Be careful what you wish for

[ResaleBroker]

Call me old fashioned, but the way I see it is that anyone who raises their hand and says, "I'm interested in buying or selling real estate," is worth taking the time to qualify.

To me, a prospect raises their hand when they make an effort to contact me. No matter what the contact type; in-person, mail, phone or web.

Web forms don't qualify they disqualify. Essentially by adding more and more hurdles to "screen" your visitors you're saying that if the visitors don't make it through these hurdles then they must not be that interested.

If you don't buy into that philosophy how about the idea that any contact is a valuable contact. [Networking 101] Meaning, you never know where a sale is going to come from. There have been many, many times when a prospect who didn't/couldn't/wouldn't buy was the source of a referral.

Finally, instead of screening out all of these potential buyers with long forms why not keep the form simple, do your cherry-picking, and then refer out the surplus leads to another agent? Half a loaf is better than no loaf, right?

[MrJodyHudson]

That sounds correct to me Driver!