Sellers Guide
My Mission: To meet and exceed your expectations during your real estate transaction.
My Promise:
  • I will provide a comprehensive market analysis of your property.
  • I will commit to a thorough, creative marketing plan personalized for your property to secure a timely sale.
  • I will remain objective during all negotiations in an effort to keep details in sight and emotions in check.
  • I will live by the Golden Rule: "Treat others as you would like to be treated."
  • I will interact with clients, co-agents, and associates in a way that is professional, organized, and of the highest ethical standards.
  • I will work to gain the most knowledge possible in my field by staying informed on market activity, best practices, and new technologies.
My Guarantee: If for any reason I do not provide 100% satisfactory service, just let me know, and I will remedy the situation with 24 hours. If you are still not satisfied, I will release you unconditionally from the listing agreement with no further obligation.
I am so sure that you will be satisfied, I guarantee it!
List with Tucker, there is a significant difference!
  • Sales Force - Over 700 Sales Associates
  • Sales - More than the next three companies combined
  • Tucker Talks Magazine - We advertise your home every day until it is sold. Over 25,000 distributed every month.
  • Worldwide Referral Network - Leading Real Estate companies of the World, the oldest and largest referral network. Over 145,000 agents.
  • Information - TalkToTucker.com, the premier site for real estate information.
  • Award Winning Internet Exposure - More buyers come to our site. Over 4 million visits per year.
  • Productivity - One of the top multi-office companies in America when measured by clients represented per year.
  • Trendgraphix - A Tucker exclusive. We know the market.
  • Top Producers - Tucker has by far the largest number of multi-million dollar producers.
  • Home-Link - The ultimate personalized service for buyers, sellers and past clients.
  • Size - Over 46 offices throughout Indiana.
  • MouseTrak - It's fast, it's free and it's another Tucker exclusive.
  • Indianapolis Business Journal.
  • Welcome Box - Over 5,000 distributed per year to prospective out of town buyers.
 
Advertising
The F.C. Tucker Company spends more money on advertising in Tucker Talks Homes, newspapers, television, radio and online - more than any other real estate company in Indiana. Over $2 million per year.
Exposure
When you list with me your home will be seen on all of the following online sites:
  • Talktotucker.com
  • Mibor.com
  • Realtor.com
  • AOL
  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • MSN
  • Homes.com
  • Trulia
  • Zillow
  • Cyberhomes
  • FindaHome.com
  • LuxuryPortfolio.com (High-End Luxury Homes)
  • ReloHomeSearch.com
Tucker Talks Homes
Indy's Premier Homes Magazine - Over 25,000 Distributed Every Month
TalkToTucker.com
Over 8,000 buyers visit our site every day

Using our technology, buyers have real-time access to the most comprehensive real estate information available. With our dominant internet presence, we reach more targeted buyers.
Direct Mail
I will target mail your neighbors. There is a possibility that they will have a friend or colleague who would like to live in the area.
 
Pro-Active Marketing
  1. Professional Photography and Virtual Tour with comprehensive web circulation.
  2. Professional Property Staging - compliments of Realtor.
  3. Clear Signage: Yard Signs, Directional Signs, Open House Signs.
  4. Brochure Box on Property.
  5. In-Home Advertising - Catalog for every visiting potential buyer.
  6. Direct Mail - Open House Invitations, "New in the Neighborhood" card.
  7. Conduct a Reverse Prospect Search.
  8. Feature your home in Tucker/Keystone Office Property Tour.
  9. Host: Broker's Open Luncheon.
  10. Present new listing at Agent Office Insider Trading Meeting.
  11. Contact all agents with listing in the neighborhood.
  12. Distribute color brochure to all Tucker Realtors - over 650.
  13. Distribute color brochure to top 50 Agents in Township
  14. Distribute brochure in Northside Internal Medicine Doctor's Office & Lounge
  15. Post &Distribute color brochure in St. Vincent's Hospital Doctor's Lounge
 
Communication
One of the key things that I will do in marketing your home is to have constant communication with you. The communication will consist of the market conditions that affect your house. I will never tell you what you want to hear if it is not reality. I will communicate with you either by telephone, mail, email or fax until it is sold.
The key to our partnership is accurate, timely and meaningful communications.
My communication with you, the seller, will be early and often during the marketing of your property.
1. Client Website
  • See showing feedback as soon as it is received
2. Weekly Activity Calls
  • Showing activity
  • Internet activity - hits/opens/sent by agents
  • Feedback from showings - trends
  • New area listings/sales
  • Open house activity and feedback
3. Monthly Progress & Summary Meeting
  • Discuss month's activity together
  • Research competing listings
  • Adjust market position
  • Establish price and presentation changes as necessary
  • Evaluate and update photographs as necessary
4. Negotiate and communicate Purchase Agreement
5. After the sale
  • Client Appreciation Program
  • Yearly value updates on your home
When an offer to purchase is received, I will...
  • Detail seller expenses and net proceeds.
  • Discuss qualifications fo the buyer.
  • Check the purchase agreement for completeness.
  • Counsel you and negotiate the best price for you.
  • Prepare a calendar of key upcoming actions.
  • Explain and detail all contingencies.
  • Maintain rapport and communicate with the buyer's agent involved in the transaction.
While your transaction is pending, I will...
  • Obtain and review title insurance and survey.
  • Review the inspection report with you.
  • Keep you up to date on the pending details.
  • Follow up with the borrower's lender.
  • Assist buyer's agent with any problems relative to the sale.
  • Schedule and attend the closing.
At the closing, I will...
  • Discuss the proceeds and closing statement with you.
  • Attend the closing and answer all questions.
  • Coordinate possession of property.
  • Maintain a file of closing papers.
  • Explain payoff.
  • Arrange for payment of expenses from closing proceeds.
  • Coordinate the transfer of utilities and keys.
 
My personal commitment to you is to sell your home at the highest possible price in a time frame that is satisfactory to you and to make selling your home a pleasant experience.
 
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