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7 reasons to make sure your agent can read well…
I’m not addressing whether or not your agent has dyslexia or if they are perhaps illiterate. No, I’m putting out there that there can occasionally be a lack of reading on the part of an agent when it comes to documents that may be very important to purchase of a property. Rather than focus on [...]
Posted: July 16th, 2007 under Buyer Information, General Real Estate.
Tags: agency, agent, agent-role-in-lending-process, agents, condo, sellers, sellers-information, selling, Selling-a-House, townhome, transaction, transactions
Comments: 3
Commission double-take
Ok, for those of you thinking from the title that I’ll be going back to the subject of dual agency and taking a seller and selling side of a commission this is about something else. What I’ve got a question about as well as a big concern right now is that I just got [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: commissions, MLS, nwmls, policy, problem, real-estate, rules, transaction
Comments: 9
Escrow agents and how they protect themselves
When you choose an escrow company (or “closing agent,” the person who does the work necessary to close the transaction), you look for several qualities: competence, service, location, etc. One factor you probably don’t consider is whether the escrow company is willing to be responsible for its own significant errors.
When escrow is opened, [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: agent, closing, errors, escrow, legal, real-estate, transaction
Comments: 7
Lynlee’s Tips to maximize seller proceeds
Photo to right: Lynlee Kane w/ clients
We frequently close transactions in which the buyer offers a higher price than the list price in exchange for the seller paying buyer closing costs. Most of the transactions of this type actually result in the seller netting less than if they accepted a full price offer [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: agents, buyer, closings, concession, real-estate, seller, transaction
Comments: none
“Tiptoeing” through ethical minefields
It’s getting a little warm in the kitchen of Real Estate
Two questions have been eating at me for some time.
First, one of the most difficult questions to answer deals with my own brethren in the escrow industry. Why is it that a traditionally transaction “neutral escrow company or service” only receives compensation if a [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: agents, controversy, escrow, real-estate, seller, transaction
Comments: 2
Good Folk and Old Fashioned Values
Last night, my dream came true.
“If” the beginning of every residential real estate transaction were the buyers and the sellers and their agents meeting and chatting, maybe having dinner together and a drink or two for an hour. Then everyone walks through the house together while the seller tells the buyer the story of [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: closing, listing, real-estate, sale, transaction, values
Comments: 10
