Guidelines to Selling a Home in Tampa

In selling your house in Tampa, We have put together some guidelines to help you weed out those firms that may not be a good fit for you. People make a lot of promises to get your business. This guideline will help you weed out the promiser from the do-er.

• Before you pick up the phone... Even before you ask the first question, you can save yourself some valuable time by doing a bit of initial research. Visit a firm's or agent's web site and see what you find. What kind of possible exposure can you get? How visible are they on what most buyers keywords on the search engine? Those promising to put you in 15 to 20 different sites... ask them what those sites are. And see how visible they are. If they don't tell you, this is a sign of other hidden agenda they may have. Remember, a listing in the MLS is standard and will show up on several internet websites irregardless (i.e., realtor.com and other similar sites that host MLS database). Read More:

If the COMMISSION is LOW it will NOT SHOW

By code of Ethics, real estate agents are supposed to show any house irregardless of the broker split. But lately we've been noticing an uptrend on broker split as an incentive to buyers agents.

Builders are also getting in on the act by offering 6% to 10% to entice buyers agent to bring them their buyers. So where does that leave the 2%-ters? This is not rocket science folks: If the commission is LOW, it will not SHOW; if the commission is HIGH, it will FLY.

TIP: There is so much inventory out there. Most houses look alike, inspite of how different you think your house may look. If there are 8 houses on the market similar to yours and 4 are offering 3% or higher to buyers agent, and you are offering 2% for yours, chances are you'll be able to sympathize with the guy on this photo.

At Tampa4u, we show buyers as many homes as it will take until their head spin. When listing a house, we always offer buyers agent 3% or more regardless of how little we make. Our clients are our priority whether they're buying or selling. - Erich Caparas (tampa4u.com)