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- From: mlw@cisco.com (Monica Waldman)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: How to tell a REAL buyer's agent
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 03:19:41 GMT
- Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- In article <1992Nov21.013007.27146@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
- >Grossly overpaid! That's a joke!! The average realtor makes under
- >$20,000 and that's before expenses. Real estate is one of the most
- >poorly paid of all sales jobs. You must think that because an agent gets
- >1.5% of the selling price of a house that they have done no work for it.
- >Follow my wife around for a week -- your tongue would be hanging out!
-
- I have to agree that some realtors earn their keep. We spent more than a year
- looking for a home, running our realtor ragged. The last few months she's
- been taking us out after the realtor's weekly walkthrough in hopes of us
- seeing the good buys and getting our offer in first. This includes her time
- previewing homes, calling to make appointments, driving us around, getting
- property inspections on homes we liked, inquiring on the status of homes we
- liked, trying to find out the real scoop on how low of a bid the seller will
- really take (I know legally she can't tell us much, but she can give a ballpark
- figure on what the property may go for) and doing a song and dance routine for
- the sellers when presenting.
- our offers.
-
- --
- standard disclaimer, etc. ad nauseum
-
- "If your opponent picks up a hammer, you need to pick up a meat-ax and
- cut off his arm" -- Bill Clinton, 1981
-