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- From: cthorne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Charles E Thorne)
- Subject: Re: How to tell a REAL buyer's agent
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.185219.13079@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov19.171220.24857@tessi.com> <1egqogINNa0u@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:52:19 GMT
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- In article <1egqogINNa0u@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com writes:
- >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.
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- I'm not sure I understand what these extreme objection is to realtor fees.
- It's not as if they had a monopoly on the market. If you don't want to
- do business with them there's no reason you need to. Although working as
- an agent does require licensing it's one of the least restrictive of all
- licensed occupations (even barbers are morely highly regulated).
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- There are just a real magnitude of posts about how to make use of realtor's
- services (such as MLS listings) without paying for them. In this set of
- BoY, Ir: postings there's the usual complaint that realtors charge too much.
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- You're comparing them with doctors and lawyers (who have a much more extensive
- monopoly). It's true they don't charge as a percentage of benefit but neither
- are particularly badly paid (and of course they bill you whether they improve
- your situation or not).
- Charlie
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