Jan Skrentny

Every Thursday morning hundreds of real estate agents in the Lake Arrowhead area get up early to ready themselves for the rigors of…”Touring” otherside known as “Agent’s Tour Day.”

This is the day we go out to see new listings. Often times the listing agent will serve food or have a drawing for dinner, bottles of wine, Angels tickets in an effort to attract agents to see their listing. Why would they do that?

Well, you see, usually, agents sell you your home. You give them the criteria: number of bedrooms, garage or not, on the lake and they make the choices of what you’ll see or not see. Some of the big companies prefer to show you just their listings – they’re big, have big overhead and you get the picture.

Smaller agencies are inclined to show you everyone’s listings. Agents are your gate-keepers of information. And in real estate – information is power.

On Friday mornings some of us tour Crestline listings – that is a neighboring community. There are not as many of us because Crestline prices aren’t as high and therefore neither are commissions. You get the picture again, I’ll bet.

The motto of one agent from a big company is: “I’ll drive anywhere.” And she does. She’s a very good agent. You really want a very good agent to represent you – it’s just finding her or him that’s the trick.

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