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Originally posted by onewhippedpuppy
Garth, are you an agent? I swear, if I manage to find a good one they will have my business for life. We have dealt with three different agents now, both buying and selling, and you could tell they were lying if their mouths were moving. They were easily on a par with car salesmen. Our last one was so bad when we were house shopping in Wichita, we ended up just deciding to rent for another year. We probably looked at 20 houses with her, and out of that 20 she had alerted us to one. One!!! Yet she would be entitled to payment?! Never listened to what we wanted, sent us a large number of houses that were specifically what we told her we didn't want, the list goes on.
nostatic makes a good point as well, many "Home Inspectors" are a joke. The ones I have known are all washed up construction guys, probably not whom you want to trust when it comes to attention to detail. An experienced and trusted remodeling contractor is probably your best bet, I did it for years and my father in law for 30 or so thus far, so I'm never worried about inspections.
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Yes, we have our own brokerage and operate with a set fee model. The problem with the real estate industry in general (RE agents, inspectors, & loan officers) is low barrier to entry- many can talk a good game, but have no idea what they are doing.
Motion- you can take advantage of those poor FSBO's since you know exactly what you are doing. In most transactions neither party has a clue so at least one agent helps push things along. If I were your buyers agent, you'd get a big chunk of the co-broke back at closing because you did alot of the work. We do this on new construction alot if all we do is bring the buyer to the builder. Most buyers never think of this.
Things usually get screwed up as soon as some "expert" family member steps in and lends bad advice. I can't tell you how many deals this has happened.
Randy's right on about getting it closed. Title company waits on lender, title search at last minute ( there's a reason for this- think about it) and schedule closing. 3 weeks with a lender is good. A cash sale can be 2 or 3 days.
Buyers are few and far between right now. Really quiet.