6% RE fee model?

[CA renter]

When we sold our personal home, we used a fee-based broker who charged us around $500 (IIRC) to list on the MLS. We offered a 2.5% commission to the selling broker (buyer’s agent).

If you price it right, clean it up well, offer a basic description listing the best qualities (like a bedroom and full bath on the first floor, upstairs laundry, etc.), and take GOOD pictures, it’s usually very easy to sell a house. It’s always a good idea to have the name of a good RE attorney around in case you have any questions, but selling a home is not difficult.

[scaredyclassic]

but what if you want to price it a little bit higher than “right”?

[scaredyclassic]

but what if you want to price it a little bit higher than “right”?

[scaredyclassic]

but what if you want to price it a little bit higher than “right”?

[scaredyclassic]

but what if you want to price it a little bit higher than “right”?

[scaredyclassic]

but what if you want to price it a little bit higher than “right”?

[sdduuuude]

I look at it this way – people fall somewhere in a wide spectrum between “Do-it-yourself” and “Don’t wanna deal with it”

Like anything – construction, for example – if you don’t wanna deal with it, it costs money to have someone else deal with it. And, if you do it yourself, you save alot of money.

To be a do-it-yourselfer, you need both the skills and time to actually do it yourself. I think that very few people have both and so the realtor model will be able to endure. Most people need them.

Of course, this isn’t to say that a small market of do-it-yourselfers doesn’t exist. It does exist, and it can be served by different discounted models, but it is a pretty small market, all things considered.

I suspect that much of the PIGG community has the skills to go without a realtor and so we tend to see the rest of the market as we see ourselves, which I don’t think is the case.

[sdduuuude]

I look at it this way – people fall somewhere in a wide spectrum between “Do-it-yourself” and “Don’t wanna deal with it”

Like anything – construction, for example – if you don’t wanna deal with it, it costs money to have someone else deal with it. And, if you do it yourself, you save alot of money.

To be a do-it-yourselfer, you need both the skills and time to actually do it yourself. I think that very few people have both and so the realtor model will be able to endure. Most people need them.

Of course, this isn’t to say that a small market of do-it-yourselfers doesn’t exist. It does exist, and it can be served by different discounted models, but it is a pretty small market, all things considered.

I suspect that much of the PIGG community has the skills to go without a realtor and so we tend to see the rest of the market as we see ourselves, which I don’t think is the case.

[sdduuuude]

I look at it this way – people fall somewhere in a wide spectrum between “Do-it-yourself” and “Don’t wanna deal with it”

Like anything – construction, for example – if you don’t wanna deal with it, it costs money to have someone else deal with it. And, if you do it yourself, you save alot of money.

To be a do-it-yourselfer, you need both the skills and time to actually do it yourself. I think that very few people have both and so the realtor model will be able to endure. Most people need them.

Of course, this isn’t to say that a small market of do-it-yourselfers doesn’t exist. It does exist, and it can be served by different discounted models, but it is a pretty small market, all things considered.

I suspect that much of the PIGG community has the skills to go without a realtor and so we tend to see the rest of the market as we see ourselves, which I don’t think is the case.

[sdduuuude]

I look at it this way – people fall somewhere in a wide spectrum between “Do-it-yourself” and “Don’t wanna deal with it”

Like anything – construction, for example – if you don’t wanna deal with it, it costs money to have someone else deal with it. And, if you do it yourself, you save alot of money.

To be a do-it-yourselfer, you need both the skills and time to actually do it yourself. I think that very few people have both and so the realtor model will be able to endure. Most people need them.

Of course, this isn’t to say that a small market of do-it-yourselfers doesn’t exist. It does exist, and it can be served by different discounted models, but it is a pretty small market, all things considered.

I suspect that much of the PIGG community has the skills to go without a realtor and so we tend to see the rest of the market as we see ourselves, which I don’t think is the case.

[sdduuuude]

I look at it this way – people fall somewhere in a wide spectrum between “Do-it-yourself” and “Don’t wanna deal with it”

Like anything – construction, for example – if you don’t wanna deal with it, it costs money to have someone else deal with it. And, if you do it yourself, you save alot of money.

To be a do-it-yourselfer, you need both the skills and time to actually do it yourself. I think that very few people have both and so the realtor model will be able to endure. Most people need them.

Of course, this isn’t to say that a small market of do-it-yourselfers doesn’t exist. It does exist, and it can be served by different discounted models, but it is a pretty small market, all things considered.

I suspect that much of the PIGG community has the skills to go without a realtor and so we tend to see the rest of the market as we see ourselves, which I don’t think is the case.

[CA renter]

[quote=sdduuuude]I look at it this way – people fall somewhere in a wide spectrum between “Do-it-yourself” and “Don’t wanna deal with it”

Like anything – construction, for example – if you don’t wanna deal with it, it costs money to have someone else deal with it. And, if you do it yourself, you save alot of money.

To be a do-it-yourselfer, you need both the skills and time to actually do it yourself. I think that very few people have both and so the realtor model will be able to endure. Most people need them.

Of course, this isn’t to say that a small market of do-it-yourselfers doesn’t exist. It does exist, and it can be served by different discounted models, but it is a pretty small market, all things considered.

I suspect that much of the PIGG community has the skills to go without a realtor and so we tend to see the rest of the market as we see ourselves, which I don’t think is the case.[/quote]

Very true.

I would also add that a realtor can be invaluable when one is dealing in unfamiliar territory (buying or selling remotely).

We sold some inherited land in the Sierras, and I paid the listing broker even more than what was stipulated in the contract. Quite honestly, he deserved even more than that.

It really does depend on the circumstances.

[CA renter]

[quote=sdduuuude]I look at it this way – people fall somewhere in a wide spectrum between “Do-it-yourself” and “Don’t wanna deal with it”

Like anything – construction, for example – if you don’t wanna deal with it, it costs money to have someone else deal with it. And, if you do it yourself, you save alot of money.

To be a do-it-yourselfer, you need both the skills and time to actually do it yourself. I think that very few people have both and so the realtor model will be able to endure. Most people need them.

Of course, this isn’t to say that a small market of do-it-yourselfers doesn’t exist. It does exist, and it can be served by different discounted models, but it is a pretty small market, all things considered.

I suspect that much of the PIGG community has the skills to go without a realtor and so we tend to see the rest of the market as we see ourselves, which I don’t think is the case.[/quote]

Very true.

I would also add that a realtor can be invaluable when one is dealing in unfamiliar territory (buying or selling remotely).

We sold some inherited land in the Sierras, and I paid the listing broker even more than what was stipulated in the contract. Quite honestly, he deserved even more than that.

It really does depend on the circumstances.

[CA renter]

[quote=sdduuuude]I look at it this way – people fall somewhere in a wide spectrum between “Do-it-yourself” and “Don’t wanna deal with it”

Like anything – construction, for example – if you don’t wanna deal with it, it costs money to have someone else deal with it. And, if you do it yourself, you save alot of money.

To be a do-it-yourselfer, you need both the skills and time to actually do it yourself. I think that very few people have both and so the realtor model will be able to endure. Most people need them.

Of course, this isn’t to say that a small market of do-it-yourselfers doesn’t exist. It does exist, and it can be served by different discounted models, but it is a pretty small market, all things considered.

I suspect that much of the PIGG community has the skills to go without a realtor and so we tend to see the rest of the market as we see ourselves, which I don’t think is the case.[/quote]

Very true.

I would also add that a realtor can be invaluable when one is dealing in unfamiliar territory (buying or selling remotely).

We sold some inherited land in the Sierras, and I paid the listing broker even more than what was stipulated in the contract. Quite honestly, he deserved even more than that.

It really does depend on the circumstances.

[CA renter]

[quote=sdduuuude]I look at it this way – people fall somewhere in a wide spectrum between “Do-it-yourself” and “Don’t wanna deal with it”

Like anything – construction, for example – if you don’t wanna deal with it, it costs money to have someone else deal with it. And, if you do it yourself, you save alot of money.

To be a do-it-yourselfer, you need both the skills and time to actually do it yourself. I think that very few people have both and so the realtor model will be able to endure. Most people need them.

Of course, this isn’t to say that a small market of do-it-yourselfers doesn’t exist. It does exist, and it can be served by different discounted models, but it is a pretty small market, all things considered.

I suspect that much of the PIGG community has the skills to go without a realtor and so we tend to see the rest of the market as we see ourselves, which I don’t think is the case.[/quote]

Very true.

I would also add that a realtor can be invaluable when one is dealing in unfamiliar territory (buying or selling remotely).

We sold some inherited land in the Sierras, and I paid the listing broker even more than what was stipulated in the contract. Quite honestly, he deserved even more than that.

It really does depend on the circumstances.

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