(10-19-2018, 12:43 PM).RJ Wrote:(10-19-2018, 12:37 PM)Apoc Wrote: That's artificially limiting your market because your agent either doesn't want to deal with non-realtors or is protecting his industry. Or both.
In theory a buyers agent would have qualified that the people have money and want to spend it otherwise they wouldnt take them to show the house. As a seller they're going to use the broker to leverage lower commission fees and sales price so at the end of the day the net money to me will be the same.
Now if you wanted to see a house and intended to use the broker and provided your loan pre-approval and account statements that showed you were qualified AND they turned you away then they're idiots.
We met the agent at the open house. I called him the next day to ask some questions about the house - he told me to have my agent call him if we had questions.
They didn't use the broker to leverage anything. The seller paid their 6% and we got 100% of the difference between the buyer's agent 3% fee ($17,250) and the flat $5,000 fee.
I pay my agent/broker to sell my house. That means you deal with the bullshit calls and don't qualify that buyers need an agent as an artificial indication of worthiness. There are plenty of worthless agents out there, so requiring that I have one call doesn't really mean anything.
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