So you have decided to sell your house ...
What happens next?
Meehan
and Al will arrange with you an appropriate time to visit
your home. This visit provides an opportunity to carefully
view your home, talk with you in person and review any questions
or concerns that you may have.
We would
like to personally see your home in advance of preparing a
report in order to come up with an accurate listing price.
After the initial meeting and consultation, we will take back
the information collected and use it to generate a reasonable
listing price for your property. The next step is documentation
and discussion of a suggested listing price with you, the
client. Throughout this process, we will be more than happy
to provide explanations to any questions that may arise.
Once a
decision to proceed has been made, Meehan and Al will review
the Multiple Listing Service (MLS ®) agreement with you,
so that everything is understood. All written agreements are
completed with the greatest of care and accuracy, to ensure
that your home is represented in the best and truest light.
Just to be clear, MLS ® service requires no additional
cost to you.
Full
Marketing Package
Even in a hot market, effective and complete marketing of
a property is essential to ensure a most profitable sale.
Each and every property we list, receives the upmost attention
to marketing. With the combination of both Meehan Bonnar and
Alan Mason and the Royal LePage Royal City Real Estate nameplates,
you get a whole team of people working on the sale of your
home.
Here are
a list of the activities we WILL perform for your property,
so that you can obtain the highest possible sale price :
Place
a distinctive Royal LePage Royal City Realty "For Sale"
sign on your property
Prepare
customized feature sheets for agents, their clients and
public visitors to use as an information source while viewing
your home and to take with them
Notify
other Realtors in the area who may have clients interested
in your listing
Schedule
a time for all agents in our board to view your home
Place
your listing on the Guelph MLS ® Web site at www.guelphmls.on.ca
Advertise
your home 24 hours a day on GuelphCentral.com & the
rlproyalcity.com
websites
Creat
a custom Home Tour, which uses a combination of photos and
description to walk potential buyers virtually through your
home (see the current listings
section of this site for examples)
Place
ads on a frequent basis in the Guelph Mercury until your
home is firmly sold
Create
a poster board for the Royal LePage Royal City Realty kiosk
in the Stone Road Mall
Phone
all of our potential clients who may be interested in the
purchase of your property
Hold
open houses, at your discretion
Confirm
and book all viewings with other Realtors or clients
Follow-up
with other realtors
Keep
you posted with regular verbal progress reports
Review
marketing activities or ideas with you at your request
Follow-up
to ensure everything that should be done, is done
What
is MLS ® Service
Simply put, MLS ® Service is a very powerful and efficient
real estate selling system that markets your home to other
registered Realtors who are members of the Guelph and District
Real Estate Board. The combination of a full marketing plan
(discussed above) along with listing your home on the MLS
system will enable your home to obtain the greatest exposure
possible. It will be accessible 24 hours a day to anyone interested
in researching it.
All members
of our real estate board area can access the local MLS system
and utilize it to provide information and details to potential
buyers. All realtors, in addition to those at Royal LePage
Royal City Realty, can negotiate the sale of your home, with
Meehan Bonnar and Alan Mason representing you.
Agency is not as complicated a term as it may sound. Essentially,
agency is a legal term which means: "who is representing
and looking after your best interests in a particular transaction".
In every
real estate transaction, there are only 3 types of agency
representation which can occur :
Seller
Agency
When you list with Meehan and Al, we undertake a contractual
obligation by which we and Royal LePage Royal City Realty
are representing you, the seller, and your best interests.
"Seller Agency" is detailed and established in
writing through a Listing Agreement.
Buyer
Agency
Buyer Agency means that another real estate agent who brings
forward an offer on your home, is representing the buyer
and their best interests. Although the other agent's goal
is to sell your property, they are not representing you,
they are representing their buyer. Buyer agency may only
be established in writing by the signing of a Buyer Agency
Agreement, which is available in a standard Ontario Real
Estate Association format for all buyers.
Dual
Agency
This situation would occur when another agent from Royal
LePage Royal City Realty brings forward an offer from one
of their clients on your home. Dual Agency also would exist
if a client who has Buyer Ageccy with Meehan and Al wishes
to make an offer on your property.
Although
this is an informative description of agency, the concept
extends beyond this simplistic interpretation. We would be
more than happy to provide you with all the details you require
on agency relationships.
