Show it - you have nothing to lose. In essence what you are doing is a pocket listing for this one showing. We purposely did that in the hopes to avoid the MLS onslaught and it worked, sold in 2 days.

Its typical for realtors to do that!

Yes, this is common, your agent thinks your house may work for a buyer, if it does it is good for everyone concerned.

Thanks! This is the first time we've used a realtor to sell a home so some new stuff I guess. Supposedly they liked it but were trying to figure out how to add a 4th bedroom.

This is exactly how we just sold our house. And because the realtor didn't have to go to the effort of everything associated with listing, he charged only a partial commission. Good luck!

ours sold before listing also but was not shown by the realtor before the buyers offer was made

Don't sign anything that gives the realtor your listing for anything longer than 24 hours.

We sold my late MIL's home that way. After a couple months of a complete reno, it was scheduled to be shown on the weekend. It looked so perfect, we were sure there could be bidding wars. Then came the call. The buyer had cash and REALLY needed to move since she had sold her home. Could she come and look? She made an offer that night. We were upset because of our certainty there would be bidding wars. We countered $10K higher and she took the counter. Deal done. I still wonder if we made a mistake, but it's done.

Suzi, in my area, if people think they have a "hot" property, the realtor will list on Tuesday, have an open house on that Sunday and tell other realtors and buyers that the offers will be reviewed the following Tuesday. You need to let people know upfront that no offers will be reviewed before that date, so you don't get caught having to respond to an offer before you got maximum exposure to the market. It works! A friend just did this and got 7 offers with the winning offer being $100k over asking.

Good advice, chispa! Wish you were around when we went through our little drama! OP hasn't listed yet, so a different situation.

I'm staying tuned to see how this turns out!