Anne and Eddie McKechnie

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Kim your comment would be good if there was some type of uniformity as to how appraisals are currently done. I recently had a home that was appraised three different times, two were close to the list price, but the first was off by $30,000.....and was a bad appraisal..... there were comps used from 4 miles away when there were recent sales in the subdivision. Unfortunately the inadequacy and unwillingness of the appraiser to add comps that were requested by the bank or to consider upgrades, lot, cost the seller another independant appraisal, and my client to change banks to see if she could get a different number. This seems to be an ongoing experience here. It is like tossing a coin to see if you get an appraiser that even lives in Tucson to appraise your home.

I agree most people are missing the great impact the internet has on listings and how they are now found. Telling your client/seller that you are going to put them in the Sunday newspaper and magazines and not provide them with comprehensive advertising apart from their own Brokerage site on the internet is not giving them full service advertising.

Hi Teresa, Well said, and we don't do Open Houses either. A better way to service your client is to advertise using the best means possible, on the internet, where people are looking for their next home