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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You’re basically hiring them to shop for the home for you. You *could* spend your days browsing website after website or checking out homes in person, only to find out that the houses you’re looking at are nothing like what you’re looking for or don’t have basic requirements you need, **or** you can hire a realtor to do that shopping for you and filter out only the houses in your price range, the size you want, amenities you want/need, etc.
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