Listing Suspended for couple of days
I am going on vacation May 27 to June 2 and I don’t feel 100% comfortable allowing showings during this time only because sometimes I find that the agents don’t necessarily lock my doors properly and I just want to have that piece of mind that no one is coming into my home. After showing, I like to come home and just make sure that everything is where it’s at because I do still have certain things out as a part of the staging that are somewhat valuable to me so I would just like to have that piece of mind of knowing as soon as somebody goes into my house and I go back home I’m 100% checking my house which I think is fair.
I expressed this to my agent and she told me would be losing on exposure of the house etc etc, and then told her that I was not comfortable again, and then she comes back and says that She will ask her office to block out the dates. About an hour or so she comes back and states that they’re not able to block out showings for essentially seven days and that they would have to suspend the listing until we’re ready to show the property again
I just wanna know how accurate that is… are we for sure not able to just block the listing for seven days and then be available again?
Because I’ve had instances where I was not able to show my house because I forgot to stage it and people requested to see it and my agent just messaged them and asked them to rebook and there was no issue with that so I don’t see what the problem is now
EDIT: thanks everyone for your help! I’m located in London ON. I will call the board jurisdiction and figure it out too.