Agents have an ebb and flow of how they like to do business. If you disrupt it or scare them, you will kill the deal. It doesn't even have to be rational or make sense.

Think kid-gloves.

Sincerely,

A real estate lawyer.

Anonymous wrote:You can become a real estate agent and sell your own house and buy a house, but please -- I beg of you -- do not write a contract on one of my listings. You won't know what you are doing -- and I don't care if you went to Ivy law and were a partner at biglaw, you have to get some experience to understand what you are doing. Just FSBO your house and get some lawyer to write a contact for you on the house you want to buy. Give the lawyer $500 (there are plenty who will take it) and get the seller to give you whatever the co-op commission split is. As long as the property you want to buy is not competitive, you should be fine.

(Lawyer here.) Why?

You realize that you can still list your house with the MLS even if you're FSBO, right? It just costs a little bit of money. Do that instead.

Anonymous wrote:You can join mris as a non Realtor affiliate.

Check into all this first because unless you pay the full amount of fees and fully affiliate in all required groups, you can't have any commissions post in your name, negating your ability do save that $.

Love the Agent comment at :03. YES!

I was looking at a house being sold by the owner, whom did exactly what the OP is discussing - getting a broker's license, to help save some $$$. Massive mistake IMO. Instead of properly highlighting what was good in the house, the owner/realtor posted signs all over the house, with stuff like "Don't miss the bathroom in the office". Mind you, the bathroom in the office was the ONLY bathroom on the first floor. Each sign highlighted an issue which a buyer might find upsetting. While I personally hate brokers, a few are good.

You can join mris as a non Realtor affiliate.

You can become a real estate agent and sell your own house and buy a house, but please -- I beg of you -- do not write a contract on one of my listings. You won't know what you are doing -- and I don't care if you went to Ivy law and were a partner at biglaw, you have to get some experience to understand what you are doing. Just FSBO your house and get some lawyer to write a contact for you on the house you want to buy. Give the lawyer $500 (there are plenty who will take it) and get the seller to give you whatever the co-op commission split is. As long as the property you want to buy is not competitive, you should be fine.

Anonymous wrote:You can affiliate with mris and not affiliate with gcarr. Get a combination lockbox.

No. You can't. You have to affiliate with GCAAR.

You can affiliate with mris and not affiliate with gcarr. Get a combination lockbox.

Good luck listing your own home for sale if you don't affiliate with MRIS!

Well, you don't have to affiliate with local realtor associations, Sentrilock, MRIS. Skip the lock-boxes and cards, and you can do it for under $500.

Just sayin'.