How Many Agents Work At Your Office?
In our office, there are two full-time real estate agents. Before we started CityBurb.com, we both worked in a large office with a few hundred agents. In that office, we were taught to tell our listing prospects about the size of the office and the number of agents that were employed there. Although we did not explicitly say it, this fact was meant to give the seller the idea that our company would have more people working on selling their home than the next, smaller company. This is yet another real estate myth.
If you hire a large company to sell your home, you are not hiring every agent in that company; you are hiring the lone agent sitting at your kitchen table. The majority of real estate agents are independent contractors, meaning that most work for themselves under the structure of a brokerage. Although the contract you sign is with the broker, the only person working on your listing is the agent representing that brokerage. Even then, you are only hiring that agent to market your home, not to sell it - 99% of the time an outside agent will bring a buyer. However, I’ll save that myth for another post.
Until then, hire an agent that gives you honest and effective marketing efforts. Hire us.
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