• poo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean, real estate agents don’t actually do anything lol.

    Edit: moreso when the agent is buying than selling

    I bought a home in 2020 without agents and it was pretty easy when both sides agree on a lawyer and do their own inspections

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      1 year ago

      They help categorize, advertise and list houses. What else could possibly do tha-ooh we have zillow and the internet now. Forgot there for a few decades…

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        1 year ago

        They also contact cleaners, handymen, and to a lesser degree, tradesman, to get the houses ready to sell. Assuming a buyers market of course.

        Shit in 2020 a condemned house sold in my old neighborhood in Seattle for 500k. Condemned. They had to spend 50k demolishing it before they could do anything to it, so beyond the million dollar investment, low balling, theyre looking at sitting on that for at least a year.

        That ain’t no single mother, new family buying that kind of shit

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      1 year ago

      Like most things agents do more than you think. Of course there are good ones and bad ones. Yes you can do much of the stuff yourself if you want to work it as a part-time job.