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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When I bought my house, we went on Redfin to find all of the listings we liked. We met our agent there, but ultimately, he wasn’t that much help for making our decision. He was just able to get us into the places we needed to look. Otherwise, we would have had to call the listing agent. Then when we decided on one, he helped us with the paperwork. We did go with his inspector, which may have been a mistake. But, otherwise, we would have had to find one on our own. That’s about it. I don’t think he was a particularly knowledgeable realtor, but he was nice.
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