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re: OT: Selling Home By Owner
Posted on 2/9/18 at 3:00 pm to TitleistProV1X
Posted on 2/9/18 at 3:00 pm to TitleistProV1X
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Are you offering 2% to a buyer that comes along with an agent?
2.5%
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Posted on 2/9/18 at 3:02 pm to TigerDeacon
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This isn't good.
Your realtor either didn't know the value of your home or they may have scammed you with a buyer that worked with them.
At this point, I don't care anymore. I'm just glad that whole ordeal is over. It was a nightmare with the buyers' financing and title company. I'm not exactly sure what happened because I don't understand that whole process but the way my title company explained it to me, what happened is that I essentially bought my new home illegally for about an hour and a half. The purchase of my new home was contingent upon the sale of my previous home. We closed on my previous home first then headed over to the closing on my new home. The funds were supposed to be wired to my tile company. We had a confirmation number and everything. Then suddenly I was told I couldn't leave my closing once we were done because the funds hadn't gone through yet. They couldn't let me leave until the other title company wired the funds. I called the agent, who then called the buyers' agent, who then called the buyers' title company. We were told that they in fact hadn't wired the funds yet. So what it technically boiled down to was we GAVE our house away AND bought another house with no money. My title agent was sweating because she was afraid of lawsuits, I was afraid of having to file a lawsuit to get the money so that I could legally purchase my new home. I had to call the other title company and raise all kinds of hell, saying things and calling them things that I'm not proud of, and threaten to file a lawsuit for them to finally wire the funds.
Turned out the agent I used was besties with the buyer's agent, who together with my agent were both besties with the buyers' title company. I found out that my closing was their title company's rep's first closing of his career. I'm sure I made his first closing a living nightmare but goddamnit I was stressed as I don't know what.
I realize that we just had a bad closing experience and it wasn't NECESSARILY our agent's fault. But still, bad experience is a bad experience.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 3:08 pm to LSU4lyfe
Realtors earn their money.
Would you work on your own car or plumbing?
It is proven that realtors pay for themselves with better sales prices and walking you through the pitential pitfalls involved
!
I`m just sayin`
Posted on 2/9/18 at 3:10 pm to TDsngumbo
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Then suddenly I was told I couldn't leave my closing once we were done
So they kidnapped you?
Posted on 2/9/18 at 3:55 pm to Tigerbythetale
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This post was edited on 12/21/21 at 11:24 am
Posted on 2/9/18 at 3:56 pm to LSU4lyfe
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2.5%
That’s a solid offer. Agents will be willing to show it cause 2.5% is good money and at the end of the day that is what they’re after. Biggest problem you will have is them actually finding your listing if it’s not on the MLS.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 4:01 pm to MikeBRLA
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So they kidnapped you?
I legally wasn't allowed to leave the closing until the funds had been transferred and received. I was fuming.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 4:11 pm to LSU4lyfe
We've sold two of our homes as a FSBO. Only reason I went with a realtor on one of our homes was because I was out of state and couldn't show the home.
Take great pics, put good details in your description, and list on Zillow. I had a realtor call me when my listing went live on Zillow within 30 minutes. Realtors have artificially inflated markets everywhere. I have a low opinion of them.
Stay the course, and sell it yourself. Get a FSBO contract from a local title company and download a seller's disclosure statement off the inter webs and you're golden. Realtors will try to use scare tactics to both the buyer and seller about how they'll protect them in the tranaction, blah blah. frick those liars. The contract you get from the title company is every bit as legit as what the scum bag realtors will give you.
Take great pics, put good details in your description, and list on Zillow. I had a realtor call me when my listing went live on Zillow within 30 minutes. Realtors have artificially inflated markets everywhere. I have a low opinion of them.
Stay the course, and sell it yourself. Get a FSBO contract from a local title company and download a seller's disclosure statement off the inter webs and you're golden. Realtors will try to use scare tactics to both the buyer and seller about how they'll protect them in the tranaction, blah blah. frick those liars. The contract you get from the title company is every bit as legit as what the scum bag realtors will give you.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 4:19 pm to Tigerbythetale
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Realtors earn their money.
Would you work on your own car or plumbing?
It is proven that realtors pay for themselves with better sales prices and walking you through the pitential pitfalls involved
Yes, I do both of those.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 4:19 pm to deeprig9
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Most realtors aren’t interesting in a listing for a rattlesnake farm in East Georgia. You kinda have to network-sell that one.
That was only in the plan if I sold to you.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 4:31 pm to LSU4lyfe
I thought about FSBO but ultimately decided to list with an agent. It paid off for me as the home sold in a week. Most of the showings were agents under the same Keller Williams Brand.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 4:40 pm to LSU4lyfe
I can only offer my opinion as a buyer, I steered clear of fsbo’s.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 4:52 pm to Tigerbythetale
Is there room to negotiate the realtors percentage as the value of the home rises? If 6% is standard, is that right?, then you are talking about $60k on a million dollar home. frick that.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 5:21 pm to LSU4lyfe
Why don't you give us the details on the house and see if you can sell to an OG OT Baller as a rental property?
Posted on 2/9/18 at 5:28 pm to Tigerbythetale
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Realtors earn their money.
Would you work on your own car or plumbing?
Plumbing and working on cares actually require knowledge and skills.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 5:29 pm to jbgleason
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Is there room to negotiate the realtors percentage as the value of the home rises? If 6% is standard, is that right?,
5-6% is standard but plenty do 3% on the first $100k and 2% on everything over if you don’t try to negotiate them down you’re making a big mistake. When I list a house I only charge 1% but have charged as little as 0.6% on some high dollar homes. IMO 3% is absurd for a listing agent
Posted on 2/9/18 at 5:39 pm to Tigerbythetale
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Would you work on your own car or plumbing?
Yes.
Because both proffessions are filled with disreputable providers and I have the knowledge and tools to do both. Though I now have people who do both that I trust and are reasonably priced.
Are you saying the realty business is rife with disreputable operators?
This post was edited on 2/9/18 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 2/9/18 at 5:41 pm to Tigerbythetale
I work on both my plumbing and cars. I saved $4000 in 2017 repairing a plumbing problem. Just took two days of work and some Google. I am not a plumber, I just don’t give my money away without trying first.
Posted on 2/9/18 at 5:55 pm to TitleistProV1X
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5-6% is standard but plenty do 3% on the first $100k and 2% on everything over if you don’t try to negotiate them down you’re making a big mistake. When I list a house I only charge 1% but have charged as little as 0.6% on some high dollar homes. IMO 3% is absurd for a listing agent
I agree and this is what typically drives people to use FSBO
Posted on 2/9/18 at 6:11 pm to deeprig9
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I can only offer my opinion as a buyer, I steered clear of fsbo’s.
Only agents have access to MLS listings, which are homes not under contract. Most homes with a for-sale sign outside are not available to buy.
Over half the homes listed on FSBO are actually under contract with an agent and unavailable. You would be stupid as a buyer not to have an agent because the seller pays all commission, so their services are free to the buyer. Also, driving through neighborhoods looking for for-sale signs is a waste of time because most of them are under contract and unavailable.
Bottom line-both buyer and seller should have agents who will split a 6% commission paid completely by the seller.
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