Wednesday 8 June 2011

Get A Buyer For Your Home Through The Aid Of A Real Estate Agent

By Homer C. Harman


Selling a Private Real Estate involves a lot of hard work. Agents work as much as seven days a week and twelve hours a day to get the work done.

According to an estimate, selling 15 private real estates involves investing six hours on one property. Agents charge a fix commission of 2% and they charge for all the marketing and advertising work separately. That makes it to about a total $2,500.00 an hour. Lot of money coming in, right?

Since the work pays so high, it is always good considering. A good idea is to start with your own property. Nonetheless, it would be difficult beating agents since we would lack that specialized knowledge that they have gathered over working in the field over a period of time. So basically, agents are worthy of all the money after all that working and knowledge.

Now let's see briefly at the activities of an agent. An agent prepares your home for sale. He organizes the Sales Contracts, and clarifies all the issues with Home owner's legal representative. However, your lawyer is the one who finalizes and takes down the whole contract.

An owner does most of the work because it is him only who takes care of the whole house, cleans it, decorates it and makes it clutter-free. Moreover, it is seen quite often that private Real Estate Owners even go one step ahead and do some final touch-ups of the place, if required any.

To add on to the work done by the agent, he also organizes the Sales Contract. The agent contacts the Home Owner's conveyance and clears all the queries whatsoever. However, it is your lawyer and not the agent who actually prepares the final document.

Another job that rests with the agent is arranging the For Sale board and the photographers and all other advertising material like brochures and placing ads online to name a few, to market the property to the best of his abilities. He also writes a brief catchy description of the property.

Various tasks of an agent's job involve finding potential buyers and inviting them for open inspections, maintaining follow-ups and then finally closing the deal. This whole process doesn't seem impossible for non-agents to do just as well. So it is worth giving a try whenever you consider selling your property as no one knows your property better than you do.

So if you think that whatever an agent does is simple, then you might want to get started with the experience by selling your own property as you know your property the best.




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