Buying A Home
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Buyer's Agent Question
This seems like a silly question but I figured I would ask anyway. When we sold our home a year ago, we interviewed a couple seller's agents. Did you do the same for buyer's agents? When we bought our first home, we simply walked in the RE office and they gave us someone. I am not sure if this is the norm since we were young when we first bought and had no clue what we were doing!
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Re: Buyer's Agent Question
I would recommend interviewing an agent for buying, but that is just how I am. I say that now because I had a terrible agent the one time that I used one when we bought our house. She didn't seem to want to work for us. At the end, I wondered why she was able to make a commission since she seems to work against us by fighting us on things we would be looking for. Luckily, we found a house that we loved pretty quickly, so not much interaction with her. However, it was over 5 years ago and it still makes me angry when I think about it!
I would suggest finding someone who you trust (go with your instinct) by asking questions. I'd look for examples from their previous sales, I definitely would not ask him/her what he or she "would do" in a situation. That provides false responses since any answer can be given. It seems to me that when you ask for a real example, it's harder for someone to come up with an answer that you want to hear.
I would ultimately look for someone that you think will be able to represent you in the best way possible, so not necessarily just taking any agent that comes along. I think it might also show agents that you are serious if you come prepared. I think that is a problem that I experienced as well...
Good luck!
Sure, I think it's a good idea to interview before committing to use someone, or just getting a recommendation that you trust. I just met with a buyer's agent for the first time last week, and he seemed to expect that we were interviewing several others at the same time. Without us asking for it, he showed us a book of reviews from previous clients and gave us a huge list of references to call.
In our case, he was our first choice -- he had stellar reviews on Angieslist and seemed to fit everything we were looking for. I only would have looked for someone else if we'd gotten a bad feeling from our first in-person meeting (like a personality conflict) or if he'd tried to push our budget too far.
I wish we had.
We moved out of town, and our agent who sold our home was fantastic. She gave us a recommendation. We didn't buy for another 6 months and happened to stumble upon the house we wanted, so we gave her a call to draw up the paperwork for an offer.
She sucked. She was beyond awful.