Buyer's Agent for Property Virgins

[MikeJaquish]

Originally Posted by Hollytree

You can call it poppycock all you want. I've been there and back as both a realtor & an appraiser- I know how the game is played. I've heard realtors say things so unethical as to make one cringe.

No buyer's agent will knock themselves out fighting for the lowest possible price on a house because all they'll be doing is lowering their own commission. $300 or whatever. That's not poppycock- it's common sense.

And, I've never encountered a realtor who truly cared whether or not the buyer could ultimately afford a property.

A sales person is a sales person, whether selling cars or houses or anything else.

That sort of expression and projection of personal values is common.
That "common sense," sounds more like "greed." Worship of money is not part of MY value system.

[2bindenver]

I am a bargain hunter, through and through. It does not matter if it's my money we are spending. Mostly not.

Last year a I got a call from a CD poster who was relocating to a small accounting firm - he was looking at houses from $300k to $350k. We found one at $375k - his offer $340k. They accepted, and after inspection threw in another $5k.

Not two months later the owner of the small accounting firm called, his brother and SIL were moving here and he heard good things about me. The brother was an ad exec who bought a $750k home sold 5 years ago for $1.1 mil.

$10,500 vs $9380 (gross) got me another $18,750. That is how you make this business work.

Good customer service will bring in the business, repeatedly. An "it's about me" creed, will not.