New construction realtor (agent, commission, sales, properties)

[Blessed1]

Early this year, my fiance and I visited a new community to look at some properties for my sister who currently lives out of state. We told the sales person this, and filled out the info. card stating we did not have a realtor. We were impressed the the homes and area, so a couple of months later we started gaining interest ourselves. We went back to look at the properties a couple more times and asked "Debbie" several questions about the process. We told her we were interested but we both have homes to sell.

We decided to sell my fiances' place first, put a down payment on a new build (the spec homes had too many upgrades that didn't interest us) then sell my property. My fiance contacted her old realtor (Helen) and gave her the scenario of selling two properties, then us buying one together. She agreed to discount her commission on both properties.
We now have a contract on the one property and our Realtor decided to contact the builders agent. Well the agent wasn't pleased about us having representation, and informed Helen that we signed the card stating we didn't have a realtor and we could not bring one in at this time.

Is this common practice? If I can't bring my own realtor in, then who's representing us??
Thoughts.....

[MikeJaquish]

Originally Posted by Blessed1

Early this year, my fiance and I visited a new community to look at some properties for my sister who currently lives out of state. We told the sales person this, and filled out the info. card stating we did not have a realtor. We were impressed the the homes and area, so a couple of months later we started gaining interest ourselves. We went back to look at the properties a couple more times and asked "Debbie" several questions about the process. We told her we were interested but we both have homes to sell.

We decided to sell my fiances' place first, put a down payment on a new build (the spec homes had too many upgrades that didn't interest us) then sell my property. My fiance contacted her old realtor (Helen) and gave her the scenario of selling two properties, then us buying one together. She agreed to discount her commission on both properties.
We now have a contract on the one property and our Realtor decided to contact the builders agent. Well the agent wasn't pleased about us having representation, and informed Helen that we signed the card stating we didn't have a realtor and we could not bring one in at this time.

Is this common practice? If I can't bring my own realtor in, then who's representing us??
Thoughts.....

You are unrepresented.
Helen and you should tell the sales rep that you will be working with Helen, and that can either be in her neighborhood, or XYZ neighborhood down the street.
"Which works better for you, Ms. Sales Rep?
Of course, you can also hire an attorney to help you with the contract.

I would hesitate to work with a builder who would try to deny representation to a buyer.
They just want to tilt the table in their direction, IMO.

[Blessed1]

That's what I was thinking. I'm going to let her supervisor know about it and if she feels the same way we'll walk.
Thanks for your insight.

[MikeJaquish]

Originally Posted by Blessed1

That's what I was thinking. I'm going to let her supervisor know about it and if she feels the same way we'll walk.
Thanks for your insight.

Live and learn.
Some builders will require you to bring the agent out on the first visit. It is their way of trapping people who are out for a Sunday drive and get curious about the houses going up.


I suggest always saying you have an agent in that situation, to keep your options open.
You can change agents, or go without one later.