Petty Vent - taking input for this Poll - Realtor Gift
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Anonymous
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We bought a house for 1.75M.
What would you expect as a closing gift from your Realtor, if anything (we know we're not entitled to a gift, but between us, this is our 5th house and we compared notes on past gifts)? At closing, our Realtor gave us a gift bag- I didn't want to be awkward and look. When we got home, it was yeti cups and hats branded to the Real Estate Firm. Early last week Realtor dropped off something at the house. Yippee! It's a Christmas box of chocolates. Poll on what you would have expected, if anything? We are waiting on the spring market to sell our old house. |
Anonymous
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Our realtor gave us a $500 gift card for a landscaping company we use as well as a decorative item for our house that demonstrated her attention to our style. We sold for $950k. Our purchase was a private sale.
IMO our realtor also paid for a lot more things related to the sale than we expected - staging, cleaning, power washing deck, windows, etc. We were happy for her to coordinate those items with her chosen vendors, but we were expecting to pay for many of them. |
Anonymous
| Not sure I would expect anything. The yeti and hat sound pretty typical. That being said, you did spend a lot on a house. The gift is definitely not overly generous. Did you negotiate a lower sales percentage for selling your house? Are you considering not using them because of the closing gift? |
Anonymous
This is OP. Thank you!! Maybe the plan is to foot the bill in some key elements in the old house. I had not considered this at all. That was very helpful! (But we won’t count on it heh heh) |
Anonymous
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Sorry, I know it’s pretty typical for realtors to give gifts but it has always seemed stupid to me. Either it’s a little tribket that’s cute but you don’t especially want/need or it’s an excessive, expensive thing that acknowledges they were overpaid for their work. I just want a professional realtor and a smooth transaction.
Our realtor got us a membership to a museum, which was kind of her and we enjoy it. But I would recommend her regardless. What sort of gift would have made you happy? |
Anonymous
| That was more than we got. Ours didn't come to closing and never heard from her again. |
Anonymous
| Who cares? This is weird. I’ve only gotten one realtor give after tens of transactions. Trinket that was ok, but literally who cares. It’s a business transaction. |
Anonymous
| $900k house and we got a television—this was 10 years ago. It was perfect because our realtor knew we wanted one for the room we were converting to a gym. Exact right type and size. |
Anonymous
| All we ever got from realtors was champagne . My mortgage lender sent a cute coffee mug set!! |
Anonymous
| We got a personalized cutting board. |
Anonymous
| Did you negotiate for a lower commission? I got a bottle of wine and a bunch of Jeni’s ice cream. I negotiated 1% off. My friend used the same realtor and didn’t negotiate and got a $500 gift card. I’ll keep my 1% and be happy |
Anonymous
| I think we got a bottle of wine. |
Anonymous
| We get a Christmas ornament. |
Anonymous
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That's why agents are worthless. They suck up so much money and don't even know how to keep the client happy.
You know what's best - hire an agent that shares his commission with you. Imagine, getting about $26K back as part of his/her commission. That is the real gift and not a box of chocolates. lol I have done it several times and there are tons of agents that just keep 1% of the commission and give the rest to you. |
Anonymous
| I’d be annoyed, OP. That’s cheap. |