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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Subject: Re: How to tell a REAL buyer's agent
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.202104.18697@i88.isc.com>
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- Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
- References: <1992Nov19.171220.24857@tessi.com> <1egqogINNa0u@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> <1992Nov20.185219.13079@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:21:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.185219.13079@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cthorne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Charles E Thorne) writes:
- >In article <1egqogINNa0u@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com writes:
- >>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.
- ...
- >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).
-
- Uh, if you see a house you like, and the owner has an exclusive contract
- with a realtor, you have absolutely no choice whether to deal with them
- or not.
-
- >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).
-
- Uh, well, we had two realtors trying to sell our house. Ultimately, they
- cost us 7 months of agony living like houseguests, the price of painting
- the house, and, indirectly, a lost downpayment on another house, because
- the realtors didn't give us a reasonable estimate of what our house
- was worth.* _And_, they both charged us fees up front, to cover their
- fixed expenses. At least doctors and lawyers wait until the service
- is provided.
-
-
- *HINT: If you're selling a property, and a realtor gives you
- a better-than-expected estimate of what it's worth, run, don't walk,
- to the phone and get 2 or 3 more realtors to independantly arrive at
- the same answer before signing a contract with any of them.
- --
- Jonathan E. Quist INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
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