When I bought my house a few years ago, I was young and naive. I didn't even have a trusted realtor, I just saw a posting online and called the number. The woman who answered kind of became my agent by default. I had told her that I was only planning to stay in this house a few years, and we had her over the house two times over the last 3 years to give her professional opinion/ advice on remodeling. Well besides her opinions on that, DH & I kind of think she sucks. We would ask her for comps and stuff and all she would dig up is the house across the street that sold. Um no, I could have done that myself, and that house has an extra bedroom than ours so it's not even really comparable. She owned a wedding dress store for 25 years and only got into real estate a few years ago and we just feel like she's not up to par. But we had asked her design advice because we didn't know who else to ask, we didn't want to just call a random realtor. So I think because she came and gave advice, she assumed she would be seling our house.
A past co-worker that I'm friends with on facebook was posting about selling his house and condo. His realtor sold both of his properties within a week over list price. So I messaged him for her contact info, and when we met, H & I felt 100% more confident that we wanted to list with this woman. She just seemed so much more knowledgeable and is clearly good at what she does. We signed the papers with her and our house is going on the market tomorrow.
The original woman emailed me 2 days ago asking if we've completed the renovations, and saying that now would be a great time to list before the spring rush of inventory, and give her a call when we're ready to list. Eeeeek....awkward....do I not respond and just let her see our house hit the market with someone else? Or do you think I owe her a quick email back letting her know? I feel bad if we led her on but it's business and we need to go with the better agent.