Radelow yes in fact I have. I have been to a few listing appointments where the potential sellers have told me that they spoke to listing agents who were indeed cutting their commissions.
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On the flip side here is something that I run across as well. I have a listing in Ramona. It is a friend of a friend and he is NOT a motivated seller. He has priced his home well overmarket. He was listed with a local agent in Ramona and it didn’t sell then he called me and I listed it. Of course it is dead as wood out there and he has gotten no activity. So the listing expired the other day and I asked him if he wanted me to remove my signs and stuff. He said no and he asked me what I thought he should do. I told him to cut his price to what I originally recommended and he said he could not do that. So I said I had no advice for him other then go to a local agent up there who could market it and hope for the best.
He said that he has received at least 20 calls in the past day from other listing agents who said that they had buyers for him but would not be able to bring them by his home unless he would list with them. He asked me why they did that. I told him that is something that I cannot answer. I told him to put their money where their mouth is and to go list with them and see.
