Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 17:33     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Anonymous wrote:I've never received a gift for buying a house, even after 3 houses, but I am apparently a "poor" by dcum standards at 600k.

Our Realtor got us a great deal, so I don't care about the "gift."


We closed on a house a month ago and received nothing from our realtor.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 17:32     Subject: Re:$2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Oh, wait, I forgot. We got a calendar with advertising. And she keeps sending us solicitations to use her services again!
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 17:29     Subject: Re:$2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Absolutely nothing from our realtor, Nancy Matisoff, and she got a commission buying our new home and selling our old one. Working with her was a disaster from start to finish.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 17:20     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Anonymous wrote:Geez! We got a nice bottle of wine at closing and an expensive Christmas wreath when we bought our $400K house, LOL


I would definitely prefer a bottle of wine over a yeti.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 16:50     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Geez! We got a nice bottle of wine at closing and an expensive Christmas wreath when we bought our $400K house, LOL
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 16:40     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
I know who this realtor is... I, too got the branded yeti tumbler... wasn't expecting anything but found the tumbler very odd.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 16:10     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've bought and sold several houses in my time. I've always had thoughtful/genuine thank you gifts from realtors on the selling side. This one gifted us with a Yeti, a branded one mind you. I would rather nothing at all than some piece of office merch..


wow entitled much.

I have bought and sold many houses costing way more than $2 mil LOL it is a business transaction. Who needs a gift? That is absurd.


+1

I’ve never received or expected a gift. Wouldn’t mind a Yeti though.


Oof. Thought it was a Yeti cooler.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 15:55     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Anonymous wrote:At first I thought you meant a Yeti cooler, which would indeed be awesome!


Agreed!
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 15:53     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
At first I thought you meant a Yeti cooler, which would indeed be awesome!
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 15:52     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A $35 branded tumbler is outright insulting. I'm sure OP would rather have received nothing.


OP here - this is exactly my point. I wasn't expecting anything and would have preferred nothing rather than a tumbler with the realtors name on it.


You poor dear.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 15:50     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Anonymous wrote:Must be nice to have no real problems in life.


Welcome to DCUM forums.. if you don't like it, nobody is forcing you to be here.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 15:48     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Their cut on that sale is $60,000

If I sold my 2 million dollar house with a Realtor and all I got was a branded $300 cooler, I can promise you I would tell every person I know to never use them.



Wasn’t that the agreed upon price for their services?

Realtors give “gifts” because some clients are whiny babies who will give them a bad referral because they didn’t get their egos stroked with monogrammed tea towels.

- not a realtor



No they give gifts because they realize their jobs are all but obsolete and that getting a 3% cut of a 2 million dollar sale for the amount of work they typically put in is absurd.


Then why do you agree to that arrangement? Redfin is right there.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 15:37     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Their cut on that sale is $60,000

If I sold my 2 million dollar house with a Realtor and all I got was a branded $300 cooler, I can promise you I would tell every person I know to never use them.



Wasn’t that the agreed upon price for their services?

Realtors give “gifts” because some clients are whiny babies who will give them a bad referral because they didn’t get their egos stroked with monogrammed tea towels.

- not a realtor



No they give gifts because they realize their jobs are all but obsolete and that getting a 3% cut of a 2 million dollar sale for the amount of work they typically put in is absurd.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 15:34     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Must be nice to have no real problems in life.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2022 15:32     Subject: $2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.
Once we got a home warranty for one year. Another time, a gc for a nice restaurant. All the other times, nothing. No big deal either way. It’s a nice gesture