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| Halcyon+On+On |
| I live on a street. |
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| OrangestO |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I live on a street. |
Touche. |
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| Vivid Boy |
| wow did really we have to discuss this??? lol |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
I hate selling. I hate buying. I actually don't like thinking about money at all. As long as i have enough, and someone I trust is taking care of it, i am good. |
that is it right there.... |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
lol how much do you think it costs to sell a million dollar home or how much time do you think it takes?
I spend thousands in fees a year and thousands in education. Every year I have to take a number of classes just to keep my license.
Secondly its a free market. You don't have to be charged 2.5% you just agree to it. We are sole proprietors not employees I can charge whatever I'd like to provide my service. If I charge too much nobody will Hire me and if I charge to little I can't survive.
Thirdly there is flat fee real estate out there....it just doesnt sell.
fourthly nobody has ever said you have to use a real estate agent to purchase or sell property. If you want to put up your house for sale tomorrow you can go ahead. It will take you close to a year to sell but you can do it. but let me guess you don't have the time to be on the phones all day and oh you don't have the connections to buyers like real estate agents have to get it sold...ahhhh.. you want to access to our circle of influence but don't want to pay the commission??? cmon man nothing is free.
you want information on solds as public information??? but its not. because its our information. we make the deals we know what it sold for so we share that information with each other as realtors. It isn't public information nor should it be. You don't have access to how much Bob has in his bank or what his credit score is, why should you know how much he sold his house for or how much he paid for his car?? |
Bull. It's robbery. the commission real estate agents charge is utter ing nonesense and gross multiplication of the "fees" it costs you to sell the house.
You make $25,000 from selling a $1m house, and it will probably cost you less than $10,000 in real out of pocket all said and done.
Don't forget all those "fees" you speak of are charged to the seller, and the buyer pays a ton of charges and fees too and both of them have to cover escrow.
You want $15k profit for uploading it to the MLS and doing a few showings while people try to avoid your slimy sales pitch and eating the lack lustre cheese plate you supplied?
At least know your subject matter: all sale prices are public information in every state as property tax and land values are public record.
just go on to redfin, zillow or any of the other 100 sites that list at least basic free historical sale information.
Maintaining your license (depending on state) costs less than $5k a year. Nearly any profession requires regular education to safeguard your clients. It's a fraction compered to similar jobs like quality assurance managers or architects.
Best advice? Get a lawyer to be your agent; they can handle all the paperwork and many have real estate licenses as well, and the best thing? FLAT FEE.
I did and rather than paying 2.5%, I paid $2.5k all in, no bull sales pitches, no inflation of prices, no backhand deals or kickbacks between agents to mutually their clients. |
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| InnerReflection |
Honestly there's heaps of bull sales jobs. There's worse, the last time I went to the local mall about 5 different shoe salesmen tried to sell me shoes that clearly didn't fit.
One guy tried to sell me a pair of shoes that were strap ons (because they were the only ones he had in my size) and then went on to tell me how strap ons are definitely in style at the moment. He was wearing a pair of lace ons(like 90% or more of the shoes out there)... ing knob.
And hey, at least he's not in the military, that's pretty much the only profession I have a strong distaste for. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by InnerReflection
And hey, at least he's not in the military, that's pretty much the only profession I have a strong distaste for. |
Why? |
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| Lews |
I'm not going to touch the style question, because
| quote: | Originally posted by InnerReflection
And hey, at least he's not in the military, that's pretty much the only profession I have a strong distaste for. |
you. |
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| InnerReflection |
you too
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Why? |
Because I believe every war US/UK/Australia has been in for at least the past 100 years has been total bull apart from world war 2 (which was purely defencive).
I doubt that sortof thing is going to change any time soon. I personally believe for instance that installing democracies through military intervention is a rather dumb idea and I can't possibly think of any other reasons to invade random places.
[edit] ok perhaps the war over those south american islands the UK was involved in was justified, but otherwise that's only one |
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