Showed homes Yesterday

Well yesterday started out cloudy in El Paso and that is pretty unusual but the real estate market in El Paso, TX is far from cloudy. While it is a little slower and we are seeing some price reductions, El Paso is still an under rated market and will start to rise again I know.

I showed 8-10 homes to my buyer. When she first arrived at the office I went over the required paperwork (Information about Brokerage Services) and then went over the Buyer's Representation Agreement and giave her a general over view of the El Paso real estate market. Once those were signed we talked about what her real estate needs were and then I showed her all of the listings that we were going to see.

The first home was really beautiful and we spent about 1/2 hour there. The seller was rather talkative and did all of the showing but he was really proud of his home and it showed. The funny thing was that Dan and I were going to build that exact same plan a few years ago but we decided to stay in our home and remodel instead. It is a beautiful SW Santa Fe style home with an open courtyard in the middle of the home. The only thing this home did not have that the buyer wanted was a view.

The next few homes were all in the same subdivision and none of them had great views so we cancelled the ones with owners and went to a new subdivision that was the Parade of Homes this past spring and found some model homes that were just what she was looking for. The home had great views and the floor plan was superb!!!

After talking awhile she said that she really needed to sell her home in Michigan so I asked if she had a Realtor at home that she was going to use because if she did not then I would refer her to one. She and her husband had moved to New Mexico last fall and have decided to make El Paso their home but do need to sell first in Michigan.

I called a Realtor up there and got the referral all worked out and that agent has already called my buyer and is ready to get that home on the market in August.

Networking is a great way to find agents in another city and I feel that she will do a great job for my client. She was very honest about how slow their market was and was familiar with the area that my client lives in and was going to try and set up an appointment with the buyer's daughter to see the home this afternoon! Talk about moving quickly, I was impressed.

We spent the rest of the afternoon looking at a few more models and she said that she would like to bring her husband when he got back in town this weekend to look at the ones she liked the best.

Speaking of networking, we had a call from another seller that wants to sell her home here and wanted us to refer her to an agent in Reno, Nevada. Well, our daughter is a Realtor in Reno so we gave her the referral and she has already called her and I am going to see her home in El Paso today.