Tips for Choosing a Listing Agent

Before you choose a listing agent who ends up disappointing you, consider criteria for finding the best listing agent you can.

Because all agents are not the same. You can't expect an agent to simply plop your home into MLS and let it miraculously sell itself. Especially not in buyer's markets.

I receive daily SOS e-mails from distraught sellers begging me to tell them how they can legally get rid of their no-good agent. There are good agents and bad agents. It helps to hire a good agent from the beginning so you don't end up feeling used and abused.

Sellers get into that position because they often make two big mistakes based on common misconceptions when selecting an agent to list their home . . . read more about ways to Choose a Listing Agent.

More Articles by Elizabeth Weintraub:

• Do You Need Two Agents to Buy and Sell?
  

• The Right Answers to Agent Interview Questions
  
• Saying Adios to Your Agent

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_{At the time of writing, Elizabeth Weintraub, DRE # 00697006, is a Broker-Associate at Lyon Real Estate in Sacramento, California.}