OfflineOn a whim, I decided to take this week off from work to soley focus on real estate. I have been putting it on the back burner for almost a year, but unforseen circumstances arose. This caused my wife and I great strain due to our lack of funds to get through it. Enough of the back story. I sent out an email to 15 agents yesterday (targeted at specific groups to monitor response from each). I only got 3 replies, all from the same group no less (young agents, under 30), and am meeting with one today. I really have no direction on what to ask, or what to be looking for. I want to find the right agent, not just any agent. Thanks for any help in advanced!
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I'm not sure what was in your email to the agents, but hopefully some of the following questions will help a bit and I'm sure someone will give you better questions to ask
- Are you familiar with double closings?
- Are you comfortable submitting multiple low offers a week?
- Are you okay with giving me expired MLS listings?(I've had agents tell me they can't do that >.<)
- Which realtor boards are you a member of? (this will let you know which areas they can access to view MLS listings)
- Explain that sometimes you will have too many properties on your plate and that sometimes you'd like to assign the property to a fellow investor. This will give you an opening to ask if they're comfortable handling assignment contracts
Hope this helps a bit! Good luck!
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