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On 27-Jun-2005, "Jeff Strickland" <spamcatcher@yahoo.net> wrote:
> The
> vast majority of people decide to move from one area to another, and they
> know very little about the new area. They are faced with the prospect of
> driving from home to the new place where they are interested in living,
> and
> they have to scour the various sources for homes. The trouble is, they
> do not
> know where all of the homes are, and just because a home is in the local
> newspaper doesn't mean that it is in a desirable part of town. You enlist
> the assistance of a buyer's agent to have them search for properties for
> you. The idea is that they know the neighborhoods, and if you want a
> particular neighborhood feature, your agent should know that the feature
> exists in one neighborhood or another.
I still wouldn't trust the whole process to an Agent. These days you can
check on sites like realtor.com to make sure that certain properties aren't
slipping through the cracks. The errors I see in the MLS never cease to
amaze me. We have a complex here called Hawaiian Gardens. I have seen Hawaii
misspelled about six different ways. I have been training realtors how to use
the MLS for the past year full time. Most know how to search for a correctly
entered listing but very few know how to make the search forgiving enough to
find an incorrectly entered one. And those are the best deals usually. Being
that the Realtor has probably been telling them the house is not selling
because it's priced too high. Little do they know that they're not getting
showings because no one can find it!
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