FAQs

You should hire us for the same reason that hundreds of sellers use us year in and year out. They know that they can depend on us to get them the most money, in the shortest amount of time, with the fewest hassles and the least amount of risk.

Our No Risk or Obligation Home Marketing system offers benefits that the ordinary agent does not. Our program offers flexible commissions to put more money in your pocket, a client reward program when both buying and selling that actually rebates cash back to you, a cancel anytime policy, and more marketing power than any other agent in the Denver area and surrounding cities. Not surprisingly, our listings sell for 1.37% more and in about 40% less time than the average agent. What’s 1.37% of your home’s value?

Every year we help hundreds of people buy and sell. The average agent handles around five sales a year. When hiring anyone to perform a job for you, experience should weigh heavily in that decision. Who really wants to be the surgeon's first patient?

Let's examine one of our program benefits; we allow you to cancel the listing at anytime. Most agents will not give the consumer this right. You might ask yourself why agents need to "lock you up" for four to six months. Why would they be afraid to give you the right to cancel? Our philosophy is that we would rather strive to earn your business every day. We are confident that we can provide a superior level of service and care. If we don't, we don't deserve your business. It is that simple. See our marketing page for more information on our listing program.

Everyone wants to get as good a deal as possible and net as much money as possible when selling. But if you save 1%-2% (which is typically what a discount broker will save you) on selling costs and then sell your home for 5%-10% less, obviously you haven’t saved anything. 1% disappears pretty quickly when you are negotiating the sale of a $500K+ piece of real estate.

Selling real estate is all about getting as much exposure as possible. The fact of the matter is we can sell your home for more. We have the track record we do because we are experts at pricing the property (using a specific supply-demand analysis prior to even looking for “comps”) and experts at creating the greatest amount of exposure of your property.

Sadly, there are many agents who need the deal (sometimes more than you do). The weakest negotiator in any transaction is the one who has to have the deal. We are in the fortunate position of having enough clients that any one deal won’t make us or break us. Therefore the negotiations are really about getting you the most money for your home. Period. If the offer doesn’t make sense, you can count on us to tell you so.

Absolutely not. We make it our business to know the market, so we can ensure we get the highest possible price for our sellers. Our homes typically sell for 1.37% more money and in significantly less time than the average agent because of the effective marketing we do. We accomplish this by first doing a supply/demand analysis in the immediate area for any home we consider marketing. All agents have access to the same market information. It is the evaluation of what that information means to the marketing of a home that matters. X-rays mean nothing until they are evaluated by a competent doctor. Similarly, knowing what the market is doing in any area affects both the marketing time and value. Factors like area, demand, condition, pricing, accessibility, and agent choice all affect a home's time on market.

“Your Home Is Sold in 45 Days, or, We’ll Pay You up to $10,000*”. While every agent will promise to sell your home, the reality in the real estate market today is that this simply doesn’t always happen. The Wise Listing System Team sets itself apart from most agents by being accountable to you. In other words, we don’t just promise to sell your home, we GUARANTEE it. We will give you a written guarantee of performance and if we don’t live up to this agreement, we pay you up to $10,000 cash! Call for details on this exciting program.

Absolutely! All of our yard signs, prominently feature our website address. Our media promotion drives thousands of buyers to view homes on our website. Your home will also be prominently featured on Realtor.com, the number one real estate website in the world, as well as hundreds of other websites including REColorado.com and ColoradoMasters.com. To increase buyer interest in our properties we’ve secured a featured homes position. Per Realtor.com our listings are viewed more as often as a regular listing on Realtor.com. According to the National Association of Realtors Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, over 70% of home buyers used the internet when starting their home search process.

Again, absolutely! Any agent who does not place your home on MLS is doing you a huge disservice. With over 20,000 agents in Colorado, it is important to tap in to that agent base of buyers. Also, if you are not on MLS you cannot appear on Realtor.com, the number one real estate site on the internet.

Because times have changed. No one agent can be everywhere at the same time. Let's suppose an agent has a relocation buyer in town. For three or four days they have to be with just that one buyer, a dream scenario for the agent, but not so for you. They are unavailable to show your home, they are unavailable to get feedback on showings, they are unavailable to negotiate contracts or inspection reports, and so on. Also, most agents are either great at people skills or great at paperwork. Rarely will they excel at both. Unfortunately, today's real estate marketplace demands that the agent possess all of these skills.

Under a team scenario such as ours, we have specialists. We have Buyer’s Agents who just work with buyers. We have a Marketing Manager who designs and tracks all of our marketing pieces. We have a full-time Office Administrator along with two full time Transaction Managers to handle all the details of the transaction. We have a Team Courier for getting documents out to our clients and prospective clients Each is an expert at that specific job. Simply, we can and do provide a higher level of service to our clients than most agents can even conceive of providing. Imagine that you're a quarterback of a football team. Would you rather have 1 player on your team or the power of 12 that you have with our team?

There are agents who focus primarily in one geographic area or neighborhood. But buyers come from all over Denver and even other parts of the country, not just from that small neighborhood. So an area specialist usually really means "listing agent" in the area. Many years ago the real estate business was successfully composed of lots of small "boutique" offices - where companies did specialize in a certain area or part of town. But computers, the internet, and cell phones have changed that aspect of the real estate business. Now the important points in selecting an agent are experience, track record, and marketing skills.

Once we have a signed listing agreement and put a key in the lockbox, we can have your home on the market within 48 hours. However, it usually takes a day or two for the photographer to get great shots of your home for all our marketing pieces.

We will meet with you to review a complete market analysis of your home, evaluate supply and demand for the area, and examine property condition. At that point, we can guide you to the correct range of pricing.

We can take care of all the details from start to finish without you needing to come to town. We have handled sales with clients living as far away as Australia and the Middle East. We simply need a key and your email address to get started. Everything we do is online anyway, so it makes it paperless and so easy to work with us!

We offer, in addition to our traditional home selling service and Trade Up Program, a guarantee buyout program. If your property qualifies, we can purchase it and close it in less than 10 days. However, it is rarely in your best interest financially to select that path. We typically can obtain up to 20% more value for your home if we put it on the open market. So the guarantee buyout is really for people for whom time is more important than money. Just contact us and we will show you the best path for your particular circumstances.

We have a number of service people whom we have used in the past and are happy to recommend to you through our concierge program.

Absolutely! Just like any home, we will simply evaluate the condition issues, supply/demand in the neighborhood, and pricing relative to those factors.

For ease of paperwork, we typically use a six months to a year period. But remember, unlike most agents, you are free to cancel anytime.

Unfortunately, if you signed a listing agreement with another agent, you are bound by that agreement. You certainly can approach the broker or agent to address your unresolved issues, and some agents may let you out of your agreement early. However, our "cancel anytime" policy towards listings does not give us the authority to cancel other agents listings.

You may cancel your listing at anytime.

We always represent the seller on any home we have listed for sale, which means our objective is to get you the most amount of money and the best terms possible. The real question is whether we will be representing the buyer as well. In the event that we have a buyer for your home, it would fall in the category of "Transaction Broker". In that scenario, we would be a steward of the contract and represent both parties fairly and objectively. Please call us to discuss the exact details on how this situation works.

Staging is preparing your home for sale so that it shows well to potential buyers. We have a professional on staff so that we can make your home look as appealing as possible to a buyer. Studies show that a staged home sells for significantly more than one that has not been staged.

No, there is no charge for this.

Great question! Unlike most agents who click a few dark or blurry pictures of your home, we use a professional who has taken photo’s of homes for years on all of our listings. Buyers and agents will decide whether to view your home in many cases based on the pictures. No matter what you are selling – and real estate is no different – you want the product presented in the best light possible.

Yes. We prepare a multiple photo, full color flyer on your home. We employ the use of a professional photographer on all of our listings.

Yes, in addition to the professionally shot still photos that we use, we also do a custom narrated video of all of our listings that we then post on the MLS for agents to see and on the internet for buyers to see.