If Burr Yacht Sales sells so many Flemings why would a seller list with an independent broker?
In most cases it is not in the sellers best interest; however there is usually a logical reason. The bottom line however is that these reasons usually work against both the buyer and the seller. Some times it is just the convenience of a friendly broker in the sellers marina. More often the seller is simply lured by a broker promising a sale at well above what we have already advised them would be a fair market price. It is quite understandable, particularly if the boat is not seriously for sale, that they would list their boats with this pied piper, however the mythical sale very rarely materializes, and the boat just sits on the market doing little more than generating new prospects for the broker. Burr Yacht Sales has no interest in trying to market boats that are not seriously for sale or realistically priced. There are also, I regret to say, occasionally times when a seller might also prefer that his broker not know quite as much about the history of his boat as we do. A broker th
In most cases it is not in the seller’s best interest; however there is usually a logical reason. The bottom line however is that these reasons usually work against both the buyer and the seller. Sometimes it is just the convenience of a friendly broker in the seller’s marina. More often the seller is simply lured by a broker promising a sale at well above what we have already advised them would be a fair market price. It is quite understandable, particularly if the boat is not seriously for sale, that they would list their boats with this pied piper, however the mythical sale very rarely materializes, and the boat just sits on the market doing little more than generating new prospects for the broker. Burr Yacht Sales has no interest in trying to market boats that are not seriously for sale or realistically priced. There are also, I regret to say, occasionally times when a seller might also prefer that his broker not know quite as much about the history of his boat as we do. A broker t
