One small thing you can do to help market your home and maybe even sell it is to make sure yoru Realtor has put in the schools that are assigned to your address. In Charlotte it is very simple. On the school system website the is a link to find your school. You put in your street address and it tells you what Elementary, Middle and High School you are assigned to for that school year.
Sometimes these can change. There has been construction of new schools, closings of others and reorginzation due to over crowding on others. But, is it not our responsibility as a Real Estate agent to know these things and make the changes appropiately?
I recentyl had a client who was looking to buy his first home. Being a renter for the past 15 years he decided to see what was availble for him to own. He had some basic requirements in terms of amount of bedrooms and bathrooms (which each of us has when we look at a house). However; he had ONE item that was non negotiable in his search...that was the High School. He was very happy with the school his daugher was at and refused to move her. So, I had to condense my search to his requirements for bedrooms and bathrooms and then search by High School.
When he decided on about three to go look at; we made appointmetns to view them. On the way to one of them we saw a comparable house in the neighborhood. The home was priced slightly less than the one we were going to look at...however; it never came up in the search becasue they NEVER put the schools in. Well, we made a showing for it and he bought it.
The moral here is had the other Realtor on the street NOT done his job properly this Realtor would not have benefitted. In this market can you afford not to have all the possible information in the system for people to search by?
Dave dicecco
Realtor/Broker
www.davedicecco.com .editdelete.
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