Why should I use a team vs. a single agent?
Times have changed, no one agent can be
everywhere at the same time. Let's suppose an agent has a relocation buyer in
town. For three or four days they have to be with just that one buyer. They are
unavailable to show your home, they are not available to get feedback on
showings, and they aren't available to negotiate contracts or inspection
reports.
Under a team scenario such as ours, we have
two Buyer Agents who only show property. We have a full-time Listings Manager
whose main job is keeping you informed of activity and feedback on showings.
We have a full-time Contracts Manager whose
main function is negotiating contracts, and following that contract through
title work, loan approval, and all the various steps to a successful closing.
Additionally, we have a full-time Office
Administrator to handle all the details of the transaction. Simply, we can and
do provide a higher level of service to our clients than most agents can even
conceive of.
As Realtors, it is our job to guide you
through this complicated process, from beginning to end. We want you to get the
maximum value for your home, within YOUR time frame. Here are just some of the
things that we will do to market and sell your home:
- Buyers want to buy your home for as
little as possible! Through detailed comparisons between your home and recently
sold homes, and other properties currently on the market, together we can
determine what your home is really worth in the current market. In the industry
this is called a Comparative Market Analysis or CMA. We will do this for
you.
- We will make sure that unqualified
buyers don't waste your time by discovering their real ability to afford your
home.
- The more buyers that are interested in
your home, the more money in your pocket when it is sold. Our extensive
marketing of your home assures you the maximum value. For example, this web
site will market your property all across the web. It will appear on Yahoo Real
Estate, Microsoft MSN HomeAdvisor, and other top national sites. We can place
your home on our web site within a few minutes' time!
- When the marketing of your home begins,
we will immediately notify all the buyers that are currently working with. We
will also notify all the Realtors in this area that we work with, and they'll
tell all of their buyers. It is a powerful way to jump-start the sale of your
home!
- We will walk through your home together.
We will advise you how to present your property to maximize its selling price.
Some improvements are worth it, and some are not! We can help you decide.
- Contracts are complicated, and
intimidating. You don't want to go to a closing with any doubts! You will have
the full benefit of our real estate experience and knowledge for a smooth and
successful closing. Don't sign on any dotted lines without asking us first!
- We will make sure you conform to any and
all state statutory disclosure requirements. We will also inform you of any
inspections that you should consider having done ahead of time to smooth the
negotiating process with buyers, and to ensure a successful closing.
You pay no up front costs for our services!
So you can bet that we will work hard to get your home sold, for as much as the
market will possibly bear. We will also work within your time frame and your
needs. For example, sometimes it can be hard to sell and move out of your
current home, and buy and move into a new home, all at the same time! We can
help smooth this out.
OUR SELLER
GUARANTEE
We will get you the most money in the least
amount of time with the fewest problems.
We will advertise your home EVERY day that
it is on the market. We utilize One-Place, a 24 hour call-in service for buyers
to obtain information. A Virtual Tour of your home will be placed in the top
five real estate sites on the web. We will follow up on every showing.
We will personally communicate with you
weekly. We will provide you with the best service in the industry. Period.
COMPARE OUR
SERVICES--QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN YOU INTERVIEW REALTORS TO SELL YOUR HOME
- How many years have you been in the
business? (Real Estate license educational requirements in Oklahoma are among
the least in the nation. Do you want a person to sell your home with little or
no experience?)
- How many homes did you sell last year?
(A Realtor® that sells less than 10 homes per year is considered part-time,
think about it - that is less than one per month)
- Do you work completely alone? (If a
Realtor® is working with a buyer for three days, how can he or she be
actively marketing your home?)
- Do you have a personal assistant? (If a
Realtor® has to do all of their paperwork, computer data entry, mailings,
photography, ad placement, etc., etc., how can he or she be actively marketing
your home?)
- Do you prepare color flyers on my
property? Do you mail those flyers to 100 of the top Realtors® in
Tulsa?
- Do you have a Broker's Open Luncheon,
inviting Realtors® from other offices? Do you offer a Cash
Prize?
- Do you do a Virtual Tour of my property
at your expense? If so where will that appear on the Internet?
- What is the Sales Price to List Price
Ratio for the Tulsa market? What is your Sales Price to List Price
Ratio?
- What are the average Days on Market for
the Tulsa market? What are your average Days on Market?
- If we are unhappy with your service, for
any reason, will you cancel our Listing Agreement?
- What Real Estate Designations do you
hold?
- Do you call your sellers? How often? Do
you provide your sellers with written reports? How often?
Email The Briggs Team, we
will be delighted to send you our answers!
Call us for a free phone consultation.

Ask for a free listings presentation. We
will come to your home and present you with a plan that details exactly how we
will market your home. There is absolutely no obligation.
Or, you can fill out this form. Tell me a
about your house, and your particular needs, and we'll get right back to you.

Time to Move >Remodel Or Move
At some point your present home may begin to feel cramped. You would like enough room to have an "adult haven", but you must weigh the price of a larger home over against the prospect of living with contractors and plaster dust for a long time. Is it better to remodel or to look for a new home?
Before you decide on a major home improvement project, talk with a real estate agent who knows your neighborhood. Will the changes you have in mind over-improve your home, making it difficult to re-sell? Will you be able to recover the cost of your investment? Find out how much your present home is currently worth, and how much home equity you have. You may be able to make a substantial down payment that lowers your mortgage payments on a larger home. It may be worth making a move to avoid the stress and inconvenience of remodeling, if you can find a new home with all the features you would like to add to your present home.
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What are three of the best indicators of real estate market trends?
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Existing home sales, new home building and mortgage interest rates.
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