Listing Liberties

How are we all doing with Bright MLS these days? Love it or hate it, Bright has opened a few doors on the Listing Input Sheet that we did not have Pre-B.



For example, I should now be able to look at a listing and see whether the property has a first floor master, what the flooring is in each room, what level each room is on, and so much more.

I only use those three examples because they are particularly important. How many times do we have a buyer who has a specific need due to any multitude of reasons? How many of us take a few “Listing Liberties”? With all these fields to input, I should be able to look at a listing and see if this property could possibly meet my buyers’ needs. Are we doing our sellers justice if we skip some of these important pieces of information? I don’t want to waste my time, your seller’s time or my buyer’s time by going to see a property that simply won’t work. Nor do I want to get your seller’s hopes up only to tell the listing agent that the property won’t work because my buyers have severe allergies and nothing was mentioned about pets. Information that may not be important to us could surely be important to buyers.

Listen, I get it . . . the idea is to get buyers into the house. But please, please complete the Input Sheet to the best of your knowledge. Don’t check “rancher” if it’s a “bilevel”. Don’t check “See Comments” and then skip making a comment. We’ve been hired to do a job. We are well paid to do it. Let’s do it right.

Nancy Sarley, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices HomeSale Realty

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