Both buyers and sellers are effected by our current covid restrictions selling and buying a home in Calgary and Airdrie. Here is a summary of our current rules and what are we doing as Realtors to keep our clients safe and protected.
Buying and selling real estate is an essential service, we have been working with our clients as well as new clients looking to buy and sell a house in Calgary and Airdrie throughout all of the shut downs.
Rules set out by AHS that all realtors in Calgary and Airdrie at this time need to follow are:
No Open Houses
A maximum of 2 adults from the same household can attend showings with their realtor. No Children can attend showings.
Everyone must wear masks inside the property being viewed.
Covid related precautions Tammy and I are doing above and beyond these mandates set out by AHS are:
We use hand sanitizer before each showing and provide our clients with the same before each showing.
We only touch necessary surfaces such as light switches and door knobs with a Lysol or Clorox wipe in hand. We also provide our clients viewing the property with a Lysol or Clorox wipe should they need to touch a surface area.
We provide all of our listings with sanitizing materials to put out for their showings and request that they be used by the showing realtor and their clients.
We go through an extremely thorough covid related checklist of questions with our clients selling their house prior to listing their home and ensure that they update us of any changes throughout the process. They also sign this checklist of questions once all the questions are answered and then again should any of the answers change. Questions such as covid symptoms, recent travel, known exposure, waiting for test results, quarantining mandates.
We ensure that realtors with potential buyers wanting to see any of our client’s homes go through the same thorough covid related checklist with their clients before viewing any of our client’s homes.
Before EVERY showing with our buyer clients we go through a thorough screening checklist before entering a property. Questions such as covid symptoms, recent travel, known exposure, waiting for test results, quarantining mandates. This is then provided to the owner of the home being viewed should it be requested.
For awhile we started doing 3D online virtual tours for all of our listings but quickly figured out that this actually slowed down the activity for our listings. Since then we only offer 3D virtual tours if our clients request it. We feel that it doesn’t always showcase the best most flattering perspective of the home.
We frequently help short list properties for our clients who are either out of town or uncomfortable with showings at this time with live zoom or facetime call showings. We go through the properties in a live video format for a very thorough look with our clients via facetime or zoom answering their questions live from inside the property.
Daily we take our immune boosters, vitamins, workout and live a healthy lifestyle. Doing everything we can to stay healthy so that we can continue to do what we love; buy and sell homes with our clients.
Please contact us anytime you have any questions. We are here and always happy to help and hear from you!
