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Our client needs always come first. We will strive to provide value in excess of our clients expectations. Our constant goal is mutual respect and long term relationships that are beneficial to all parties. Our office is a great place to work and do business! We will be positive, helpful and enthusiastic at all times always focusing on solutions, not challenges. We will take care of business first and foremost, but have fun and enjoy ourselves in the process. We will run a clean, organized and efficient operation, and always adhere to the highest standards of integrity and ethical business practices. We will never rest on our accomplishments. We will constantly strive to create, develop, and implement new ideas, strategies and services that will benefit our clients. We will continue to seek continuing education in all aspects of our business to increase the level of service we offer our clients.
If you not satisfied with our service, you can cancel the listing within 24 hours, no questions asked.
(The AnnapolisHomes4You.com TEAM are devoted full-time REALTORS - not part-time real estate agents.)
Finally, we will send out a letter with a picture of your new home, delivered to 20 friends/family giving out your change of address! Welcome home! Is there any question why The Pat Ogle and the AnnapolisHomes4You TEAM often sells homes for 98.6% of the asking price in as little as 30 days on the market? Compare this to other local real estate agent averages! You can see that our 75 Step System has proven to be effective! All Agents are NOT equal! Professors have Doctorates ... Physicians have Medical Degrees ...
How can you tell if your Real Estate Agent has the knowledge and experience you need? Designations mean your Agent has invested his/her time and money to attend courses, take and pass difficult exams and achieve specified levels of professional achievement in order to earn each designation. This translates into a professional with advanced degrees assisting you in protecting YOUR biggest asset! Pat Ogle is a CRS-Certified Residential Specialist, e-PRO-Certified Internet Professional, GRI-Graduate Realtor Institute, a CRIS-Certified Residential Investment Specialist and a Champion Buyer Representative, member of the Distinguished Sales Achievement Club of the Anne Arundel County Association of REALTORS, and has been awarded the National Sales Award by the National Realtor Institute. This level of education is like having a Ph.D. in Real Estate! Whats your biggest fear when you list your home with a Real Estate Agent? Its simple. You worry about being locked into a lengthy Listing Agreement with a less than competent real estate agent, costing your home valuable time and exposure on the market. Well, worry no more. The AnnapolisHomes4You.com TEAM takes the risk and the fear out of listing your home with a real estate agent. How? Through our EASY EXIT Listing Agreement. When you list your home through our EASY EXIT Listing Agreement, you can cancel your listing with us at any time. No hassles. Its easy. You can cancel your listing anytime You can relax, knowing you wont be locked into a lengthy contract Enjoy the caliber of service confident enough to make this offer Only one restriction applies We ask that you voice your concern and give us seven (7) days to try and fix the problem. That seems fair, doesnt it? If we cant fix any concerns within the seven day period, you are free to withdraw your listing. Pat Ogle also guarantees that if your home is not SOLD by the close of business (9 p.m.) on the sixtieth (60th) day after the home has been entered into the Multiple List System, Pat Ogle will pay you a $1000.00! Pat and the TEAM have strong opinions about Real Estate service. They believe that if you are not satisfied with the service you receive, you should have the power to fire your agent, and if they do not perform up to their standards, they should not have to be paid. 1. Do you work as a full-time REALTOR? 2. How many potential Buyers and Sellers do you talk with in a week? A month? Of those you speak with, how many actually contact you as opposed to cold calling? 3. How many Buyers are you currently working with? 4. In what ways will you encourage other EALTORS to show and sell my home? 5. What can you tell me about the Real Estate market in this area? 6. What price do you recommend for my home, and what on what is it based? 7. What is your average number of days a home is on the market before selling? 8. What is your list to sales price ratio? 9. What kind of advertising do you do? May I see some samples? 10. How often will my home be advertised and where? 11. How do you attract Buyers from outside the local area? 12. Will you prepare an informative feature sheet for my property? May I see a sample? 13. Where and how will the feature sheets be distributed and to whom? 14. Do you have a system to follow-up with other Agents and Brokers so that we get valuable feedback after every showing? 15. How often and in what way will I be kept informed? 16. Are you associated with a national referral network that refers their Buyers to you and gives you the opportunity to refer me to the top Agent in the town or state I to which I am moving? 17. Do you have a Team to help with the details, or are you a one man /woman wonder show and do it all yourself? 18. Do you have a way to market my home through the Internet or Virtual Tours? 19. Do you have a specific Marketing Plan designed to sell my property quickly and for top dollar? How does it go beyond placing a sign in my yard, an ad in the paper and notifying the Multiple Listing Service? 20. May I see a copy of your last listing as it appears to other REALTORS on the MLS? (Called a Realtors Full Report) 21. Do you have an 800# Hot-Line so that my home is marketed 24-hours a day, 7 days a week? 22. How many homes have you sold in the past 6 months? Year? 22. Do you have references that I may call? 23. What happens if I am not happy with your service? Do you have a 100% satisfaction guarantee policy? Can I cancel my listing if I am not satisfied or am I locked in? Take time to gather the information you need to make an informed decision! That means 11 other homes are competing against yours. In todays market, buyers are increasingly savvy. Many Sellers are testing the market, resulting in a high number of listings. This means the competition is stiff! Working together, we can make sure your home gets the attention it needs to stand out from the pack. Your job is to make your home bright, shiny and clean - as close to a model home as possible. Our job is to tell the world and work to gain maximum market Exposure! There are 5 essential ingredients that comprise the formula for a successful sale of your home: CONDITION LOCATION MARKET TERMS PRICE Your home will sell at highest profit and in the quickest amount of time when all the ingredients are combined perfectly. If only one ingredient is left out of the formula or is out of proportion to the other ... your home will take longer to sell and will, quite possibly, COST YOU MONEY!
The pricing of your home must reflect its location. The better the location, the higher the acceptable price. School districts, high or low traffic and highway accessibility all need to be considered in determining the value of your homes location. We cannot control the location.
The pricing of your home must accurately reflect its condition. The general upkeep and presentation of your home is critical to obtaining the highest value for your home. The roof, plumbing, carpets and paint all relate to condition. (BASIC RULE: If we can smell itwe cant sell it!)
Recession, inflation, interest rates, mortgage availability, competition and the publics perception of the general economy all make up the market. It may be a Buyers market or a Sellers market. The pricing of your home must reflect the current nature of the market because we cannot influence the market. We can, however, take advantage of the market.
The more financing terms and options you accept, the more potential Buyers there will be for your property. The pricing of your home must reflect the terms available. The easier the terms, the more valuable your property becomes. ( This is where my TEAM of professional affiliates really shine, by offering a broad, full spectrum of mortgage products and options to both you and all potential Buyers! The consequences of making the wrong decision are painful. If you price your home too low, you will literally give away thousands of dollars that could have been in your pocket. Price your home too high and your home will sit unsold for months, developing the reputation of a problem property (everyone will think that thee is something wrong with it). Failure to understand market conditions and properly price your home can cost you thousands of dollars and cause your home not to sell fouling up all of your future plans. We wont let this happen to you! Setting the proper asking price for your home is the single biggest factor that will determine the success or failure of your home sale. Utilizing the latest computer technology and our depth of knowledge of the market, we will analyze current market conditions in combination with your personal time requirements to identify the correct price range for your home. You can't afford any guesswork in this critical step! What you paid for your property does not affect its value. The amount of money you need to get out of the sale of your property does not affect its value. What you think it should be worth has no affect on value. What another Real Estate Agent says your property is worth does not affect its value. An appraisal does not always indicate what your property is worth on the open market. The value of your property is determined by what a ready, willing and able Buyer will pay for it in the open market, which will be based upon the value of other recent closed sales. BUYERS DETERMINE VALUE!! DO NOT automatically list with the Agent that gives you the highest price. Consumer Reports, July 1990 stated Expect the Agent to suggest a price range, but dont let that frame you in. Be aware that some devious Agents will, at first, suggest a very handsome price. Then, after they have the listing and the house hasnt sold, theyll come back with a pitch to lower the price. When you work with the AnnapolisHomes4You.com Team, we want to act in YOUR best interests. Were eager to have you share your concerns & expectations about the sale of your home. What are you most concerned about? LESS INCONVENIENCE: As you may know, it takes a lot of time and energy to prepare your home for showings, i.e., keeping the property clean, making arrangements for children and pets and generally alteing your lifestyle. Proper pricing shortens market time. INCREASED SALESPERSON RESPONSE: When salespeople are excited about a property and its price, they make special efforts to contact all their potential Buyers and show the property whenever possible. EXPOSURE TO MORE PROSPECTS: Pricing at market value will open your home up to more people who can afford it. BETTER RESPONSE FROM ADVERTISING: Buyer inquiry calls are more readily converted into showing appointments when the price is not a deterrent. HIGER OFFERS: When a property is priced right, Buyers are much less likely to make a low offer for fear of losing out on a great value. MORE MONEY TO SELLERS: When a property is priced right, the excitement of the market produces a higher sales price in less time. You NET more due to the higher sales price and lower carrying costs. REDUCES ACTIVITY: Agents wont show the property if they feel it is priced too high. LOWER ADVERTISING RESPONSE: Buyer excitement will be generated by other properties that offer better value. LOSS OF INTERESTED BUYERS: The property will seem inferior in amenities to other properties in the same price range that are correctly priced. ATTRACTS THE WRONG PROSPECTS: Serious Buyers will feel that they should be getting more for their money. HELPS THE COMPETITION: The high price makes other homes look like a good deal. ELIMINATES OFFERS: Since a fair priced offer will be lower than the asking price and may insult the Seller, many Buyers will just move on to another property. CAUSES APPRAISAL PROBLEMS: Appraisers must base their value on the selling prices of comparable properties. LOWER NET PROCEEDS: Most of the time, an overpriced property will eventually end up selling for less than if it had been properly priced to begin with, not to mention the burden of extra carrying costs. Unlike most agents that run image advertisements that focus on themselves and how great they are, the AnnapolisHomes4You.com EAM utilizes Response-Generating Marketing that focuses on potential Buyers and what they really want! These ads are much different than those that most Agents run. A very high number of prospects call because of these non-threatening, emotion-arousing ads! These strategies, combined with the cutting edge technology of our 24-hour Automated Marketing System provide us a steady stream of qualified Buyers. This incredible System allows callers to receive detailed information about your home and even have a feature sheet on your home faxed to them 24 hours a day! The System also allows us to track exactly how many calls are received on every house and from each ; it even captures the callers phone number and most names and addresses.
Each Buyer is interviewed to determine the features and specifications that they are looking for in a home. That data is then entered into a computer system that will list the homes that match the Buyers criteria. Buyers are given the features and benefits of those homes that meet their criteria, and will be assisted through each step of the process. We focus all our efforts on finding a Buyer for your home, unlike traditional Agents who passively wait for a Buyer to come along. The system allows us to give exceptional service to a large inventory of Buyers.
100+ MILLION PEOPLE In keeping pace with innovation and advancements in computer technology, we now will place your home on our Internet site AnnapolisHomes4You.com, along with AnnapolisWaterfrontHomes4You.com, ChampionRealty.com, Realtor.com, Homedatabase.com, Google.com, Yahoo.com and 90 other sites. We are constantly looking for ways to give our clients advantages over competitors in the marketplace that go beyond the traditional methods of marketing and promotion. We pay to have each of our listings enhanced on Realtor.com.
And the best partwe will take these digital photos immediately and they will be submitted the same day your home hits the MLS!!! Significant portions of our Buyers come from outside the local area. These are often job transfers, corporate relocations and Tri-State area Buyers seeking a more rural lifestyle. As members of several relocation and referral networks, we get the information on these Buyers before anyone else. This provides more potential Buyers for your home, since we always try to show our own listings first to these qualified Buyers! We are plugged in to: o The ReLo Relocation Network o Certified Residential Specialist Referral Network o e-PRO Internet Referral Network o Local Chamber of Commerce o RealTalk Group of Top Agents Across The Country o The Militarily Relocation Referral Network When an offer is presented on your home, you will have three basic choices in deciding how to respond. 1. Accept the offer. 2. Reject the offer. 3. Make a counter offer. Together we will thoroughly analyze the offer and discuss its strengths and weaknesses. After studying the entire contract, we will give you our recommendation, and then you will decide how to respond. This is where a competent Agent can be worth their weight in gold, because having the right wording or contingency clause in the Contract can mean the difference between a smooth transaction and a messy court battle. Being intricately familiar with Real Estate Contracts, we know how to protect your best interests. Our vast experience in contracts and negotiation will benefit you!
The Pat Ogle & the AnnapolisHomes4You TEAM sells a lot of Real Estate. Perhaps they are too busy to pay attention to my listing. TRUTH: Just as great restaurants are always busy and superior doctors have a heavy patient load, The AnnapolisHomes4You.com TEAMs success in marketing and selling homes has resulted in a busy schedule. But like good restaurants and doctors, Pat has assembled a TEAM of top-notch people to assist with all of the details. The result is outstanding customer service and support. The long list of satisfied clients speaks for itself. MYTH: A discount broker can do just as well and save me money. TRUTH: Successfully marketing a property in our competitive marketplace takes skill and resources. All of the promotional costs such as photos, brochures, printing, signs, advertisements, MLS fees, direct mail, etc. are paid for by Pat Ogle. How will a discount broker offer such a complete marketing campaign? Does the discount broker have a team to personally tend to your specific needs? Do they have a proven track record of success, or are they just using the lower commission to try to win your business? Do they have the expertise to guide you through the problems that often develop during the closing process? Remember that you only actually pay a brokerage fee if and when your property SELLS. Many Sellers have found that their commission with a discount broker was really zero, because their property never SOLD! It is interesting to note that a discount broker does not have a dominant market share in any major city in the country. MYTH: I should select the Agent that suggests the highest list price. TRUTH: This is the oldest scam in Real Estate sales! Agents tell the Seller what they want to hear, compliment the home, and agree to list it at an unrealistically high price just to get the listing. Then, after they have the listing for a few weeks, they start telling the Seller that they need to reduce the price. Pat doesnt play any games. AnnapolisHomes4You.com provides a well researched computerized market analysis to determine the true realistic price that your home will bear in todays marketplace. The decisions of which Agent to list with and what price to ask are two completely separate decisions. Never select an Agent based on the price they suggest. Rather, select your Agent based on their CREDENTIALS and MARKETING PLAN, and then decide on price together! MYTH: Property condition is not that important to Buyers. TRUTH: WRONG! A property in superior condition will sell faster and for a higher the price than a home in average condition. Buyers purchase properties that are the most appealing, and a home in great condition with a reasonable asking price always tops the list. Sellers that invest in necessary repairs and keep their home clean and fresh always reap the rewards!
Empty homes are harder to sell than occupied homes. TRUTH: Vacant homes often sell faster for several reasons, but again it all depends on condition. A vacant home that is clean, in good repair and priced fairly will sometimes sell fast because the rooms will appear larger without furniture and clutter. Buyers can more easily visualize their furnishings in the home, and most Agents prefer to show vacant homes because they can go anytime without worrying about making appointments, etc.
MYTH: Pricing a home for sale is a mysterious process. TRUTH: Your home will sell for what the market will bear. To determine the range of value for your home, it takes a solid knowledge of the market. And because every home is unique, your home will sell more near the high or low end of the range depending on its specific attributes like location and condition. AnnapolisHomes4You.com utilizes a computer database along with years of experience to help you decide where to set the price. It is not simple, but it isn't mysterious either. Selling your home is a complex process, and its only natural for you to have some questions and concerns. Please dont hesitate to ask any question that you may have. When it comes to selling your home, there is no such thing as a dumb question! |
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