In order to sell your home, people are going to have to see it, which means keeping your home clean, and often leaving on short notice. We try to keep the inconvenience to a minimum, but keep in mind the more people that can see your home, the better chance you have of selling. So just how do these showings occur?

Many agents will have the buyer’s agents contact you directly to arrange showings – this can be inconvenient, intimidating and quite frankly annoying. We provide our clients with a secure web site where they can view all past and upcoming showings, including feedback that has been collected. You can receive and accept or decline showing requests by phone, text message or email and you can change your preferences at anytime.

The keybox we place on your home allows REALTORS® (only REALTORS® who are current members of the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton) to have access to your home according to the instructions you establish with us. The keysafe boxes are virtually indestructable offer a number of additional features:

  • We can program the box to only open during specific hours.
  • We can add a “call before showing code” to the box as a double check to make sure each Realtor that shows the property calls the brokerage ahead of time and obtains the code to open the box.
  • Each time the box is opened the date, time and name of the REALTOR® is recorded. There is no uncertainty about who showed your property or when.

Showings can certainly be inconvenient, especially since it is best if you leave the home (and remove any loud or large pets). Typically an appointment will not be at a specific time, but will be during a time range of about an hour – the buyer’s agent can’t give specific times when they are showing numerous homes in a row since it’s impossible to know how long each showing will take. Try to be as flexible as you can.

Updates an Feedback

Of course, after you’ve put all that effort into getting your home ready for showings, and getting out of the way, you want to know how the showing went. It can be very difficult to get feedback from buyer’s agents, as they are typically quite busy and may show dozens of homes everyday. We do our best to get as much feedback as possible and provide it to you in two ways – on your secure showings web site and by email every week.

Our weekly updates include all the stats about your listing – how many visitors and page views you’ve gotten, how many times its been viewed on REALTOR.ca, a chart showing the traffic trends, the number of showings and more. This information helps us determine what is working best, and what could be improved including marketing and price.

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