"Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit"

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Coming to Cocoa Beach, I assume this will be a home style restaurant.  It is located in the old Rum Runners restaurant.  Rum Runners used to be one of my favorite places with great fish sandwiches, it was never the same when it changed owners.

We would like to welcome our newest agent Celeste Van Ewyk.  Celeste is a Cocoa Beach resident and will prove to be a great addition.

Celeste has already ran into a phenomenon that every Real Estate agent will run into at one time or another and if you haven't already experienced this, you certainly will. 

The phenomenon is as follows; You get a new listing and you put it on the market after you have gone over the CMA with the seller and you list it at the top of price range.  You quickly receive an offer that is very fair and if they wouldn't pay cash it probably wouldn't appraise.  Since it happens so quickly the seller thinks "I should have listed it for more money".  I guess this is human nature but what it really is that the inventory is at a all time low so there are buyers waiting on a particular property to come on the market in a certain complex or neighborhood.  Once a property appears then they quickly make a offer.  When this happens the wisest thing to do is count your blessings and your money.  When a agent has a listing on the market they never want to sell for a price below market value.  Not only is it bad for your reputation it is bad for your commission.

The same thing happens with buyers when a seller takes their first offer without countering, they think I should have offered less.  I recently represented a couple who purchased a home in Melbourne.  We did a CMA and offered $2000 less than list price, $2500 in closing cost assistance from the seller.  We came to an agreement and when we did then the buyer thought they should have offered less even though the property appraised at our price not including closing cost assistance.

Stay thirsty my friend!

Jim Bagwell