This entry treats the buyer's agent role specialized for investor clients: a licensed agent who represents real estate investors as buyers, helping them find, evaluate, and acquire investment properties, earning commission on the purchases.
Log in to followGot a package on a four-plex from an agent I've been talking to about representation. The listing sheet shows $3,400 a month gross. The leases she forwarded add up to $3,050, and…
My plan is one small property, hold it, then reassess in a couple of years. Everything I read about investor-focused buyer's agents assumes the client is buying repeatedly and tre…
Looking at a small rental as a first purchase and I want the whole cash number before I go further. I've got the down payment and closing costs sketched out but the agent fee is c…
Third rental and the deals I want aren't showing up on the MLS anymore, so I went looking for an agent who works with investors. The one I like sent an exclusive buyer-broker agre…
I'm setting up to work with investor buyers once my license clears and I've been reading sample buyer-broker agreements to see what I'd actually be asking someone to sign. The one…
I've been buying and holding raw land on my own and a couple of people I know keep asking me to look at parcels for them. Rather than doing it for free I'm thinking about getting…
I'm after one or two rentals I don't have to touch, so I've been talking to an agent who says he gets turnkey properties with tenants already in place before they hit the market.…
I'm building out a pipeline of small multifamily this year, target 12 closings, average price around $260k. At 2.5% buyer-side that's roughly $78k in fees. The agent I want to use…
Trying to figure out where the money goes in a deal and I keep landing on the buyer's agent line. If the buyer already knows the market, already has a rehab number from a contract…
Working through a structure and I want to know if it's even legal ground before I take it to anyone. Buyer agent has a signed agreement with me at 2.5%. I put a property under con…
I represent a buyer who's accumulating small multifamily, $150k to $220k duplexes, and he wants to restructure how he pays me. Right now it's 2.5%, which on his range is $3,750 to…