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Originally Posted by frayedends
Haters always going to hate. Realtors can absolutely be buyer's agents.
Realtors can't work for free. I've seen a buyer's agent take a buyer to over 70 homes over the course of 6 months. People expect that and then not pay them anything when they buy something?
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Nobody here is a hater. Just trying to help. Why pay more for something that isn’t hard to do? 70 homes shown over time would equal about 70 hours. What should a salesman make for their 70 hours? 1,000(17 dollars an hour)…2,000 (34 dollars an hour)….maybe 3,000 (51 dollars an hour) Exactly what is the homeowner charged to list? 5%? A 400k home would be a 20, 000 (340 dollars a hour) dollars loss. I challenge the possibility that many homes are even shown that many times before an offer and sale.
It’s very simple to list on Zillow etc. Just take the photos you like…about 30. Upload them and wait and see. A serious homebuyer is usually hitting the site for new listings. The potential buyer will even get emails from the site. It costs virtually nothing to do so why not? We listed our home for nearly an half million and got an offer in less than a week. The title company walked us through the process and we were closing about a month out. They printed the disclosure forms, etc., supplied the notary and even had the wire done for us. We paid around 1,400 dollars for the whole effort.
Wouldn’t you want more than 20,000 dollars for taking pictures, filling out boxes and uploading to a very friendly user website? It’s almost more work to use Facebook than it is to list a house.