Five Signs House Buyers are Serious

Posted on May 8, 2009 
Filed Under Listing and Selling Your Home, Valerie Zinger

Your house is for sale and you would like to know if any of the people seeing your house are really interested in buying it.  Here are some signs:

  1. The Buyers and agents actually go in your house.  Yes, sometimes a house is so bad from the outside the buyers will refuse to go in and see the interior.  Getting the Buyers over the threshold is the first step.

2.  The Buyers stay longer than 5 minutes.  If the house is wrong for the Buyer, staying longer than 5 minutes does not happen.

3.  The Buyers have their agent call your agent with questions.

4.  The Buyers schedule a second visit, come back and stay longer.

5.  The Buyers make an offer.  Even if it is ridiculously low, this is still a sign that the Buyers are interested and this offer may just be the beginning of negotiations. 

Now that you know the Buyers are interested, it is up to you, the Seller to keep communications open, not take personal insult by what a Buyer offers and be ready to actually sell your house.

Photo credit:  Parliament Clock @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aldaron/536362686/

Valerie Zinger ~ Ottawa, Canada ~ 612-723-5300 ~ vzinger@royallepage.ca

 

 

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