Real Estate Agent: What should I expect?

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Originally Posted by Mattyk

Nice place! Looks like you guys have it looking good and ready to sell, no clutter, neat and clean. How many open houses have you had?

Your agent should definitely be in close contact. I remember our agent touching base with us a few times a week letting us know he was setting up showings, open houses, etc. I really got the impression he was working hard to sell our place and he must have done something right as we sold our place in about a month, and that was in 2008 right after the market crashed and burned.

Thanks man, we appreciate it! We've had one open house and the feedback from all the realtors is that they all thought it was a nice house and really wouldn't change anything, they just thought it was too expensive. We DID drop the price, so maybe it'll take a couple of weeks for people to see it's dropped. We're concerned that people will just wait since we've constantly been dropping it thinking we're desperate (which we kind of are).

Man, I wouldn't know what to do with myself if ours sold that quick, lol.

And everyone, thanks so much for the advice, it's been the second most stressful situation I've ever been in. The new place was just something we couldn't say no to given interest rates/location/amenities. As far as I'm concerned, the house we're living in now is my dream house and thanks to an ultra low rate, we're going to be paying LESS on this house than the old one.