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Not Including Original Email in Replys

This ever happen to you? Every time you email a Real Estate Agent, this can sometimes be a dozen agents at various agencies when getting active and looking for a property to buy. Or even just a random email query using the submit tool at domain.com or realestate.com!

Often it’s even a serious offer. But what I’m getting at is we are now in 2010 and most of us on planet earth know that to reply to someone using email you include the original copy of the email.

Every agent does not do this! They send you an email (if they bother to reply) for the most part they do and you are left wandering what property the email is about. Why? Because you might have two or three inquiries out. Sometimes it takes a week to reply.

It’s not as if I’m having a winge at one occurrence this happens every time you email an agent. RealEstate.com is the worst. I’ve let them know about it but they never change it.

To solve it so you have an orderly structured and system for emails to agents you need to actually explain it to them in black and white. At the bottom of my emails i include “Please include the original email in your reply”. Would you believe that even then some of them still don’t include it.

Sometimes you want to go back through your emails sent out particularly if you are organised and you put all your agent communications in a filter in gmail so you can find them again. If it’s two months later which can often because you might go and see if the property sold or your circumstances might change. You can not remember what property the email if referring to and what exactly your offer or questions were to the agent.

Agents are hopeless like that! It’s in there best interest to “INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL EMAIL” in client email replys. Any agents out there take not. It can lead to more sales for you. It’s common knowledge to include the original so do it!

Everyone else on the planet i know does this i don’t know why Real estate Agents don’t.

Just going to give you a little diary entry on the second deal. On the weekend i went up to my mums to see if there we’re any adds in the paper for a garage sale or clearance sale to look for things for a unit renovation. I could not find any. I wined at mum “what am i going to do now!!”. Mum passed the paper over and said go for a drive out and have a look at this property and pointed out an advertised cottage in the paper going for a very affordable price.

I gave it a little thought and ummed and erred then we got in the car drove out to have a look. To cut a long story short the numbers stacked and i could add value via renovation, built in equity on purchase day and positive cashflow from day one of about $50 per week. My negotiations could not get the price down any lower. They wanted the price they were asking and had people hovering around the deal on the day offering.

I thought to myself the asking price was good deal anyway. In something i read from Steve McKnights book at the split second when i needed something to get this deal across the line. I remember it saying, “don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth”.

I called instantly adrenalin flowing and put the offing in right on the full asking price. I couldn’t go wrong. “It’s what the vendor wanted”. The agent called later and confirmed the offer was accepted.  if your young and don’t know always remember, “Mum’s know what’s best!”

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