Every now and then when setting up showing appointments a seller will just flat out say, No, you can’t show my house at the requested time. I will do my best to accommodate the seller since I know their household is being interrupted and they have a life outside of house showings.
The reasons given by the sellers tend to be consistent; my baby is napping, we were out of town and the house is a mess, the kids had a sleepover last night and there are 10 kids here, etc. However, the other day I was calling to set an appointment and had a seller tell me I couldn’t show his house because ‘it was too windy and he didn’t want to go outside to clean up the yard.’ Quite the excuse! I called the listing agent and mentioned the comment, as a listing agent knows possibly why this particular listing may not be selling. The listing agent was perturbed, to put it mildly.
In my experience it seems the showing denials tending to come from sellers who have had their house on the market for a longer period of time and they are just burned out with their evening and weekends being disrupted. And I can’t blame them. As a listing agent, when there is a sense of this is going on with sellers listing agents need to take this as an opportunity to sit down with the seller and discuss the pricing of the house, look to see if there is an obvious turnoff to buyers, or possibly it’s time to pull the house off the market and just not sell right now.
Overpriced listings definitely tend to say "no" to a showing more so that others, simply because they have been on the market for so long, they don't see the benefit in ANOTHER showing.
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I have seen the same. The longer a home stays on the market the less cooperative the sellers can become. There is a disturbance to normal family life but there is simply no way around that.
Now that we do not have the tax incentive, sellers will be lowering their price a heck of a lot quicker. All the buyers bought prior to last week!