[Hondaracer]

The good, full time, career realtors probably end up taking larger chunks of the profit home VS the smaller guys because the smaller guys have to find all this shit like photographers, staging companies etc.

Where as the big players have all that lined up at will. There’s no stress or waiting on people, it’s the opposite. their minions are waiting on the realtor to feed them business

When selling our old condo I dealt with two pretty “big” realtors, Emily Oh and Doris Gee, both are pretty big players in general. When I sat down with them at our condo they had never been there before but both instantly presented a hefty package to me, the contract, sales data, comparables, the full breakdown of their costs and commissions, and both told me straight up we will do this many open houses, I will be the one doing them etc. they then walked the whole building with me noting down everything, gave me a further estimate on what we could ask and our listing strategy, and then left me a contract if I was to go with them.

In the end we went with Emily Oh figuring the Korean market would be a good hedge in the area. She was fine and did 3 open houses herself which I’m sure was small fish for her. She was always responsive and even took our suggestions etc.

Then on the flip side before we listed our condo we were going to sell our current house with a smaller “boutique” RE company, I met 5-6 realtors and finally said we’d go with them. In the end I kind of fucked them over because they did all this work and a month later I said I had a change of heart and we weren’t selling lol..but this guy was totally scattered, necer presented me with any sort of package, or a contract. he couldn’t even tell me if we should install a basement suite or not, they basically didn’t have a clue what it would sell for, given it was in the height of the madness in 2016.

In that time I also dealt with Mark Hammer who frankly seemed like a total slime ball but he was the only person who was honest and who actually was bang with his assessment. He sat down and gave me his card and said do not do a thing, you list ASAP if you want as much money as possible because this train is almost over. And he ended up being 100% right on the timing.