The fee objection
“Anyone can do this themselves”
Mostly true, and we would rather say so here than argue about it in the comments.
You can find the listings. You can walk through them on a Saturday. You can read a contract and bid at an auction. Plenty of people do all of it and buy well. If that is you, do not hire us for the full service. That is exactly why there is an $11,500 version: you keep the parts you are happy doing and pay for the parts that are hard to do once every ten years.
What is hard is pricing a property that has no price on it, reading a building and pest report against what the repairs actually cost, and negotiating against someone who does it forty times a year while you do it twice in a lifetime.
One agent, two or three clients.
You deal with the same person from the first call to settlement. Not a principal who signs you and then hands you to someone you have not met, and not a different name for the search, the due diligence and the negotiation.
Each of our agents carries two or three engagements at a time. That is the arithmetic behind the fee: fewer clients, more hours on each. It is also the part of a buyers agency you cannot assess from a website, which is why we will put it in writing.
We publish our fees because the alternative is a discovery call that exists to find out what you will pay. We take no commission from a seller, so nobody on our side is paid more when you pay more.
When we will tell you not to bother
You know the street, you have the sales evidence, you are comfortable negotiating and you enjoy the search. Call us anyway and we will say so on the call. We would rather lose the fee than take it from someone who did not need us. And if you only need half of it, we will tell you that too, and quote you the $11,500.
