SELLER OBJECTION: MY SPOUSE CAN'T MAKE IT - KEVIN WARD

There's a myriad of reasons why a couple whenever you're going on a listing appointment that half the couple doesn't show up. My husband's already transferred, already gone there and so forth. Hi there. It's Kevin Award, the founder of yes Masters Real Estate Success Training, helping you get more yeses and more successes in your business and in your life. And one of the scariest moments for a new real estate agent is when you show up at a listing appointment. You're all excited, you're all prepared, you're ready to go and half of the couple is not even there. I'm so sorry. My husband got stuck at the office. He's not going to be able to join us tonight. Oh, we completely forgot about my teenage boy. He's got a soccer game at our soccer practice and my wife's there, she's da da, da, da. Or they're on a field trip or they're whatever. There's a myriad of reasons why a couple whenever you're going on a listing, listing appointment that half the couple doesn't show up. My husband's already transferred, already gone there and so forth. How do you handle the objection of my spouse can't make it. Now there's two places you will run into this. First is you'll run into it on the phone before you come out when you're pre qualifying the listing appointment. So first is you have to communicate to them that both you and your husband will be there for our appointment. Correct. So let me just kind of show, I'm going to break down the rules for how do you handle this? My spouse can't make it. How do you avoid this situation forever? Coming up. So what I'm going to just share with you is I'm going to just call this the rules. This is the rules for how you handle this. There's because sometimes you just got to have rules of how you do stuff. So here are the rules. So number one, if you want the listing, and I'm assuming you want the listing and it's also true with buyers, but I'm focusing right now on listing appointments. All right, number one, first rule is no half couple meetings, okay? You don't meet with half a couple if they're married. You don't just meet with the husband or the wife if they are a couple and you know, she bought the house a few years ago and then they got together and he moved in and now they're living there together. She's on title, he's not. She's on the Mortgage. He's not. It doesn't matter. They're both decision makers now. Now you go like, well, he's not. Doesn't have to sign. He's. He's a decision maker. And here's the reason. When they move, he's having to move too. If they sell the house, he's moving. That makes him a decision maker because his input in the decision to sell the house is going to become key. So whether they're legally both owners, married, whatever, it doesn't matter. What matters is who are the influencers that together are going to make this decision. And here's how it showed up for me was I would talk to a for sale by owner or a referral or an expired and great, we set up the listing appointment. I pre qualify it and go like. And both you and your husband will be there for our meeting, correct? Well, first thing is, first issue is when they go like, no, my husband's not going to be there. Well, I want your husband to be there. Well, he's not going to be there. Well, I want him. Well, he's not. So what do I do? And that's that dilemma you get into, right? So first you got to decide. They have to be there. Alright. And here's why it doesn't work is I've gone on and understand, I've gone on over a thousand listing appointments in my career and the one thing I have never been able to do is ever list half a couple. If you go on half a couple, it does not work because here's what's going to happen. Even if they tell you, well, I'm the decision maker, my husband said, or my wife said, it's okay that, you know, I'm going to meet with you and then it'll be fine with them whatever I decide. So I'm the decision maker. And then you like, okay, cool. So we go through it, we do the listing presentation and you present, you present and it's all awesome, okay, you're ready to go. And they go like, no, you know what, I really appreciate it. I'm going to talk it over with my wife and I'll let you know. But you said you were the only decision maker. Well, I am the only decision maker, but I still want to talk it over with her. No half couples. Here is the formula for how you get listings and how you don't. So here's the formula. It is one which is you times the husband times the wife equals one listing. When you do a listing presentation, this is how it goes. It's got to be you times husband times wife equals now again, if they're single, this doesn't matter then. It's just if there's just one owner, one decision maker, then it's one times one. It still equals one times one still equals one. Right. So it doesn't matter how many decision makers there are if it's a probate sale and there's four kids and they're all making the decision that it's you times all four of them. But here's what happens. If it's a husband and wife and it's you are there and one of the couples is there, but the husband or the wife is missing. What is 1 times 1 times 0? It is 0 every time you don't get the listing. That's just the way it goes. So what do you do? Well, number two, first rule, no couples, no half couples. Second is no problem. Don't make it a big deal. Don't act like, oh, well, you got to be there. And don't. And especially if you do a listing appointment and you've asked them, will both you and your husband be there for our appointment? Yes, we'll both be there. And then you show up and one of them is not there. Well, you promised you're going to be there. Don't be frustrated. Don't get upset. Don't get bent out of shape. No problem. So here's what you do, and I'm going to just let you know that if you do not have a copy of the Book of Yes, this objection handler is actually in the Book of Yes. So there's two parts to this. First is the pre qualifying conversation, which is the seller sheet in the Book of Yes. So it's the seller sheet, which has you ask all the questions that you need answers to to meet. And one of the questions is both you and your husband will be there for our meeting. Correct. The reason that's important is if they don't know they both need to be there then, and one of them's not there, it's your fault, not their fault. Okay? So you got to be clear that they know. They know both of them need to be there for our meeting. Awesome. And then if you show up and they're not there because they got stuck at work or whatever, the actual objection handler is right here on page 116 of the book of yes. So if you don't have a copy of this, you can go to the bookofyes.com we'll put the link down in the description below. Go to thebookofyes.com you can get a free copy of it. All you do is pay for shipping. Tell me where to send it, and I'll ship you a copy of the book. You need this book if you want listings, and it tells you how to deal with this. So you show up at the house, you've already. They said they were going to both be there. You get there, the wife answers the door. She said, oh, my husband got caught up, his flight got delayed or whatever. They're not necessarily lying. It may have really happened. And you go like, oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. No problem. While I'm here, why don't I go ahead and take a quick look at the house and then let's set up a time to meet when all three of us can be together so we can sit down and go over everything. Okay. Now, notice what I did. I said, no big deal, no problem. And then if they, if they tell me what happened, I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. No problem. Here's what let's do. If they don't tell you what happened and you say, my husband's not going to be here. Oh, your husband's not going to be here. I hate to hear that. What happened? I need to find out what's up. And they go like, well, he got delayed. He's caught at work in a meeting or whatever. Awesome. No problem. Well, I tell you what, let's do this. Let's set up a time when all three of us can meet and we can all be here together. So I could either come back later this evening around 7:15, or would tomorrow at this time, around 3:15 be better for you guys? So notice I do not give them an option of saying, can we reschedule? I don't do that. I say, let's set up a time when we can all three meet. So the next thing is, I didn't make a big deal about it. It's not like I'm mad at anybody or just out of, you know, I've been out of shape. And I'm just going to say, no problem. When can we get together where we can all be there? I am going to reschedule, period. Now she goes like, oh, no, no, that's okay. He said, just go ahead and let's you and I can sit down and we can talk. And then I, I'll go over everything with my husband when he gets in late tonight. What do you do then? You know what? I really appreciate it. And I would love to be able to do that. However, it's really important that all of us be able to sit down together and meet together, since obviously I'm going to be working for both of you and I want to make sure I can answer all of your questions, both yours and his. And frankly, I want to make sure that we're all on the same page. Does that make sense? And plus, we're going to be working together. I want to make sure we all like each other in addition, so I could again come back this evening around 7:15 or would tomorrow at 4:15 be better? And then. So I'm going to let them know. I appreciate that. However, we got to all meet because, number one, I'm working for both of you. Number two, I want to make sure that all questions are answered and we're all on the same page. And number three, I want to make sure we all like each other. And that last part is just kind of fun. It's a little playful, and that's the way you do it. So I reschedule with that simple explanation that it's very important that all of us be able to sit down together and make this happen. Now, 99% of the time, that's it. They'll say, no problem. I'm sorry to put you out. No problem. I'm going to go ahead and just take a quick look at the house while I'm here. So I don't, you know, that way we'll at least have that done. And then when we get together tomorrow, when we can all get together and we'll sit down and we'll actually go over the process and. And show you guys exactly how we're going to help you get the property sold for top dollar and all of that. Cool. Cool. All right. Cool. And then I'm going to do that. Now for the 1% of the time, this does not work. And they go like, well, no, you know what? If you're not willing to meet with just me, then I guess you don't need to work with us. We're not going to. I'm not going to reschedule. My husband's not going to do that. He's too busy or whatever, then what do you do? So if they insist, if they insist, C Rule number one, which is don't do it. Don't do it. You know what? I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I wish I could. Unfortunately, it's just not the way I work because legally, I'm going to be representing both of you, and I I simply have to meet with both of you. It's just the way it goes. Because here's what's going to happen. Number one, you're going to give in and you're going to meet with them and you're not going to get the listing. If you sit down with half of them, your chances of getting that listing drop dramatically. And this is somebody who's taken hundreds and hundreds of listings and sold them and who's gone on over a thousand listing appointments. And I'm telling you, and I've been coaching agents and I, without exception, when I've trained this, I've had agent after agent, I always ask them, does anybody want to rebut this? Has anybody had a different experience? They're like, nope, this is the way it goes. If you fold here, you're not going to get the listing. Don't think you're that special. You're not going to get it. If they insist, then you say, you know, I'm sorry, I just, I don't, I don't work that way. And if you've got value, if you've connected with them, they're going to go, okay, well let me, let me talk to them. And you'll, they'll reschedule. Okay. It's just the way it goes. Now, the one last thing, the one last issue that comes up here is what about the time where the husband is like already relocated or the wife is already relocated and they're literally out of town and they're not going to be back and I can't meet with both of them. What do I do then? Zero problem. No problem. Let's get on a conference call. Let's get on a. You can use Skype, you can use FaceTime, you can use Zoom. There's so many ways. Now, it is so easy these days to, to get on a video conference call where you can do a listing presentation where you're sitting there with one of them and the other one is on the computer monitor or on a smartphone, no problem at all. It's the same thing for non owner occupied houses. If you're in a resort market or if you're in a market where a situation where they've already relocated and their listing expires and you got ahold of them and they've already moved and they're not going to be back for a month, you can go ahead and do the listing presentation on video. It's live, interactive. You can use Skype, you can use Zoom, you can use your FaceTime and you can present the listing, you can present the market analysis. You can do all of it. That's a little hard on FaceTime. Best is like Zoom or Skype video conferencing where you're actually doing that. But it's a piece of cake to do that. The key is that you're able, with all decision makers there, to lead them to a decision. And then what happens when that happens? You can always examine, expect to get the yes. So if you like that video, make sure that you give it a thumbs up. If you have not yet subscribed to my channel, make sure you hit the subscribe button. It'll be right down here, the subscribe button. 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