Leesa, I don't even ask for the feed back on my listings anymore. On a good day, I have clients going out back to back. We look at over a dozen homes. How does an agent expect me to remember what a client said about a particular home? Unless it is so great or so horrible, I don't have much to say about it. I have gone to an agents "open house" (many) and there is not even a piece of paper to write down your comments. When I am showing homes I can barely keep the appointment times never mind the comments. If I ask you for the property disclosure or send you a contract - it ain't that great a listing.

Leesa I have found feedback very helpful.  But my clients just didn't take what we said as seriously as they did when they saw it in writing.  We set up a free email feedback and so far it has worked really good.  Check out showingfeedback.com  I think you will like it.

Jana

I can't get feedback from other agents but I understand that not everyone works like I do. I will typically leave my business card with the comments that were made by my clients(condensed and filtered) on the back. Short and sweet, nothing elaborate. Not nasty, this is my business card I am talking about so I keep it sweet as possible. If nothing nice to say I say "thank you".

Leesa, a most interesting topic. We use CSS for showings and automated feedback as well. Some agents send, others don't bother.

Most of the feedback is thanks for letting me view the property, it was very nice, we bought something else. Not very helpful but at least they responded.

I think you have to give to get and that is why I provide as good a feedback as I can when showing other agent listings and can only hope for the same on my listings.

But I would tell my sellers that while you might try very hard to get feedback from every agent who shows the home, it's really out of your hands if they refuse to cooperate.

And at the end of the day, the only good feedback is a contract.

Hello. On feedback. Yes, there are times when the home has been a dozen of other showings and I don't even remember which one it is.

First of all, I always put a photo of my listing on the request for feedback, to help them remember. I do forward to my seller if I think it is helpful, but no if I don't. No reason to give them negative when I knmow it is untrue. Some agents just write hateful comments cause they are jealous. Yes, it happens, no reason to share that. You should know if your listing shines, or not. And if you want to invite negative, to get those folks to reality share it. If not. OK.

I don' understand the need for feedback from other agents. If you are the listing agent all of those feedback items that you think you need should be discussed when you take the listing.  If you don't know what it takes to put your property in first class shape and know what the real price it will take to market the home, then maybe you should take the listing.  I'm to busy to have time to give you feed back, many times my feedback would to clean it up, reduce the price 20% and get a new agent.  That's the way it is. Oct 29,2007.

Dennis,

Have a great real estate evening.

Dennis,

When you have only a few showings, like I have a high end listing, the seller wants to know. What happened. Did I make a mistake? Was the house not clean enough? Should I have chose Rose carpet instead of beige? They want to know. That is why. Actually on all listings they want to know. Sometimes, it maybe a spouse that left the dishes in the sink before showing, could they tell the spouse, hey   your fault, you left dishes in the sink, and by the way, nothing worse than that, bad smells, dirty dishes, trash that was not out. Sometimes, agents think , oh I need to stage this home, sometimes it is the simple things. Trash out. no smells, etc.....

Sometimes giving good feedback can actually help the buyer's rep.

There would be interest except the windows are old and potential buyer doesn't like the color of the carpet and paint. Well maybe the seller would be willing to install new windows and give an allowance for the rest. In fact those issues might even be something you just discussed with your seller.

Also, what goes 'round comes 'round. It won't always be a buyers' market. When it becomes a sellers' market again, you might not be notified of other offers coming in on a house your buyer is interested in. "Remember when you never gave me feedback? Shoe's now on the other foot."

While representing your current buyers, you also need to think of your future buyers. If you can't take the time to return a call or e-mail to a fellow Realtor, you may want to consider hiring an assistant. My parents taught me as a child, that it's common courtesy to return calls.

Leesa-

Exatamundo! It's another sales tool :)

I meant exactamundo. But it could still be misspelled.

Your home sellers must be very different than those I deal with here in my Great State of New Jersey. I have had homeowners tell me they wanted input. I have even heard them say they would love some suggestions on getting their home sold. Once upon a time I believed what they told me. I even spent good money and a lot of time (that's not valuable!) to get them "feedback". Turns out they ain't doing that. If they did all that they wouldn't be moving. Go figure.

Today. It's just not the right house for them. Or, they are still looking. Am I lying?

I think I have that song on a 45 (pre album, pre cd, even pre-8 track). I just don't have a record player anymore that will play it. :)