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How to Find a Listing Agent

by Chuck Marunde / Sunday, 28 June 2015 / Published in Buyer's Agent, Selling Your Home

How do you find a listing agent who can help you get your home sold? The following is taken from a chapter in The 7 Myths of Selling Your Home. The book includes many insider secrets that homeowners have never thought about, and this topic on what sellers need in a listing agent is very likely a revelation for most sellers.

Listing Agent

I got a call from a retired couple who wanted to meet with me in their gorgeous home. They had listed their home for a year with another agent. It had not sold, and they shared that there had been very little activity, that they did not hear much from their agent, and they didn’t get satisfactory answers from their listing agent about what to do next to market their home. They came to the conclusion that simply putting it in the MLS was not enough. We discussed what a listing agent is expected to do, and too often what a listing agent does not do.

I met with them, and they asked me how I do what I do. They found me on the Internet and realized I had the largest Internet presence of any agent they could find on the Olympic Peninsula. After 40 minutes of explaining to them how I sell so many homes and how I connect with so many qualified buyers, the husband had an epiphany and turned to his wife, “Honey I know what we’ve been doing wrong. We were looking for a listing agent when we should have been looking for a buyer’s agent like Chuck who actually connects with so many qualified buyers.”

Listing Agent Revelation

It was a marvelous moment, a moment of truth and revelation. This gentleman had articulated something I knew but had never expressed so clearly. A home seller today wants an agent who is connecting with qualified buyers and selling a lot of homes himself. The revelation was that traditional listing agents are not necessarily that kind of agent today, if they ever were. This client came to the realization that the ideal listing agent today is most likely a great selling agent who also knows how to list and market homes. 

The more you think about it, the more sense it makes. Why list with someone who just lists properties? Why not list with someone who sells a lot of properties by directly connecting with buyers? That would be like getting both a listing agent and a buyer’s agent who finds all the buyers in one package. My argument to home sellers is that I do all the effective things traditional listing agents do (without wasting time and money on what does not work), plus I do a whole lot more marketing to qualified buyers.

Eureka! This is like discovering a hidden secret that few home sellers ever discover. It took me many years to come to this realization myself, but then all of this has been part of the evolutionary changes taking place over many years in the industry. Changes in technology, the Internet, and consumers’ changing preferences and habits have made huge leaps, but many of these leaps have not been recognizable at the time. It’s only later as we look back that we can see clearly what has happened.

These folks listed their gorgeous home with me, and guess what? Another agent representing the buyer sold it. Hallelujah! Notice I didn’t exaggerate and say, “I listed it, and I sold it.” I told the truth and said I listed it and another agent sold it. But there is more to the story. This success was not the result of simply listing a property and throwing it in the MLS and doing nothing. These buyers specifically revealed that they bought it after viewing the extensive video and photos I took and published all over the Internet, and the articles and sales descriptions (and below the hood all the search engine optimization).

In other words, while another agent represented the buyer in this transaction, the buyer found the home and was persuaded to buy it because of my marketing material and the system I had in place on the Internet that this buyer found by specifically searching for her dream home. The buyer did not find this home because their buyer’s agent had a big marketing system.

By the way, the video was not a virtual tour consisting of duplicates of the photos in the MLS. It was real video with my sellers in the video talking about the features of their gorgeous home. Their listing was published in two MLS systems, syndicated to hundreds of sites, written about on a powerful and highly ranked real estate blog, and photos, videos, and other resources for buyers were created and broadcast to qualified buyers around the United States.

Multiple websites and blogs and mobile search tools and information were created specifically for qualified buyers. Special SEO (search engine optimization) was used for the specific features of this home so buyers who searched for this exact kind of home would find it. So connecting with this qualified buyer was part of my job as a listing agent, and I did exactly that. There was no luck involved. If anyone was lucky, it was the agent who the buyer called up and asked to write the offer.

Traditional Listing Agent No Longer

This is why I say the traditional dividing line between a listing agent and a buyer’s agent is no longer a valid separation when it comes to choosing and hiring an agent to list and sell your home. Today the most effective listing agent may actually be what some call a buyer’s agent, but only because that agent sells so many homes directly to buyers through his own powerful marketing system. That’s exactly what you want in a listing agent. The best listing agent today is the best buyer’s agent who has the largest marketing system to sell your home.

Whether you’re looking for a listing agent in Sequim or anywhere in the country, the rules in this book are valid in any market. Learn more about hiring your listing agent from The 7 Myths of Selling Your Home, available online now at Selling Your Home.

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About Chuck Marunde

After practicing real estate law for 20 years in Washington, Chuck opened iRealty Virtual Brokers covering the Sequim and the beautiful Olympic Peninsula. Chuck is the author of numerous magazine and Internet articles with a primary focus on real estate. He is also the author of over a dozen books, mostly about Sequim real estate. Chuck is a photographer, videographer, and Registered FAA Drone Pilot. Chuck has combined his love for real estate and technology to create a growing Internet presence in his market, and enjoys building his websites and blogs, including SequimBlog.com and Sequim4Sale.com and LuxuryWaterViewHomes.com. Chuck has degrees in Economics, Law, and Education.

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Chuck E. Marunde, J.D.

Sequim Buyer's Agent
(Atty Ret.)
Founder and Broker of
Sequim & Port Angeles Real Estate dba iRealty Virtual Brokers
125 Olympic Ranch Ln,
Sequim, WA 98382
(360) 775-5424
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From Los Angeles

It's rare, but once in awhile life provides the perfect collaborator for an important endeavor such as buying your new home. For me that person was Chuck Marunde. His two decade background as a Real Estate Attorney, his prolific career as an author of articles and books on Real Estate and his forthright and moral character made choosing Chuck a no-brainer. Chuck is dedicated, thorough, incredible at the negotiating table, knowledgeable about all local laws & regs but, most importantly, Chuck loves what he does. And what he does is find his client the perfect property. Chuck isn't about making the sale, he's about making the sale that is OPTIMUM for his CLIENT and this makes Chuck a rare bird indeed. I love my new home in Sequim and I am indebted to Chuck for making it happen. Kevin E.

From Seattle

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Chuck over the past three years in selling my parent's estate. It was a tough time to sell during the housing recession, but Chuck always kept things on the positive side. With his real estate law background, he offers sound, practical advice. He helps you along with the process using discussions and reason, rather than opinions and speculations. If Chuck doesn’t know the answers, he will get them for you. In several instances, Chuck took the initiative to meet with county officials to get up-to-date facts about zoning and regulations. I was always impressed with his company’s tech savvy communi-cations and internet presence: weekly email updates, blogs, videos, links, Linked-in networking, etc. He is truly pioneering the future of buying & selling real estate. Brian M.

From California

"Andy Romano is a successful motion picture character actor with over 40 years in 'the Biz.' Mr. Romano has a home in beautiful Santa Barbara, California, but he chooses to live most of the time in Sequim, Washington on the Olympic Peninsula in the great Pacific Northwest. Why? In his own words, 'Because it's even more beautiful and surrounded by more beauty in this incredibly peaceful and quiet place. With respect to real estate agents or brokers, well my friend Chuck Marunde, owner of Sequim and Port Angeles Real Estate, is hands down the best there" Andy R.

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From Florida

We do our homework for the task at hand and we look for and expect to enlist partners that do the same. It was our good fortune to select Chuck Marunde of Sequim and Port Angeles Real Estate to represent us as a buyer's broker in our search for a home in the Sequim/Port Angeles area. Chuck's site is all encompassing and super fast compared to many others, he knows the market at every conceivable level and his guidance through the process of selecting and purchasing a home is priceless - above and beyond that of anyone with whom we have ever worked. Add to all this his 20 year background in real estate law and you have discovered a superb asset in the adventure of purchasing a home. Greg and Marilyn

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