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.

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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.

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.

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.

Because I'd like to either use that person, who is remote, will contribute commission back, and willdeal with the paperwork side for me...or not use a buyer's agent at all.

to find the house, no.
to execute the purchase, yes.

I have bought and sold lots of house. I require very little hand holding. I have my own broker, inspector, handy man, contactors from HVAC to garage doors.

But man, "customers" now a days can be a pain and I would hate to be a buyer's agent. Weekends/nights are valuable esp if you have kids. How many ruined nights/weekends does it take before you start to think, this is not worth working with this buyer.

I know relatives who just like to spend weekends looking at homes and think they can get some amazing low ball offer to be accepted. If this is just a sport/hobby, they should just go to open houses.

I see both sides and I think it is completely fair for the buyer or seller agent to charge $100-150 per showing which cuts down on the weekend warriors.

I don't know of any other field that will give you more than 1 free consultation.

Trucker 96 said:

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If I'm a seller and found my agent wouldn't lift a finger for an interested party to see the house, I would consider finding a new agent

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Why would you pay both your agent and the other agent that couldn't show your house?

If they want to outline in the terms of the listing agreement what conditions are convenient for them to show my house, what conditions they will refuse to show my house, or if they want to charge a potential buyer (or me) to visit my house and then I can decide to agree to said terms or take my business elsewhere, then ok. At least it's transparent and I can decide to list with them or not. But if I'm giving someone an exclusive right to sell my house, then I want to know upfront what conditions they are going to be unwilling to show it.

SteveBott said:

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This thread has need officially HiJacked by Texags.

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And poor grammar/spelling

Need=been. It's a Texags tradition

So my FIL has his Texas real estate agent license but lives out of state. I'll give you the advice that I use (unfortunately have bought 5 houses over the past 14 years). We use him as a buying agent because he kicks back the 3% to us. We do enough research to feel good about what house to at least make an offer on. At some point during the option period, my fil will come in and inspect the house as well.

We find a house we like. We send him the link. He calls their agent and schedules the showing. Either the selling agent shows us the house or they come by and unlock it for us and they do something else while we're looking at it. I have never had an issue with the 50+ times we have looked at a home since 2014. The swelling agent understands he lives out of town and understands why we are using him and it works fine.

A simple call from your agent to the selling agent makes all of this way easier for you. They're also your buying agent so this is what they signed up for even if you have some deal worked out. A selling agent doesn't have to placate every rando who calls him/her to show a house. They'll definitely setup a showing though if another real estate agent calls them. It lets them know you are legit and serious.