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Sellers agent - a need or a rip-off ?
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If the decision is between doing it yourself or hiring a bad agent, of course do it yourself. If the choice is between yourself and a good agent, then it depends on your skill level. There is a reason why top agents are able to sell properties for more money than some guy who sells 2 or 3 houses per year. Any monkey can put it on the mls, and sometimes thats enough. But there is a reason why some properties sit on the market for months while others sell in days for the same price and in the same location.
There is also the liability issue. While I wouldnt do this to a fsbo, I do do it to the discount agents or agents I dont like.....I negotiate them so hard, and I get them on every single regulation they and their seller screwed up on. I closed a deal earlier this year and brought up an issue at the closing table that ended with that seller writing a $15k check to my buyers because they didnt disclose a particular issue that they were not aware the law required them to disclose but I was aware. I got a lot of referrals from my buyer off of that. That was almost his entire down payment returned to him because that agent and seller didnt know what they were doing.
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