cold calling bastards!

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if you have a chance to do business with the benoit real estate group in somerville, i suggest not doing so. they just cold-called me offering a "free" market analysis of my home.

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[sixdeaftaxis.livejournal.com]

Then call their competitors and ask them for a free market analysis, and explain that you are calling them specifically because they don't engage in telemarketing sleaze. By the way, those free market analyses are just that. They measure your house, do a bunch of research on comparable home sales, and tell you how much they think it would sell for.

When I was selling my house in Watertown, I got a brochure offering me the service. I called the realtor and told him A) I wanted to take him up on the offer, and B) I was going to sell my house myself if that made a difference. He was quite friendly, and not only did the comp study, but brought over all the forms I would need to sell the house myself. The only sales pitch he made was to say if I didn't sell it myself he hoped I'd give him a call. I priced the house a few thousand above his optimistic price point, had an open house, and got an offer at my asking price (this was in 1999).