People going around asking you to sell your house?

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If they're not asking if I want to sell the house, they're asking if I want to sell one of the cars.  One weird guy stood outside shouting out ever-increasing offers after I had shut and locked the door until his girlfriend grabbed him and dragged him off.  I think he was tripping out on something.

This just seems completely bizarre to me. Selling a house usually also includes moving, and is a big decision to make. People will need to think long and hard about the decision, and if they do decide to sell to a realtor, they will probably go to the realtor of their choice instead of waiting for someone to come to them. If you go around asking people if they’re selling their house (or car, for that matter), how likely is it that anyone will say “Sure, just let me pack up my things and get out of here and then we can discuss payment” or something like that? Seems like they’d be lucky to even find one person/family in a neighborhood thinking about selling their house, and then they’d also have to hope that the person /people had not already found a buyer or firmly decided on another real estate agency to sell to. Doesn’t seem to me that the odds of actually snagging anyone would not be worth the cost of sending people out. Now, I can see a real estate agency sending people out to deliver flyers or something in person to make a good impression and answer any questions so that if/when they decide to sell, they’ll be more likely to choose that company to sell to. But just randomly asking people if they’re selling their house? I don’t understand how that would get much, if any, extra business.

Someone just did the same thing to me a few days ago. Even if I wanted to sell, I don't think I'd do it so randomly...

In London we get this all the time. Generally it's flyers through the door, rather than people ringing the doorbell.

Maybe if I collect enough of the flyers I can build an extension out of them, and make my house even more valuable than these people are saying it already is.

Here is something , I am noticing , that , my neighbour . whom gave in and moved out , And had agreed to sell "as is "
Then after she ,moved out .. The Realtor after some weeks later , as her house was being on the market, And seemed, it should have sold quickly..Realtor says , " we need to do a bathroom and kitchen remodel ...using the sellers money?
What happened here, She expressly had told me, that she told the Real Estate agent, " as is"..So now she had moved out and the Realtor agent wants 25,000 dollars to get the upgrades done..? What..F ...? Poor woman is now paying rent , until her home sells ? Why is this type of situation happening ?

I've never had someone come to the door, but I've had plenty of phone calls asking if I would sell my house. Many of the calls are not even for me or for houses that I actually own. My phone number used to be my late boyfriend's ex-wife's landline 25 years ago, and I get calls for her.

So I bit on one of these fast quick make an offer on your home...even let them examine the place...I was just controlled enough to NOT demand for him to get off the property. He offer 1/4 of the average market value .
Made me dick to think people like him were out there seriously legally trying to steal peoples homes.

highly unlikely that will work but they blinded by the big commission

it's kinda like a beggar asking for $1000