“As for sdrealtor, your #’s are inaccurate – we will sell over 100 homes this year and the marketing I do has nothing to do with a “sales process that was created by an agent up in Canada.”
As for short sales, they do take a while to close due to how overwhelmed the lenders are at the moment. For this reason, they often do not show closed or pending for months.
Take a look at the #’s at the end of 2008.”
It’s the end of 2008 and here are the numbers:
48 listings closed
19 buyers side sale (but 5 were for homes listed by him)
That’s 62 different homes sold. So he met 62% of the MINIMUM he claimed. More truthfully, he was likely saying he would close 100+ listings meaing he’s below 50% on his claim.
He also entered 334 listings into the MLS in calender 2008. Granted some did not have time to sell but having listed a couple hundred the year before I’m sure he entered the year with a full book of homes listed. That’s about 15% success. With about 200 active listings right now thats 30 closed sales next year and another 170 on the REO pile.
For the record, I have never worked a transaction with him but know a couple dozen agents that have. Not one claimed it was a good experience and they all said the sellers were essentially unrepresented through the transaction as they did most of the work for them.
