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 followMy agent asked what the top of my budget is. I said $260k and my actual ceiling is closer to $310k on the right building. I held back because I've watched a friend get walked stea…
I've got money set aside for a first small multifamily and I've now interviewed two agents who both call themselves investor focused. The first one brought me three properties tha…
What I usually do with a prospective buyer's agent is hand them a live listing and say tell me what you'd offer and how you got there. If they come back with rent comps I can trac…
Agent sent me his buyer agreement to sign before he'll show me anything. Six month term, exclusive, covers all residential purchases in two counties. I asked whether he'd do a ver…
I've been on job sites for eleven years, so I can read a house. What I can't read is a purchase contract, and that's the whole reason I'm looking at agents at all. Two choices in…
Setting this up honestly because I'm on both sides of it and I genuinely don't know where I land. We run management for about 400 doors and the brokerage side does buyer work for…
I'm working two houses this month in a county of about 12,000 people, both listed in the low $90s. 2.5% on one of them is $2,375 and the agent I actually want to work with has a $…
Agent quoted me 2.5% buy side with a $6,000 minimum. I'm looking at four to six houses over the next 18 months, $150k to $220k, light value-add rentals I intend to hold. Call it $…