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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie
As mentioned above you need a good and honest real estate broker. I have witnessed recently a method that a real estate dude uses and it is not honest but does help to make a sale for the selling real estate rep.
The one example is one where a prospective buyer asks the selling rep if anybody else is interested. The rep says lots of people. I know for a fact this was not the case and the seller's rep got close to the asking price.
Also nothing wrong with asking the neighbors about the house you are looking at and also this way you see what the neighbors are like.   |
In NY the sellers rep works for the seller. Full stop.
If they were working for me and said “no one is interested” not only would they be fired immediately if not sooner, but I’d be lawyering up post haste for a share of that years income.
Ditto the buyers agent - they are supposed to be working for the buyer. But most of them are as much use as tits on a bull. I fired 3 in under a week the last time we moved. The first lasted 15 minutes - they took us to a house that had every single feature I said I didn’t want.
Lest you think I was being an ass we bid on a house we did want within 15 minutes of seeing it. It was a repo and after a ton of work we are still there. Realtors mostly suck.