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Price Negotiations Take Skill. Exposure to Legal Risks. The Bottom Line. While tempting, in most cases the risks of going it alone likely outweigh the benefits. Risks include having few potential buyers let alone qualified buyers , making emotional decisions, not knowing how to negotiate properly, and not having enough free time to dedicate to finding a buyer.
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Times have changed and our fee rates have fallen drastically. The model for providing our services changed, and we have had to accept it. It happens in some professions, and it looks like the old realtor's job is going to be one of them. I started out FSBO. Then DH remembered that the title company where he went for a seminar on selling your own home was offering to get you onto the MLS with a 0. Technically, we were then represented by the guy who owns the title company, who had recently gotten his broker's license again.
He had started out in real estate, so had a broker's license in the past. He fought to get it back, apparently realtors knew he had plans to help FSBOs with a very low fee. For the 0. But I was listed with him as my broker, and I think that prevented us from being shown.
Not one agent showed the house. This was in April, May, June and July. I had his sign on the lawn, and had his name on my flyers, with my number listed in the flyer and the MLS ad.
In August we signed with a full service agent and he is still trying to sell the house. LOL, every once in a blue moon, you get a deal like this. I have a transaction going on right now, the purchaes offer was accepted on March 26th. We still haven't closed. The majority of people think you just pop someone in your car, show a house or two, make a sale and sit back and wait. This is far from the truth. Its a very stressful business with long hours especially for new agents.
The only way to get a vacation is to go out of the country where there is no cell phone signals. Otherwise, you're getting called. When we're going out to dinner or doing something special, my kids often comment, can we not talk real estate tonight or can you turn off your cell phone? Its a rewarding business and I love it, but its not all cake and icing like many want to believe.
Its a highly competitive business and there is much less greed in this business than people think, those agents don't last. So is it the seller holding all this up, or are they just having to endure as you are? I just think everything should be fee based instead of percentage based. All I hear is moaning about how much money agents don't get, when it sounds like a pyramid for the brokers.
Get a broker's license and change the model. Then again why would you if you get half of everything at that point Mudd belly, what you fail to see if that home prices "include" real estate commission. Do you really think that the prices are those prices without the commissions included? When a home is priced, its price is based on comparable sales that have closed "with commission".
This is why people looking at FSBO's, want the seller to reduce his price by whatever the customary commission rate is in that area. If you are so unhappy with the way it is, perhaps you should be the one changing the "model". It works for me. I have a brokers license. I'm not interested in running the show. I get to run "my own" business without the liability of what other agents do. The bottom line is, no one has to use a real estate agent if they dont want to.
So quit complaining that it costs too much. If you don't want the product, don't buy it. Its that simple. I deleted an earlier response thinking I may just get my license, and do just that change the model. However, I really enjoy my current vocation. So I re-wrote the post to maybe let someone else take the reigns which of course would benifit me in the long run.
Besides, my agent does this already. You may be correct that home prices are inflated because of high agent commissions. Just like many goods were in the past before the retail juggernauts began cutting the margins and increasing volumes. Walmart Realty anyone? I could see it. However, the FF listings I wanted to buy were not discounted at all. The price of a house is what a person is willing to pay.
No I can't. A monopoly exists, which gives me the right to complain. If you have a real estate license you are authorized to get paid a RE commission. The seller authorizes the listing agent to pay the selling agent buyer's agent a co-op commission and not an unlicensed buyer. OR, You can get your license and become your own listing agent. By the way, in my area, I have nothing to do with writing the contract.
Attorneys do that. In fact, the market is going at such a hectic pace in some cities that many people are purchasing properties sight unseen , according to USA Today.
In other areas around the nation, the frenzy means people are busy fixing up their homes, contracting repair jobs and even renovations so that they can rush to market. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products.
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Key Takeaways A safety protection clause in a listing agreement entitles the real estate broker or agent to a commission after the listing expires or is canceled. This applies when the final buyer was brought to the deal by the broker.
A safety protection clause is designed to ensure that a broker receives fair compensation for their work and to prevent collusion between buyers and sellers. The broker must send notice to the seller with each buyer's name within a certain number of days after the house is off the market in order for the clause to apply.
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