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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Micawber who wrote (14512)	10/25/2003 9:17:39 AM
From: Tradelite	Respond to of 306849

Micawber....you're right. A property can sell smoothly with a smart seller and smart buyer. And then when the seller-from-hell and the buyer-from-hell meet up, it can be a disaster. And if just one of those parties comes from hell, it can muck up the works. The "lion has been supposedly coming over the hill" for real estate brokers for a long time. No one doubts it. But the big brokers are still in business and getting bigger.....so go figure. I have no stake or serious opinion on this....just observation, and bemusement. Also some experience in what kind of crappy details have to be handled on a daily or hourly basis to make sure one or both parties are happy and profit from the transaction. If it was all that easy and not "rocket science", everybody would be doing it, right? This brings to mind the busy executive who needs to relocate his family and get kids in school while he works out details of his new job in new city.....he's welcome to find his own housing in this strange new place on his own terms. He can do this all very easily, right? Not really. He has to (1) find the right house and (2) deal with the seller of that house and (3) get to settlement on that house in a reasonable amount of time. Sooooooo easy, and it only takes his agent a long string of 12-hour days to make it happen. LOL!!