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Why do you guys hate real estate agents so much?
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2012 Oct 24, 2:50pm 34,664 views 75 comments
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zzyzzx
2013 Apr 30, 1:45am
When I bought my house in 2003 I went through several bad realtors until I found a good one. Most of them were just trying to get me to buy a house that was way more expensive than I wanted.
PeopleUnited
2013 May 1, 7:41am
isn't that just a territory??
ND
Yep, gets purty hairy out there sometimes, the indigenous people shooting arrow at us and whatnot whilst we head to town in the wagon for supplies. No country for old men.
PeopleUnited
2013 May 1, 7:43am
Last time I used mls2u.com, I liked it a lot, you do everything with them via web forms and email (at least in NY). According to their website they do MLS in ND:
I appreciate the idea, I actually took your suggestion last night and signed up. This morning however I got notice that they had refunded my $399 . Apparently no one in ND is signed up after all! What a disappointment!!!
Insert obligatory realtors are cartel scum comment
David Losh
2013 May 1, 8:07am
Let me make a distinction here between Real Estate sale people, and Real Estate agents.
I think there are plenty of people in the Real Estate business who work with clients. It's hard to make the distinction, but you should be able to make a decision during your research, and interview process.
Let me also say that you will never know more than some one in the business, who has longevity. It takes doing deals, winning some, and losing some, to know the business.
I have worked with several realtors over the past few years as a contractor and I am sad to say that only a handful of them have prove to be worthy of representing other people's interest. For the most part they are sneaky, slick sales people who have little to no ethics .. I just fired my own realtor because he can't seem to understand that sending out unlicensed and uninsured contractors to his clients homes is ILLEGAL !
I am sorry to say that for the most part I hate realtors
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I know I am probably going to get trolled out of my mind on this thread, but could you please convey to me why you literally want to eat Realtors' brains.
Reasons I can think of:
1. Dual Agency
2. Most of them have very little experience (Only ~5% do 10 transaction sides a year)
3. Horrible incentives on the buy side
4. Somewhat merky incentives on the sell side
5. ???
To me, you guys get on realtors a lot simply for trying to get people to buy/sell. Shouldn't buyers take more responsibility for their own actions and not blindly follow a salesman? For example, I don't pay attention to car salesman when I buy a car or eye glass salesman when I get new glasses.
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