I worked in an agent adjacent field for decades. Agents legally have a fiduciary interest to their clients. I would say that IME almost all routinely violate it.

Anonymous wrote:My favorite is when a house has been in the market with no activity, you make an offer and suddenly there are multiple offers with interest. Yeah right.

To be fair (and not defending realtors here), sometimes realtors lie and make up competing offers and sometimes they reach out to anyone who might be interested to drum up competition because the seller doesn't like the offer on the table.

Making lowball offers can sometimes get you a better price and sometimes result in a higher price. My mom foolishly made an insultingly low offer. The seller's agent reached out to another prospective buyer who had seen the home but not made an offer. Then my mom had competition, or at least that's what she was told. She really wanted the home so she ended up paying over list price. If she had just made an offer a little below list and negotiated, then she wouldn't have had this problem. I was pissed that she didn't consult me first.

Lowball offers are for houses you don't care whether you get or not. Don't lowball if you really want the house.

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Anonymous wrote:Would all the realtors please stop trying to gaslight us?

Of course realtors receive kickbacks. This is well known. One realtor even admitted it to me because she thought if she disclosed it then it was legal. And of course it's in the form of cash or in kind gifts, not a line item entitled "bribe" that they pay taxes on.

Good Lord. Your imagination is really something else.

Knows what she gets stocking shelves in a plumbing warehouse and thinks everyone let’s things fall off trucks or not be inventoried.

Can all you realtors please give it a rest so the rest of us can have a productive conversation?

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Anonymous wrote:Would all the realtors please stop trying to gaslight us?

Of course realtors receive kickbacks. This is well known. One realtor even admitted it to me because she thought if she disclosed it then it was legal. And of course it's in the form of cash or in kind gifts, not a line item entitled "bribe" that they pay taxes on.

Good Lord. Your imagination is really something else.

Knows what she gets stocking shelves in a plumbing warehouse and thinks everyone let’s things fall off trucks or not be inventoried.