Your agent makes a lot of difference to your pocketbook!

In late 2016 my husband accepted a position on the east coast. We spent the holiday season interviewing well known agents that were very familiar with our Park Village neighborhood. One of the agents we interviewed was Dan & Deb Christensen whom we had met at one of the neighborhood open houses that they  held for one of their clients. This couple impressed us in so many ways - their knowledge of Park Village and the market as a whole, all they do to prepare their listings for sell, their great attention to detail, all the resources they have to make the process easier (they don't just give you a list, they actually have relationships with all their service people), and on top of that, they really cared about us and keeping us informed. We hired Dan & Deb to sell our house in late February. As life would have it, another house one street away came on the market the week before our planned listing date and they had priced it $70,ooo less than our desired price with an agent from outside our neighborhood. That house was also remodeled with a pool and was very similar to ours. We met with Dan to go over our price strategy and Dan assured us that he had not only looked at the previous sales, but also felt that the market was shifting higher which would benefit us greatly. We could choose a listing price based on past sales or a list price based on past sales, pending sales and a sense for what the market may do next. Dan helped make sense of these factors and supported our much higher listing price and we are so glad he did because we priced our house $70,000 more than the other house. Guess what? We went into contract within a week OVER OUR LIST PRICE! All the other agents we interviewed pushed to list at least $75,000 less than our sold price. Dan saw the market heating up when it did which the other agents did not. They had the resources and strategy to get the house listed and under contract in 4 days. I can't help but think that if we had gone with another agent we may have been talked into a much lower list price which would've caused us to leave a lot of money on the table. The quality of your agent makes a lot of difference to your pocketbook. Whether the market is hot or cold I think Dan & Deb will help guide you thru the sale process to make sure that you get the best price possible - just like they did for us.