I'm a brand new, ink is still drying on my license agent. However I would like to add a point that has not been addressed. What about safety? I WILL not go show up at a house to meet a buyer I don't know without said buyer showing their face and meeting me at the office first. Now, that sounds paranoid and probably 99.9% of the time unnecessary. Now, after we meet and if they want to be prequalified I will show them all the houses they want to see. If they don't want to do that and need to feel more comfortable with me before doing that I will show them one house. They still will have to meet me at the office first because my safety is more important than a potential sale. Linda made excellent points and seems like a great professional that puts her clients first, I don't see any problem with anything she said. Angieanders: Congratulations! It's great when the end turns out like this.

NCREGuy, "no good deed goes unpunished" ;-) Tis a sad day when we have to be paranoid over legal ramifications of something for illustrative purposes. I used the blueprints and physically measured the house while doing this mock-up. It was surprising how "off" BP-to-Actual really was. Now my measurements were done with steel tape and probably not as accurate as laser, either. We'll be using this "for illustrative purposes only" to show floor layout and flow. Our REA will add boilerplate in the ad copy. Sorry for being semi/off-topic ;-) As we're relocating, it's interesting looking at listings here & there. Rural property is a different critter LOL and I see more pix of the pasturage, barn, out-buildings, etc than the interior of the house. Usually house interiors are very dark, as in electricity was turned off dark, and the photographer used basic camera flash. Maybe there's a card table in the middle of a room with some REA's laptop & Big Gulp adorning it. My favourite was interior & exterior (landscaped) shots of an outhouse (working...) beautifully staged with folded-corner pink toilet paper, basket of bow tied white dinner napkins, and gallon jug of Orange Goop. Yes, the property was listed as "sportsman paradise" so we knew it would be more rustic. Got me to wondering if there was a "working inhouse" in house. The ad copy showed "deep well with water rights on property" so we're pondering whether there's any house plumbing (or electricity for that matter). Sometimes I wonder if I've seen too many Parade of Homes and Gallery of Homes and have set my expectations too high :-) Here is a link that might be useful:

I think this can vary a bit depending upon your area. Our most popular listing month is April. In my town much of the "calendar" is dependent upon the university. Spring break is over by then. The people that work at the university or moving in are ready to buy at that time. It does seem to me though, that my best open houses are always in February. Personally I recommend my clients list by mid February to take advantage of the spring/summer market.

d-gw, thanks for the history on the house. So, the pool was leftover from Shinn. Interesting. So, the next owner would probably want to keep the logo in the pool. Even for waterfront, that is still at the higher end for that area. We would love to buy in that area because that's one of the few places the commutes for us wouldn't be any worse than what we have now. But we'd have to get extremely lucky to find the right property in a price range we could manage. In the Olsen home, I like the wine cellar!