There are several "services" and jobs who's cost no longer reflects the value it once did. Besides the Real estate agent, the first to come to mind is the travel agent. At one point, they had access to information that was very hard for the normal Joe to come across. Now anyone can go to Expedia or Travelocity and book the exact same vacation, for less, that a person in a shop used to.
Stock brokers are another job who's price is no longer worth the service they do -since the normal person can do it all themselves! Just 15 or 20 years ago, you couldn't even watch streaming real-time stock quotes. It was something you had to pay BIG $$$ for, which is what the broker did.
Well, I thank God every day that no one has shut down the real estate offices.
I agree.
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Randy, I suggest fireing your agent. it sounds to me like the agent is bad, not the concept.
Also in Texas (and other places I believe) ALL Agents are agents of the seller. NOT the buyer. this is a legal position, even if you are working with an agent to buy a house, that agent has a legal responsibility to the seller.
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Since we're moving across the country, we didn't exactly have time to shop for a good agent and basically picked the first one that fell into our laps.
Pros: She (and any agent) have keys that can let you into any home at almost any time. If your home is listed, it is just about open to any other agent who wants to show it.
Cons: Other than THAT, just about everything. She is doing squat. Gone are the days when agents helped you FIND a home (we're doing that ALL on our home), so why are they going to get 20 grand?
So..... Has anyone bought a home recently where their agent actively helped, using their knowledge of the area, find a home?
I sold real estate for for several years and worked as a "buyer's agent" quite extensively. If you are not happy with what you getting dump her find a new one. I can guarantee you that if you start looking you will find one who will be a real benefit to you.
And again, we are under an employer contract with our agent. She is "it" until late July.
You might be able to get out of that if you really wanted to. Have you told her you are very interested in that specific house yet? If not.. I'd head down to see her boss. At the firm she works for she'd have a broker over her... I'd have a little sit down with him and tell him she hasn't been all you'd expected and you'd like to be released from your contract with her. See if you can. Up here you can often get out of contracts because agents really don't want to pay big lawyer bills to go to court over things.
It's worth a shot anyway.
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Since we're moving across the country, we didn't exactly have time to shop for a good agent and basically picked the first one that fell into our laps.
Pros: She (and any agent) have keys that can let you into any home at almost any time. If your home is listed, it is just about open to any other agent who wants to show it.
Cons: Other than THAT, just about everything. She is doing squat. Gone are the days when agents helped you FIND a home (we're doing that ALL on our home), so why are they going to get 20 grand?
So..... Has anyone bought a home recently where their agent actively helped, using their knowledge of the area, find a home?
Our agent helped us find a home that was a VA-repo....a hidden little jewl.
We made an offer that day. We were first time buyers and She helped us every step of the way.
Now the money lenders were a different story........
Our agent helped us find a home that was a VA-repo....a hidden little jewl.
We made an offer that day. We were first time buyers and She helped us every step of the way.
Now the money lenders were a different story........
We are looking at a lot of foreclosure places. A mortgage office for Wells Fargo gave us their web site with all the properties that the bank owns. There are some GREAT place. We plan on seeing one MONSTER home that is selling for a relative song. This is a place that was briefly on the market for $750 a year and a half ago -just before the bubble burst in that area. Lets just say it is going for just a bit over half that now.
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