Has anyone actually used Redfin to purchase a home? Interested to hear what your experience was

[an]

[quote=sdrealtor]And who isgoing to apy for setting up that screening process. Who will be liable when some pedophile has their way with someone’s kid?

Who wants surveliiance cameras in their house. Other than in the bedroom;)

Sorry guys I was just stirring the pot on this issue. Time for nice tall glass of vino…………[/quote]
The government of course. Better yet, the buyers, the sellers, the agents, the brokers, the loan brokers, the advertiser, Google, MSFT, YHOO, etc. BTW, what kind of parents leave their kids alone when strangers come into the house?

[pepsi]

[quote=sdrealtor]glad none of you are my clients. i wouldnt put up with you. Getting good service and quality representation requires some degree of loyalty. So many of you will dismiss realtor ethics but turn around and think nothing of using some one never intending to do business with them. Wonder why some realtors are the way thy are.

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I am not sure if you are talking about me, but we do intend to use redfin to buy our house. But, if it happened that our regular agent gets us into a short sale house, we certainly can not go with redfin and have to use our regular agent to close the deal.
So, maybe I was not very clear, but we tour short sales with regular agent. We never ask her to take us to regular sale houses.
And we use redfin for most of our home tour and will close with them if that is what we end up with.

[pepsi]

[quote=sdrealtor]glad none of you are my clients. i wouldnt put up with you. Getting good service and quality representation requires some degree of loyalty. So many of you will dismiss realtor ethics but turn around and think nothing of using some one never intending to do business with them. Wonder why some realtors are the way thy are.

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I am not sure if you are talking about me, but we do intend to use redfin to buy our house. But, if it happened that our regular agent gets us into a short sale house, we certainly can not go with redfin and have to use our regular agent to close the deal.
So, maybe I was not very clear, but we tour short sales with regular agent. We never ask her to take us to regular sale houses.
And we use redfin for most of our home tour and will close with them if that is what we end up with.

[pepsi]

[quote=sdrealtor]glad none of you are my clients. i wouldnt put up with you. Getting good service and quality representation requires some degree of loyalty. So many of you will dismiss realtor ethics but turn around and think nothing of using some one never intending to do business with them. Wonder why some realtors are the way thy are.

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I am not sure if you are talking about me, but we do intend to use redfin to buy our house. But, if it happened that our regular agent gets us into a short sale house, we certainly can not go with redfin and have to use our regular agent to close the deal.
So, maybe I was not very clear, but we tour short sales with regular agent. We never ask her to take us to regular sale houses.
And we use redfin for most of our home tour and will close with them if that is what we end up with.

[pepsi]

[quote=sdrealtor]glad none of you are my clients. i wouldnt put up with you. Getting good service and quality representation requires some degree of loyalty. So many of you will dismiss realtor ethics but turn around and think nothing of using some one never intending to do business with them. Wonder why some realtors are the way thy are.

[/quote]

I am not sure if you are talking about me, but we do intend to use redfin to buy our house. But, if it happened that our regular agent gets us into a short sale house, we certainly can not go with redfin and have to use our regular agent to close the deal.
So, maybe I was not very clear, but we tour short sales with regular agent. We never ask her to take us to regular sale houses.
And we use redfin for most of our home tour and will close with them if that is what we end up with.

[pepsi]

[quote=sdrealtor]glad none of you are my clients. i wouldnt put up with you. Getting good service and quality representation requires some degree of loyalty. So many of you will dismiss realtor ethics but turn around and think nothing of using some one never intending to do business with them. Wonder why some realtors are the way thy are.

[/quote]

I am not sure if you are talking about me, but we do intend to use redfin to buy our house. But, if it happened that our regular agent gets us into a short sale house, we certainly can not go with redfin and have to use our regular agent to close the deal.
So, maybe I was not very clear, but we tour short sales with regular agent. We never ask her to take us to regular sale houses.
And we use redfin for most of our home tour and will close with them if that is what we end up with.

[drboom]

My wife and I thought about using Redfin but ended up using the listing agent from a failed short sale. We didn’t have a buyer’s agent on that deal, so he acted in a limited dual agency role. After that deal fell through due to BofA’s idiocy, he offered to split his commission with us as a buyer’s agent. Why? He saw how we operated: we wanted to do our own research, didn’t make a hobby of tramping through houses we didn’t really want to buy, etc.

As it turned out, he showed us exactly one house (another short sale, natch). We put in an offer, then a counter-offer which was accepted by the seller in late April and approved by their bank last Thursday. We didn’t waste his time or ours pursuing houses we weren’t really interested in. Easier money for him, a nice chunk of money back for us–everybody wins.

Some of you sound like chronic lookie loos. Are you really trying to find a house to buy, or is it just a fun pastime?

[drboom]

My wife and I thought about using Redfin but ended up using the listing agent from a failed short sale. We didn’t have a buyer’s agent on that deal, so he acted in a limited dual agency role. After that deal fell through due to BofA’s idiocy, he offered to split his commission with us as a buyer’s agent. Why? He saw how we operated: we wanted to do our own research, didn’t make a hobby of tramping through houses we didn’t really want to buy, etc.

As it turned out, he showed us exactly one house (another short sale, natch). We put in an offer, then a counter-offer which was accepted by the seller in late April and approved by their bank last Thursday. We didn’t waste his time or ours pursuing houses we weren’t really interested in. Easier money for him, a nice chunk of money back for us–everybody wins.

Some of you sound like chronic lookie loos. Are you really trying to find a house to buy, or is it just a fun pastime?

[drboom]

My wife and I thought about using Redfin but ended up using the listing agent from a failed short sale. We didn’t have a buyer’s agent on that deal, so he acted in a limited dual agency role. After that deal fell through due to BofA’s idiocy, he offered to split his commission with us as a buyer’s agent. Why? He saw how we operated: we wanted to do our own research, didn’t make a hobby of tramping through houses we didn’t really want to buy, etc.

As it turned out, he showed us exactly one house (another short sale, natch). We put in an offer, then a counter-offer which was accepted by the seller in late April and approved by their bank last Thursday. We didn’t waste his time or ours pursuing houses we weren’t really interested in. Easier money for him, a nice chunk of money back for us–everybody wins.

Some of you sound like chronic lookie loos. Are you really trying to find a house to buy, or is it just a fun pastime?

[drboom]

My wife and I thought about using Redfin but ended up using the listing agent from a failed short sale. We didn’t have a buyer’s agent on that deal, so he acted in a limited dual agency role. After that deal fell through due to BofA’s idiocy, he offered to split his commission with us as a buyer’s agent. Why? He saw how we operated: we wanted to do our own research, didn’t make a hobby of tramping through houses we didn’t really want to buy, etc.

As it turned out, he showed us exactly one house (another short sale, natch). We put in an offer, then a counter-offer which was accepted by the seller in late April and approved by their bank last Thursday. We didn’t waste his time or ours pursuing houses we weren’t really interested in. Easier money for him, a nice chunk of money back for us–everybody wins.

Some of you sound like chronic lookie loos. Are you really trying to find a house to buy, or is it just a fun pastime?

[drboom]

My wife and I thought about using Redfin but ended up using the listing agent from a failed short sale. We didn’t have a buyer’s agent on that deal, so he acted in a limited dual agency role. After that deal fell through due to BofA’s idiocy, he offered to split his commission with us as a buyer’s agent. Why? He saw how we operated: we wanted to do our own research, didn’t make a hobby of tramping through houses we didn’t really want to buy, etc.

As it turned out, he showed us exactly one house (another short sale, natch). We put in an offer, then a counter-offer which was accepted by the seller in late April and approved by their bank last Thursday. We didn’t waste his time or ours pursuing houses we weren’t really interested in. Easier money for him, a nice chunk of money back for us–everybody wins.

Some of you sound like chronic lookie loos. Are you really trying to find a house to buy, or is it just a fun pastime?

[an]

[quote=drboom]
Some of you sound like chronic lookie loos. Are you really trying to find a house to buy, or is it just a fun pastime?[/quote]
Can’t speak for others but I did buy my house, so I wasn’t a lookie loo. I had many low ball offers sight unseen. On ones where I went to go look at are ones where I would offer at listing. I was very loyal to my agent(stick w/ him for over a year until we actually bought a house w/ him) and didn’t bother him unless I’m ready to submit an offer. I wish MLS would have many more pictures. I think it would reduce the amount of showings from lookie loos. If you have A LOT of pictures and stitch them together w/ Microsoft PhotoSynth, people can have virtual viewing w/out having to actually go to the house until you’re ready to make an offer and just want to double check in person.

[an]

[quote=drboom]
Some of you sound like chronic lookie loos. Are you really trying to find a house to buy, or is it just a fun pastime?[/quote]
Can’t speak for others but I did buy my house, so I wasn’t a lookie loo. I had many low ball offers sight unseen. On ones where I went to go look at are ones where I would offer at listing. I was very loyal to my agent(stick w/ him for over a year until we actually bought a house w/ him) and didn’t bother him unless I’m ready to submit an offer. I wish MLS would have many more pictures. I think it would reduce the amount of showings from lookie loos. If you have A LOT of pictures and stitch them together w/ Microsoft PhotoSynth, people can have virtual viewing w/out having to actually go to the house until you’re ready to make an offer and just want to double check in person.

[an]

[quote=drboom]
Some of you sound like chronic lookie loos. Are you really trying to find a house to buy, or is it just a fun pastime?[/quote]
Can’t speak for others but I did buy my house, so I wasn’t a lookie loo. I had many low ball offers sight unseen. On ones where I went to go look at are ones where I would offer at listing. I was very loyal to my agent(stick w/ him for over a year until we actually bought a house w/ him) and didn’t bother him unless I’m ready to submit an offer. I wish MLS would have many more pictures. I think it would reduce the amount of showings from lookie loos. If you have A LOT of pictures and stitch them together w/ Microsoft PhotoSynth, people can have virtual viewing w/out having to actually go to the house until you’re ready to make an offer and just want to double check in person.

[an]

[quote=drboom]
Some of you sound like chronic lookie loos. Are you really trying to find a house to buy, or is it just a fun pastime?[/quote]
Can’t speak for others but I did buy my house, so I wasn’t a lookie loo. I had many low ball offers sight unseen. On ones where I went to go look at are ones where I would offer at listing. I was very loyal to my agent(stick w/ him for over a year until we actually bought a house w/ him) and didn’t bother him unless I’m ready to submit an offer. I wish MLS would have many more pictures. I think it would reduce the amount of showings from lookie loos. If you have A LOT of pictures and stitch them together w/ Microsoft PhotoSynth, people can have virtual viewing w/out having to actually go to the house until you’re ready to make an offer and just want to double check in person.

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