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Yes and that agent is a good friend. Handling the mechanics of a transactions is no problem for him/her but business savy isnt there. I had numerous discussions with him/her trying to explain what needed to be done but it was on deaf ears. He/she is just too nice of person to be forceful and persistent which is necessary. My recent seller who was in denial was subject to a few very forceful and heated discussions with me. She was in denial and I told her shoe would regret not listening to me. I laid it on the line because I knew she needed to hear what I had to say. It could have cost me the listing but representing her best interests instead of mine were served by laying into her. Its not something i do often but sometimes have to. While you cant force a seller to take a lower offer, you can convince many to be realistic if you understand economics and finance. I have conversations like that with my clients all the time as I suspect you do.

Cabal, I do everything the others do around here and more except blindinly solicit business here. One thing i would suggest is getting an agent who is within a reasonable distance of your home so they can provide the service you need and deserve. Sorry Rus, but I think Jamul is a bit far from wherever this house is. When I get listing opportunities in your area I refer them out because it is better for the client that I do so. I get calls all the time on listings from buyers that want ME to show it to them on short notice. I cant do that on a listing that is far away. The one exception I have to this rule is distressed sales where I beleive my skills in helping them deal with that aspect are more valuable than the disadvantage of being far away. Plus they dont care what price it sells for, just that it sells and they are protected.

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Funny but without naming names, one of agents called out by SD R as competent is extraordinarily weak as a listing agent and cost numerous clients tens of thousands of dollars by consistenly allowing them to drastically overprice their homes in a declining market without applying any pressure to reduce them. I know this agent well and like them personaly very much but I also know this to be true and it is a good example of why a good agent can make a difference.

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Funny but without naming names, one of agents called out by SD R as competent is extraordinarily weak as a listing agent and cost numerous clients tens of thousands of dollars by consistenly allowing them to drastically overprice their homes in a declining market without applying any pressure to reduce them. I know this agent well and like them personaly very much but I also know this to be true and it is a good example of why a good agent can make a difference.

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Funny but without naming names, one of agents called out by SD R as competent is extraordinarily weak as a listing agent and cost numerous clients tens of thousands of dollars by consistenly allowing them to drastically overprice their homes in a declining market without applying any pressure to reduce them. I know this agent well and like them personaly very much but I also know this to be true and it is a good example of why a good agent can make a difference.

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Funny but without naming names, one of agents called out by SD R as competent is extraordinarily weak as a listing agent and cost numerous clients tens of thousands of dollars by consistenly allowing them to drastically overprice their homes in a declining market without applying any pressure to reduce them. I know this agent well and like them personaly very much but I also know this to be true and it is a good example of why a good agent can make a difference.

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Funny but without naming names, one of agents called out by SD R as competent is extraordinarily weak as a listing agent and cost numerous clients tens of thousands of dollars by consistenly allowing them to drastically overprice their homes in a declining market without applying any pressure to reduce them. I know this agent well and like them personaly very much but I also know this to be true and it is a good example of why a good agent can make a difference.

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Cabal
Agreed that most (but not all) of us are terribly self-interested. There are some of us out there, its just not always so easy to find us. While I typically am very much a partner to my clients, i often find that I have to be adversarial at times. 6 months ago I had a listing that the seller insisted she get a certain price for. I knew she couldnt get it. We got a great cash offer and I worked her really hard to accept because I firmly believed it was in her best interest to do so even so she couldnt see through to understand that. She fought me the whole way through the transaction and it would have been much easier to give in to her and her self-interest. She now calls me on a weekly basis to thank me for doing what I knew had to be done even though she couldnt see it at the time. She has since referred her 2 best friends to me.

All the unethical stories I tell after a few drinks involve crap my clients, other buyers/sellers and agents tried to pull. Its amazing what people think they can get away with.

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Cabal
Agreed that most (but not all) of us are terribly self-interested. There are some of us out there, its just not always so easy to find us. While I typically am very much a partner to my clients, i often find that I have to be adversarial at times. 6 months ago I had a listing that the seller insisted she get a certain price for. I knew she couldnt get it. We got a great cash offer and I worked her really hard to accept because I firmly believed it was in her best interest to do so even so she couldnt see through to understand that. She fought me the whole way through the transaction and it would have been much easier to give in to her and her self-interest. She now calls me on a weekly basis to thank me for doing what I knew had to be done even though she couldnt see it at the time. She has since referred her 2 best friends to me.

All the unethical stories I tell after a few drinks involve crap my clients, other buyers/sellers and agents tried to pull. Its amazing what people think they can get away with.

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Cabal
Agreed that most (but not all) of us are terribly self-interested. There are some of us out there, its just not always so easy to find us. While I typically am very much a partner to my clients, i often find that I have to be adversarial at times. 6 months ago I had a listing that the seller insisted she get a certain price for. I knew she couldnt get it. We got a great cash offer and I worked her really hard to accept because I firmly believed it was in her best interest to do so even so she couldnt see through to understand that. She fought me the whole way through the transaction and it would have been much easier to give in to her and her self-interest. She now calls me on a weekly basis to thank me for doing what I knew had to be done even though she couldnt see it at the time. She has since referred her 2 best friends to me.

All the unethical stories I tell after a few drinks involve crap my clients, other buyers/sellers and agents tried to pull. Its amazing what people think they can get away with.

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Cabal
Agreed that most (but not all) of us are terribly self-interested. There are some of us out there, its just not always so easy to find us. While I typically am very much a partner to my clients, i often find that I have to be adversarial at times. 6 months ago I had a listing that the seller insisted she get a certain price for. I knew she couldnt get it. We got a great cash offer and I worked her really hard to accept because I firmly believed it was in her best interest to do so even so she couldnt see through to understand that. She fought me the whole way through the transaction and it would have been much easier to give in to her and her self-interest. She now calls me on a weekly basis to thank me for doing what I knew had to be done even though she couldnt see it at the time. She has since referred her 2 best friends to me.

All the unethical stories I tell after a few drinks involve crap my clients, other buyers/sellers and agents tried to pull. Its amazing what people think they can get away with.

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Cabal
Agreed that most (but not all) of us are terribly self-interested. There are some of us out there, its just not always so easy to find us. While I typically am very much a partner to my clients, i often find that I have to be adversarial at times. 6 months ago I had a listing that the seller insisted she get a certain price for. I knew she couldnt get it. We got a great cash offer and I worked her really hard to accept because I firmly believed it was in her best interest to do so even so she couldnt see through to understand that. She fought me the whole way through the transaction and it would have been much easier to give in to her and her self-interest. She now calls me on a weekly basis to thank me for doing what I knew had to be done even though she couldnt see it at the time. She has since referred her 2 best friends to me.

All the unethical stories I tell after a few drinks involve crap my clients, other buyers/sellers and agents tried to pull. Its amazing what people think they can get away with.

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Mike
The vast majority of top quality agents dont work in the flat fee environment and are not able to accept one. How much they would accept is irrelavent because they arent able to accept flat fees.

The house esmith is in escrow on is a good example. The listing agent was lousy (maybe one of the worst I have encountered) and prevented the sale from being completed much sooner at a higher price. Ultimately that worked to esmith’s advantage not the bank that will bear the brunt of his incompetence in this case.

The additional effort it takes to sell a 1.5M house is greatly due to the sellers ego who add marketing costs because they want to see their home advertised in the UT, Dream Homes and other useless publications.

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Mike
The vast majority of top quality agents dont work in the flat fee environment and are not able to accept one. How much they would accept is irrelavent because they arent able to accept flat fees.

The house esmith is in escrow on is a good example. The listing agent was lousy (maybe one of the worst I have encountered) and prevented the sale from being completed much sooner at a higher price. Ultimately that worked to esmith’s advantage not the bank that will bear the brunt of his incompetence in this case.

The additional effort it takes to sell a 1.5M house is greatly due to the sellers ego who add marketing costs because they want to see their home advertised in the UT, Dream Homes and other useless publications.

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Mike
The vast majority of top quality agents dont work in the flat fee environment and are not able to accept one. How much they would accept is irrelavent because they arent able to accept flat fees.

The house esmith is in escrow on is a good example. The listing agent was lousy (maybe one of the worst I have encountered) and prevented the sale from being completed much sooner at a higher price. Ultimately that worked to esmith’s advantage not the bank that will bear the brunt of his incompetence in this case.

The additional effort it takes to sell a 1.5M house is greatly due to the sellers ego who add marketing costs because they want to see their home advertised in the UT, Dream Homes and other useless publications.

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Mike
The vast majority of top quality agents dont work in the flat fee environment and are not able to accept one. How much they would accept is irrelavent because they arent able to accept flat fees.

The house esmith is in escrow on is a good example. The listing agent was lousy (maybe one of the worst I have encountered) and prevented the sale from being completed much sooner at a higher price. Ultimately that worked to esmith’s advantage not the bank that will bear the brunt of his incompetence in this case.

The additional effort it takes to sell a 1.5M house is greatly due to the sellers ego who add marketing costs because they want to see their home advertised in the UT, Dream Homes and other useless publications.

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