I suspect this is probably obvious to you now, but buying a house without a realtor is almost as bad as going to court without a lawyer (in a normal house buying transaction). You need someone who has some idea of what they're doing that also has a fiduciary duty to keep your interests at heart.
Well... part of the problem is that realtor working for me does not, in fact, have my best interests at heart. That is to say, the higher the cost of the house, the better off my realtor is. As someone in the chat thread pointed out, it's a transaction with four people, three of whom are working for a higher price - I'm the only one who wants it lower.
Also: For some prices of house you can't get a realtor. Part of the reason I was trying to go without is that two realtors I tried dropped me because the price range of homes I was looking at was going to be below 80k. The realtor who helped me make the offer on this place was warned explicitly that I might want to offer on a place for 60k, and was she ok with that? Turns out she was. Good for her, too, because she really had to do very little work on this one. And Scumbag Steve was punished for his dishonesty by having the owner he was representing lose the cost of her commission when he might have saved it just by not being shitty.
In most cases, the seller still pays both commissions even if the buyer and seller's agent are the same person, so it's even better: Steve cost himself the buyer's commission.
I had heard that, but when I asked my former realtor friend he said that owner's realtors are under contract for a set rate so they don't get more than that unless they renegotiate. But, I do gather that scumbag steve was going to try to sign me on to dual representation, so he probably was expecting that commission.
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I had heard that, but when I asked my former realtor friend he said that owner's realtors are under contract for a set rate so they don't get more than that unless they renegotiate. But, I do gather that scumbag steve was going to try to sign me on to dual representation, so he probably was expecting that commission.
well gosh
stay away from crwth
he's a user
Well, 1 out of 3 so far ain't bad.
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what in the world?!
even the w?
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Especially the w
Here you go, this ought to get you back up to speed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9CALKOvAI
They get very involved
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Weird, normally it's crwth putting the blast on us. From his butt.
when i see an opportunity i take it tito
i'm breaking the double posting rules don't mess with me man i'm crazy