Agent for the Ozarks Blog

People of the 21st Century do not accept sales pitches and smoke being blown over their heads like the good old days.  They need to hear that things are not moving like they were and that prices are not as high as they were, just to know you are telling them the truth.  Continuing to tell your clients that things are looking good and their property will sell at their hoped for price any day now is probably not going to be received very well, once they have had time to think about your message to them.  I have been watching the local agents in the Branson MLS lower and raise prices on real estate from week to week, seemingly without reason.  I guess they hope it will attract some attention with the price change itself but today there were almost as many raising their prices as lowering them, which is unusual.  Mostly they have been lowering them recently to reflect the slowing market, but with that many being raised, maybe they felt they had previously lowered them too much, or just had to do something to attract attention and could not get the seller to agree to lower them any more so they had to raise them just a little to make a change.  I have been telling my clients to wait and see what happens, it may be after the election people will settle down and start buying again, right now there seems to be so much economic, political, and future uncertainty that folks just do not want to make that big of decision till they know more about what the future holds.  Whatever the reason, better times have to be ahead because they could not be much slower than they have been lately.  Hold on, tell the truth, and it will all seem like a bad dream a year from now:)