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I understand you can’t leave your Benoni home for every viewing, but when you can’t please try and stay out of the way.

I don’t mean to offend anyone but a seller being present during a viewing does more harm than good. Sellers are always worried that the Estate Agents don’t mention something to the buyers, if its so important make sure the Estate Agent makes a note of it when he lists the property.

Let me explain why its best if you are not present when buyers are viewing your home.

Buyers will definitely not feel welcome and comfortable if you are present and even less so if you are following them around watching their every move pleasing and explaining about the dirty dishes. You might feel better after explaining why the dishes are dirty, an untidy house is not an ideal situation but its far worse when you make a big deal about it, this focuses all the attention on the mess and removes the attention from the house and its features like the granite tops you had installed last month, which could result in the buyers choosing your home above the one next door.

You will not only cause a huge distraction to the buyers but your efforts in pointing out all the strong points of your home will make you seem desperate to sell and this will cause concern with the buyers.

The buyers will also try and rush the viewing to get out of your way and not spend the necessary time in your benoni home to imagine what it would feel like to live there.

They won’t explore and look through cupboards to see the space they won’t criticise your home while viewing, worried they might offend you, and they probably would offend you if they said something about the ugly rug in the lounge.

Not being able to point out the problems they have with the property to their Real Estate Agent is possibly one of the biggest problems cause the agent could let them see a solution to the problem and maybe change their entire opinion from its not what I’m looking for to this can be my dream home.

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Hi all.

I was out listing a beautiful property in Crystal Park today, I actually stopped the seller from listing her Crystal Park property with an estate agent for a sole mandate  heavily over priced.

You see I believe there are 2 reasons a property doesn’t sell.

1) Lazy Agent

2) Over priced.

Most of the time it is number 2.

If you want to sell.

My advice is interview a few  Benoni agents to determine the price.

and normally I would say take a sole mandate.

Today in current market conditions my advice is get a few agents working on the property.

Most importantly have it priced right.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

or contact me :

Jaco Viljoen

082 712 4352

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I am always looking for ways of promoting listings and ways of getting properties sold.

In our current market conditions only a fool would not look for a way to differentiate himself from the crowd, but I will leave that story for another day. The reason  for this post is not to tell you how different I am but rather to share an interesting post I found on a Great Blog I regularly read by Jay Thompson .

 Apparently some sellers in Phoenix are burying  St. Joseph statues in their gardens to assist them in selling their home quickly. I thought this was really interesting. You can read the post at The Phoenix real estate guy

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