When selling your home in Tampa you have to make it market ready and keep it market ready! Making the property easily accessible for showings is highly important. Anything that stands in the way of a prospective buyer being able to see your home will cost you in some way. Most professional agents representing buyers will make appointments well in advance of showings, however many do not. Quite often agents will call the night before or the morning of a requested showing time. You must have the mindset of short notice. The seller who expects the property to be shown every day and keeps it ready to show is at an advantage. Most serious buyers do make appointments and provide adequate notice, but with the exposure provided by the many home search sites on the web today, some buyers will see a home and decide they need to see it that day! Is that you're buyer? Maybe.

Tips to Get More Showings

• List it on the MLS
• Use a Lock Box
• Short Notice OK-Easy to Show

If you can’t do a lock box, you need to be sure that you make it as convenient and easy as possible for other agents to show your home.  If they call, do whatever you have to do to accommodate letting them show your home to buyers on their schedule.  If you don’t, the agent will probably show the buyer other homes, and if that buyer makes an offer on one of them, you’ve just lost a great opportunity.

It’s best if you can leave when the agent and buyer arrive to see your home.  Buyers won’t feel comfortable with you there, and it could sour an otherwise good impression.  Buyers need to feel comfortable in taking time to see the home completely. When sellers or seller's agents are present, many buyers will feel rushed to see the property and move on.

Make it easily accessible and keep it ready to show!