Tired buyer's agent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

+1

Maybe the market will bifurcate and agents will be a luxury service. That’s basically what ours have been - on the selling side they meet the contractors, are present for inspections, answer questions, schedule repairs, cleaning, etc basically make it so that we don’t really have to do anything and often pay for a lot of it. I would pay for that, because I don’t want to meet the buyer, deal with any requests, etc. I just want to pack up and go

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

I don't mind at all if it is saving me 2-3% on the commission. It's your money and if you want to pay agents such high $s for useless, low level work then it is upto you. There is a reason commission has come down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

+1

Maybe the market will bifurcate and agents will be a luxury service. That’s basically what ours have been - on the selling side they meet the contractors, are present for inspections, answer questions, schedule repairs, cleaning, etc basically make it so that we don’t really have to do anything and often pay for a lot of it. I would pay for that, because I don’t want to meet the buyer, deal with any requests, etc. I just want to pack up and go

You sound like an agent and I have bought and sold more than 50 houses in my life and have never seen anyone that involved. they just open the door and walk away and all kinds of shady stuff happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

+1

Maybe the market will bifurcate and agents will be a luxury service. That’s basically what ours have been - on the selling side they meet the contractors, are present for inspections, answer questions, schedule repairs, cleaning, etc basically make it so that we don’t really have to do anything and often pay for a lot of it. I would pay for that, because I don’t want to meet the buyer, deal with any requests, etc. I just want to pack up and go

You sound like an agent and I have bought and sold more than 50 houses in my life and have never seen anyone that involved. they just open the door and walk away and all kinds of shady stuff happens.

I am not an agent but have bought/sold about 10 properties over my life and I HAVE had buyers agents do this. Not luxury properties at all. Just quality agents.

[Anonymous]

I would love to not have a buyers agent but I’m in a nondisclosure state so you are basically forced to if you want any price discovery. As a republican in a republican state I think non disclosure is absolute insanity and our legislature should be despised for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

I don't mind at all if it is saving me 2-3% on the commission. It's your money and if you want to pay agents such high $s for useless, low level work then it is upto you. There is a reason commission has come down.

People are posting about buyer's agents being useless. I am saying that they are not to me. I am not commenting on the pay structure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

I don't mind at all if it is saving me 2-3% on the commission. It's your money and if you want to pay agents such high $s for useless, low level work then it is upto you. There is a reason commission has come down.

People are posting about buyer's agents being useless. I am saying that they are not to me. I am not commenting on the pay structure.

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ofcourse, they won't be because you could be an agent. Ask people if they have to pay that much for an agent and they will start doing the little work themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

+1

Maybe the market will bifurcate and agents will be a luxury service. That’s basically what ours have been - on the selling side they meet the contractors, are present for inspections, answer questions, schedule repairs, cleaning, etc basically make it so that we don’t really have to do anything and often pay for a lot of it. I would pay for that, because I don’t want to meet the buyer, deal with any requests, etc. I just want to pack up and go

You sound like an agent and I have bought and sold more than 50 houses in my life and have never seen anyone that involved. they just open the door and walk away and all kinds of shady stuff happens.

I am not an agent but have bought/sold about 10 properties over my life and I HAVE had buyers agents do this. Not luxury properties at all. Just quality agents.

Honestly, after that many properties exchange, you might have more experience than the agents. LOL
Also, would you pay 2% to hire the same agents now. more than 90% of the people won't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love to not have a buyers agent but I’m in a nondisclosure state so you are basically forced to if you want any price discovery. As a republican in a republican state I think non disclosure is absolute insanity and our legislature should be despised for it.

what state is that - WV?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

I don't mind at all if it is saving me 2-3% on the commission. It's your money and if you want to pay agents such high $s for useless, low level work then it is upto you. There is a reason commission has come down.

People are posting about buyer's agents being useless. I am saying that they are not to me. I am not commenting on the pay structure.

PP, you are blowing smoke and pushing people in paying for something that they could do themselves. No need to push expensive service on someone that has no value.

[Anonymous]

If I'm paying someone $200/hour, they better have a lot more letters after their name than "B.A."[b]

Ha, so true!
Commissions have been insane for so long. Even 1% is outrageous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

I don't mind at all if it is saving me 2-3% on the commission. It's your money and if you want to pay agents such high $s for useless, low level work then it is upto you. There is a reason commission has come down.

People are posting about buyer's agents being useless. I am saying that they are not to me. I am not commenting on the pay structure.

PP, you are blowing smoke and pushing people in paying for something that they could do themselves. No need to push expensive service on someone that has no value.

It doesn't have to be expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

I don't mind at all if it is saving me 2-3% on the commission. It's your money and if you want to pay agents such high $s for useless, low level work then it is upto you. There is a reason commission has come down.

People are posting about buyer's agents being useless. I am saying that they are not to me. I am not commenting on the pay structure.

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ofcourse, they won't be because you could be an agent. Ask people if they have to pay that much for an agent and they will start doing the little work themselves.

As a seller, I cannot schedule things for the buyer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to not have a buyers agent but I’m in a nondisclosure state so you are basically forced to if you want any price discovery. As a republican in a republican state I think non disclosure is absolute insanity and our legislature should be despised for it.

what state is that - WV?

You sound like an idiot who doesn’t even know what nondisclosure is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a seller of a home, I would not want to deal with a buyer directly unless they were just going to wire me the amount in cash and done deal no inspection, etc.

Then you...hire a sellers agent to represent you? We bought a house without a buyers agent, and I only talked to the sellers agent. Never talked with the sellers, only trace of them was their signatures on the closing docs. When we went to pick up the keys and take possession, the agent was there to do the handover.

Not sure why you as seller would have any interaction with the buyer, if you have your own agent .