Dual agency occurs when a single agent, or a single brokerage, represents both the buyer and the seller in the same transaction.
Log in to followBuilding my target list in a metro where two brokerages between them hold maybe 40% of the listings I care about. So if I hire an agent, the odds that my buy-side agent's own firm…
Trying to work out which side of this business fits me and I keep hitting the commission math. The pitch I hear from sellers is that if the listing agent finds the buyer, everyone…
I'm three chapters into the pre-license material and the dual agency section reads like it was written by two people arguing. One page says the agent owes undivided loyalty to the…
Situation I'm sitting in. I have a property listed with a small brokerage, four agents total. A buyer walked in off a sign call and one of the other agents at the firm wants to wr…
I've got two rehabs finishing inside three weeks and I'm renegotiating my listing agreement with the brokerage I've used for the last five. They want 2.5 on the listing side plus…
Thin margins, fast deals, and I'm now hearing from a broker that dual agency claims are the ones that get agents sued and that carriers treat them differently. Is that a real thin…
Small rural market, maybe 900 people in the town. Two houses on the market that fit what I'm after, a 3/1 at 94k and a 2/1 with a decent outbuilding at 78k. Same agent on both. Sh…
I run thin. Two to four rehabs going, and my whole advantage is being the offer that closes without drama. Over the last two years I've done four deals where the listing agent wro…