How to Buy w/out a Realtor?

[NotCranky]

The funny thing about these threads is that they are against using a realtor. Then the Realtors get to use it to showcase themselves and have some of their fans stand up for them. The technicalities of how to go it alone currently or in the future are rarely discussed.

I don’t agree that there are not enough intelligent people to create some mass to drive a well planned alternate system.
The system was not challenged much by the discounters in any fashion that would make DIY easier, so that really doesn’t matter. Those systems don’t circumvent the MLS, lock boxes ect.

Technology could be used to safely allow registration of buyers to access sellers/houses without an agent. Many other for profit things could be done to facilitate self service. Saying it can’t happen doesn’t make any sense. Sellers could then list to “safe” services themselves, assured that registered unrepresented buyers would be approaching them.Maybe being pre qualified for a loan or showing sufficient funds could be a requirement to register. Other facets are easily arranged and people could pay for the actual assistance they receive and not for all the time and money Realtors waste chasing around deals,holding listings they don’t sell,schmoozing etc. Changes could occur to make it much easier to do without an agent for sellers and buyers than it currently is…again I think there are plenty of people smart enough for this and the enabled open market could motivate more to come up to speed.

[Anonymous]

The system itself is not necessarily the problem, it is the outrageous commissions (5-6%) that the public has been brainwashed to believe are normal and acceptable.

[Anonymous]

The system itself is not necessarily the problem, it is the outrageous commissions (5-6%) that the public has been brainwashed to believe are normal and acceptable.

[Anonymous]

The system itself is not necessarily the problem, it is the outrageous commissions (5-6%) that the public has been brainwashed to believe are normal and acceptable.

[Anonymous]

The system itself is not necessarily the problem, it is the outrageous commissions (5-6%) that the public has been brainwashed to believe are normal and acceptable.

[Anonymous]

The system itself is not necessarily the problem, it is the outrageous commissions (5-6%) that the public has been brainwashed to believe are normal and acceptable.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Russell] . . . Technology could be used to safely allow registration of buyers to access sellers/houses without an agent. . . [/quote]

Russell, if I am reading your post right, I don’t see this happening. As you know, lockboxes record the combination of every agent using them, even time and date they entered and left the property. The agents have already been vetted in that they have been fingerprinted and had a background check run on them at the time of licensing. The DRE routinely rechecks certain aspects of all licensees’ backgrounds and is notified if a licensee has a County or State lien against them (i.e. child support, etc.) Just because a buyer has gone thru a “loan prequalification” process doesn’t mean they wouldn’t put something that they saw and liked in their pocket during an unsupervised “showing” of an occupied property. I don’t see Sandicor or any of the Boards issuing lockbox keys to unlicensed buyers. Ain’t gonna happen.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Russell] . . . Technology could be used to safely allow registration of buyers to access sellers/houses without an agent. . . [/quote]

Russell, if I am reading your post right, I don’t see this happening. As you know, lockboxes record the combination of every agent using them, even time and date they entered and left the property. The agents have already been vetted in that they have been fingerprinted and had a background check run on them at the time of licensing. The DRE routinely rechecks certain aspects of all licensees’ backgrounds and is notified if a licensee has a County or State lien against them (i.e. child support, etc.) Just because a buyer has gone thru a “loan prequalification” process doesn’t mean they wouldn’t put something that they saw and liked in their pocket during an unsupervised “showing” of an occupied property. I don’t see Sandicor or any of the Boards issuing lockbox keys to unlicensed buyers. Ain’t gonna happen.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Russell] . . . Technology could be used to safely allow registration of buyers to access sellers/houses without an agent. . . [/quote]

Russell, if I am reading your post right, I don’t see this happening. As you know, lockboxes record the combination of every agent using them, even time and date they entered and left the property. The agents have already been vetted in that they have been fingerprinted and had a background check run on them at the time of licensing. The DRE routinely rechecks certain aspects of all licensees’ backgrounds and is notified if a licensee has a County or State lien against them (i.e. child support, etc.) Just because a buyer has gone thru a “loan prequalification” process doesn’t mean they wouldn’t put something that they saw and liked in their pocket during an unsupervised “showing” of an occupied property. I don’t see Sandicor or any of the Boards issuing lockbox keys to unlicensed buyers. Ain’t gonna happen.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Russell] . . . Technology could be used to safely allow registration of buyers to access sellers/houses without an agent. . . [/quote]

Russell, if I am reading your post right, I don’t see this happening. As you know, lockboxes record the combination of every agent using them, even time and date they entered and left the property. The agents have already been vetted in that they have been fingerprinted and had a background check run on them at the time of licensing. The DRE routinely rechecks certain aspects of all licensees’ backgrounds and is notified if a licensee has a County or State lien against them (i.e. child support, etc.) Just because a buyer has gone thru a “loan prequalification” process doesn’t mean they wouldn’t put something that they saw and liked in their pocket during an unsupervised “showing” of an occupied property. I don’t see Sandicor or any of the Boards issuing lockbox keys to unlicensed buyers. Ain’t gonna happen.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=Russell] . . . Technology could be used to safely allow registration of buyers to access sellers/houses without an agent. . . [/quote]

Russell, if I am reading your post right, I don’t see this happening. As you know, lockboxes record the combination of every agent using them, even time and date they entered and left the property. The agents have already been vetted in that they have been fingerprinted and had a background check run on them at the time of licensing. The DRE routinely rechecks certain aspects of all licensees’ backgrounds and is notified if a licensee has a County or State lien against them (i.e. child support, etc.) Just because a buyer has gone thru a “loan prequalification” process doesn’t mean they wouldn’t put something that they saw and liked in their pocket during an unsupervised “showing” of an occupied property. I don’t see Sandicor or any of the Boards issuing lockbox keys to unlicensed buyers. Ain’t gonna happen.

[CA renter]

I don’t think buyers should be able to enter a seller’s house without the seller’s authorization, but perhaps there could be a security firm that sent special “rent-a-cops” (pre-screened, with access to lockboxes) out whenever a buyer wanted to look at houses. The buyers could pay the hourly rate for these registered home-showers, and we could all live happily ever after. 🙂

edit: of course, the seller could opt for an “open” lockbox that (perhaps pre-registered/screened) buyers could open with a special code, if the sellers would prefer that (vacant house, or staged house with no valuables, etc.).

[CA renter]

I don’t think buyers should be able to enter a seller’s house without the seller’s authorization, but perhaps there could be a security firm that sent special “rent-a-cops” (pre-screened, with access to lockboxes) out whenever a buyer wanted to look at houses. The buyers could pay the hourly rate for these registered home-showers, and we could all live happily ever after. 🙂

edit: of course, the seller could opt for an “open” lockbox that (perhaps pre-registered/screened) buyers could open with a special code, if the sellers would prefer that (vacant house, or staged house with no valuables, etc.).

[CA renter]

I don’t think buyers should be able to enter a seller’s house without the seller’s authorization, but perhaps there could be a security firm that sent special “rent-a-cops” (pre-screened, with access to lockboxes) out whenever a buyer wanted to look at houses. The buyers could pay the hourly rate for these registered home-showers, and we could all live happily ever after. 🙂

edit: of course, the seller could opt for an “open” lockbox that (perhaps pre-registered/screened) buyers could open with a special code, if the sellers would prefer that (vacant house, or staged house with no valuables, etc.).

[CA renter]

I don’t think buyers should be able to enter a seller’s house without the seller’s authorization, but perhaps there could be a security firm that sent special “rent-a-cops” (pre-screened, with access to lockboxes) out whenever a buyer wanted to look at houses. The buyers could pay the hourly rate for these registered home-showers, and we could all live happily ever after. 🙂

edit: of course, the seller could opt for an “open” lockbox that (perhaps pre-registered/screened) buyers could open with a special code, if the sellers would prefer that (vacant house, or staged house with no valuables, etc.).

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