Are selling agents part of the problem?

[Anonymous]

I can see that you have the same attitude about RE agents that I do. They are nothing more than glorified used car salesmen.
I have come up with what I call the A#@hole-O-Meter. It is shaped like a typical thermometer, at the bottom are the pond scum bottom feeding car salespeople, the next rung if you will are RE agents, followed by attorneys, and finally politicians.
The great thing about this device is that you can have sub-classifications. For example, a shoe salesperson can be below the used car salesperson and a new car salesperson can be between used car and RE agent.
Remember the higher the price goes on a home the more commission these scumbags make.
Another thing to ponder. The more you pay for a home the higher your property taxes go. Some people don’t take that into account when buying a home until they get the first tax bill.
Here in the bay area, in my opinion RE agents have driven the prices so high by convincing their clients that they are sitting on a gold mine. Fact of the matter is, unless you have a ton of equity, sellers will have to move to a cheaper area or face purchasing a similar or smaller home in the area they live now.
The only real winners are the agents. They take their commission and laugh all the way to the bank. This is the society that they have created for themselves and home buyers / sellers.
Where I live (SF peninsula), I have seen the demographics change from a mixture of blue and white collar families to that of predominantly white collar. The greed of sellers and agents have driven the decent blue collar family out of the area and right into the lousy areas.
I have been considering leaving the bay area since I can’t fathom paying a million dollars for an old house that has little or no room for my family to grow.
Of course my agent thinks only of how much these homes will appreciate, and not about what I really wnat. A safe place to live for my son to grow up. I can care less what my home could be worth in five to ten years. If the price triples again in ten years then you’ll have only morons who don’t know the value of a dollar buying.
Excuse the rant but I feel no pity if someone loses their a#@!

[Anonymous]

I can see that you have the same attitude about RE agents that I do. They are nothing more than glorified used car salesmen.
I have come up with what I call the A#@hole-O-Meter. It is shaped like a typical thermometer, at the bottom are the pond scum bottom feeding car salespeople, the next rung if you will are RE agents, followed by attorneys, and finally politicians.
The great thing about this device is that you can have sub-classifications. For example, a shoe salesperson can be below the used car salesperson and a new car salesperson can be between used car and RE agent.
Remember the higher the price goes on a home the more commission these scumbags make.
Another thing to ponder. The more you pay for a home the higher your property taxes go. Some people don’t take that into account when buying a home until they get the first tax bill.
Here in the bay area, in my opinion RE agents have driven the prices so high by convincing their clients that they are sitting on a gold mine. Fact of the matter is, unless you have a ton of equity, sellers will have to move to a cheaper area or face purchasing a similar or smaller home in the area they live now.
The only real winners are the agents. They take their commission and laugh all the way to the bank. This is the society that they have created for themselves and home buyers / sellers.
Where I live (SF peninsula), I have seen the demographics change from a mixture of blue and white collar families to that of predominantly white collar. The greed of sellers and agents have driven the decent blue collar family out of the area and right into the lousy areas.
I have been considering leaving the bay area since I can’t fathom paying a million dollars for an old house that has little or no room for my family to grow.
Of course my agent thinks only of how much these homes will appreciate, and not about what I really wnat. A safe place to live for my son to grow up. I can care less what my home could be worth in five to ten years. If the price triples again in ten years then you’ll have only morons who don’t know the value of a dollar buying.
Excuse the rant but I feel no pity if someone loses their a#@!

[Anonymous]

I can see that you have the same attitude about RE agents that I do. They are nothing more than glorified used car salesmen.
I have come up with what I call the A#@hole-O-Meter. It is shaped like a typical thermometer, at the bottom are the pond scum bottom feeding car salespeople, the next rung if you will are RE agents, followed by attorneys, and finally politicians.
The great thing about this device is that you can have sub-classifications. For example, a shoe salesperson can be below the used car salesperson and a new car salesperson can be between used car and RE agent.
Remember the higher the price goes on a home the more commission these scumbags make.
Another thing to ponder. The more you pay for a home the higher your property taxes go. Some people don’t take that into account when buying a home until they get the first tax bill.
Here in the bay area, in my opinion RE agents have driven the prices so high by convincing their clients that they are sitting on a gold mine. Fact of the matter is, unless you have a ton of equity, sellers will have to move to a cheaper area or face purchasing a similar or smaller home in the area they live now.
The only real winners are the agents. They take their commission and laugh all the way to the bank. This is the society that they have created for themselves and home buyers / sellers.
Where I live (SF peninsula), I have seen the demographics change from a mixture of blue and white collar families to that of predominantly white collar. The greed of sellers and agents have driven the decent blue collar family out of the area and right into the lousy areas.
I have been considering leaving the bay area since I can’t fathom paying a million dollars for an old house that has little or no room for my family to grow.
Of course my agent thinks only of how much these homes will appreciate, and not about what I really wnat. A safe place to live for my son to grow up. I can care less what my home could be worth in five to ten years. If the price triples again in ten years then you’ll have only morons who don’t know the value of a dollar buying.
Excuse the rant but I feel no pity if someone loses their a#@!

[justme]

This thread is one of the best and most informative in a long time. I knew that it couldn’t possibly be just I that had these problems with difficult agents.

Here’s a twist I’d like to hear everyone’s opinion of: In the boom days, the only way to “get” a house was to enlist the listing agent as a dual agent, or to hire their buddy-from-the-same-office that was babysitting the open house.

This predictably compounded the problem with getting lowball offers written and presented.

How is this situation looking right now?

[justme]

This thread is one of the best and most informative in a long time. I knew that it couldn’t possibly be just I that had these problems with difficult agents.

Here’s a twist I’d like to hear everyone’s opinion of: In the boom days, the only way to “get” a house was to enlist the listing agent as a dual agent, or to hire their buddy-from-the-same-office that was babysitting the open house.

This predictably compounded the problem with getting lowball offers written and presented.

How is this situation looking right now?

[justme]

This thread is one of the best and most informative in a long time. I knew that it couldn’t possibly be just I that had these problems with difficult agents.

Here’s a twist I’d like to hear everyone’s opinion of: In the boom days, the only way to “get” a house was to enlist the listing agent as a dual agent, or to hire their buddy-from-the-same-office that was babysitting the open house.

This predictably compounded the problem with getting lowball offers written and presented.

How is this situation looking right now?

[justme]

This thread is one of the best and most informative in a long time. I knew that it couldn’t possibly be just I that had these problems with difficult agents.

Here’s a twist I’d like to hear everyone’s opinion of: In the boom days, the only way to “get” a house was to enlist the listing agent as a dual agent, or to hire their buddy-from-the-same-office that was babysitting the open house.

This predictably compounded the problem with getting lowball offers written and presented.

How is this situation looking right now?

[justme]

This thread is one of the best and most informative in a long time. I knew that it couldn’t possibly be just I that had these problems with difficult agents.

Here’s a twist I’d like to hear everyone’s opinion of: In the boom days, the only way to “get” a house was to enlist the listing agent as a dual agent, or to hire their buddy-from-the-same-office that was babysitting the open house.

This predictably compounded the problem with getting lowball offers written and presented.

How is this situation looking right now?

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