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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow! I wish I had your real estate agent! I've gone around with several and they're horrible. They spend more time making me sign commision papers than showing me the houses. I've also never had one suggest another house or show me houses that I didn't find myself. [/quote]

A question to the group - do most buyer agents have you sign an exclusion clause/contract for their services??

Our agent was excellent and he never made us sign anything. He didn't have to - he was very good at his job and after a few visits with him we were exclusive with him without signing. I feel like the good agents don't need to have you, as a buyer, sign something. [/quote]

Agent here. I like the advice you have gotten. You've also posted this question before and received similar answers, so I'm not sure why you guys are still hung up on this. If you want to go it alone - do it. But you'll realize what all the PP's and what I said in another thread is true. It won't benefit you and could seriously hurt you. Besides, why would you pay for a RE Atty out of your pocket?

As far as signing something, unfortunately we don't get paid until the settlement table. We have to have a lot of faith in a buyer who we run around with that they won't just go "oops, I went into an open house without you and signed a contract with the agent holding the open house." This happens ALL THE TIME because people just don't realize or they are that inconsiderate that they don't care that they are wasting someone's time, gas, money to run them around like a concierge, all for free.

We are told by the Real Estate Commission that we need to have buyer's sign this as soon as it is possible, however, I get that you would want to know my style and how responsive I am so I give people a few meetings. If I have zero qualms about you as a buyer, if you're a friend or a referral from someone who used me and I know you're not going to screw me over, I won't make you sign and commit to me too. But if you aren't? Or you are doing stupid crap like going to seller's directly and trying to cut a deal without the agents (happened to me last week as a matter of fact) then I'll make you sign.

If someone balks at signing after I've busted my butt for them, then they get put in line after my clients who are serious and who have committed to me too. This is not a one way street. We're not just here for people to use abuse and discard. We provide a service and essentially work on contingency. And for any lawyer who is about to complain at what I wrote - how would you feel if you took a case and didn't get a retainer because it was a contingency case, and then you find out your "clients" were also working with several other attorneys and went to court with one of them instead and won a huge case and the lawyer got 40% after you did a ton of work and offered a ton of advice too?

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