Thursday, March 1, 2007

Touring a New Home Builder Site - Signing in Yourself? Not a Good Idea.....

ALL home builders have a dirty little secret... And that is - that -- if you as a buyer -- sign in to a new homes development by yourself -- you lose your right to representation by an agent of your choice later. Why? If you procure an agent later to represent you - they won't get paid from that development!

So they won't represent you (unless you have a contract with them - but if you do - the builder won't be paying out to reimburse you - or your fee to your agent - and you'll be on the hook for the fee.)

If you try to represent yourself - the builder doesn't discount your price by the amount that they didn't pay out. They just keep it for themselves!

We specialize in keeping on top of the various "secret incentives" that various developments are offering - that they don't advertise.

We find out about them in various ways.

This is valuable information that you won't typically obtain with other agents. We recently had a developer throw in many extra upgrades for one of our buyer clients - with the total upgrade package being a HUGE dollar amount.

The bottom line is -- don't EVER sign in to a new homes development without an agent of your choice present. That is the worst possible thing you could ever do.

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