What does an agent actually DO to earn the commission on a home purchase?
” Her response was a vague “Well you have to have an agent to buy a house. You can’t buy a house in Utah without an agent” (also not true – you can, it just is good sense to buy with representation). She continued to evade further requests for even a brief outline of what services she would be providing. This, of course should have been a big red flag for us, but, we were naive, and excited! We had already identified several homes ourselves (using online tools) that met our criteria and we were concerned that we would miss out on the opportunity to view and make offers since this agent kept telling us that “time was of the essence”. So our excitement to get going in the process of buying a home overshadowed what SHOULD have been a warning sign to us — that the agent we were about to employ was either unable, or unwilling, to explain to us a) an agent’s role in the process of purchasing real estate and b) the value that she personally would bring to us in her hired capacity to be our a
