This agent has 2 reviews.
1. Amy O was our listing agent. ON THE PLUS SIDE: Very nice person, has a lot of sales. Sale went smoothly, got an offer within 1 week of listing. The closing went smoothly. Response time was fairly good.
ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE:
a) Amy did not take my advice re: listing our house for $30K higher. Said we were at the max. Our house sold at list price, offer made within 1 week of listing. A house 2 doors down (inferior location, inferior amenities, same date of build) was listed shortly after ours, at $70K higher (by another agency). It sold for $50K more than ours. This confirmed my fear, that our house had been priced too low. The RE market valuation skill of our agent was clearly not up to snuff and we lost out on $30K min.
b) Bad advice: Amy advised strongly against having our home available for short-term rental at same time as home was for sale. I insisted that we wanted the ST rentals, in order to cover some of our extremely high RE taxes. Thanks to me, we were able to recoup thousands of $ in rentals at the same time as house was for sale.
c) Negotiating skills:We accepted the full list price offer, understanding that it was a cash offer. The buyer's offer stated that they could pay cash, but would still seek a mortgage. We didn't care if they wanted a mortgage, so we said OK. We later learned (due to financing delays) that the sale was actually CONTINGENT upon the buyer getting a mortgage. This was never our understanding, and Amy should have made this contingency clear to us at the start. We would have declined a contingent offer.
2020