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This is What Sacramento Real Estate Agents Work For
The public doesn’t really know why people choose a career in real estate and what Sacramento real estate agents work for. They see the financial rewards and sometimes that’s as far as they get with their thought process. They think the end result is that paycheck, and while money helps to pay the bills, it’s not the reason we sell Sacramento real estate. It’s not what we live for and work for.
Most Sacramento real estate agents, believe it or not, are really in the business to help people. We have a specialty, a knowledge, a skill set and experience to guide our buyers and sellers to a successful closing. There are those of us, we hate to say, who sometimes don’t perform, like the agent who was previously working with a buyer who just closed escrow this week with Barbara Dow from the Elizabeth Weintraub Team.
When the buyer called about this particular home, I asked if she was working with an agent, just like I always ask. She said yes, and continued to clarify before I could disconnect. I listened. Turns out she was pretty unhappy with her agent and felt very disappointed in her search for a home. She no longer wanted to work with that particular agent. She also had been watching the For Sale sign installation in the front yard of this particular listing, and said she was planning to sit in that yard until an agent drove by to show it to her. That’s determination.
I checked with my team members and Barbara was available to immediately show the home. She explained Agency and that we would probably receive multiple offers so the buyer needed to be very aggressive with her purchase offer. The sellers were thrilled and accepted the offer. They were happy. The buyer was happy. And the transaction closed early. The buyer wrote to Barbara after closing and said this (with personal information removed):
“You have been so awesome! You made this experience more perfect than I could have ever imagined! Seriously!!! Now I am going to brag that I have the best Realtor / Real Estate Agent (not sure what the preferred title is) EVER!!!
“I grew up thinking that happy dreams were for everyone else, but thankfully I’ve been learning . . . that I deserve happiness and happy dreams, too! Thank you for being a part of this with me. I couldn’t have asked for a better person to help me. I think that the thing I like best about you is that you are genuine, Barbara and . . . that is a quality that is not easy to find nowadays, so thank you for being YOU! And being so awesome at your job!!!”
This is what we work for. This is what matters in a real estate transaction. And it doesn’t get any better this.
Let It Be and Hire a REALTOR in Sacramento
If you’ve ever wondered why it’s a good idea to hire a REALTOR, the California Association of Realtors has launched what it says is new content for REALTORS, even though the source of its data is 2012. Or, maybe that’s a typo in the artwork image. We can all make mistakes — heck, while watching the Grammy’s Salute to The Beatles a few nights back, I suddenly realized I had misheard the lyrics to Let it Be all these years later. No joke.
Turns out Paul McCartney’s mother was named Mary. Why I do not readily recall this tidbit is a mystery. I surely must have stashed away this bit of information into my memory blocks at some significant time in my childhood, just as surely as I vividly recall writing The Beatles over and over, trying to write it 5000 times during class to win a Beatles wig from a local Minneapolis radio station, and suffering the agony and instant flash of hatred toward my teacher who snatched the papers off my desk, crumpling my work into her own little twisted hands while an evil grin spread slowly across her wretched face . . .
The line in Let it Be is When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me. Don’t ask me how I managed to believe during all of these decades that The Beatles sang: When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother married constantly. It made sense to me on some weird level. Maybe I thought if you couldn’t afford to pay your bills, you could always marry into money? Some things don’t make sense like a dead skunk in the middle of the road.
It also doesn’t make sense to try to sell a home in Sacramento by yourself when you can hire an agent who, if she’s any good, will probably make you more money than you could get on your own, even after paying the agent a commission. The California Association of Realtors says on average FSBO homes sold for $184,000 versus homes sold by a REALTOR at an average price of $230,000. C.A.R. concludes that sellers lose $46,000 by not hiring a REALTOR.
Bottom line, no matter how much you think you might know all the words to your favorite songs, some of us can mess it up and get it in our heads the wrong way. Just don’t mess up your home sale by trying to go it alone. If you need an experienced and aggressive listing agent, call Elizabeth Weintraub, at 916.233.6759.
Image: California Association of Realtors
