Honestly, what do they do?
For years buyers and sellers have relied heavily on realtors to move real estate. No one tried the infamous FSBO it was usually viewed as the Hail Mary pass of selling a property. Realtors provided advice, guidance, and were just a good sounding board for nervous and inexperienced buyers. In return for all this legwork, handholding, and research realtors took a hefty sum of 6% of the purchase price. Often this was split with the Sellers realtor as well.
My personal favorite thing about real estate agents is the silly photo that every single one of them has. They are so similar they all must use the same photographer. I don’t know how they all look alike! The picture looks like the cross between their senior picture and a glamour shot.
Well then this small little invention came along: The Internet. I don’t know if you have heard of it, it involves signing onto this thing called AOL, and then getting a busy signal about 43 times then on the 44th time you can go to chat rooms, and send funny emails.
So I am buying my house without a realtor. I found it on my own, I researched it on my own, and I made the offer on my own. I will be closing soon.
One of two things is going to happen: 1 I will buy this house without a realtor, save a bucket of money, and consider myself a genesis, OR Screw up the closing royally and consider myself a huge dumbass.
Time will tell.
Gee, you’d thought POPS would get honorable mention at least. You should advise people that they should have an experienced mentor; also you could point out that you found a std ra contract online.
Ok Ok
Yes I had help from friends and family, but I did NOT use a realtor. Thus the whole point of this post is that realtors are not needed, and good advice always is.
I don’t know, a realtor can help you find a really awesome place that you can rent out to other people when you decide to pick up your life and move somewhere else. Or is that just me?