Roberto Ribas's Q&A

can't you nitwits read the zillow good neighbor policy?1. no solicitation.2. no email address, contact info in posts... Really, why should someone hire an agent too slow to read and follow simple rules?

this question is from over a year ago, and south florida agent's cheered the whole year... Without noticing the irony, John comes along to continue the trend...

executed: the contract has finished, both parties have performed, its done. executable: the contract has force, is valid. [i.e. both parties have signed a valid contract]I don't know why 95% of Realtors can't use these terms properly, look them up on findlaw. the answer is, it depends. In AZ, the contract between you and the owner is not considered enforceable until the bank agrees in a short sale scenario. In any other (i.e. non-shortsale) situation this would be dangerous as you could end up agreeing to buy more than one home.

3 years is way too short of a time frame, and foolish advice. Selling a home costs a fair amount in transaction costs, and headaches, and unless the home immediately began appreciating at about 3% a year, you would wind up losing money.Also, it is fairly remarkable that this late in the crash, not a single one of the alleged "professionals" has suggested checking the price to rent ratio. I guess some will never learn anything. If the mortgage will be substantially higher than current rent, you are taking a large risk.

In other words, I won't answer the simple question about supply and demand effects on the market that you asked... And this is 4 months later...You are correct, less people moving somewhere lowers demand, and would be expect to be a negative, or at least the decrease of a positive to equilibrium price.

actually, Steve as you well know, many listings have variable commissions. So, the net amount a seller receives, and hence his/her likelihood of accepting an offer, is affected by whether or not the buyer has an agent. Most people,honestly even most who think they know enough to go it without an agent probably shouldn't. But then again, I've seen many agents do their clients more harm than good, so it really depends on who you have working with you.But lets not lie on here. A 200K home gets a full price offer, paying 6% commission, nets the seller 188K. Another offer comes in through the listing agent at 197K, and the lister has a 4% commission agreement if doing both sides, and the seller is now netting 189120. Which offer is going to be accepted?

Paul, read the rules quit posting Didn't you notice other agents don't post their numbers, websites and emails? what do you think you are just so much more clever, you are the first one to think of that? read the good neighbor policy, follow it. Also, this thread is one year old nearly, think they really need your advice now?

I see Paul can't read or abide by the good neighbor policy...NO SOLICITING!CALL ME AT 1-800-DES-PERTagent@nobodyeslethoughtofthis.com

REDC auctions at least so far, have not been good deals. Most of the homes don't sell, the seller doesn't take the highest auction price, as the auctions are not absolute. Most of the ones that do sell, are actually only average deals or worse from the history of the ones i've seen here. If you are talking about foreclosure auctions, what I said earlier applies. Don't criticize honest advice if it doesn't make you happy, shooting the messenger when you don't like the message isn't very smart.And, I'm sure, dozens of agents will be happy to tell you "oh yeah, its easy its great, contact me and you will get a spectacular deal." [see below for an example] They will get a sale, you will get a money pit.

When an agent says "i know of an agent" you can rest assured he/she is going to get a referral check for sending you to someone. I could do it too, I can call a few agents picked at random, and get an agreement for them to pay me for sending you to them.IGNORE anyone on zillow who either:1. wants to refer you to an agent. or2. begs for your business. Soliciting is against the zillow good neighbor policy, putting your email or phone number in a post is against the policy.Do you want an agent who can't even abide by simple rules? flagging your postst to get links deleted with an embarrassing [deleted by moderator for violating rules] comment on them. READ the policy, and abide by it.