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Those are some valid examples and for everyone you have I have 3 that go the other way. A bad agent on either side can damage. The goal is not to get any buyers agent it is to get a very good one.
BTW, I rarely respond to calls that come directly from buyers on my listings and usually tell them to go find their own agent. My job is to represent the seller on my listings. When I get a call from an unrepresented buyer, I know nothing about them. My experience has been that they are some lunatic that will grind me for the other side of the commission anyway, that they will be a royal pain in the ass ant that they will usually show no loyalty and will rarely close escrow.
When I represent a buyer, I spend hours and days communicating with them to know what their needs are. We spend many hours looking at properties and I get a good idea of whom I am dealing with. I would rather work with a buyer represented by another good agent who has been through the same vetting process than some lunatic who finds the listing on sdlookup that i know will ultimately be a waste of mine and more importantly potentially damage my client.
Over more transactions that I can count, I think that I may have had both sides of a transaction only once maybe twice. The only one I can remember wa when the brother of a tenant bought a property for his disabled brother so he wouldnt be relocated after it got sold. It was a short sale and the bank countered higher than it was worth, I told the buyer that but he still bought it because the PITI+HOA was $300 lower than the rent they were paying.
BTW, aimloan.com is not the end all be all lender. teh only reason I know of them is because several folks on this site have mentioned them. I know many that are just as good if not better with more personal service.[/quote]
How do you know the sdlookup person with no representation is a lunatic who would waste your time? I would expect that person to be more knowledgeable than an average buyer.
Anyway, I was not looking in your area, so I assume I never dealt with you. The listing agents I dealt with were not like you.
Aimloan.com was an example. I would settle for any upfront mortgage broker/lender, even amerisave.com. No, they all had their buddies who would quote ridiculous fees/points. Like $15K in fees more than what I was getting online for traditional conforming.
