by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Home Buying, Selling Your Home, The Attorney-Broker Advantage
Is dual agency bad for agents and their brokers, as well as buyers and sellers? In my previous 3 blogs I told you that dual agency occurs when one agent represents both parties (or when two agents of the same brokerage represent the buyer and seller), and how dual...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Home Buying, Selling Your Home, The Attorney-Broker Advantage
This is the third of a 5 part article on dual agency, a form of real estate agent representation. Dual agency involves “your” agent representing your adversary in a real estate transaction, as well as yourself. I have shown that it is good for the agent, as it results...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Selling Your Home, The Attorney-Broker Advantage
In Part 1 of this series, I revealed that dual agency results in a real estate broker getting paid double for being disloyal. Dual agency occurs when “the agent acts for both of the principals at the same time in the same transaction.” In other words, it occurs when...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Home Buying, Selling Your Home, The Attorney-Broker Advantage
How would you like it if you were in a lawsuit, and your attorney at trial, after arguing on your behalf, got up and moved over to the other side’s table, and then started arguing the case against you? You wouldn’t. Would you choose that over representation of you...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Mortgages + Lending
Freddie Mac reported that mortgage rates set new record lows the first week of September. Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 4.12%; the lowest since 1971. That’s down from 4.22% the week before, and from a 2011 high of 5.05% in February of this year. Rates...
