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5 Great Reasons to Use a Realtor

1. Realtors® Lower Your Risk

Your realtor is your advocate, and when you buy a home you share some of the risk with your agent. Otherwise, it’s buyer beware. Its hard to believe but many states do not have laws or regulatory bodies that protect homebuyers in many situations. If you have a Realtor as your advocate, he or she will work to assure that you are buying a home that is safe, environmentally sound and priced fairly according to the current marketplace.
2. Realtors® Know The Local Market

Real estate professionals have invaluable house-by-house, street-by-street, and market-by-market experience. Realtors know how to handle a buyer’s market or a sellers market. Rising and falling interest rates affect the number of homes on the market and how they are priced. As neighborhood experts, agents help you employ buying strategies and proposals that get the right house at the best price and terms.
3. Realtors® Understand The Complexity Of The Transaction

A decade ago, a home could be purchased with a two-page contract. The new North Carolina contract is eight pages plus multiple addenda. There are also seller’s disclosures, environmental and structural reports, and other legal documents that make the home transfer quite complex. Realtors work with contracts daily, and know which points are harmful and/or beneficial to you. They guide you in making a reasonable offer, and make sure that material facts are disclosed. Your agent can also correctly interpret information for you. If you found out the neighbor next door to the house you are buying is building a new fence, would you know to get a new survey ordered? Your Realtor will make sure that the new fence doesn’t encroach on your new property.
4. Realtors® Work For You…And The Transaction

Your agent not only represents your interests but also works on behalf of the transaction. Does that seem like a conflict of interest? It isn’t. Buyers and sellers are natural adversaries. You want to buy for the least price, and the seller wants the most. Agents must be skilled negotiators to keep pride, ignorance, or stubbornness from getting in the way of a fair deal for both sides. As the buyer, remember that you are the one in control. You can instruct your agent how far to go in negotiations on your behalf. One day, you’ll be glad your agent helped you keep your cool when the seller refused to leave that old chandelier.
5. Realtors® Work For You At Their Own Risk

What other profession will go to work for you on a contingency basis? Even most attorneys charge by the hour. Rarely will you pay for services up front with an agent and that is because agents are paid on the back end of the transaction. That means you and the seller have no out-of-pocket expenses. Therefore, it’s in your agent’s best interest to work quickly, diligently, and use all his or her resources to help you meet your goals, or they won’t get paid. But your agent will ask for a commitment from you in the form of a contract. You would surely do the same if your time and money were on the line?

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