed almost as soon as it hit the MLS®, our website, the Century21.ca website, etc., is that it did not sell within a few days! Why, where did the buyers go? We have the most beautiful perfect home in the whole world. Why wouldn't someone buy it immediately? Oh yes, I know, the market is a bit slower past few years, properties don't move as fast, but this is our home, pride and joy. We've done so much to this property, it should be in the Most Improved Home award category. Now it's been a few weeks, we've both realized that our clients pretty well go through the same thing, the impatience, the wondering why the last people who saw it did not buy it. It's a normal part of the selling of any property, there is the rush of activity the first few weeks, buyers who have been waiting for a certain type of property to appear on the market, and if that property has not sold in that period, then that means it will just have to go through a normal marketing cycle. Print advertising, website exposure (and in our case, we have domain names for all of our listings, we buy google ad words, the national century 21 website, our own website www.KevLin.ca, MLS.ca, etc. The process must be able to play itself out.

We did actually show it once. It was unnerving. Saying all these beautiful things about our home. Expounding on all the big upgrades in the past 3 years. I couldn't help but wonder, do the buyers feel comfortable enough to be critical, do they feel that they will be represented fairly with us being the agents and sellers? It was shortly after that experience that we both agreed, even if a buyer came right to our door and said they wanted to buy direct from us, we would defer them to another REALTOR® in our own office to handle the offer and the rest of the process. We're happy to pay someone else to facilitate for the buyer, who wouldn't?

How on earth do private sellers do it?

Kevin