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How would this work?
We are listing our house next week. The photographer is coming tomorrow to take pictures. A coworker of my husband's just called and wants to come over and look at it on Saturday. I'm sure it's a slim chance that he'll put in an offer (things can't be that easy, right) but what if he does? It's not technically on the market so we haven't signed with our realtor. But, I wouldn't want to screw her over because she's great and will be with us when looking for a new house. What would you do?
Sell it without the realtor? Continue keeping the realtor involve? If it's the second, shouldn't they get their own realtor too?
Re: How would this work?
Someone had something like this happen a few weeks back. It is what it is and you have to do what's best for you. If the agent is paying for the photography, you should reimburse her. She'll still get a commission for the new house you find.
Alternatively, you could negotiate a lower commission and let her do the work for you and the coworker if everyone is comfortable with that. Without agents involved you'd probably both need to pay for attorneys.
Without agents involved you'd probably both need to pay for attorneys.
I would never close on a house as a buyer OR a seller without an attorney anyway!!Real Estate agents are not a good substitute for a lawyer!
But a title company is. Realtor-sponsored closings will either go through a real estate lawyer or a title company.
In my area, the only time a lawyer is involved is if the house is FSBO or part of an estate. Otherwise they go through a title company.
http://pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi#general
I'm thinking that I'll just be honest with the realtor today and let her know that we can either postpone the listing until my husband's coworker looks at the house OR we can go ahead and list it but it excludes him.
I would feel bad ditching her but we'll be paying out a $12K commission that I'd rather not throw out the window.
And, yes we would look further into this by hiring someone to do the legal work.