lives out of town

Red Pear Realty said:

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If you have a realtor, you do not need to be making initial contact with listing agents. That's your realtor's job and you doing that is making you and them look bad. Let your realtor do their job and you'll be better off.

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my realtor doesn't live in Houston. I'm looking up homes on HAR. it's extra work for me to call her and say hey I want to go to this house, see if they'll show it and call me back so we can phone tag about when to see it.

I want to purchase a house. A listing agent should want to sell a house. It shouldn't be more complicated than that for the listing agent.

So if a buyer uses the HAR function to schedule a showing or uses HAR to reach out to the listing agent to schedule a showing, that's sketchy? If that's the case, they should really just make the whole website realtor only. When realtors market homes they are listing, they plaster their information all over it with "call me to see this home!" not "call your realtor about this home!"

I'm honestly dumbfounded, because when I was shopping in 2018, this wasn't a problem. Any time I leased a house, I never used an agent this was never a problem. In my experience, it's not super uncommon for a realtor to be remote, but I'm in new construction, so maybe my experience is different.

We are on a thread about how an unoccupied house won't move...it doesn't seem like the market is just so hot that you can afford to blow off interested buyers.

jja79 said:

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Just wondering what value this agent is bringing you.

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Probably nothing besides the whole racket about paying them and if you buy without an agent, then you're leaving money on the table because most are still doing the 6% thing. I agree, let the realtor handle it if it adds value, but I should be able to browse as well.

But she didn't even tell the listing agent they were out of towndidn't say she had an agent at all. Seems like the listing agent said "if you don't have one, then get one"… which this listing agent is going to have to get the **** over at some point with the recent law change. "Use a realtor or you can't buy my house" sure seems awfully like some of the same price-fixing and anti-competitive behavior that got them in this mess.

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. "Use a realtor or you can't buy my house" sure seems awfully like some of the same price-fixing and anti-competitive behavior that got them in this mess.

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this is 10000% the way it has come off. twice now.

Nobody is telling you that you have to use a realtor. What they are telling you (once you tell them that you already have an agent) is that your agent needs to do the showing, not them (for free). I don't understand how anyone could be dense enough to think that someone else should work for them for free. Would you like to come sell homes for me for free? I've got a few that are nearing the marketing stage of development. I do property management also. Care to do that for free?

PS, the button on HAR is so you'll sign up to work with them as their client, not an offer to work for free.

so the schedule a showing button, isn't for..scheduling a showing?

listing agents are working for free if I buy the house?

My deal is.. I sell houses. That's all I do.
People make appointments to come see houses or walk in the door all the time that aren't "serious" buyers. I sell them a house anyway. I don't care where their realtor is, because where their realtor is doesn't change the fact that if they close on a home, I get paid. My job is to sell the house. If you won't show me the house, you must not want to sell it that bad.


It is unfathomable to me that the mindset is different for a listing agent.

Yes, sellers typically agree to compensation for the sale side and the buy side agents. If you "have an agent but they can't show it", you are asking the sellers agent to do the buyers agents job for free.

The people who call and ask for free showings "but they have a realtor but she can't show it because she lives out of town" are not real buyers. I've done this a long time. This is why I charge $150 for showings. It weeds out the looky-loos real fast, and is a fair compensation for my time.

On that note, you would not believe the number of people who try to tour homes and ranches as a hobby or just because they are bored, and have no intention of buying. I don't know why they do it but they definitely do it.

I'll show any house you want me to for $150 a pop and be over the moon if you send a client my way to see a home and never worry if you dont show up even once through the process. (that happens ALL the time, ESP with cultural buyers)

People come to models all the time for "decor inspiration" ...like Pinterest doesn't exist?

I feel like I've derailed this thread and I'm sorry for that..and if I've come off as combative.