[quote=ucodegen]
Too often the Buyer/Broker agency agreement has been used to the detriment of the buyer. I think a better agreement would be one covering a specific address that was shown to the potential buyer as opposed to a general ‘blanket’ agreement.
A short one-pager covering a specific amount of time, protecting the Broker’s time and effort spent in showing the property would be quite reasonable.[/quote]
ucodegen, when I spoke of the Buyer/Broker Agency Agreement, I was talking about it covering a 90-day time frame. It is very easy for an agent to spend a lot of time with a client and their particular needs and then have their buyers run into a shorter skirt, better legs or whoever “spoke to them last” or play footsy with a weekend “open-house agent” they just “happened” upon. Since one in five citizens in the state is a “licensee,” we’re all “bumping into each other” and I could easily lose a “wayward client” I have already shown property to, to a younger “cute” agent with a minute and a half of “experience.” A promise of loyalty when I use my expertise to find exactly what my clients need and is in their best interests to buy is reasonable, IMO.
This is not to say that I’m not attractive, but I’ve seen A LOT of things that female agents (even older agents – LOL) do when showing property in attempt to keep a male client “intrigued” with her or steal him (and his partner, if applic.) away from another agent.
