CHAPTER 1 How Real Estat eal Estate Agents e Agents Work With Home Buyers
We’ll come right out at the start and tell you we’re real estate agents — proudly so! Nice to meet you! In Texas a Real Estate Agent holds a license with the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC). In a document called Information About Brokerage Services explains how agents work with buyers and sellers. If you have purchased or sold a home in Texas with a real estate broker, you undoubtably signed one of these documents. We’re not trying to sell you anything, but we would love to be of service and a source for real estate information. If you choose to hire an agent, how we get paid will be explained in detail but right now, we’re giving you the benefits of experience and advice we have gleaned throughout our career selling houses and being in real estate transactions — for both sellers and buyers. If you want us to help you find a house, we can talk. Call us if you need us and we can explain the ins and outs of buyer agency, outline our service, explain how we are compensated and help you make a decision as to whether you want to hire an agent. Technology has changed the way homes are sought and bought today. In this “Information Era,” most buyers are first introduced to the home they eventually purchase via the internet, through Zillow, Trulia, Yahoo! Homes, Realtor.com, Redfin or one of hundreds of other real estate websites. So that means there’s no real need for a buyer’s real estate agent, right? The reason to use a real estate agent is to find a home and show homes available for sale, right?
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