First off I have worked with two realtors, one here, and one down there. Both are female. Second, the 100+ homes is Bay Area and SD. My examples were from houses up here and in SD.
For the record, on my 3 weekend trips to SD to look at homes, I drove on two of the occasions. Quite honestly, I also picked a less experiencd realtor knowning she would have to tolerate my patience in actually buying and selectivity on what I want. I figured her hunger for a commission higher than she is used to would motivate her. It has. I won’t knock on her. She is doing a great job for her experience level. Any ingorant moves, decisions, observations are strictly my own. I think she is doing the best job she can to advise me. I have nothing negative to say about her, I knew what I was getting and can’t say the same for her. She is sticking with me after 45 SD homes viewed to date. At some point she will get a six figure commission as a result. We work together. I find homes on the net and send them to her or vice versa and we decide whether to view them. It is a partnership that is working for me. I am not a passive client, I act as her partner as an involved client. And after the effort she has put in, I will not reward her by changing agents. I sought her out, found her and contacted her. I knew what I was doing. I will not blame her for things that are, in the end, up to me. I will stick with her until I buy or until she tires of me.
The point of my post was that the selling agents “scared” me away “before” I could write an offer. Yes, that is a product of my little rules. But once I detect some game playing or arrogance I just don’t want to play anymore. I don’t have to. Maybe it is because the last time I bought a house I acted desperate and uninformed and overpaid as a consequence. This time I am lucky, I can take 2 years to find the right house with no difficulty. If I find one tommorrow at the right price I will buy it. I thought I did a couple times, but you saw what happened.
To me the most blatent and obvious case of selling agent stupidity was the house with the electronics. The rest are what they are and I can only speculate what really went on. I did not write actual offers, so will never know. My fault, but I am ok with that. In the case where I did write an offer, we never got to terms. That is bidness.
In the short time I have been on this board, I have learned a lot from you all. You know my situation and what I am doing. I have been reading other on-line info and gathering stats etc about my desired markets. My goal is not to be a brilliant home buyer this time around. It is to be a less stupid one than the last time.
