[jimbo2012]

After dealing with lame excuses & no offers with the TV listing for over 60 days,
I had a secret buyer call to see the house.

The pitch was I can find you the same model for less and you can add what you like for less it will be brand new and you can make it just the way you like.

I always heard they steer buyers to new homes didn't believe it till now.

I canceled the contract.

FSBO thru Houzeo for $299. They listed on all the MLS websites at 2.5% selling commission (or I could have sold without at no commission) had two + showings for 4 days,
2 buyers bidding resulted in over ask contract.

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Not only sold quick but saving over thousands in commissions

[Rosebud2020]

Originally Posted by jimbo2012

After dealing with lame excuses & no offers with the TV listing for over 60 days,
I had a secret buyer call to see the house.

The pitch was I can find you the same model for less and you can add what you like for less it will be brand new and you can make it just the way you like.

I always heard they steer buyers to new homes didn't believe it till now.

I canceled the contract.

FSBO thru Houzeo for $299. They listed on all the MLS websites at 2.5% selling commission (or I could have sold without at no commission) had two + showings for 4 days,
2 buyers bidding resulted in over ask contract.

Not only sold quick but saving over thousands in commissions

When a salesperson gives you good service, regardless of what the product or service is, we all generally recommend that person by name. Conversely, when we are given bad or poor service, that person/company should also be named so that you stay away and people are warned.

YES -- I believe that person should be named! The fact that this person was basically pulling a bait and switch on you is reprehensible! There is a difference between TV agents and an (MLS) Realtor. Both Realtors and TV agents are licensed by the state. TV agents do not have to abide by the Realtors' Code of Ethics (as required by the National Assn. of Realtors). There is a big difference between the two and THAT is only a smidgen of the differences.

Congrats that you got a good deal; you were very lucky!

[John_W]

When I listed my home with a Realtor in the Baltimore suburbs in 2011, I used a full service broker, but they were a discount broker. They charged only 1.75% commsion, that included taking photos and displaying on their website and listing it on MLS and putting a multi-lock on the garage door. The selling agent if another agency, gets their regular commission, which I was 3%, so it would cost 4.75% total if another agency sold the home.

Advance Realty Our Selling Fee only 1.75%

I made the listing with agent at 6pm in my dining room. The next morning at 8am and agent from the largest company in Maryland/Virginia, Long & Foster Realty called and asked to show the home at 10am. They arrived and viewed the home, I didn't even have time to leave and there was no multi-lock on the home yet. At noon they called and said they had a offer, it was slightly below list, and the money was guaranteed by the Wegman Grocery Co since the buyer was a store manager.

Sold the home in 18 hours from of listing to accepting the offer. Since I had just had a LSV three weeks earlier, I didn't even return to TV, I bought a new CYV over the phone with my salesman Tony Trussler. Every CYV, patio villa and cottage we had toured 3 weeks earlier had already sold. So we bought a new villa sight-unseen because they didn't have photos on the website yet. Tony came over to the villa that night and took pictures inside and out and emailed them to me, so I still had time to back out if I didn't like what I saw. The villa had been reduced twice, so a new masonry CYV for $157K was hard to refuse.

Here is the home I sold in 2011 in Abingdon, Maryland. I paid $152K for the home in 1998. It had 3 BR 2 BA 2 half baths, a finished basement. Sold it in 18 hours in 2011 for $275K, I did all the landscaping myself over the 13 years we lived there.



I grew up in Florida, so my intentions were always to return. This is one of the reasons I left Maryland.