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Free Information To Help You Buy, Sell, Evaluate Real Estate
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Our Referral Service: We Find You An Agent!
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Buying, Selling, Relocation If you would like to buy or sell a home or are relocating within the United States, we make free agent referrals (bi-lingual referrals, also) for you to experienced, knowledgeable real estate agents. A well-qualified agent will help you, tremendously, with the difficult process of buying or selling a home. Our Referrals are Different... We are different than other agent referral services, because we actually seek out and find you a ethical, experienced, successful real estate agent / realtor to do the job to meet your requirements. We do not use agents that subscribe to a service, or pay us a monthly referral fee to join our network. We will find a agent that will do a great job for you. We find you an ethical agent rather than an unethical agent finding you. We strive to find our clients the most qualified agent, in their specified location, to do the job. Our referral service is free to you. The sale or purchase of your home is too important to trust it to just any agent. Realize that it doesn't cost a client any more money to have a highly qualified real estate pro, then it does a brand new agent. You don't pay us anything for making you a great referral. Our referral fee is paid by the seller, not by the client. Our goal with our website is to make your real estate transaction easier by providing the right information and the right agent to get the job done! The real estate professionals we refer, are usually seasoned professionals (we select the best agent to do the job for you in your desired area) for you with a track record, that are highly qualified, trained, sell homes and have a wide range of real estate experience. Since our real estate referrals are with knowledgeable agents that know the market and know all about real estate transactions, you the client, receive a smoother, easier real estate sale or purchase. The use of an experienced agent makes your real estate experience much less stress-free and much more positive. Experienced agents also know how to cut to the chase, save time, and have the ablility and handle both sides of a RE transaction, and get sellers top dollar and buyers better deals. Because of their accumulation of knowledge and skills, they know how to find or sell your home in a timely and professional manner. After you fill out the referral form, you will be contacted (usually within 24 hours) with an email requesting you confirm your agent help request. You may be asked for any further information required to turn the request over to the agent referrer. An agent or the referrer will then contact you (usually call you) to review with you what help you are in need of and to make an appointment to get together with you and discuss comparables, property value, what you may be looking for, etc. If for some reason you do not desire to work with this agent, you are under no obligation to do so. We will make another referral to you. If you need refinance help, fill out the refinance form, provided in the finance / loan section. The finance agent who does the the prequalification for you will help you with necessary area property comparables. A real estate agent helps you buy and sell a home and a loan agent helps you easily get through the whole loan or refinance process. The RE professionals we work with tend to be on the forefront of today's real estate (cutting edge) technology and are trained to use the tools, products, and services available. This makes a much easier transaction for everyone involved.
Save yourself much time and effort. Why work with an under-qualified agent that won't perform like you would like them to? Fill out the form, below, to receive a agent referral, that will be recommended to you by our nationwide relocation referral service. We will need you to provide us with a small amount of details and information so we can select the right agent referral for you. Some real estate agents are simply better at this career than others... and they sell and close more property deals... The Best Real Estate Agents: Work harder at their careers  Are very effective negotiators
Have a group of buyers - ready willing and able to buy - that are waiting for homes to come on the market  Know how to use the latest time saving tools
Know how to incorporate internet etechnology in their real estate transactions  Know how to market their property listings to get top dollar, while getting them sold in a timely manner
Have clients that appreciate their professionalism, and show this by referring their friends and acquaintances. In turn, these clients will come back again and again Why not pick a successful winner that will get the job done right, to represent you? If Selling: please provide a brief description of your present property. ie. approx. 1700 sf, four-bedroom home on a 5,000 sf lot located in Vista, CA. If Buying or Relocating: please provide information on which specific area desire to relocate to, and what you are looking for in a new property. ie. 2500 sf home in Temecula on approx. 1 acre of land. We will have an experienced real estate agent contact and help you with your quest to buy or sell your home. They will be in contact with you, shortly. Thank You For Letting Us Assist You, The Staff At RETrader.com Agent Referral Form
How Will A Real Estate Agent Help Me? A real estate agent will provide you with the services you will need to help you search and find a home to buy, or help you market and sell your home. If you work closely with an agent, they will provide you with expert advice, every step of the home buying / selling process. They (and their transaction coordinator and team) will assist you and stay abreast of all your needed requirements to get you through the transaction from the sales process to the closing or completion of escrow. Real estate agents have the fiduciary duty to deal with clients ethically, confidentially and fairly. A estate buyer’s agent represents the buyer. A buyer’s agent may be paid by either the seller, or rarely, the buyer. After reviewing your finances with you and a lender, and after accessing your home purchase requirements, a buyer’s agent organizes your home search, and helps plan and implement all steps of the home purchase transaction. A seller’s agent represents the seller. A seller’s agent focuses on creating a marketing plan, and sets in motion a series of marketing tools (Agent’s Marketing Plan, below), that will get the attention of other real estate agents, with prospects (waiting for a property like yours to come on the market), and sell your home in a timely manner, while at the same time, netting the highest possible price with more favorable terms. Both types of real estate agents continue to work with you from the beginning of the transaction through to the close of escrow. They are available to answer any questions that arise and help put out any fires that erupt during the process. They are representing their principal: buyer or seller. The represent you during inspections, are available to help interpret any documents and answer non-legal questions, and are available to give advice throughout the complex process of buying or selling a home. Review the Steps to Buying or Selling a Home to get an overview of what to expect from either one of these sales transactions. Not Happy About Paying Commission? Sellers are often not happy about paying commission to a selling agent. Usually this is because the sellers do not always understand what the agent actually does behind the scenes to earn their commission and make a smooth sale of their home, possible. Review the Agent Marketing Plan, just to review what is necessary, timewise, to market your property and get the word out about your home to other agents and prospective buyers. The marketing plan doesn’t include the time spent negotiating with other agents to make a sale happen, plus all the many details that must be performed to meet at the ultimate destination, a successful closing of the sale of your home. Review the "pros and cons" articles, written by others, about selling your own home under the For Sale By Owner Section of this website. Read what others have to say about attempting to sell your own home and decide for yourself what is right for your situation. It is not a easy process to attempt to sell your own home. You have three options to selling your home... You will either pay to sell your home, using your time or your money. Either way you choose, you are going to have to pay. These are the choices available to you: Sell the home through an agent and pay a fair commission of 6% - 7% to get the house marketed properly and sold, within a timely manner ,at the highest possible net amount. You can get where you want to go, quicker and less painfully, usually netting the most money, if you choose this option.  Attempt to sell the home yourself. You will be acting as your own agent, and will be the one absorbing all costs to market your home. You will not have many of the tools listed in the Agent Marketing Plan at your disposal. You may decide to turn the property over to an agent, after wasting time and money and your attempts to sell the home, fail. Realize, you will now probably have to reduce the price as it now appears to everyone that there is something wrong with the house. At any point, you will have to be a great sales person to net what an experienced agent can net for you. They actually pay their own commission out of the higher price they will net for you using their expert sales skills. The buyers ,a FSBO (for sale by owner) generally attract are bargain hunters, who expect to save money by buying your home.
Work with a discount broker and do all the work. You will get a listing in MLS - but agents shy away from these listings because they know they are going to have to do more than their share of the work to get the home through to closing - this is because the agent realizes, you don’t have an agent representing you. This spells more work for them. Discount broker also means discount service. You will also be doing your own negotiating. You may not be that experienced representing yourself, and may not get the best deal for yourself in the long or short run. You can pay a la carte for the various services and have the offer or sale presentations negotiated on your behalf for you. You will not and you should not expect to get the same representation from an discount agent as you would get with a full service agent, hired to handle the whole process. The discount agent doesn’t owe you this type of service and, therefore, you won’t get it. You may not net as much as you would have if you would have just hired a full-service agent to do the job. The a la carte services will add up and the discount agent really doesn’t care if you get a great deal - they aren’t being paid by you to care. Why Commissions Are As High As They Are... After a sale is made and an agent's commission is earned, this is the breakdown of how a commission is disbursed: First the total commission is split between the listing brokerage and the selling brokerage - usually 50/50. In the event of a discount commission (less than 6%), this may be a 30/50, or a 40/50 split. Real estate agents usually have to split their commission with their broker. The broker then splits the commission, according to their current contract's terms, plus any additional agent transaction charges (varys from brokerage to brokerage) and desk charges. On average, it costs a real estate brokerage between $15,000 and $25,000 every year per agent for a desk, license and use of some of their real estate company services - whether or not they make any sales. A broker must make $2,000 - $5,000 in commissions a month to break even with the brokerage costs for the agent. The producing agents have to help cover the slack for the less producing agents, and so, must earn even more in commissions. The broker portion of the commission split is spent on overhead and expenses of all types: rent, lease or mortgage payment, electric bill, telephone bills, taxes, maintenance, advertising expenses, supplies, computer equipment, software, education, Internet fees, cleaning fees, board fees, legal fees, insurance, memberships, dues, and franchise fees to their franchisor.(most brokerages are part of a franchise). Larger, national offices also have extra advertising, management, and other miscellaneous expenses to collect fees from agents for and contribute toward for their particular regions. Advertising and marketing expenses are also very high for each agent with listings to sell. The top agents spend a large portion of their commissions on their real estate business, marketing and getting word out about their listings. Top agents also spend more money than average agents on memberships, national, county, state Realtor monthly fees, yearly education expenses, education to achieve various designations, legal fees, new car expenses, client gifts, MLS fees, errors and ommission insurance, and other business expenses. A real estate agent's career is not an inexpensive business. Minimum costs total $1500 per month, just in recurring agent expenses to run a real estate practice. Note: Any commission that you negotiate down to 5% or below with an agent will result in a limited promotion by the agent. You contract with this agent to pay them less and consequently they have less marketing money to work with - it’s that simple. When an buyer’s agent spots the 5% (or their portion - 2.5% commission) in the MLS listing, do you think they will readily show this home, if there are others to show, with a full 3% commission available to them? It is human nature for hungry agents to pick and choose listings that are a full commission, instead of showing the one’s offering less commission. A full or even higher commission will always motivate an agent. Always insist on a documented list of the tools the agent will use for their marketing plan to get your home sold. If they are not prepared to provide this information, say goodbye to the lazy, unmotivated agent. |
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Testimonials: “Thanks so much for the great information on this website. We also appreciate the realtor you sent to us. He helped us negotiate a great deal and we are closing in three weeks. God Bless You for the help!” Marilyn Clark “You provide professional integrity clients can trust! I am so glad I stumbled on your site. There is so much information here - really too much. Thanks for the agent referral. I don't think we could have found an agent on our own that would have compared to the one you picked for us. We got the full price for our home and everything went very smooth. Thanks again.” Julie Michaels “I found everything I needed to get educated about the buying process for a home on your website. We are now working with the agent you sent to us. We are now preapproved, taking advantage of a first time buyer program and well on our way - just trying to decide which home we want. Many thanks to you.” Bill Davis “I really didn't know where to begin with the selling and buying process. It has been many years since I have bought a home. Your website is awesome and the realtor you assigned to us is so professional and current with RE technology. Everything has changed since the Internet has evolved and the realtor you sent to us has all the information posted on the transaction site so we can see where we are at - at any time. I don't think it could have gone any better. Thanks!“ John Dylan “Keep up the good work.” Bob Seeker “We really didn't think we could find a great real estate agent on our own that would be really knowledgeable, current with the times and also spoke our first language. All we did was ask you and you came through. You have made this into an easy process for us. We really appreciate it.” Maria Mendez
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