Hey all, first time home, er, seller here. And am looking for advice if I'm overreacting about my perceived poor choices of my realtor, or if I'm on point. And if asking for a mutual parting of ways now that the house is on market (as of Friday) is a good idea or not. Feedback from any professionals if agents themselves a bonus.
Basically, I've felt like I had to do most of his job for him, and I don't feel confident that he feels confident in his actions. Basically, my complaints are:
-house was ready to be put on market June 24. He suggested last minute we wait until after the July 4 weekend, with a brief "coming soon" period, because the 4th of July weekend was super dead for showings and didn't want tonstaxk DOM. He got this from ChatGPT, I found out later. Sounded liie good advice initially, I question it now, especially since it put us out of the June market.
-ive had to initiate almost every interaction. Home was supposed to go on as "coming soon" July 6, and we hadn't had a final discussion on picture ordering, strategy, the blurbnfor Zillow/Realtor, etc. by July 3, when I reached out to say when would that be happening. We got it done Sunday, the day before it went up.
-I wrote the blurb myself, without him altering any of it. I kept asking for insight, and he just said it looked good, that I did a good job with it. Maybe I did, but is that normal for the seller to completely take the reigns on that?
-I also had to bring up if a supplement page for the open house would be a good idea or not (extra sheet stapled to the MLS that details all the home upgrades and whatnot).
-we continually agreed an open house the first weekend (yesterday) would be a good idea. Saturday was the plan. He abruptly suggested on Friday that it be Sunday, 1-3 instead, which seems to be another ChatGPT suggestion.
-on Saturday at 6pm, I checked Reatlor and Zillow to see if the open house was then being listed for Sunday. It was not. Had to again reach out and ask why and to get the notice up, since it would start just 19 hours later, and no one knew. He did right away, but it took another 30 mins or so for both sites to update.
-a big one was a big disagreement on the price. 3 weeks prior, we sat down, ran the comps, did the math, and agreed starting 400k would make since, which was 10k under the theoretical "maximum" value. That same Sunday before the "coming soon" listing, he panic called me about thinking the price was way off, and that it should maybe be $20k lower.
I was floored, and asked what had changed in just 3 weeks, how that made any sense, etc. His explanation was "didn't dig deep enough at the time", i.e., sounds like he came to the $400k number without really doijg his research. But, the comps he then showed me to prove his point didn't really back up his fears. I also asked why a home that was a similar style and sq. ft. And only 3 minutes away wasn't being considered for the comp, and he said it was in a different Zine Atlas, and that comps would be weighted more off of my specific street (unsurenif weighting like that is true). The whole thing was a messy and tense call. Some of the numbers made some sense, so I agreed to come out at $390k instead, which he fully backed.
That seems to be the long and short of it. Despite having 1000 views on Zillow and 28 saves in 5 days, only 1 person showed up to the open house, and zero showings so far. Which may be a whole other problem, but I feel like my confidence has been shot in my listing agent to help solve.
Am I overreacting? How risky is it, at this point, to ask for a mutal parting of ways abd starting over with a new realtor?
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