Something like that. Also, not as many will walk through the house if privacy is important.
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Pros
The young realtor; presumed eagerness, and excellent high resolution photos. How important is the high resolution photos?
The established agent; Her wide network of potential buyers. Nonchalant about surface defects.
Cons
The young agent; Lack of personal connection. The firm has resources she can draw from but not much personal connection as far as I can tell.
The established one; My house would be a small fish for her.
My house wonât have mass appeal. They will have to find a right buyer.
Well, this changes everything. It negates part of the sellers market advantage for you. I would go with the young eager one in this case.
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If the house doesnât have mass appeal and the RE agent will have to find the right buyer, I would go with the more experienced real estate agent.
Did each agent suggest the same listing price?
If not, thatâs an important indicator of whether or not the agent is a good fit, IMO.
I am working with a successful, experienced agent and she is successful for a reason. She really knows the local market exceptionally well. I do not feel neglected; she has the sales process down to a science and is very efficient and on top of things.
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By me it wouldnât matter. They take pics/videos, put on mls and hope.
I donât see realtors doing extra things. Open houses - sure. Postcards to neighbors - to sell themselves. Sure.
But doing groundbreaking things - I just donât see it.
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I agree if the house isnât an easy sell to go with the more experienced agent.
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Will the experienced real estate agent bring her shoppers to your less than perfect house on the neighborhood?
I donât know which person is best. I think perhaps each has their strengths.
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The high resolution photos get people in the doorâŠbut if the photos are too far off from actual (meaning make the house look much better than it actually is) that may turn off prospective buyers when they walk in the door. Good photos are desirable! Unrealistic photos is more of a ploy sort of???
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In my opinion, all real estate pictures make the places look their best, and the rooms actually look larger, I like realistic pics, but those seldom are used.
I will sayâŠgood pictures can pique a buyerâs interest OR turn them off entirely.
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If the real estate agent is experienced and successful, s/he knows how to match buyers with appropriate listings.
I wouldnât assume that an experienced real estate agent only works with low-hanging fruit, so to speak.
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Thatâs the impression I got from the experienced agent. The young agent is good, too, very methodological but the experienced one seemed to take one look and knew whatâs what. I havenât gotten the price yet. They both said they need time to come up with numbers. The house doesnât fit in the mold. They canât apply a formula to come up with the number. If different, which one do I go with, higher number or lower one?
Not groundbreaking. If you have wide connections, you can whisper and that can make a big difference.
It is actually a perfect house to a right person. It was to us when we bought. It had we needed and no bells and whistles thankfully.
Right! The house is photogenic. Some photos make you think they took them right out of the video rather than taken properly. I get annoyed by those pictures in the listing.
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Lol. We are currently buying a house, listed with a real estate company where the pics (as real estate pics go) were terrible and not in logical order, etc.
Maybe those bad photos worked in our favor as buyers!! 
But that is also where the market - at least here - is - any non-money pit is scooped up.
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I donât think you should choose until they provide you with a listing price and explain their reasoning behind it.
I talked to two agents before choosing the one I have. The listing price suggested by the one I didnât choose made no sense to me, even after he explained his thinking, and I then had no confidence in his judgement.
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Go with the younger agent. Photos are critical. Plus, who wants to be the low man on the totem pole? This is a huge asset; you need someone who will treat it like the most important listing in their inventory.
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My feeling is that their price will be about the same. There was an agent whom priced based on not having popular features. I crossed her out immediately. The two agents I am considering understand that thatâs not how one prices a house like mine.
@LisaMBA It occurred to me that I could ask them about high resolution pictures. If they think it will help, I think they will take better pictures.
My house is on the market. We went with a discount realtor. I donât think, even in this sellerâs market, I could do it without what the realtorâs company is doing for us. It is not just the agent, but the other support staff and resources they have.
First, they took outstanding photos- including drone aerials and a complete 3d walkthrough. She prepared a great listing and color brochures to give potential buyers, including a floorplan. We are not home for showings as they have a secure lockbox system that all the realtors can access.
They set us up with an app to schedule showings. All the realtors use this app to request showings and I can either confirm, request a different time, or decline the showings. I have had 24 showings, since it went on the market on Friday. No way I could have done that many without the ease of the app.
The realtor has fielded tons of questions from buyerâs agents (most she could handle, although she did need to ask me a couple). She has already received offers on our behalf and organized them into a succinct spreadsheet. We are going to review all offers at once tomorrow (she communicated this with all agents who had showings using the app).
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Congrats for attracting intense interest. Hope you get an excellent offer.
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We ended up with 12 offers (crazy in my opinion), all over asking price. People made offers who hadnât even come to look at it (I guess just based upon the listing). All the people I saw who were looking (because they came early or stayed late), were young couples (some with infants or toddlers). The market in NJ is brutal for them, they are living in apartments anxious to get into a home (every offer said nothing to sell, currently renting). We are accepting an offer $100K over asking (also crazy, our home is not worth that.) Again, the realtor worked very hard yesterday, communicating with buyerâs agents and compiling the offers for us.
It s bittersweet to leave the home we raised our daughter in after 35 years, but I feel good knowing that some other family will be starting in our home.
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Itâs crazy but of course as the seller it is a sweet offer for you!
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Congrats to you.
I donât see this type of activity in somewhat hot Nashville - but rather people moving from the NE. So with high interest rates, youâre lucky and thatâs an awesome outcome for you. Your story sounded like 18 months ago so itâs awesome you were able to take advantage.
Good luck in your move.
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