Suggestions on a Realtor?

[Chas_svo]

Guys, if you get an offer above asking, you should ask your realtor for his/her commission back. That's almost as bad as finding out that you could get $10-$20k more after the sale. There may be good realtors out there, but I've yet to meet one. Most are lazy, incompetent nitwits.

[GeorgeG.]

My wife is a realtor with ReMax. I can forward you her contact info if you're still looking for someone with experience. Let me know. Good luck either way. It's still a sellers market so that'll work in your favor, similar to Doug's experience.

[Doug Hatton]

Call Amy! She did a GREAT job for me and my wife when recently selling our home in Allen. (13) offers at or above list in TWO days! Honest and open communication, and really hustled to get us the best deal. 972-765-4673 Call her!

[SVT Lurch]

Bringing this back. Trey you can expect a call in the next few weeks to get that pre-approval paperwork started.

I'm around.

[Denny]

My wife was a Realtor. The amount of incompetent people in that field will surprise anyone. She has an inactive license now, but still handles whatever we need. When she listed and sold our house, the buyer's Realtor didn't know his head from her ass. The buyers told my wife they would have fired him if they knew they could at the time.

[Ruffdaddy]

I used the The Grove Team from Keller Williams last year. We had our consultation, and a few days later their designer came out and gave us an extensive list of things we needed to address. It took us a month and a half, but we marked off everything. The designer came back in and staged the house (they brought a lot of decor) and their photographer took great pictures.

The listing went "live" online on a Thursday night. By Friday morning we had 4 showings lined up. By Saturday morning we had a bidding war. By Sunday we accepted an offer well over asking price.

What really sold me was when they did the exact same for my parents.

They will stand by you the entire way. I highly recommend them.

Bidding wars are common in the dfw even on FSBO listed houses....except those sales don't piss away 6% of the sales price to sell something that will sell itself.

[diablo rojo]

I used the The Grove Team from Keller Williams last year. We had our consultation, and a few days later their designer came out and gave us an extensive list of things we needed to address. It took us a month and a half, but we marked off everything. The designer came back in and staged the house (they brought a lot of decor) and their photographer took great pictures.

The listing went "live" online on a Thursday night. By Friday morning we had 4 showings lined up. By Saturday morning we had a bidding war. By Sunday we accepted an offer well over asking price.

What really sold me was when they did the exact same for my parents.

They will stand by you the entire way. I highly recommend them.

[Ruffdaddy]

Man I have never had a good experience with a realtor. Sold 2 houses and bought 3...each time they have been shady.

If you're buying new construction skip them first to see if the builders will give you a price bbreak vs paying comission.

[motoman]

Bringing this back. Trey you can expect a call in the next few weeks to get that pre-approval paperwork started.

Taking suggestions on realtors. Called Amy last time I was looking and never heard back.

[SVT Lurch]

A Realtor can make or break the experience. A bad one can make you never want to buy a home again. You can buy without a Realtor, but using a good one (like Nate or like Amy appears to be from reviews here) will make your life upteen times easier.

TBH, all the realtor seem to do was answer some of my rookie questions and sit there at the signing of the papers.

Realtor's job

I was the one pushing my paperwork through my lender,

Buyer's job

meeting with the inspector, etc.

Realtor's job, unless you want to talk to the inspector (I met mine out there).

[Chili]

Yup. We're on the 10th floor of a concrete apartment building. There's 24/7 security and EMT staff and we're a mile away from a top rated hospital. We've got food for a week. We're good. Thanks.

Cool man. As I said on FB, been thinking about you guys all day.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

My Realtor was okay, she wasn't stellar, at times I was a little frustrated.

That sucks. I lucked out and found a stellar Realtor.

[STANGGT40]

I'd suggest Amy, but I'm also extremely biased!

Yup. We're on the 10th floor of a concrete apartment building. There's 24/7 security and EMT staff and we're a mile away from a top rated hospital. We've got food for a week. We're good. Thanks.

Shit man. Be safe!

[propellerhead]

Off topic, are you hunkering down for the Typhoon??

Yup. We're on the 10th floor of a concrete apartment building. There's 24/7 security and EMT staff and we're a mile away from a top rated hospital. We've got food for a week. We're good. Thanks.