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- From: manes@magpie.nycenet.edu (Steve Manes)
- Subject: Re: Getting Ready to Sell House: How to Ma
- Organization: Manes and Associates, NYC
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:10:24 GMT
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- Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher (egreen@east.sun.com) wrote:
- : In article 5786@mccc.edu, pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
- : Why do you automatically assume the poster even plans to use an
- : agent?!?
- :
- : The only time selling a house through a RE agent makes sense is if the
- : house has some particularly undesirable "features," or time is
- : critical, such as a job change out of state.
- :
- : For a well maintained house in a desirable location, there is seldom
- : any compelling reason to list the house through an agent.
-
- For well-maintained house in a desirable location, and a seller who
- has years to make the sale. I just bought a house in Redding,
- Connecticut after several years of on and off looking (with and
- without an agent). In the process, I saw a lot of owner-represented
- properties, some very desirable. The problem in all cases was that
- the owners had a difficult time discussing their homes with the
- degree of detachment I required to get an honest impression of the
- home's condition. Maybe it was just my reluctance to insult the
- owner but, as a buyer, I feel like I can more aggressively inspect
- the property and demand candid answers from a broker than with an
- owner.
-
- In one owner-represented case, I saw a nice house with a new
- addition that, although well-executed, looked suspiciously
- home-made (no access to crawl space, no soffet vents, no ridge
- vent). The owner was less than informative in his response to my
- questions about who did the work, which left my only recourse being
- a time-consuming search of building permits and inspections at city
- hall to make sure that I was looking at something insurable. The
- house was attractive but not >that< attractive so I blew it off. If
- the house had been agent-represented, the agent would have been
- happy to fetch that documentation for me so I could have satisfied
- myself that the structure was sound. Who knows?... I might have
- stayed interested. That's a case where an agent would have helped
- both the buyer and the seller.
- --
- Stephen Manes manes@magpie.nycenet.edu
- Manes and Associates/Commontech-NoHo New York, NY, USA =o&>o
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