Things must be slow for real estate agents
#2 Contractors Contributor
- Severna Park, MD
I put my personal house up for sale on Zillow as a FSBO . The responses have been overwhelming . In 3 days I have had 65 calls . Two from regular people and 63 from real estate agents . They all seemed to be reading off the same script , telling me how great they were , how they could make things easy how selling a house is difficult without the assistance of a professional . Honestly the majority sounded like used car salesmen . This wasnt just local agents but they were from all corners of the state of Maryland . Funny how all of them has interested buyers looking for a house in my area .
After a while I just answered the phone by saying , " Oh wow another real estate agent how can I help you ? "
I have been in business over 40 years as a contractor , never cold called , never knocked on a door . Always had more work than I could handle due to our reputation . After the conversations I has with these agents ( I am not painting all agents ) they sounded like used car salesmen talking down to someone . I wasnt impressed with 95% of them .