REAL ESTATE BROKER

NJRVer wrote:

down home wrote:

captnjack wrote:

down home wrote:

M GO BLUE wrote:
We are looking to go full time in the next 5-10 years and the first step toward that is moving closer to the grandchildren...

We have a real estate agent right now that is doing practically nothing to help sell our house so we are looking to dump her and go with someone else...is there typically any reason we can't change agents such as penalty for us changing, etc??

Any and all suggestions are appreciated...

Wife had a Broker, in southern Michigan, that was supposed to be selling her property. She did not return two calls from serious Buyers that we know of.
We tried to find a way to complain to the governing body, in Michigan.
No one seemed to be responsible.
We should have sued her but could not get the two Buyers we knew of to testify. Wife ended up losing money, on it, after switching to another Realtor. She grew weary, of fooling with it. We came to find out, that this Woman had a bad reputation, in the whole, of southern Michigan. On top of that the woman across the way, tried every way she could to scare of Buyers. She thought she would get it at a bargain if wife couldn't sell. Because of her wife probably lost 50-75,000.00.

This is highly unlikely to be fully accurate. Houses tend to sell for what they're worth. The only way I see her losing 50-75K is if the entire market tanked during the listing period. If so, it doesn't much matter who the realtor was. Although I agree there are very good bad and everything in between.

Growing weary of it probably caused her to let it go too low.

This did not have a house on it. It had been her father's home. We had to tear down the barn and two houses because the neighbor kept breaking in the screen door, to the porch and leaving cat food.It drew all the cats and racoons and then into the barn etc. Then someone complained about it. The Broker came reccomended by a reputable source, we thought. The person that bought it got it for a bargain.

If you tore the buildings down then they weren't worth anything to begin with.