| Member; North Carolina and National Association of REALTORS and Triad MLS |
James Piedad, REALTOR
Full Service Real Estate Broker
Direct: 336--413-0992
Email: james@jamespiedad.com
Full Service Real Estate Broker
Direct: 336--413-0992
Email: james@jamespiedad.com
Sellers
Pay 3.5% total broker fee
to list your home.
Pay 3.5% total broker fee
to list your home.
Buyers
Have new listings emailed to
you every morning.
Have new listings emailed to
you every morning.
- Director HPMLS, 2007
- President, Triad Multiple Listing Service, 2006
- Director, NC Association of REALTORS, 2003-2005
- President, HP Assoc. of REALTORS, 2004
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Place your home in MLS for $99
Pay 3.5% total commission at close no matter who sells your home.
Buyers have one thought when they are
looking for a home -
I want to pay as little as possible for the
perfect house in perfect condition.
Buyers are looking for the right combination
of price, location and condition. They utilize
the Internet to find the listings they want to
see. They employ an agent to get them into
them and negotiate for them.
Listing agents want you to believe that they
are in control of generating a buyer. The
truth is there is more luck to getting a buyer
than skill.
Ready, willing and able buyers are working
with a buyer's agent to find them a home.
Your agents value is in representing you and
your interests. That is why you should not
sign a dual agency form.
The real difference in agents is their ability to
get contracts to close.
looking for a home -
I want to pay as little as possible for the
perfect house in perfect condition.
Buyers are looking for the right combination
of price, location and condition. They utilize
the Internet to find the listings they want to
see. They employ an agent to get them into
them and negotiate for them.
Listing agents want you to believe that they
are in control of generating a buyer. The
truth is there is more luck to getting a buyer
than skill.
Ready, willing and able buyers are working
with a buyer's agent to find them a home.
Your agents value is in representing you and
your interests. That is why you should not
sign a dual agency form.
The real difference in agents is their ability to
get contracts to close.
How Do Buyers Find A Home
Real Estate practitioners have done a great job of convincing sellers that
19th and 20th century methods will sell a home in the 21st century. Things
have changed, including what you should be charged.
Real Estate practitioners have done a great job of convincing sellers that
19th and 20th century methods will sell a home in the 21st century. Things
have changed, including what you should be charged.
Here are the top ten outdated ideas
agents will try and convince you of
1. You have to pay 6% to get full service
2. You have to list with a big firm to get
relocation buyers
3. Your listing agent will show your house
4. Your listing agent will sell your home
5. Agents will only show their own company's
listings
6. You have to sign a dual agency agreement
to list your home - more
7. News papers attract buyers - more
8. Open houses attract buyers
9. Agents will only show a house for 3%
commission
10. Agents pick the homes for buyers to see
agents will try and convince you of
1. You have to pay 6% to get full service
2. You have to list with a big firm to get
relocation buyers
3. Your listing agent will show your house
4. Your listing agent will sell your home
5. Agents will only show their own company's
listings
6. You have to sign a dual agency agreement
to list your home - more
7. News papers attract buyers - more
8. Open houses attract buyers
9. Agents will only show a house for 3%
commission
10. Agents pick the homes for buyers to see
| Home shoppers do their hunting online Updated 2/9/2007 4:29 AM ET By Noelle Knox, USA TODAY If there's any lingering doubt about how the Internet is transforming the way people buy and sell homes, here's eye-widening proof: Marnie Azadian and her husband just moved from Scottsdale, Ariz., into a $410,000 home in Tulsa that they bought 100% over the Internet. They never visited Tulsa, where Marnie had accepted a job. They never opened the front door, or a kitchen drawer. Never drove around the neighborhood. "I did have some moments of 'Oh my gosh, what did we just do?' " says Azadian, 57, but no regrets about the house they'd fallen in love with from a virtual tour. (Though her commute is a bit more of "a pain" than it looked like on mapquest.com.) Risky? Maybe so. But this is just a glimpse of how rapidly and radically the Internet and other techno-gadgets are reshaping real estate sales. Already, 80% of buyers used the Internet to help find a home, according to the National Association of Realtors. Day by day, new real estate tools are surfacing on the Web. Technology is shifting knowledge and power to buyers and sellers. In doing so, it's loosening Realtors' long-standing control of vital information and cutting into their sales commissions. For more than 100 years, Realtors have guarded the details of homes for sale via their multiple listing services. At least 900 regional MLS systems exist nationwide. Unless the MLS systems become more open, unified and technologically sophisticated, they risk being replaced by a Web search engine. "The Internet is a significant threat to Realtors, who in previous decades have had iron-grip control over all necessary information for those seeking to buy or sell a home," says Stuart G,abriel of the University of Southern California's Lusk Center for Real Estate. Excerpted Content and emphasis added |