If you have a signed contract, you can hold them to it. If not, they may walk away, and you’ll have to sell your home all over again. This isn’t to say that you can’t sell your home yourself. But unless you have successfully sold a lot of homes yourself, you probably aren’t set up as well as a professional real estate agent is. Reason #3: A good real estate agent can save 80–100 h e 80–100 hours of your time. We handle all the work for you. We are experts at financing, loan conditions, home inspections, surveys, title work, termite inspections, appraisals, negotiating, etc. Some people have estimated there are 189–213 different things an agent does to sell a home, depending on the property. Selling a home takes a lot of time. Reason #4: We solve problems. This is the most important thing a real estate agent can do for you. After all, just because a buyer is interested in your house does not mean they will be able to complete the purchase. Here’s a story that illustrates this perfectly. A seller put her home on the market. The perfect buyer came along and made a full- price offer. The seller and the buyer signed a contract. The contract had to be canceled when the buyer ran into a problem with financing. The seller told the story to an agent. It turns out the financing problem would have been easily solvable. But the seller hadn’t known how to solve it, so the sale had fallen through. Unfortunately, the seller had to put the home back on the market, and it took another five months to sell. The seller had to pay an additional five months’ worth of mortgage payments, property taxes, and homeowner’s insurance premiums. In addition, she had to maintain the lawn, pay the electric bill, and take care of
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