You may be right, but judging from the grammer used by RE agents in their write-ups on properties, I wouldn’t depend on the intelligence of 95% of them to protect me from a blind chihuahua…..”This house is a steel!!!”
After going through four personal RE transactions in my life, I’ve noticed it seems like the business is almost entirely form driven (taken a look at the Winforms index lately?), and agents/brokers do all they can to avoid any liability to their own client, much less the other side. With the new natural hazard disclosure even more is taken care of for sellers through the escrow process, which handles the bulk of the paperwork.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some pro’s who add value, just not many, and certainly not $24k of value to an $800k transaction. For that amount of money, you could hire the best law firm in San Diego to handle the paperwork, and a chunk of the resulting litigation if something went horribly wrong. I mean really, if you use the same agent for your sale, and then your next purchase, at N. County prices you’d be putting $40-50k in their pocket. I can’t be convinced that the value is there for the middle class transaction. $10k maybe, but not Mercedes numbers.
Look, again, don’t take all this the wrong way, I’m not saying it with hostility, but the RE profession is absolutely overrun with moronic goofballs and they have irrevocably soured the punchbowl.
