Ok...so whats this about selling your house via AGR and getting points? I will be putting mine on the market in spring 2010 and would love to find out how to go about doing this. Thanks!
Al
Al, the link Alan gave you will refer you to another site,
http://www.pointsformoving.com/. That page pretty much gives you what you will need to proceed.
As for my personal experience, I had a freind named Clint that worked for Prudential and wanted to use him for an agent. So When I initiated the process, I heard back from a representative of the organization that handles the process. It's called SIRVA our of Ohio. I discussed with the woman what I wanted to do. She checked out her list of participating agencys and did not who I wanted as having previously participated. Later I discovered that they were actually listed, but under their original business name, but that's a side issue! Now, they don't necessarily need to be on their list, but they will do what they did for me... contact the agency I wanted to see if they will participate. They did and the paperwork began.
The process was pretty simple, at least so far. SERVA sent me a few papers to sign as well as to the real estate agency and shortly thereafter we were ready to go once I had the house ready for sale. Don't forget to make your initial contact at least 30 days in advance of when you anticipate you will sign the contract for the listing of your house. Also, if you're buying and/or moving, you can really rack up quite a few points if you go through that service for those activities too!
I hope when you do sell that you have as much luck as I did in how quickly the house sold. The average time for sale in our area was about 86 days on the market. We got our offer in 39 days! Didn't get quite as much money as we would like, but we did want to sell before the snow and had to risk damaging a brand new driveway with snow removal. So we priced reasonable to start.
As a note of interest, up until 1 week before we received an offer we were worring because their were practally no showings going on. We decided to try something that worked for a freind when they sold their home not too long before we did ours. We took a small statue we had of St. Joseph and buried it upside down in front of and facing the house. Believe it or not, we then got the offer within a week! Now we don't really know if that action really did help at all, but it's interesting how it did work out. They also say that if you want to get rid of a pesky neighbor, do the same thing but have the statue facing their house instead! :lol: We did have that kink of a pesky neighbor... oh, if only we had known sooner!!!
So Al, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me here on this thread or PM me if you wish!
