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Originally Posted by Realtor 1
Fact is most end up hiring a realtor...
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I agree.
Though in the town I sold in, an agent with a faint pulse, can sell a house in less than 5 days just due to the exposure they can provide with the Realtor listing vs. private sale.
It took me 22 days, and NONE of my traffic came from the internet. It was all from signs out on the streets and having Open Houses that were well signed in the community.
Private Selling would be easy if regular people had access to the same tools as Realtors to provide exposure to the massive buyer pool.
Sure, we can do MLS now, but it's not exactly the same thing, as you know.
That said, I'd love to get in to Real Estate. My buyers were working with an agent and the back and forth mindf*** of the negotiation was a rush. In the end, I got the agent to take the hit, so I could net my bottom line.
He took $9000 including the HST, flat rate, on a $400000 transaction. When I got him to include the HST, that is when I felt victorious. It killed him inside to take less than 2.5%.