Real Estate in Kansas City North

This is just to show you that Active Rain WORKS!

I received this message this morning from Mitch, through AR to my e-mail.  He's been reading my blog... SO CONSUMERS are reading AR.

With Mitch's permission I am including his e-mail to me after he read my blog.

Thanks Mitch...... and since you were so impressed, please give my name to all your friends and family. :)

" Hey, oddly enough I came across your blog when I did a google search for the Scratch and Dent appliance place down on Front Street, but having just finished buying a house in Feb and being 2 weeks away from closing on selling my old house, I was pretty interested in your site.

Wish I'd found it about 6 months ago.

I just wanted to tell you that I found it very interesting and I kept saying "Right on!" to a lot of your comments about the way other realtors do their business. Cancelling without letting us know, not leaving comments (or not leaving worthwhile comments).

The comments thing drove me nuts. I had my house priced a little aggressively... we ran it for about 163 for a month, then dropped to 160, 157, and finally sold at 155 (had a contract the same day we dropped it to 155). Many of the comments we would get, if we got comments were pointless. My favorite, that I got several times was, "Too small" Gee... I'll get right on fixing that. It's one thing to say "Buyers liked it, but the size put it in the middle of the pack for them", or "nice house, but too small for my buyers"

How should I feel about "Too small"? I guess I'll get right on fixing that pesky little problem. Or maybe I'm just out of my tree here... right around the corner they have 3000 sq ft houses that are selling for half the price of mine ya know?

Believe me, I could go on and on with complaints about the whole system. But I'm sure you know most of it already.

And the whole point of me emailing you was just to say: Thanks for validating a lot of my complaints... if a Realtor knows these things are a problem, then it wasn't just me as a buyer/seller. My realtor seemed to think that I was just over reacting to a lot of it... even though no one else around me thought I was.

I'll be forwarding your blog on to my realtor, and watching it myself. Even though I have no intention of selling my current house for a LONG time now!

Thank you for standing up and trying to point out to other realtors how obnoxious it can get.  Feel free to post my message.   Mitch"