Ask not what you will do for your realtor but what your realtor will do for you!
They are there to help, advise, render services, and protect your interests. The real estate industry has lost touch. We are not in the business of selling homes or commissions but in the business of advising clients and offering services that have value. This industry now cares more about their commissions and high prices versus clients.
You the clients and future clients, don’t have to accept it. You don’t have to accept the commission they are offering or the level of services they barely talk about. You have the right to negotiate with real estate agents and their brokers the level of compensation and services as a seller and as a buyer. You deserve more it’s your money, your home, you have the power. You don’t have to:
– Pay broker fees! – Pay administrative or hidden fees! – Pay what they say is the commission rate as a seller and a buyer and can negotiate! – Accept long commitments and have the right to say how and when you can terminate the contract! – Accept little services and customer service. – Take on all expenses. – Accept a few pictures, post them on the MLS, and do an open house and have someone else than them doing it!
You don’t have to accept any of it!
You are the client, you own the home or have the purchasing power, not realtors. You own the power, the asset, the purse, and the process not realtors. You decide not us. You always had the right to set the terms and not set terms set on you. You always had the right to negotiate not be bound by industry standards or policies.
NAR, real estate commissions, and large brokerage house have lost their case in court and have been found to be colluding. Jurors have found that they colluded and awarded 1.78B in damages. We have known this for a long time in the industry and have been saying it. The system was built not as a service-based industry that prides itself on representing the interests of clients but on a middle-man pyramid scheme industry where the few that are on top collect splits, commissions, and fees.
It is time to take back the industry and bring back the clients and the public back into focus, ethics, services, and value. The time is now.
Like JFK said, “I would rather be accused of breaking precedence than breaking my promises.”
My oath is to my clients, their interests, and their success not that of NAR, real estate commissions, large brokerage houses, and developers. My promises are for the first not the latter.
You the clients and future clients, don’t have to accept it. You don’t have to accept the commission they are offering or the level of services they barely talk about. You have the right to negotiate with real estate agents and their brokers the level of compensation and services as a seller and as a buyer. You deserve more it’s your money, your home, you have the power. You don’t have to:
– Pay broker fees!
– Pay administrative or hidden fees!
– Pay what they say is the commission rate as a seller and a buyer and can negotiate!
– Accept long commitments and have the right to say how and when you can terminate the contract!
– Accept little services and customer service.
– Take on all expenses.
– Accept a few pictures, post them on the MLS, and do an open house and have someone else than them doing it!
You don’t have to accept any of it!
You are the client, you own the home or have the purchasing power, not realtors. You own the power, the asset, the purse, and the process not realtors. You decide not us. You always had the right to set the terms and not set terms set on you. You always had the right to negotiate not be bound by industry standards or policies.
NAR, real estate commissions, and large brokerage house have lost their case in court and have been found to be colluding. Jurors have found that they colluded and awarded 1.78B in damages. We have known this for a long time in the industry and have been saying it. The system was built not as a service-based industry that prides itself on representing the interests of clients but on a middle-man pyramid scheme industry where the few that are on top collect splits, commissions, and fees.
It is time to take back the industry and bring back the clients and the public back into focus, ethics, services, and value. The time is now.
Like JFK said, “I would rather be accused of breaking precedence than breaking my promises.”
My oath is to my clients, their interests, and their success not that of NAR, real estate commissions, large brokerage houses, and developers. My promises are for the first not the latter.
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