“Hi Gary. We’re selling our home and my wife wants to use her friend, who just got her license and only works part-time as an agent. The friend even said she’d give us a break on the fee, but I know there’s way too much involved to use a rookie and I want to use a good full-time agent like you.”
Answer:
Common misconception: “A license is a license. All agents do the same thing. What’s the difference?”
First, a 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 sale, have it cancel, or end up in court because my agent screwed something up.
What about you?
And let me share just one real-life example…
Awhile back a very nice agent brought an offer on a home I had listed. 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”. Hmmm.
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!)
