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- From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
- Subject: Re: Re: How to tell a REAL buyer's agent
- Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:56:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.225659.15886@mccc.edu>
- References: <1992Nov11.184210.14010@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1dtvgaINNfh@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> <1992Nov13.154744.23082@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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- In article <1992Nov13.154744.23082@dg-rtp.dg.com> eliot@dg-rtp.dg.com writes:
- =If the agents are getting paid by the seller to begin with then they aren't
- =really 'buyers' agents, they're 'selling' agents.
-
- There's a legal distinction between the "buyer's agent" and the "selling
- agent," regardless of who pays them!
-
- =I won't repeat the many explanations of the difference that have been posted
- =here.
-
- But perhaps you might reread them. :-)
-
- =|> You pay your agent to list and sell your house.
- =
- =No, I pay the agent to sell the house at the highest practical price; if the
- ='selling' agent is also working towards that goal then the selling agent is
- =doing the same job as the listing agent; if the 'selling' agent is really
- =acting as a 'buyers' agent, then they are working towards a different goal.
-
- Yes! But the selling agent doesn't "act" as a buyer's agent. He/she
- either is one (by contract between agent and buyer) or isn't (absence of
- said contract).
-
- Pete
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