the agent is the key
Based on our experience buying and selling property, having an agent you can trust, and one that trusts you, is the key. We bought-and-sold three properties in the Sunday River area of Maine in the past 12 years and used the same agent for all six transactions. It got to the point where she could read my mind (admittedly a short book). The last transaction, last year, we just wanted 'out' as instead of using it as a year-round vacation home we were spending all our free time from May through the end of October on The Big Lake. We asked her what we needed to lower the price to (it had been on the market for maybe 5 months) for it to be 'gone'. She told us and said she'd have a firm offer in a week. She was wrong. She had multiple offers and we got a tad above our final asking price. Develop a positive working relationship with your agent and you are more than halfway home.
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