How does the homeowner interview competing agents?
You choose the format and the schedule: a video call, an in-home walkthrough, or a simple phone call. You shortlist any of your proposals, send the invitations, and the agents come prepared. Your contact details are shared only when you initiate — never before.
Reviewed · Reviewed by Kristian Peter, CA DRE #01308663
Read the written proposals before you speak to anyone. Most sellers do it the other way round — a listing presentation first, then an attempt to judge it with nothing to compare against — and by the time a second opinion would help there is already a relationship in the room. Reading first means you interview only the two or three worth an hour, already knowing what each has committed to in writing.
The strongest interview questions come straight from the proposal: which of these comparable sales would you drop, and why? What in your plan is specific to my street rather than my city? If the home has not moved in three weeks, what changes? An agent who wrote a real proposal answers those in a sentence.
Whatever format you choose, you control the channel and the schedule, and you can stop at any point. An agent you interviewed and did not choose has no way to call back.