Do real estate agents deserve more credit? You see a lot of polls asking buyers and sellers about all sorts of real estate related topics but a great poll would be perhaps a poll asking the buyer or seller if they think they could sell their home or buy a home without the aid of a Realtor. The results would be quite interesting.
The answer to that question of course will vary from person to person and the answers would depend on whether or not a buyer or seller had ever tried to sell their home on their own, had tried to buy a home on their own, and if they had worked with a real estate agent in the past, a good determining factor of what answer they give would depend on what level of service the real estate agent gave to that particular client
What determines a bad job? A seller might say their Realtor did a bad job because their house didn’t sell. The statement may be true but some key reasons as to why the house didn’t sell come in to play. Did the house not sell because the agent did not market the home properly? Or did the house not sell because after several attempts on the real estate agent’s part to get the price reduced on the home, met with nothing but the unwillingness to budge from the price, l could be another reason why the house didn’t sell. But is that the fault of the seller being un reasonable or that fault of the real estate agent not being aggressive enough or informing the seller the reason FOR the price reductions. One might argue it is both sides fault.

January 12th, 2011
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