Do You Want to Buy or Sell a Home in Colorado Springs?

Interview with Clint & Laura, Colorado Springs Realtors®

1. Are you a full-time professional Colorado Springs Realtor®?

Yes! Clint & Laura are full-time Colorado Springs realtors. We specialize in Colorado Springs residential real estate. Working as your team of full-time professionals we offer some of the best service in the industry. Our professional services include, "exclusive sellers agency" and "exclusive buyers agency". We also work as "transaction brokers" when requested.

Clint & Laura have been awarded the nationally recognized GRI designation! GRI stands for Graduate, Realtor Institute. Only licensed real estate agents that are also members of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) can earn the nationally recognized GRI designation. To be awarded the GRI designation, a REALTOR® must complete a comprehensive series of courses covering a detailed curriculum. This curriculum includes Valuation, Law, Finance, Real Estate Investment, Taxation, Ethics, Construction and Land Use. Licensed Realtors who have attained their GRI designation are considered leaders in the real estate profession.

Our GRI designation shows that we are nationally recognized for our knowledge, abilities, and professionalism.

2. Do you have a personal assistant, team, or staff to handle different parts of the sales transaction?

Yes! Clint & Laura work together as a husband and wife team. We strive to maintain a personal level of service that is often compromised by realtors shuffling correspondence to their assistants. We do employ the services of an assistant to help us with the paperwork. In general, our assistant does not interface directly with our clients. By doing business in this manner we are able to maintain direct and concise communications. We feel that this type of communication enables us to provide our clients with the best possible service.

3. Do you have a website that will provide me with useful information for research, services, and how you work with home sellers and buyers? Can I have those Web addresses now?

Yes! Our web site is www.COSRealEstate.com. Why did we choose www.COSRealEstate.com for our website address? We chose COS because it is internationally known as the three letter airport code for Colorado Springs. We chose the words Real Estate for hopefully very obvious reasons.

We wanted a web address that was easy to remember, that also disclosed obvious attributes of our business. We also wanted an address that was not to long or hard to type. And that's pretty much how www.COSRealEstate.com came to be.

COSRealEstate.com is a highly functional and user friendly website. We encourage our clients to use it. We are dedicated to improving this website. Should you have suggestions regarding functionality or find any errors please forward them. We will make every effort to make changes accordingly.

4. How will you keep in contact with me during the selling process, and how often?

We believe that good communications are a key ingredient in any real estate transaction. First and foremost we ask our clients how, how often, when and where they want to be contacted. We know that selling your Colorado Springs home can produce numerous questions that require answers promptly. We also know that many of our clients are busy professionals with little or no time during their business day. We can schedule communications, daily, weekly or any interval in-between. We have office phones, cell phones, emails and fax machines. We answer our email twice daily. We are available by phone during the day including evenings and weekends. Should we not answer, you will be automatically forwarded to our voice mail, and we do return all calls promptly!

5. Can you explain one thing that you do that ensures I'm getting top dollar for my property?

EXPOSURE, Exposure, exposure! Our approach is simple but often overlooked by others! First we do a detailed market analysis of your Colorado Springs home. We will not just show up at your home with a predetermined price in mind. We will in fact verify square footage measurements against county records, discuss any improvements or upgrades that have been done. Identify any deferred maintenance that needs attention and determine the overall condition and marketability of your home. With this information and current market data we will derive a high-low price range for your home the following day. Days on market will often be determined by the way you decide to price your home within this range. Once price is determined, your Colorado Springs home will be submitted to three marketing venues, International, National, and Local. International and National marketing is done via the internet. We market locally in several ways, Pikes Peak Multiple Listing Service, Numerous real estate publications, local newspapers, and targeted mail. We also solicit other realtors in the area regarding our properties listed for sale this is done via mail, email, and by phone.

6. Will you give me names of past clients who will give references for you?

Yes! Just ask...

7. Do you have a performance guarantee? If I am not satisfied with your performance, can I terminate our listing agreement?

We do not offer a performance guarantee. But, our listing agreements can in fact be terminated prior to expiration. As Colorado Springs Realtors® at Keller Williams Realty we understand the importance of win-win business relationships, and that the Realtor® does not benefit if the client does not also benefit. Should you decide to terminate you listing simply let us know when and why. Our business is referral based, we do all our business accordingly.

8. How will you get paid? How are your fees structured? May I have that in writing?

We work on commission. We do not charge any administration or special service fees. Our commission schedules are disclosed during the listing process. We provide an estimate of all costs involved in selling your Colorado Springs home this includes an estimate of your net proceeds.

9. How would you develop pricing and marketing strategies for our home? Will you commit to the marketing strategy in writing?

Colorado Springs Realtors, Clint & Laura know that pricing your Colorado Springs home correctly is the single most important factor in determining if it sells quickly, or at all. Although location and condition also effect the selling process, price is a primary factor. In some situations we may order an appraisal prior to determining a price for your Colorado Springs home. This is often the case for true custom homes and homes on acreage. The information used to create the market analysis may also include For Sale By Owner homes, foreclosed homes, and bank-owned, when available. We are happy to provide you with a detailed marketing plan for your home.

10. Who determines where and when my Colorado Springs home is marketed and how it is promoted? Who pays for your advertising?

We are constantly fine tuning our marketing strategy and increasing our annual budget. In general all marketing is included in our commission schedule. Please contact Clint & Laura, Colorado Springs Realtors to discuss all marketing options available.