Showing #1 & Realtor.com

So things seemed to go pretty well with the first showing. There was an actual realtor that showed up with their client (a HOMEBUYER), so I guess the story that there are no buyers out there isn't exactly true. I felt like the buyer was really just shopping around and they didn't seemed to be wowed by our house, but maybe I am just reading into it too much. We did the basic here is our house walk-through and made sure to mention all of the upgraded features and do a little demo on everything we have added on in the past year or so. Hopefully they like it and will call back for more info, but if nothing else it was good practice and we needed a fire-drill like this to get the house up to showing condition.

Also, I found out that our MLS listing did finally show up on Realtor.com, I hadn't been able to find it recently because their sort by price functionality does not work that great. I believe they do that on purpose so that the "Showcase Properties" get more traffic. Not 100% sure about that fact, but it makes sense that they would do that to push more visitors to the people that pay for the more expensive ads. I'm thinking that I may add more pictures to my listing, I believe the upgrade through JackKeller was only ~$100 or so. If I don't do that I may pay to have my ForSaleByOwner.com listing displayed prominently on their homepage for 14 days. It's only $49 for the local version and $99 for national, might be worthwhile for a one time thing. Either way I'll make up my mind before the weekend.