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I wish it was possible.
The owners probably signed a contract indicating that the they have exclusive rights to sell the property. If it is listed through real estate agents, you need a real estate agent to represent you. If you have no buyer agent, then the selling agent can/will be your buying agent. They will then get double commission. The commission is out of your reach.
It's like a stock market. You need a broker to buy stocks.
If this was possible, you will find buyer agents in the homeless shelters :)
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Hi,
We were working with an agent to buy a house and hit a roadblock. We offered $500k and the sellers countered with $515k. The problem is that we cannot go above $500k as it is our personal max, but since the sellers are slightly underwater, they can't go below $515k. We were thinking that if we didn't have an agent (taking his 3%), the savings of that 3% could go to the sellers and everyone would be happy. Since we've already submitted an offer with this agent, is there any way to offer again without the agent? We don't want to violate any rules. We tried contacting the listing agent directly, but he said we had to go through our agent. It just stinks that the transaction is being held up by someone not really involved anymore, since we are planning on dumping our agent anyway.
Thanks.