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Dear Mrs. Link, Back in the spring I e-mailed to ask your advice on how to sell our home. I inquired about auctions and other alternative methods, and you advised me to try listing with an agent first. We took your advice and listed our house with an agent in mid-April, and our house sold last month for full asking price! Our city home is beautiful and very fairly priced, and we are pleased that things have worked out so well.
We had no luck finding another home, however. Another question I had asked you was if there are many people who rent homes in the suburbs, and you were very encouraging about that. Lo and behold, we are now renting a nice house for a year, and will begin looking again in the spring. When we do, I would like to go with a different Realtor.
Although our Realtor was wonderful about selling our house, it was very frustrating to try and buy a house from her. When a new listing would come up that we were excited to see, she would always make us wait several days because she was "booked". By the time we would get there, there would already be an offer in on it. We asked if there was any way we could see the house without her, and she said that wouldn't be right. Is this true?
We wonder if, when we resume our search in the spring, we would be better off not using an agent and just have the seller's agent show us the houses, to get in to see the house ASAP after it is listed. –G. K., Rochester |
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It does sound as if your agent is better at selling than at helping buyers. You can certainly deal directly with sellers’ agents from this point on.
You may want to consider, though, hiring your own buyers’ broker. You’d have someone legally obligated to put your interests first, keep your confidences, do everything necessary to help you find the right house and negotiate the lowest possible price. |
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Edith
Originally published on September 6, 2006 |
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