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- From: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: How to tell a REAL buyer's agent
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 19:43:12 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
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- References: <1992Nov19.171220.24857@tessi.com>
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- In article 24857@tessi.com, allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Oh, please!
-
- Doctors, lawyers, engineers, stock brokers, and professionals in every
- other realm of life manage to do it.
-
- Flat fee, fee + expenses, fee + hourly if over n hours, flat fee with
- incentive bonuses, there are about a million possibilities.
-
- The only other professionals I know of that charge that way are
- architects, for whom there is a direct correlation between the cost of
- construction of a building and the amount of design and contract
- administration work involved.
-
- ---
- Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
- Ed.Green@East.Sun.COM |and I showed him a picture of you. I said,
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- (The Grateful Dead) --> |It seemed like the least I could do...
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