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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: 23 Nov 1992 17:33:21 GMT
- Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- In article <1eqpbrINN68@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> egreen@east.sun.com writes:
- >News Flash, Monica: This person is *not* working for you, and will
- >*not* represent your interests in any negotiation.
-
- I know that. My realtor knows we know that. She knows that she's a shuttlebus
- service for the properties just on the market, writer of contracts and
- person who gets to co-ordinate inspections and financing. I also know that
- realtors often get kick-backs from the inspectors and financiers.
-
- >violation of her moral, ethical, and legal obligations. Any info she
- >gives you on how low a price the seller will accept is less than
- >useless, if she tells you *anything* useful, the seller can and will
- >sue her butt off.
-
- True. We've been looking long enough that, in the cities we've looked in, I
- can tell what the asking price on a house and what it will eventually go for
- within $5k. So my realtor knows that we've got a clue as to the prices on
- the houses.
-
- >"Song and dance" is *exactly* what she will do for
- >you when presenting your offer, she will *not* negotiate in earnest on
- >your behalf.
-
- She knows that we are one offer types, we'll make an offer close to what the
- house should go for (minus most of the emotional, squishy feely reasons the
- price should be higher) and if they start to quibble on the counter, we walk
- away. So, if she doesn't do a song and dance, she doesn't get a sale.
-
- --
- 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
-