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July 30th, 2010 categories: For Buyers, For Sellers, Lake Tahoe Real Estate, South Lake Tahoe, CA, Stateline, NV

The Neighborhood Real Estate SEER.

What to do with the Neighborhood Seer who knows the South Lake Tahoe Real Estate Market Better Than Anybody.

We all have one of these, the neighborhood Seer, and this certainly includes every Buyer and Seller too.

This is the real estate know it all, that one, ever present pontificator who knows what you should do with a South Lake Tahoe house better than anybody.

How to Drum up the SEER:
The question is not how does one find him, the neighborhood Seer will find you.

The bait to catch the Seer, it’s always a sure thing, and it’s kinda like tweaking the drive of an alpha buck in mating season, is either put up a For Sale sign in front of your house, or just mention to anybody at all that you are thinking of selling or buying.

Then presto, as if abracadabra-inspired magic… out of an instant self aggrandizing omniscient cloud, the Seer instantly appears.

How to know it’s the SEER:
The seer likes to talk. The sound of his own voice is… well, subordinate to very little that's worldly, and appearing more knowledgeable than another thrills the Seer to no end.

The Seer will tell you he knows more about the real estate market than anybody. He will justify his superior knowledge, because he has a friend that’s a real estate agent who tells him everything. Here’s some usual and customary Seer oratory:

  • “Your house is listed too low.” (and "too high")
  • “My real estate friend is a better agent than yours. You should call him.”
  • “The house down the street just sold for __________ (fill in the amount).
  • “You should sell for more.”
  • “My agent friend can get you this much __________.” (fill in the amount)
  • “My friend told me prices are up.”
  • “Your house isn’t being marketed right.”
  • “Your agent hasn’t shown you all the comps. Mine will.”

Unconditional Surrender from the Neighborhood Know it AllWhat to do during a SEER  monologue:
The first thing that comes to mind is the Seer is boring. The kind of boring that would have made someone want to commit suicide during the renaissance.

Yawning won’t do. Neither will nodding your head perfunctorily. Immediate flight is an answer, but it must be early, before the harangue gets up to full speed.

When in full stentorian frenzy, the Seer has been known to follow folks into their house. Their need for genuflected attention is insatiable. And it’s all downhill from there. There’s nothing else to do but fall on the floor, wave a white flag and turn in one’s sword in unconditional surrender. Even then, the Seer will want to make sure you heard, and will follow, his every word.

What kind of mischief does the SEER stir up?
A lot of it usually, that's what trouble makers do. What’s unfortunate is the neighborhood know-it-all does not necessarily know it all, or have all the facts. They rarely ever do.

Much of the time a seer’s discourse is rumor, assumptions or partial information. We’ve always thought it odd that the Seer knows more than an agent does… without access to our information, our training, continuing education, professional level credentials or state laws and regulations.

Anyway, Seer rumor is always a mystery. Something to chalk up to the horns of a dilemma… not a buck. Anyway, things the Seer stirs up usually have to be fixed, with sometimes much discussion, and much wasted time.

You can't make all SEERS disappear.How to make the SEER disappear:
A fail safe solution is marketable stuff. Unfortunately it doesn’t exist, and whatever works once with one Seer doesn’t always work with another.

A fake petit -mal seizure might do the trick. This is full-tilt, backyard, over-the-fence filibuster we’re talking about. We've got to be creative.

Not even the threat of having small pox, or mentioning chronic contagious venereal disease will get the Seer to go away. There is really no easy way out. Unless of course one actually does move.

When one does move, though, and this is the real kicker, there’s a new Seer  waiting with baited breath in the new neighborhood. Like a rut buck after any doe.

And all a new homeowner has to do to find the new Seer is show up in a moving truck, take down the For Sale sign and start moving in. Then presto… well, you know the rest.

A few other posts you might appreciate:

January 26, 2009: The $400,000 South Lake Tahoe House Then and Now
March 10, 2010: Two Friends Talking South Lake Tahoe real estate
February 21, 2010: South Lake Tahoe Short Sale Primer for Investors, Pt. 4

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