Probably I touched a nerve. You don't have good arguments so called me stupid, showing that you're the stupid and the low-life.
Real-estate agents have a monopoly, and they get paid much more than they deserve. They're to highly paid for the amount of time they work, for the amount of funds they invest and the little education and brain power they need to do a good job, which many times they don't. Why? Because they're greedy, don't care and / or are inept.
As in any field there are exceptions, but I talk from what I've experienced. If you're a real-estate agent and are doing a good job, congratulations! If you're not paid as high as the others you're a sucker. It doesn't change anything.
The facts that the RE brokers hide the information and purposefully avoid owner sales show that real-estate is not a free market.
As a consumer I invest my capital and take the risk; my agent takes none. When you live in a highly priced real-estate area it doesn't mean that you're richer, because you don't have the choice to buy cheaper. You don't have the choice to move because there's your job.
If real-estate doubled over 5-6 years, there's no reason for real-estate agents to double their income too. I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. And things will change, and this is why you got aggravated and started to use invectives. Shame on you!
TruthTeller == my a** (agent)
Quote from TruthTeller:
A statement like that simply reveals your ignorance of the marketplace. In any community in this country, there are a zillion ways to sell your house.
If you choose not to avail yourself of a realtor and use the MLS then go right ahead. Nobody is stopping you, or any of the other homeowners on this site from selling your home anyway you want to.
But the constant complaining about realtors not opening the MLS to everyone who wants access is plain stupid. Realtors built it, they pay for it, and they own it. You don't want to use it? Fine. Do your own thing. But enough crap about a "monopoly".
And this stupid complaining about commissions! You don't want to pay 6%? Great. Then go with a discount broker or an internet listing site. You'll get what you pay for.
But you expect someone to market your house and put up with all the idiots out there who want to jerk them around, including homesellers themselves...and you expect to get all this for free?
Wise up to the real world. The sellers market is over.
