When Lauren and David decided to sell their house, they interviewed 8 different agents to make sure they picked the best one. They were impressed with the approach of Phil and Corey from Clark Partners Real Estate. Phil and Corey didn’t ask for any money upfront which no other agency had offered them before. To Lauren and David’s delight, their property sold on the first open house and got $8,000 more than their asking price. They were so impressed that they just can’t help but tell their friends about the outstanding job that Phil and Corey had done for them. Thank you, Lauren and David for sharing your story, so that others can learn from your experience.
 

Below we have included an extended transcript of our interview with Lauren and David.

My name’s Lauren. And my name’s David. Before choosing Phil and Corey, we actually interviewed seven other agents.

We had them around to our house, and I wouldn’t say it was an interview, it was more of an interrogation. What we didn’t like about the agents that we interviewed and we didn’t choose was the fact that they just came in and tried to blow everything open and sweet talk us and they wouldn’t get down to business, like how we were going to strategise and sell our house. They weren’t open to suggestions.

They were a very closed book on how they wanted to run their strategy of selling our house which wasn’t how we wanted it to be. They tended to keep secret how much commission they were going to take or the expense of advertising, and then hit you.

We wanted someone who was really looking after us and wanting to sell our property for us and get the best price that they could, but it wasn’t all about them. It was about our property and selling ours. So one of the biggest things that we liked about Phil and Corey’s approach was that they actually didn’t charge us for any advertising.

He basically sat down and he told us exactly how he was gonna strategise to sell our property which was more upfront than anybody had ever been within the first five minutes. Phil let us have a contract that we signed for a minimum amount that if he did not get that sale price, then we wouldn’t pay any commission at all.

I’m a business person myself and for someone to offer that thing, they’re backing themselves. The price we asked for was $429,000 for our house. Certainly, when we first started looking at selling our house, we didn’t think that we’d get above $420,000.

It sold within the first open home. It was about, I think, eight thousand over the asking price, on the first day. I’ve actually got a couple of friends that are selling properties and everyone who’s asked me I will recommend Phil and Corey, without a shadow of a doubt. They’ve got what we wanted and then some.

Being a first-time seller, Michael was very unsure of how to best sell his home. After interviewing 3 agents, it became clear to Michael that Phil is the right agent for him. Unlike the other agencies, Clark Partners was the only one who assured Michael of a No Sale, No Pay guarantee which made him feel secure, that he had nothing to lose. With Phil’s fantastic ideas and hard work, he made selling a hassle-free process for Michael. In the end, Phil sold the property in just 3 weeks and got $10,000 more than their advertised price. Thank you, Michael,  for sharing your story, so that others can learn from your experience.

 
Below we have included an extended transcript of our interview with Michael.

My name is Michael Scott. I’m an air traffic controller at Brisbane Airport. When we first came up with the idea of selling the property and moving somewhere else, it was a bit daunting. I’d never done it before, and I didn’t know the process at all. I didn’t know what to expect from real estates at all. There’s that reputation that they’re out there just for the commission, and a lot of people I’ve spoken to about their experiences, they put pressure on you to drop the price to get a quick sale so they get paid.

I always wanted three agents to come out. Phil was the first agent that I saw, but I had two other agents come out as well so that I could compare them. The other agents that we didn’t choose, and the reasons I didn’t choose, there are a few reasons. With the other agents, I know one, from memory, was charging $1,800 for the advertising. But then you had to pay extras, where you want it listed on realestate.com, which markets you wanted to advertise to plus extra.

There was a thing Clark Partners put in our contract that said basically if they don’t sell the house at any time, I can bail out without any cost whatsoever, and change estate agents. And I know the other two estate agents that I spoke to didn’t have that in those contracts. To offer a guarantee like that made me feel like these guys want to do the best for me. It’s a big difference compared to the other guys I spoke to.

I’ve never heard of another real estate agent doing two open houses on the same day before. They suggested twice next weekend, “How about we do one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and we can pick up people that are busy on a Saturday morning or busy on a Saturday afternoon?”

When Phil suggested that, I thought, “Oh that’s a fantastic idea, because you can cover people that are busy, you know, for kids’ sports on Saturday morning, they can come in the afternoon.” It was something I’d never thought of. For us, it worked as well. Without that suggestion from Phil, we probably wouldn’t have got the people in that bought our house.

I know we got a good price for our property because we started at $459,000. We started the price there, and to be honest, we were expecting anywhere from $20,000 less. $460,000 was definitely a dream price. If we achieved anywhere near that, we were going to be very happy.

And when we got the first offer, the other thing that really impressed me with these guys was they’d actually crossed out their first offer and added an extra $10,000 to it. We probably would have taken the first offer. So the way I look at it, that extra 10,000 basically paid the fee. So that’s almost like they covered their own fee for us, so very happy.

From the day we signed the contracts with Clark Partners, it took around 3 weeks to sell. It was all done by appointment so it was done when it suited us, which was good. By doing those appointments during the week on top of the open houses, that showed us that they’re working for us and not just waiting for the weekend to come around and bring people through and hope they get interested from an open house. It kind of felt like they were working 24/7 for us, which is exactly what you want when you’re trying to sell your house.

Julie had some horrible experiences trying to sell her home in the past. That is why Julie was extremely happy when Phil from Clark Partners Real Estate sold her property at North Lakes. What is so amazing is that Julie didn’t have to go through a public auction nor pay any money upfront. Phil got the best price that he promised to get for her property, it was precisely the price Julie wanted. And Phil was able to sell it very quickly, in just 1 week. Thank you, Julie for sharing your story, so that others can learn from your experience.

Below we have included an extended transcript of our interview with Julie.

My name is Julie. I just sold my property at North Lakes. There are a few things I’ve noticed, that I’ve had problems with real estate. One example was they said to me that they’d do an auction. In the auction, I ended up losing $2,000 because it didn’t go through. They lost their business. No one turned up. Not even the auctioneer.

After all the other experiences that I’ve had, I was worried. Very worried. I thought, what are they going to do to me this time? Am I going to get way under the price that I really want? I was so happy with the price, because the first guy that came through, he put a very, very low price on it. Where Phil got it way up to where I wanted, and what the genuine price that he gave me to start.

So I was very happy with that. I know I got a good price, from looking at the market. From selling so many homes myself, I know, by looking at the market where it’s at. I did think it would take a lot longer, but it was very short. So, just the week. It was great.

Karen spoke to several agents before choosing Corey and Phil from Clark Partners Real Estate. Karen was very impressed with both Corey and Phil’s approach, especially that she didn’t have to pay any money upfront. In the end, Karen was shocked when Corey and Phil sold her property in just 3 days and got her $21,000 more than her asking price. Karen knew she got the best price for her property because it was above and beyond what she expected. Thank you, Karen, for sharing your story, so that others can learn from your experience.

Below we have included an extended transcript of our interview with Karen.

My name is Karen. We looked into several agents. One of them we actually had in our home, and he came through and we interviewed him. He was very good, but the price he recommended was too low, and he wanted upfront advertising money. The other one we looked into was Purplebricks, but we didn’t get very far with that one.

But Corey and Phil were brilliant. It was no upfront costs, they were open and honest with how much everything was going to cost after the sale of the property. We ended up getting what we really wanted, and that was about $21,000 over the original asking price.

It took us only 3 days to sell, that shocked us, actually. It was just so mind-blowing as to how quick it went, we didn’t even get to do an open house, which I thought was good because then I didn’t have to run around every Saturday making sure everything was clean and tidy.

The reason I know we got a good price for our property, is because it was above and beyond what we expected. It was at the top end of what Phil had said was possible. We even spoke to another agent and said, “Is this price possible?” And he sent me a text saying, “It was possible, but not probable.” And I was like, okay. So, we didn’t know what we were gonna get, but what we did get was fantastic, we were very happy.