In a real estate market where demand for home sales has slowed considerably and inventory is rising, selling your home can be an emotionally exhausting experience. It is easy to blame others for why your home is not selling and most times, that blame falls on the real estate agent.

In the current Estes Park Real Estate market, I have seen many listings sit and wait for months with no action. Some listings expire, a few are withdrawn, and some drop their prices to try to gain more attention.

Many of these listings change hands from one agent to the next assuming the next agent will be more effective at selling their home.

There are two ways to look at this change in real estate agents. Getting a fresh agent to represent you and your property can sometimes be a positive change in scenery. New pictures, an updated content description and fresh excitement from the new realtor’s attitude sometimes results in the property selling soon after the change.

On the flip side, all the hard work and effort the first realtor put into the listing will go down the drain. There is nothing worse for a real estate agent than to see their expired listing come back on the market with another realtor at a price they recommended to the seller in the first place.

If you are going to switch real estate agents be sure that you are doing so for the right reasons. I’ve heard stories of agents being dropped because the seller just needed a “change of scenery.” Be sure to look at things objectively to find out if the problem may be outside of the agent’s control. Also be cautious of unreasonable promises from other agents trying to gain your business. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Selling real estate in this market is a tough business, especially in Estes Park, Colorado.