"AS-IS" Help....not sure I'm doing what's right

[tom11011]

Originally Posted by bentlebee

You are free to avoid using what you call EBA....but why would any agent go and show many homes and in some cases days in a row or sometimes work for months to accommodate a client to get the best home that fit their needs without getting some reassurance that when they sign with a seller they get paid for their work...to you that sounds like a scam...to me it sounds good business work since we all want to get paid a fair amount for what we do.

It is not fair to have an agent do all the work, driving and leg work (time) and then make an offer and cutting the agent out...you probably work like that and that is fine since we leave clients alone that are not willing to commit after we have showed initial work we can do for them and are not willing to sign.

After all buyers don't pay us but the sellers do for bringing them the client and do all the work on the buyers side.

I really think you can do it on your own and it would be the best for you to do it on your own since I don't think you like to hear expert advise and some people may not need it while others loose out of expert advise and whine afterwards on blogs, etc. and it is always someone else's fault.

Many agents never had anything signed since buyers and agents had a good relationship but any buyer who comes across in a "certain" way and then doesn't want to sign is often better to avoid...

Not sure what you are saying there at all, I'm advocating using a single good experienced realtor, one that has experience in both buying and selling, not a realtor with some EBA side cert which is more of a marketing gimmick for newbies that only took them 3 extra hours to earn it.

I mean come on- you have a realtor with 20 years experience, a major player in their locale. Then you have the new guy with 6 months on the job and just got his EBA. Who should I choose to buy my next house?

[bentlebee]

Originally Posted by tom11011

Not sure what you are saying there at all, I'm advocating using a single good experienced realtor, one that has experience in both buying and selling, not a realtor with some EBA side cert which is more of a marketing gimmick for newbies that only took them 3 extra hours to earn it.

I mean come on- you have a realtor with 20 years experience, a major player in their locale. Then you have the new guy with 6 months on the job and just got his EBA. Who should I choose to buy my next house?

Someone pointed out that the term EBA (Gulfer didn't know what the term meant and honestly I never heard of it either ) means Exclusive Buyers Agent...that term EBA is not a term we use.

I also disagree about the 20 years example compared to a newbie.

We hired a newbie last year and she closed on 11 deals since one year ago....we also have agents in the office who have their license for a long time and close on less deals.

It is all about the motivation to learn, adapt, understand the business and willing to take the extra mile and take in and remember and implement as much knowledge as possible.

We came across agents who are for a long time in the business who have no clue what they are doing and either their focus is off or the are not motivated or willing to learn new things.

What Gulfer (Gulfer and I don't know each other, just as a disclaimer) and I probably both are trying to bring across is that realtors work with single agent disclosures and are not going to waste our time with buyers who want all the help, knowledge, time, etc. and are not willing to sign a single agent contract....or at some point it can be changed into a transaction broker relationship.

We are not talking about credentials and all the fancy things behind someone's signature/name.

If I speak for myself then I can tell you I don't care about someone being a short specialist and having all the fancy things to show off behind their name since I have succeeded in 100% of all the short sales and have closed on many by either just helping our agents and doing most of the work or doing it a 100% myself and never did I go to take any course for that.

Not one short sale is the same and taking a course can be helpful for some people but in the end it comes down to getting the experience and persistence is maybe the most important thing as well as common sense and using all of that together and not waiting and hoping that a lender will get back to you.