Since, for most people, the value of their home represents their greatest financial asset, doesn’t it make sense to do your homework and carefully interview, select and hire the real estate agent who might be the best? , serve and represent his best interests? Rather than simply basing one’s selection on friendships, something about someone’s personality and/or sense of humor or other irrelevant factors, it’s wise to make this important decision/selection based on who might make this process most successful for you. you, and better meet and exceed your needs and expectations. With that in mind, this article will attempt to briefly consider, examine, review and discuss 5 specific needs for a quality real estate agent to own and provide.
1. Represent you and your needs: Make sure someone puts you first, representing you and your best interests, rather than your personal agenda and/or self interest! Quality representation includes a variety of factors and duties, including: full fiduciary protections; complete confidentiality; hold hands; and, above all, tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear (TM).
2. Fiduciary Responsibilities: The primary fiduciary responsibility you should hold of your chosen real estate agent is to do everything possible to protect the best interests of your investment. As a seller, this means that you should never reveal any confidential information that could harm you or weaken your trading position. It also means doing everything possible to protect the value of the asset. If you represent a buyer, you should help your client use respected home inspectors and/or engineers, who provide a professionally designed Competitive Market Analysis (or CMA) to ensure the right price is offered. , etc. This aspect is extremely essential and important!
3. Earn your faith (keep your trust): How will the agent you hire earn your faith and consistently maintain your trust? When I have a question, no matter how minor, will you treat it to your satisfaction and put things in a comfortable perspective?
4. Experience and expertise: You need someone with the relevant, necessary, and relevant knowledge and experience to make a potentially stressful period as smooth and stress-free as possible!
5. Ethics/ethical responsibility: Demand your agent to proceed, exceeding their ethical responsibility, adhering above and beyond commitment to the highest personal ethics! This means prioritizing your loyalty, to you, as your customer, with integrity and best efforts!
You deserve the best representative possible! Choose carefully and wisely, and protect your most valuable financial asset.