Should I use a family member as agent to help me buy a house?
“Hi Gary. I’m going to be buying a home in Clairemont or Pacific Beach. My wife’s uncle is retired, but he has a license and she wants to use him. But I want to use a good full-time agent like you or someone on your team. Help me convince her!”
***ANSWER:
Common misconception: “A license is a license. All agents do the same thing. What’s the difference?”
QUESTION: Which profession studies the LEAST for their license:
1. attorney
2. hair stylist
3. real estate agent.
If you guessed #3 you’re right. Scary!
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have a whole bad hair WEEK than lose $10,000 on a home purchase, not get the home I want, or end up in court because my agent screwed something up.
What about you?
And let me share just one real-life example…
Recently a very nice agent brought an offer on a home I had listed in San Diego. During escrow, he realized he’d forgotten to ask for the washer and dryer. When my seller refused to include them, he kept saying we were trying to “sucker punch” him. To him, us complying with the contract that he himself wrote was a “sucker punch”. Curious.
And things like this happen all the time. Is that the service you want?
My advice is to use a skilled, full-time, successful “professional” real estate agent. (No amateurs!)
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