Search Results for buyer's agenttag:searchlightcrusade.net,2024:/mt//feed/buyer's agent2024-04-23T07:54:40ZMovable Type 4.21-en2001200Buyer's Agency, Due Diligence, and the Illusion of Comitytag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48532024-04-01T14:00:00Z2024-04-01T12:38:30ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Somebody sent me this story via e-mail: Feeling Misled on Home Price, Buyers Sue Agent Marty Ummel feels she paid too much for her house. So do millions of other people who bought at the peak of the housing...
How Can Buyers Get the Lowest Possible Price on the Best Possible Property?tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48522024-03-25T14:00:00Z2024-03-25T17:03:30ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
The first piece of advice I have for buyers who want to get a fantastic bargain is to find a good buyer's agent. Nothing else will make as much difference as a good buyer's agent who is dedicated to...
Buyer's Markets: Time for Listing Agents To Earn Their Moneytag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2008://3.37672024-01-15T15:00:00Z2024-01-15T18:40:47ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
One of the most common things I'm seeing as I roam about the East County looking for bargains: Agents not doing their jobs. Even when there were 40-plus sellers per buyer, single family detached homes that are priced appropriately were...
The Future of Real Estate Agency is Expert Consultants, Not Controlling Market Accesstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48412024-01-01T15:00:00Z2024-01-01T17:01:17ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Expertise and attitude, not control of an informational chokepoint, is the way that things are going. Let's analyze this from both sides of the problem. The current owner looking to sell really needs a marketer. For better or worse, most...
Full Service Agent For Discount Price? Demand Specifics!tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48392023-11-27T15:00:00Z2023-11-27T13:22:45ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
There is no such thing as a free lunch, but lots of people will pretend there is. It seems to me that many people consider compensation earned by real estate agents as paying some kind of toll. They think of...
Dual Agency: Using the Seller's Agent as Your Buyer's Agenttag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2007://3.37272023-07-25T14:00:00Z2023-07-25T17:24:42ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Is it unwise to use the listing realtor as your purchase realtor? A house I'm interested in purchasing is being sold by the realtor selling my house. Although she's done a decent job selling my house, I fear she...
Which Makes More Difference To Your Future - Buyer's Agent or Listing Agent?tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48242023-06-12T14:00:00Z2023-06-12T14:04:45ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Having done both, there's no question in my mind. For the average person and the average transaction, the buyer's agent makes a lot more difference. In the aggregate, a good buyer's agent has the opportunity to make a lot more...
Buying Without An Agent - My Own Experiencetag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48222023-05-30T14:00:00Z2023-05-30T15:30:11ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
I had the idea for this article some time ago. It took me a long time to decide to share it publicly, because quite frankly, knowing what I know now, I was an idiot. I was still young enough to...
Asking Price Versus Sales Pricetag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2011://3.50412023-05-16T14:00:00Z2023-05-16T14:42:06ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Hard as it may be to believe, I've never done an article comparing asking price to sales price. It's way past time. Asking price is quite simply, a written representation of an offer the seller would be willing to...
"Contractor's Specials"tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48132023-04-18T14:00:00Z2023-04-18T16:34:01ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
I was looking through some real estate listings and saw one property described as: "Contractor's special, first time buyers and investors. House needs TLC." Does contractor's special mean u better be a contractor if you wanna buy this place? It...
The Era of Make Believe Loans and The Law of Unintended Consequencestag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.48092023-02-21T15:00:00Z2023-02-21T16:05:35ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
One of the things I've heard and read other agents complaining about is that they can't find qualified buyers to represent. Welcome to Unintended Consequences 101. The way that the market had been working is this: Young, often unmarried, buyers...
Some Offers Are More Equal Than Others (Even If They Are For Less Money)tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2011://3.50392022-11-21T15:00:00Z2022-11-21T16:35:52ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
The phrasing in parallel with Animal Farm is intentional. Sellers need to understand this, and so do buyers, especially in a hot real estate market. Some offers are more equal than others, and knowing how to choose between competing...
Working with Multiple Agents While Searching for a Purchasetag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.47962022-11-15T15:00:00Z2022-11-15T16:46:59ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
If you have three real estate companies sending you emails with multi-listings, if you want to see one of the properties, who gets the commission? There five properties that I want to see the inside of the houses. Company A,...
Short Sale Negotiators and the Interests of Potential Buyerstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2010://3.50352022-08-29T14:00:00Z2022-08-29T15:58:49ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
I am seeing a very disturbing trend these past few months. Rather than do the work they should be doing, listing agents are treating the entire short sale process as a kind of "Black Box", delegating the negotiations with the...
Why Sellers Should Counter All Reasonable Offerstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2010://3.50322022-07-18T14:00:00Z2022-07-18T16:29:24ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
I just got off the phone with an agent who claims to have three offers on the property, but he doesn't want to counter the offer. He just wants my client to voluntarily throw more money (or more something)...
Real Estate and "Priced for Perfection"tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2010://3.50312022-07-12T14:00:00Z2022-07-12T11:21:30ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
The stock market has a phenomenon where a company's stock is "Priced for perfection." It may sound nice, but "priced for perfection" is emphatically not a good thing. It's where the stock price of a company has been bid...
Failure to Disclose a Known Material Fact to Buyerstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.47652022-06-20T14:00:00Z2022-06-20T16:13:32ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
My husband and I bought a golf course-view house in DELETED. We closed 5 days ago; moved-in 4 days ago; and 2 days ago found out that the golf course is scheduled to close. It was announced by the golf...
The Tollbooth Model of Real Estate Agencytag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.47622022-06-13T14:00:00Z2022-06-13T16:48:24ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Over the last couple of decades, there's been a rising movement, mostly on the part of those who want a piece of real estate agents business, to sell agents as a toll booth. Tollbooths sit there, guarding the entry to...
"I'm Working With Someone Else, But Could You Just Help Me With..."tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.38372022-05-30T14:00:00Z2022-05-30T15:03:23ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
I recently got an email from a reader that was coming into a property as I left. I dropped my card and we did the lockbox shuffle thing, then there was an email when I got back to the...
The Sperm Donor Theory of Buyer's Agentstag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2010://3.50282022-04-18T14:00:00Z2022-04-18T14:06:39ZDan Melsonhttp://www.searchlightcrusade.net/
Some fathers, sad to say, are not involved in their children's life beyond conception. Maybe it was just a one night stand and they have no idea they even have a child, maybe they were involved with the mother on...