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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our agent definitely did more work to help us buy a new house than to sell our old house because in last summer's market, houses were basically selling themselves, but to help us maximize the price for value, she:
- Gave us names for her preferred vendors (although we did call other people, but most of her vendors were a good price) and someone on her team coordinated the timing and access
- Paid for staging (two out of three floors), landscaping, and cleaning
- Called the listing agent of a house that went under contract in our neighborhood to find out what price they sold it for, and then recommended that we increase our listing price based on that (we did, by $25K and our house sold for $25K over that).
- Negotiated with the people who put down offers to get rid of all contingencies and get the fastest closing possible (two weeks)
- Coordinated the closing so that we could do everything virtually[/quote]

Not a single solitary person I know had their agent pay for staging, landscaping or cleaning. Not one. What coordingating is need to do a closing virtually? What a joke. That is no work. I swear there are agents here sock puppetting. [/quote]

You are quoting me and I'm not an agent. I sold a house in August 2023 and my agent included staging, landscaping, and cleaning in their fee (we also bought with them, and they made a lot of money on the purchase, maybe that's why). The landscaping wasn't anything major like tree removal, but they trimmed our bushes and mulched all the areas that needed to be mulched. I have no idea what goes into coordinating a virtual closing, we just followed the instructions that were sent to us.

I also posted about interviewing agents - we interviewed multiple agents. They all offered different services, but every single one of them paid for staging. I actually don't think I know anyone in this area whose agent didn't include staging. Ours said they would pay for a month, but we only needed the furniture for a week.[/quote]

Me again - our first buyer's agent (not the one we just used) was worthless, we found everything we looked at on Redfin (and this was 10+ years ago) and she didn't provide any advice on pricing strategy, etc. Last summer was our first time selling a home and needless to say, we did not even call her.[/quote]

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