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April 27, 2018 by Lance Mohr

I got asked this question last week. “What's the most important quality for a real estate agent to have?” So I thought I would answer it in this video. There are so many things a buyer and/or seller should look for when hiring a Tampa real estate agent. Some that come to mind are:
1. Honesty
2. Knowledge
3. Experience
4. Availability
5. Negotiating Ability

Transcription

Hi everyone. This is your Tampa Bay realtor Lance Mohr and in this videos, I want to go over a great question I got the other day from a home buyer and that is. What is the number one quality a real estate agent should have when you work with them? Iím going to go over that in this video.
I just thought that was a really good question. I just, of course, wish I could really narrow it down to one quality and I am going to do that. I would say if you're looking for a real estate agent whether you are a buyer or a seller you really need to look for an agent that has a lot of great qualities. Not just one or two of them. You know thereís so many things. Do they have great communication? Are they honest? Are they looking out for your best interest? Do they know what they are doing? If they been in the business a while and happened a lot of experience. Are they are going to be available to show your property? What happens if they go out of town? Do they have someone in their team or someone in their office or someone they could get you in the home so you donít lose it? Do they have to know how, how to negotiate?

What is the single best quality you could have? Now before I answer that. I do want to just give a side note here. I just have to say, I think most agents out there are honest and they are really trying to do the best their home buyers and home sellers. Some of them just donít have the experience level. I want to sort of put that off because at the end of the day you to hire an agent that's honest or forget it. I just want to assume that every agent that youíre talking to that you have a good feeling that is least theyíre honest but if we take away and just put that off to the side.

I would say the number one quality an agent could have would be their knowledge. Not just book smart but more knowledge on experience. If they did, if they have been through is this our first rodeo or is it their thousands of rodeo and how do they. What experience level do they have because of weíre in a different market right now and thereís a lot of people out there? They just donít know what they are doing and I think thatís okay. I mean everybody has to learn but you want someone who knows what they are doing. Someone whoís knowledgeable. So out of everything except honesty and I'm just going to say, I think everybodyís going, to be honest out there. There are a couple bad apples but not many of them out there but put it aside honesty I would just say knowledge. That would be my number one quality. I think any real estate that youíre looking whether youíre buying a home or whether youíre selling a home should have.

Iím curious to find out what do you think. Do you agree with that? You think knowledge? Do you think availability? Do you think I should just say honesty and forget everything else? So in your input, Iíd like to know what you think. I hope this helps you. If you have any questions. Don't hesitate to reach out and contact me. If you like my videos please subscribe to my channel Click here. Click the little bell icon and youíll be notified of my videos. I wish you the best of luck whether youíre buying a home or whether youíre selling a home. Have a great day.

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The Oldest “Listing Agent” Trick In The Book

April 16, 2018 by Lance Mohr

At the end of the day, you are boss and you are the decision maker on the price of your home. Not the real estate agent, but you. So, do not get fooled like so many homeowners and hire the wrong agent based on what he or she is telling you.

Watch this video so you don't get FOOLED by the oldest real estate trick in the book.

Transcription

Hi everyone. This is your Tampa Bay Realtor Lance Mohr and I’m going to do a little bit of an unusual video today because I really want you as home sellers or future homes sellers to think about this question. Who’s really the boss? The homeowner or the realtor? I’m going to go over that in this short video.

Okay so I know this is a bit of a question you know who’s the boss the Realtor or the homeowner? I mean look right off the bat of course it’s the homeowner. It’s their home but the reason why I asked this question is because as real estate agents when we go into people’s homes to list. We all know the questions that are coming at us. And the number one question in every single solitary seller will ask is, what do you think my homes worth? What do you think it will sell for and a lot agents will go out there and they know they stopped in this answer that the homeowner may hire them based off of this? So what they’ll do is they’ll just over inflate the price because the homeowners a lot of them I should say and I know this is tough to hear.

I’ve just been in the business for so long and I talked to homeowners. I’ve talked to real estate agents and they’ll say I picked the agent because they thought it was worth this and I talked to realtors sand they say he if I basically just over inflate it or give them a little higher price they’ll pick me as a real estate agent and I’ll get the listing. So you know that does go on. So I say who’s really the boss and who’s out there making the decision certainly it’s the homeowner. You’re the owner, you’re the boss, and you’re the decision maker. At the end of the day, you’re the one determining the price of the home. Not the real estate agent. So don’t pay attention to what the real agents say at the price. Take it with a grain of salt. You want an agent that’s going to help educate you. To show you how the process works. Show you the comparable. To explain things to you then at the end of the day you’re going to put the price on the home.

There’s a video I did a while back and I’ll put it up above. It’s why do realtors take over price listings. Anyhow, you could check that out but you need to hire the agent and you need to look for an agent-based off their marketing and their negotiation skills not what they will tell your homes worth because anybody could go out there and say oh yeah it’s $350,000 home and then say oh yeah it’s worth about $400,000. I would list it for $400,000 we’ll keep it on the market a little bit then we’ll drop it. Look I don’t agree with this tactic at all. When someone asked e what their home’s going to sell for. I’ll tell them, I’m going, to be honest with them I know I may not get the listing. I don’t know they may not like it but at least you’re going to hear what you need to hear not what you want to hear but not everybody’s like that out there and I understand. I’m not knocking the real estate agents they do what they do. Sellers do what they do etc. but I wanted to give it to you straight in sort of an unusual video.

If you have any questions at all don’t hesitate to reach out. If you’re in the Tampa area looking for a good aggressive agent to sell your home? I’d love to interview for the job and if you know anybody looking at buying a home or selling a home share my videos with them. They may get some use out of them as well. I hope this helps you. Thank yours for watching my videos. Have a wonderful day.

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Realtor Reviews – Are They Real or Fake?

April 9, 2018 by Lance Mohr

Have you ever wondered if Realtor reviews are real or fake? Find out if you should believe the Realtor reviews you read online. I've seen it all over the last 20+ years in real estate and I see it's getting harder and harder to find a knowledgeable Realtor you can trust. With so many home buyers and sellers looking at online reviews of Realtors that they are thinking of hiring, I wanted to do a video on this whole review subject. Enjoy the video below.

Transcription

Hi everyone. This is your Tampa Bay Realtor, Lance Mohr and in this video, I'm going to go over realtor reviews. I'm going to talk about should you or can you trust the realtor reviews that you read online? And then I'm going to go over a true story that actually happened to me.

Realtor reviews, I understand when you're looking for a real estate agent, you want to get online, you want to look at the different reviews, you want to check everything out. And all I would say is take this with a grain of salt. And the reason is, is these are online. A lot of them could be fake. A lot of them could be vindictive. Maybe different people are saying different things. If it's a video review, I would say tend to believe that a lot more over a written review. You want to definitely look around and shop but my suggestion to you, if you're going to get reviews, look at reviews. I think it's good but also go their website, their social media account, like their Facebook business page or their YouTube channel. See what kind of person they are. See what kind of agent they are. Read up on them. Look at the reviews with a grain of salt. Again, if it's a video review, it's probably more believable. But several years, what happened to me in 2009, I had one of our competitors in the area. And what he did, he was trying to sabotage my wife and I.

My wife was in business at the time with me. And what happened is you know when you go into Google and you start typing a name, it auto fills it? This is what he was doing. He was typing in Lance Mohr is a blank, it starts with a D. And then Lance Mohr is a blank and it starts with an A. And he was typing that in for days and days. Each one of them, like 50, 60 times a day. He's hoping when people were typing in my name it would auto fill with what he was saying. Well, the reason we found this out is because we actually had a program and every time my name or my website tamps2enjoy or it was typed in, what it would do it would track it and show the IP address. We looked at it and we saw the IP address was coming from three places. It was coming from Riverview, South Tampa and Spring Hill. Well, our competitor, they lived in Riverview. Their office was in South Tampa and their second home was in Riverview. And I know this because my wife and I used to be … well, I'm saying my wife and the other gal, the other owner, they were good friends until they had a falling out because they started plagiarizing stuff on our website. Anyhow, what happened is just a few days after this was happening, I noticed two reviews came in on me almost identically on one day and then four days later and they were one star reviews. One of them basically read that “I called Lance Mohr up. I was looking at buying a home. He referred me to his buyer's agent Anthony. It was a horrible experience. Lance started spam emailing me and I was buying at 1.2 to 1.5 million dollar home.” Well, first off. Anthony and I parted ways because he went off on his own months before that. And very few people, unless they knew me or they were actually buyers back months ago, actually even knew who Anthony was, and he was already gone. And second off, why would anybody put that they're buying a 1.2 or a 1.5 million dollar home in the review? It makes no sense. Plus, where he was looking at was basically a subdivision that was in my backyard. It was right next to me. It was just absurd. And I noticed both of them came in right one and then the other one four days later. I just … I'm not saying this about myself.

I'm just saying there are competitors out there that will try to sabotage their competition. And I know agents that have had friend write reviews for them. And just take that stuff with a grain of salt. When you're looking for a real estate agent, due your due diligence. Look at the reviews. But also again, get on their website. Get on their social media pages, their Facebook business page, their YouTube channel, et cetera. Check it out. If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to give me a call. If you're looking in the Tampa Bay area, hopefully I'll get a chance to talk to you. I'd love to work with you. I wish you the best of luck in buying a home or selling a home. Have a wonderful day.

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Why Do Real Estate Agents Take Overpriced Listings?

April 4, 2018 by Lance Mohr

You may be wondering why Real Estate Agents take overpriced listings? Why would they do that when they get paid to SELL the home? Here are a few reasons. Over the years I've asked why real estate agents take an overpriced listing. I see this go on in my own neighborhood and it is very frustrating to see. Especially when you know the home will not sell and the seller will end up having to take less money than “fair market value”. This video will explain why.

If a home is overpriced it's NOT going to sell and it will become SHOP-WORN. This is not a good thing to happen to a home seller. The best thing you, as a seller can do, is choosing a Realtor that knows what they are doing and will give you the HONEST answer to the common question: “What do you think my home is worth”.

Choosing the right agent can either make you money or lose you money – it's your decision!

Transcription

Hi everyone. This is your Tampa Bay realtor, Lance Mohr and in this video, I want to talk about a question for years. Since I've been in the business over 20 years ago and that is why do realtors take overpriced listings? That’s what I’m going to talk about in this the short video.

I’m a little surprised I haven't done a video on this because I just had so many people ask me, neighbors asked me, I mean friends, acquaintances, everybody. Why do realtors take over price listings and a lot of people really don’t understand and know why? So plenty just give you a few reasons why realtors need to take over price listings. The first one is they just think of the seller has to get the home sold. They might as well be the person that list it. I had an agent tell me one time, he said “Lance what was I supposed to do if the seller is going to list the home at least it's me at the end of the day have eventually sell it and I'll get paid money. So I don't necessarily agree with that right there. I think you should be upfront and honest with someone but as long as they are then you know you’re going to have to make the decision as a seller.

Another one is just a pressure on the office. In real estate, they always say listings listings listings. The office is pretty much everywhere. Any books to read, you know any type of training we go to everything just about listings listings listings. Of course the office once the yard sign in the front yard. They want that the recognition. They want to be seen and a lot of times the agent does too. They want to sign in the yard. Maybe they want it in the yard so they can knock on doors and see if anybody else wants to sell. Where they can call on the telephone to the neighborhood “hey, I have a listing or you thinking of listing your home”.

I know the reason they may want to do it is maybe they want to sit open houses. It's a very passive way to sell a home but open houses whenever it was never really meant to sell homes from the real estate community. Most agents do it in virtually all agents do open houses because you're trying to procure a buyer. They are trying to get a buyer that they could work with. They're basically using the property as a marketing tool, have buyers come in and they need buyers. So that that so that's a way as well there's a lot of different reasons why agents may take over price listings. Those are the some of the most common reasons now I said this a lot over the years if you get higher a real estate agent hire based off of their marketing and hire them base of their negotiating skills.

If you have any questions what so ever don’t hesitate to contact me. If you know anybody looking at buying a home or selling a home share my videos with them. Hopefully, the videos will help them out. I appreciate you watching y videos. If you have any questions or concerns don’t hesitate to give me a call I’d love to answer your questions or if you’re in the Tampa Bay Area or you’re looking for a good aggressive agent to list your home and sell it let me know as well. Take care and thank you. Visit my YouTube channel https://youtube.com/tampa2enjoy for more videos from buying tips, selling tips, mortgages, builder reviews and may more.

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