basically: why would someone need a realtor to BUY a house?
i understand that to buy a house, you (buyer) give some money to the owner (seller) in the form of a down payment and essentially get a loan from the bank (mortgage), and then pay that loan back to the bank over the course of years (decades).
for selling a house, i get that you’d want someone to put up the listing and pull connections to get the word out to buyers.
but for buying a home, where do the realtors come in and why does everyone say you need to get one to be a serious buyer?
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There are too many bad realtors out there, I’ve yet to come across a good one…in our experience every realtor pretty much made me look up my own homes, they did give me like a guest access to their MLS database so it was a bit more in depth in terms of search vs Zillow/redfin, then even when they setup the appointment half the time they didn’t even bother to show up.
The only good side is (or bad) is they got us a conversation with the sellers realtor because otherwise the sellers realtor wouldn’t even entertain us.
I’m sure there are good ones out there but the handful I have experience with was just a commission grab.
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