Most homeowners have absolutely no idea what criteria they should use when choosing the best Realtor to sell their [AREA] house.

They have no pre-determined questions to be used during an interview and they have no qualifying standards to decide which agents are even qualified to sell their property correctly.
These homeowners are hoping for “promises” from a salesperson that may or may not actually become true. As an example, many uneducated [AREA], FL home sellers will simply interview 2 or 3 agents and go with the one that says they can sell it for the most amount of money, with the lowest commission charged. This almost ALWAYS ends in disaster. More on that later. 
f you are selling your home, it’s one of the most important financial decisions of your entire life. It’s crucial to have a pre-determined set of questions and qualifications you can use during the interview to choose the best agent for the job. You certainly don’t want to mess up something this big in your life by choosing an agent based on their personality or a low commission. Frankly, if they can’t negotiate for themselves, they certainly won’t have the ability to negotiate for you. This means you may end up with a very low sale price. And if their sales success percentage is low on the listings that they represent, your home may not sell at all.
On this page, you’ll find a list of the selection factors to consider as you weigh each agent against each other to ensure that your [AREA], FL home sells quickly, sells correctly and sells for the highest amount of net profit with little hassle.

  • William Andersen
    Sold my home to Bent for cash. He is a man of his word and very pleasant to work with. The process went smoothly and I would not hesitate to work with Bent again.
  • Moonmattie Ramnath
    Bent is a very professional and prompt realtor, a complete delight to do business with and his services were excellent and I'd recommend him to anyone in need of a realtor.
  • Michele Mackelburger
    Bent was very professional and got our home sold quickly! He was there every step of the way to support us and answer any and all questions we had. He kept us calm through the process which was nice so we didn’t over stress! 10/10 would recommend him to anyone needing to sell or buy!

Agents must have a tremendous multi-media marketing campaign which attracts thousands of home buyers to my [AREA], Florida property.

Agents must be able to demonstrate how they can make my home stand out above all other homes for sale in [AREA], FL.

Agent must be able to successfully launch a Best Bidder on the house to guarantee that multiple buyers will visit my [AREA] home within 48 hours.

During our meeting, the agents should be prepared to show me their complete list of “Buyers In Waiting” for homes like mine in [AREA].

Agents must have a complete marketing agenda to showcase my [AREA] home on a “Secret List of Unlisted Properties” at least 24 hours before we list.

Agents must willingly offer a specific performance guarantee that shows me they will sell my home quickly & for top dollar, or they are penalized.

  • Chris & Kindal Gillstedt
    We would like to thank Bent for all of the time and effort he put into selling our house. His timely communication was great as he sent us weekly updates about our property and was always available through text, email, or phone with any questions we needed answered. He had an excellent marketing strategy and ideas to help sell our house. We appreciated his trustworthiness, honesty, and integrity. Bent is professional and friendly and was able to get us a great sale!
  • Mila Realty
    I was working with Bent for past 10 months. He is the Realtor with great personality, passion, and expertise! Thank you, Bent, for making this transaction successful for our customers! I look forward to working with you in the future!
  • Rudy Francis
    Very professional and responsive to my request.

Agents must demonstrate that they have a huge campaign in place for move-up & move-down buyers that may want to buy my [AREA] home.

Agents must be able to show me that they are investing thousands of dollars of their own money every month in marketing & promotion.

Agents must be able to demonstrate their system for automatically following up with every single buyer lead that comes in for my property.

Agent must be a full-time Realtor and be able to demonstrate RECENT and CONSISTENT sales.

Agents should demonstrate their complete marketing plan, including online and offline promotions that will happen with my [AREA], FL home.

Agents must be able to demonstrate their #1 most appealing offer that attracts dozens of [AREA], FL buyers to them like a magnet.


  1. 1. How long have you been a full-time licensed real estate agent? (min. seven years)
  2. 2. How many home buyers are you currently working with within the area, and can you show me their information? (min. twenty buyers)
  3. 3. What is your exact list price to sales price ratio, and can you show me that in writing? (min. 96% of the asking price)
  4. 4. Do you have a performance guarantee with a penalty to the agent if not met?
  5. 5. Do they use Demographic Migration Data to target the most likely buyers to move to your area?
  6. 6. Do they use Targeted Marketing to market your home to the Most Opportune Buyer, i.e., the buyer most likely to buy your home?
  7. 7. How many people are on your team? What marketing do you outsource, and what services do you utilize for massive marketing campaigns?
  8. 8. How many ads have you run using YouTube, Facebook Lead Ads, and/or other social media marketing sites within the past 24 hours that you can show me?
  9. 9. Do you promote a “Secret List of Unlisted Homes,” and if so, how many qualified buyers can you present my home to the evening before we hit the active market?
  10. 10. Do you update your clients on the sale of their homes on the same day and time every week? Which day and time do you do that?
  11. 11. What empirical data do you have to justify the recommended price?

Facts About Selling Your [AREA] Home

 

FACT: According to many industry experts, one of the biggest reasons homeowners don’t sell their home for their desired price or within an acceptable timeframe is the agent they hire for the job. Selecting a “discount” real estate agent may cause you to sell for far less than the homes are selling for in the immediate area, if you even sell at all. If the agent you select plans to simply take some photos, put a sign in the yard, advertise it on a few websites and hold an open house, frankly, you can do that yourself and experience the miserable results it creates. Why would you pay someone to do that? A good question to ask the agents you interview is, “What can you do to sell my home that I can’t do on my own?” If they don’t have several good answers to that, they aren’t worth ANY fee. You get what you pay for, and if you aren’t going with a full-service marketing professional, it may cost you tens of thousands of dollars as well as months and months of stress and disbelief as to what’s happening with your home.
FACT: An agent must understand the art and science behind pricing a home correctly. This has changed drastically over the past 5 years. For example, pricing a home at $249,900 does not look “cheaper” than $250,000. It simply eliminates virtually HALF of the buyers that would be looking for a home like yours online. If their search criteria are $225,000 to $250,000, your home will be on that list. If they choose $250,000 to $275,000, you do NOT come up in that search. Only an agent operating in the ignorance of the 90s would price a home at a number that would eliminate 50% of your desired buyers instead of pricing it at an even number. This is a great test to see if your agent understands today’s marketing world. If they don’t, you should remove them from your home immediately.
FACT: Listing your home at an unrealistically high price will nearly ALWAYS result in a sale price far below the average comparable sales area. When a home is priced above the competition (even if only $3,000), it will often sit for months generating “lowball” offers. And frankly, even if you could get a buyer to agree to pay what you are asking, if there are no comparable sales within one mile, the home won’t appraise that high, and the contract is dead. The buyer can’t get financed. A few years ago, you could get it to appraise higher than the area sales. Unfortunately, all of those appraisers are in prison now, so your home will not be able to sell for more than the comparable sales per appraisal guidelines.

The 3 Biggest Reasons to Try to Convince Bent Danholm to Sell Your [AREA], FL Home

 

SELL YOUR [AREA ] HOME FAST

Bent Danholm and his team of professionals are all working on the sale of your home together, rather than simply a lone agent trying to do it on their own. In hot markets and slow markets, our homes are selling faster than the national average and we many times end up with multiple offers on our listings, driving the sale price ABOVE the offering price. Selling your home quickly will allow you to make your housing transition under your terms and most importantly, net a higher sales price. Trying to pinch pennies by hiring someone that’s “cheap” may cause you to have your home listed for over 6 months, ultimately getting an offer at 15% to 20% under the value you originally wanted. This is tens of thousands of dollars to your bottom line. Speed of sale is critical to your home sale success.

SELL YOUR [AREA] HOME FOR TOP DOLLAR

The only thing that affects the value of any given object is supply and demand. An agent that can demonstrate a huge supply of ready, willing, and able buyers can increase the demand for your home. This may ultimately drive up the final sales price of your home by $10,000 to $15,000 more. The net profit you’ll end up with once your sale is completed will be directly affected by the quality of the agent that is marketing your property.

SELL YOUR [AREA] HOME WITH LESS HASSLE

Let’s face it. Selling a home is one of the most complex transactions you’ll experience. With all of the forms, disclosures, disclaimers, and contracts, this takes a professional that handles home sales on a regular basis. Selling your home quickly will eliminate the inconvenience and hassle of preparing your home for showings day after day, week after week, and month after month. Less hassle actually comes down to getting TOP dollar with FAST home sales. Only the best agent will do.

  • Ricky Thayer
    Bent is very good at what he does in real a state he goes out of his way to help you he really goes out of his way .
  • Kristoffer Andersen
    We decided to go with Bent as he was very knowledgeable with the home buying process in both Denmark and Florida, US. Very dedicated to find us a home, knew the things to keep an eye on and generally made us feel in good hands. We would definitely recommend Bent!
  • Craig Westmann
    Bent has the patience of a Saint. It took a lot of shopping to find our house. He drove all over the state with us. We are buying our second property with Bent now. We would recommend him to anyone.

 

So What Happens Next

If you feel like you may be a good fit with us and want to sell your [AREA] home fast and for top dollar, call us at (407) 288-0704 or fill out the form on this page. After a brief phone consultation, if it feels like a fit for us, we will arrange an appointment to answer all of your questions and have your home evaluated, and if we accept your listing, the agreement can be reviewed and approved by both parties. Most importantly, we can consider timing, pricing, and marketability to ensure that moving forward would be in the best interest of your family's immediate housing goals.

Please Do Not Call Bent If...

If you are planning to interview dozens of different agents and choose someone because they promise you millions of dollars or low fees, you needn't bother calling our office. We do not participate in such auditions or interviews. You should only contact me when you've decided to try to retain my representation on your home. Interviewing a couple of other agents will usually bring you to that realization very quickly.
We are happy to meet with you with absolutely no obligation on your part or ours. This is an excellent time to answer any of your questions and demonstrate how we can net you a MUCH higher figure on your home sale than any other agent. And, of course, provide our own "Realtor Appraisal" for the actual value of your home when using a great marketing plan. We'd schedule a no-obligation, in-home meeting to look at the home and discuss several different options for you. But we do not have the time to meet with uncommitted home sellers or "agent shoppers." As an advanced warning, some weeks will prove to have a waiting list for an appointment, and we cannot schedule the first meeting immediately. Plan accordingly. If you plan to shop agents, please do so before calling us. You can use this Agent Selection Guide to ensure you're hiring an agent qualified to sell your home fast & for top dollar.

One Other Important Notice

If you are ready to get your home sold now, you will take immediate action to schedule the first interview. But even if you are reading this Agent Selection Guide several months before planning to sell, it is appropriate to meet NOW, not later. We have a unique "HEAD START PROGRAM" to ensure that your home is ready to sell when the time comes and that it will be up to standards so that we can accept the listing and sell it quickly. The Head Start Program is a popular free consultation for those who plan to sell within the next six months and would like plenty of time to plan accordingly.

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The 3 Reasons You May Choose A Less Experienced or Less Successful 
Agent vs. Bent Danholm

As professionals in the real estate field, we’ve found that there are really only 3 reasons you may choose to go with another real estate agent to help you with the biggest financial move of your life.

Reason #1 you may choose a less experienced or less successful agent.

“Our house will sell quickly regardless of the agent we choose.”

 

To be clear, it may be true that your home will sell quickly. You may be able to sell it with any agent or even handling it yourself. As long as that agent knows how to handle appraisal issues, contingencies, inspections and legal disclosures, that may be a possibility for your home. But there’s a very good chance that your net value will be compromised without the resources we have available to increase exposure on your home. Your home can be sold for more money by increasing its exposure using our Buyers In Waiting Program, the Round Robin Marketing Approach, more than 10 exclusive websites, our Secret List of Unlisted Homes notification, online and offline marketing and much more.

 

There is a big difference between selling your home and having a miserable experience and actually selling it the right way with highly desirable results. You want your home sold fast and for absolute top dollar. You may reduce the chances of that happening if you hire a commodity real estate agent.

Reason #2 you might choose a less experienced or less successful agent.

“We think that all real estate agents are basically the same and that they do the same things”

 

If you believe this to be true after reading the enclosed Agent Selection Guide, we are surprised! The agent you select is the most critical part of your home selling process. You may not realize that the brokerage you list your home with will have NO bearing on your results, good or bad. A real estate brokerage simply holds each independent contractor's real estate license, and the agent is responsible for their own business, marketing, and promotions of your property. But be cautioned in advance that if you interviewed 10 agents (even if they are with the same office), you’d see that they have 10 completely different approaches to selling your home. Some of these agents will invest thousands of dollars in marketing, while others haven’t invested one dollar in over 6 months.

 

To say that all agents are the same is like saying that all doctors and hospitals are the same. Certain doctors have much higher success rates on heart operations than others. Some doctors attract highly affluent, knowledgeable patients who travel great distances to secure the best possible results they can achieve. They will fly past thousands of doctors that are struggling to make a living in their own town just to get to the best of the best.

 

If you consider yourself the type of person that prefers “the best” in life, you already know that there is a big difference in the quality of results you get from a better car, a better doctor, a better home, a better service provider, and more. Simply put, there is a reason that Bent Danholm successfully personally sells over 20 homes per year while the average agent sells less than 3.

Reason #3 you might choose a less experienced or less successful agent.

“Why shouldn’t we just list our home with the agent that promises us the highest list price?”

 

Anyone can promise anything to convince you into signing a contract. You should be looking at the agent’s actual track record for selling properties at these so called higher prices. You’ll find that someone making false promises never has any empirical data to back it up. If someone can simply promise you “one million dollars” and you think it’s wise to price your home at that, go ahead. Recent stats prove that overpricing a home by as little as $5,000 can reduce your final selling price by as much as $30,000 when it finally sells several months down the road. To stigmatize your own property based on false promises is just plain silly. Over the past several years, 9 of every 10 homes we’ve sold have sold between 98.2% and 106.3% of the asking price. This is due to the fact that we can drastically increase demand, thus driving up the price. That’s much better than listing with a commodity Realtor as this area’s average results will get you only about 94% of your asking price.

The only good reason you might
choose a less experienced or less successful agent than Bent Danholm...
Based on all of the facts you’ve seen within this information guide, you obviously know that choosing the correct agent to sell your property is an absolutely critical decision that may affect your bottom line to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. Frankly speaking, many homes don’t sell AT ALL after being listed for months and months, sometimes even years. You’ve seen them in your neighborhood. Don’t be that homeowner because it’s embarrassing!

 

In reality, though, you may not qualify to be a Bent Danholm client. There’s a chance that we wouldn’t accept your home for sale. If we do not believe we can successfully sell your home within your desired time frame and at your desired price, we’d rather turn you down now than let you down later. And from our recent verifications, we are the only team that would be honest with you and let you know that in advance. If we can’t meet your needs, we won’t accept the listing. 

 

We also only accept a certain number of listings on any given month so there may be a time when we can’t immediately list your home and you’ll have to be put on our waiting list or choose a different agent that isn’t as successful at selling homes.

 

And finally, you’ll have to embrace our Market Domination Approach with the exposure of your home. If your home is listed with us, it receives more local and national exposure than you can get from virtually ANY other options. If you aren’t comfortable with such aggressive marketing, you’ll choose a different agent with a more passive approach.

[AREA]'s Exclusive “Buyers-In-Waiting Program” Is The Secret To Getting Your Home Sold FAST & For Absolute Top Dollar

 

There’s a big difference between listing your home and selling your home. Trying to sell your home can be a miserable experience with weeks and weeks of agents, buyers, and tire kickers tracking through your home. If you list your house with a real estate agent that plans to go out and try to find a buyer for your house, this may be a long, drawn-out process. And you already know that the longer a home is on the market, the lower the offer prices will be.
With our exclusive Buyers-In-Waiting Program, you may be able to sell your property in a matter of hours to one of our pre-approved home buyers that are waiting for a home that matches their needs and desires. At any given time, we may be working with dozens of qualified buyers willing to offer the FULL asking price for your property, and most importantly, they can take possession of the home under terms that fit YOUR needs. This eliminates the need to have hundreds of people parading through your home to sell. Most importantly, you can get your FULL asking price immediately while still giving yourself the negotiating room to ensure that your move and the timing of the transition will work to your benefit.
Please note that our list of Buyers-In-Waiting changes virtually every day. To find out if this may be a good fit for your home, call us today, and we will gladly take a look at your property to determine if we already have a qualified buyer waiting for a home exactly like yours.

  • William Andersen
    Sold my home to Bent for cash. He is a man of his word and very pleasant to work with. The process went smoothly and I would not hesitate to work with Bent again.
  • Pat Menzie
    Bent helped us get a cash offer for our house and then find a new home. He was knowledgeable about the process and helpful throughout the buying and selling process.
  • Ginger Sponsler
    I wouldn’t want to have anyone else to sell my home. Top notch !!