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 followI'm new and I've now seen the same brokerage's dual agency consent form handed over two different ways. First house, the agent gave it to me before she'd show me anything and said…
The office manual I got at orientation has a designated agency addendum in it. The client signs, the managing broker assigns one agent to the seller and one to the buyer, and the…
I've been going back and forth on this while I try to figure out which strategy actually fits me, and the dual agency question keeps showing up before I've even picked a lane. The…
I've been reading disclosure forms for about four months now, mostly because I'm looking at raw land and there are maybe six agents in the two counties I care about. A couple of t…
I've been collecting consent-to-dual-agency and designated agency forms from brokerages in two states and reading them against each other, because the marketing language around de…
Reading a buyer representation agreement for a first small rental and the compensation page has a line I didn't expect. If the firm ends up representing both sides, the buyer side…
I'm looking at a small mixed use building where the seller wants to carry most of the price. Price is basically fixed already, he told me his number twice and hasn't moved off it…
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…