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- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!allen
- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Subject: Re: How to tell a REAL buyer's agent
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.171220.24857@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- References: <1992Nov18.200317.7781@tessi.com> <1egdv6INN8l1@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:12:20 GMT
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- egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:
-
- >I have never understood the justification for linking a RE agent's fees
- >to the price of the house. If there is any correlation at all between
- >price and the work required to sell, it seems that it would be
- >negative. People at the lower end of the spectrum are the ones barely
- >qualifying for loans, don't understand finance and negotiations, etc.
- >Does a realtor really work 5 times as hard to sell a $500K house as
- >they do to sell a $100K one?
-
- I would *imagine* that a realtor probably works harder selling the
- $100k house than the $500k, mainly because there's probably a better
- opportunity to sell the $100k house rather quickly, as compared to finding
- lots of potential buyers to get a $500k house. Still, I can't
- imagine how the real estate business would be able to set up
- how much a realtor gets paid other than the present system. Attaching
- a basic pay amount of a certain percentage of the sale price seems
- the only easy, least confusing way.
-
- allen
-