Interesting questioin posed by real estate agent.

[wforsyth (william forsyth)]

I guess it’s different in different areas maybe?

[lkage (Larry Kage, CMI)]

Yes, different expectations.

[cgoyette (Curt Goyette)]

@gromicko

http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/showthread.php?t=18044

See my responce to that forum…love you nick like a brother!

Curt

[rspriggs (Russell Spriggs, CMI)]

@wforsyth

Hi there. Been spending lots of quality time with my kids. No tv, no phone, no internet. Just us, the mountains, the rivers, the ocean, etc. It was a good summer.

Oh! I caught two HUGE…I mean ENORMOUS salmon on my own!!! One of them I lost and the other I had to fight for about fifteen minutes. Then my 15 year old son waded chest high into the river to grab it just as it bit my hook in two and got away! LOL! It was about 20 pounds and around two feet long. A humpie here in the Dosewallip River.

Welcome back!
I knew it had been uncharacteristically quiet around here!!

[dduffy (Dale Duffy)]

@jbushart

I think that most clients have a “love/hate” relationship with their agents…at least those I have observed.

From what I can tell, they don’t necessarily want or need them at the inspection, but they do expect to see them involved in the process and doing more than hammering a sign in the yard in order to collect their $20,000.00 sales commission.

…:lol:

[dvalley (David Valley, License #566 - CMI)]

@wforsyth

The client always is along with me as well, but they would consider it rude to exclude the realtor and value their opinion and time. Why hire them otherwise? They might as well go FSBO otherwise.:roll:

There’s a time and place for everything in a typical Real Estate purchasing process. The Realtors time with their client is much better spent at their RE office or at the conclusion of the inspection.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely don’t mind the Buyer’s Realtor tagging along with us, (as long as they keep their comments to themselves), it’s the Buyer’s (my client for a few hours) who prefer to be alone with me.

I’ve had Realtors (many times) yapping away with my client(s) or even asking for signatures for the P & S and I had to politely interrrupt them (many times) and ask my client if they were ready to continue the walkthrough.

Realtors have plenty of time to be with their client(s), but not on my time.

[vsantos (Vince Santos, Reg104669Cc)]

Nothing worse than an Agent who follows you and your client around the whole time and inserts his or her comments at each defect discovered. Or worse yet, tries to give their opinion as to why a particular item is really not that big of a deal.

Actually you know what’s worse, or about the same? A seller who does the same thing.

[rspriggs (Russell Spriggs, CMI)]

Exactly, Vince-
Last week, I had the host from hell.
He was the selling agent, the owner/seller, and the contractor/flipper.
It was still a POS, he did mostly cosmetic, and went completely ballistic when I pointed out “apparent organic substance” making the ENTIRE roof sheathing black in the attic, which had NO inflow (soffit or gable) vents. Just whatever it could suck up thru the hatch from the house.

I took my clients across the street & did my summary on the tailgate.

[hvalenzano (Henry Valenzano, CMI)]

@rspriggs

Exactly, Vince-
Last week, I had the host from hell.
He was the selling agent, the owner/seller, and the contractor/flipper.
It was still a POS, he did mostly cosmetic, and went completely ballistic when I pointed out “apparent organic substance” making the ENTIRE roof sheathing black in the attic, which had NO inflow (soffit or gable) vents. Just whatever it could suck up thru the hatch from the house.

I took my clients across the street & did my summary on the tailgate.

Your just one of those mean Inspectors Russ.

[rspriggs (Russell Spriggs, CMI)]

Well, he did manage to get my BP up a bit, hank!

[rstufflebeem (Randy Stufflebeem)]

Maybe the next time the agent gets on my nerves during the inspection (and it does not take much), I will simply ask them if I could sit in on all of their meetings with our client. Of course I would ask this after the inspection in front of my client. My guess is my client will be more than happy to involve me in the rest of the process. I would never do that but it is a thought. Could you imagine the look on the agents face!!!
Randy

I repeat: The client pays me the realtor does not. I owe them a copy of the report and no one else unless otherwise instructed by the person who is paying me.

Automatically giving a report to the agent with out permission is almost like loaning me your car then me letting someone use it with out your permission. Sort of!
Randy

[dvalley (David Valley, License #566 - CMI)]

@rstufflebeem

I owe them a copy of the report and no one else unless otherwise instructed by the person who is paying me.

Automatically giving a report to the agent with out permission is almost like loaning me your car then me letting someone use it with out your permission. Sort of!
Randy

I would never give a copy of the report to my client’s Realtor. I simply do not want to get involved in anything other than the inspection itself. If a Realtor asks me for a copy of the report (which they have done many times), I tell them that my client will have two copies of the report and that my client can do what they want with the report, it’s theirs. Then my client agrees and they will tear 1 copy of the 3-part report out, for their Realtor.

[swiegner (Steven E. Wiegner)]

I never let anyone follow me around.
I am so focused on the inspection I do not have the brain available for questions. They just throw me off track and would miss something.

Lay down the rules, Its in the clients best interest

[rcooke (Roy D. Cooke, Sr)]

@swiegner

I never let anyone follow me around.
I am so focused on the inspection I do not have the brain available for questions. They just throw me off track and would miss something.

Lay down the rules, Its in the clients best interest

After a few years and many inspections it stopped bothering me,
Of course the Convenient lose of hearing helps to ignore those who keep trying to change my procedures.

Try it ,it works for me… Cookie

[dfackler (Dennis G. Fackler, HI 216)]

I have been fortunate to have been practicing for over ten years. In that time period we have been able to train most of our agents , to (1) make sure buyer attends at least last part of inspectrion. (2) If buyer is present during entire inspection entertainthem and keep them out of my back pocket. (3) Kep quiet during the summary presentation and ask only whe asked for coomenets or questions. I believe we can be a team to suure client the highest levels of services from both sides of the isle. And never begrudge or discuss what there commision is or what I get paid. I also work only with profeesional Reators and never with Jenny Fly by night with percky reals estate company.
Dennis F. frtom Florida.