Where Does Your Realtors, NAR member look for Real Estate options for the Buyer to Buy Real Estate in Eureka. Well It seems they look ONLY in the MLS

Is it Really TRUE that Realtors, Member of NAR only look in the MLS for Real Estate for Sale or On their Franchise Website. In the last week I have had several agents tell me that they look ONLY in those 2 places. Now if a Real Estate Agent is to be VERY knowledgeable of Real Estate for Sale in Places such as Eureka Montana Real Estate for Example they had better learn how to Google, to search for Eureka Real Estate for Sale on the Internet and NOT the MLS. A buyer Does not automatically Know NMAR.com they search for what they want and the Don’t Find your REALTOR…

Folks, REALTORS are misleading YOU.... BUYERS are Not Looking in Magazines for your Eureka Montana Real Estate, Buyers are Not looking on Franchise Websites unlesss they just happen to find them, and buyers are NOT searching the MLS first unless they know the area and a REALTOR tells them to. If your Looking for Eureka Montana Waterfront Real Estate What will you type into the search engines.. will it be Century 21, will it be Coldwell Banker, will it be NMAR or will it Obviously be "Eureka Montana Waterfront Real Estate" Makes Sense to Me.. What Would You Do?

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your Real Estate Transaction is VERY complex, you NEED to know a Whole lot - don't even try.. JUST use a Realtor.

NOT....

The National Association of Realtors wants you to think that your Real Estate Transaction is so very complex. That it is Mind-numbing, eye-glazing, Frustrating, has lots of Math, so many people to call and things to do.. surely it would be over your head and quite frankly to hard to even Go There.

The NAR wants you the Real Estate Consumer to Give up Easily on Not Using a Realtor and to believe that it is “Easier” and better for you to use a Realtor, I mean hey, it’s their job right. What could you possibly know about Real Estate that Your Realtor does not Know?

As a Real Estate Broker Owner I am here to tell you that you Know a Whole lot more about selling your home then your Realtor. They punch in your data into a form, the title company closes the deal, it is a No Brainer process for Big pay. You Do NOT need a Realtor, but hey if that Secret gets out and is really believed across the board then the Multi-Billion Dollar “Realtor” Cartel comes tumbling down and the Consumer takes back their real estate transaction and the Consumer Wins.

I mean wouldn’t it be terrible if your neighbor walked over and said “hey, I got a buddy in Florida looking to move here, you interested in selling” and what if you said “yes” and the buddy buys it, closed at the Title Company - contracts written up by a Real Estate Attorney and there was No Member of the National Association of Realtors involved? Would the Earth Stop Turning?

I mean really how bad would it be if buyers and seller simply bought and sold without the dangerous interference and drama of a member of the National Association of Realtors who wears their “Ethics” badge and worthless credentials as some sort of intimidation and fear tactic into making you BELIEVE you NEED them.

A Realtor, a member of the National Association of Realtors, really can cause more harm then good in your real estate transaction. And in the future when something goes wrong or comes up they PROVIDE no protection for you the Real Estate Consumer, What So Ever.

It would just be soooo awful if Buyers and Sellers could navigate without all the drama, financial loss and damage done to them.

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Real Estate Marketing

The Realtor tries to convince the Real Estate Seller that need to be on Realtor.com - they do this through spouting statistic such as they get 60 Million hits a month. How many of these "Hits" do you really think has anything to do with Eureka Montana Real Estate... maybe 10.

The Realtor does not see the relevance of a buyer being able to find your website on a search engine or to directly type in the website and find the Real Estate that you - the Seller has for Sale.

Realtor’s arrogance or their one hundred percent believe in what their “franchise” or the “National Association or Realtors” tells them is not good for you the real estate consumer.

A Realtor will say things like Realtor.com gets over 60 million hit’s a month. And they convince the real estate Seller that this is where they need to be in order to sell their real estate.

This simply is NOT true.

What Does All these “Hits” to Realtor.com that your Realtor brags about, really mean to you the real estate Seller?

The Realtor, their Franchise and the National Association of Realtors wants - NEEDS you to believe that if you list with a Realtor, a member of the club, that you will be put on websites that will get you found by your buyer.

But in Reality - a real estate buyer is looking online for what you have to sell but they are not necessarily going to Realtor.com to do so.

If you were a real estate buyer what you do to start your online search for real estate say in Idaho. Say you want Idaho Horse Property. Would you limit your search to Realtor.com - go there and type in Idaho, or a known zip code, and then fumble through listings looking for horse property in Idaho or in Reality would you Really go to Google.com or your Favorite search engine and type in “Idaho Horse Property”.

I would MOST definitely go the search engine way. This way I would get ALL options, including the For Sale by owner and Non-Realtor “Idaho Horse Property” for sale.

And if I really wanted to narrow down the search I may even type in IdahoHorseProperty.com and see if it is relevant or useful in my search. But in No way would I want to get lost in a mega-site of hundreds of thousands of listing to find some specific type of property. If your Realtor is telling you different, they are Wrong, think it through and decide for yourself.

Franchise companies, such as Coldwell Banker, C21, Sotheby’s, and ERA are all owned by the same Corporation and they want you to be on their corporate website as well as sites like HomeGain, Realtor.com and other Mega-Sites that your listing will be lost on.

This Corporation wants this because they are part owner in these websites and they get “Ad Dollars” from Big Companies such as Insurance Companies, Mortgage Companies, Book Companies, Computer Companies and hundreds to thousands of other companies who PAY big money to advertise on their website because they get so much traffic.

These website get the traffic from Your Real Estate Listing. And the Realtors, the agents who faithfully work for these companies believe every word they say and follow their leader, without question.

Your real estate listing makes the whole process work. Without your real estate listing, photos and information on your property - state and town, then it would be painfully obvious that the real purpose of the website is the multi-million dollar company that website has created from ad dollars and selling “stuff” - Not Your Real Estate.

They do not want Realtors and Sellers to have their own websites and to compete for their traffic in the search engines.

I have had many a run in with the Association of Realtors when I tried to compete in “their” market on the internet even when I was a loyal - and reputable member of the National Association of Realtors. They want their agents to submit content ( which is photos, write ups and information about Your Real Estate Listing) to their websites so that they can use this “content” to make their websites useful and interesting to people who go there so that they can sell them “other” stuff.

So what really does a “hit” to a website mean? If your Realtor says that you need to be on Realtor.com and that this site gets over 60 million “hits” a month what does this really mean.

A “hit” could be a one second landing, it could be Realtors themselves, it could be advertisers, data providers, or people looking for something else on one of there pages. Realtor.com has 914,000 pages as of today. A “hit” is on any of these pages, and is certainly NOT relevant to your “Idaho Horse Property” for example.

You begin to see how this works and you wonder what makes the Realtors lie like they do. The thing is the Realtors I have spoke with on this are faithful workers for the “man”.

They “honestly” believe that you, the real estate seller will have more luck selling your “Idaho Horse Property” - for example - on Realtor.com than on a more relevant, target and useful site that your buyer can easily find you and take interest in your real estate for sale.

You Need a Website - Full Size Photos - possibly video ( homemade just fine) - and lots of information on your property and why it is so great, put this out there on the internet where buyers are looking for you.. Get your Real Estate for Sale FOUND better then your local Realtor can, I guarantee it.

Not only is being on Realtor.com Not Necessary and Not Effective but it is a quick way to lose your buyer.

If a buyer is looking for “Idaho Horse Property” - for example and finds something possibly as a place to start on Realtor.com they will call the Realtors and you may just lose your buyer to the Realtor pushing another listing that they just happen to have for sale.

Or they may find this listing of interest on a local Realtors website. With IDX all the Realtors have each others listings on their website and a buyer does not really know whether they are calling the listing office or not.

So if your buyer calls another office - odds are they will push their own office listing, yes because they get paid more but not only that, it is easier to sell listings in house because of the constant drama and deliberate tactics used among Realtors in competing offices. It is just easier and more money to sell in house and easier yet to sell your own listings.

Remember the more hits that Realtor.com can get from you’re your listings being on their site, the more money they make from advertisers and all the other stuff that they sell on their website.

Crystal L. Cox

www.BrokerConsultations.com

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Real Estate Forms

I had a Realtor ask me the other day, “If your not a Realtor then what forms do you use” this was an innocent question and not meant to be malicious.

However, this tells you how much Realtors have come to know, accept and rely on what the National Association of Realtors tells them to.

I have seen Seller pull forms off of the computer and go to closing with very little information on the buyer sale, and sometime No Legal Description and no buyers signature.

We use a Real Estate Attorney to write up our Real Estate Buy sell - this protects YOU, the real estate client. A Realtor that goes to school for one week, in NO WAY knows enough about real estate law or contract law to protect you, the real estate consumer.

Realtors NEED their forms because the forms are designed to Protect Realtors from the Real Estate Consumer.

You do not need these long winded real estate forms to close your deal, really you don’t need much at all to head to the title company and close your transaction.

But the Realtors NEED you to believe that you need their forms and that their forms will protect you. However, this is no where near the truth. Again, the forms are not in your best interest, they are in the best interest of the Realtors. That is why they are “standard” among the members of the National Association of Realtors.

If they were really in your best interest as a real estate consumer then maybe it would be “law” that you use them, or maybe title companies would only accept these particular forms and attorney would have to use these “standard forms” - but none of that is so.

The Realtors use their “standard” forms because they are Easy Breezy and they are so wordy that most Real Estate Consumers do not read them and there is tons of fine print and loopholes to protect the Realtor from EVERYTHING….

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My name is Crystal L. Cox, I am the Real Estate Industry Whistleblower. You Need to Know this Stuff. You Do NOT need a Realtor in your Real Estate Transaction.

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Do Buyers Agents (Realtors) really do all they Can to Find you what your Looking for?

If your Buyers agent is really working for you then they are searching all possibly options that may be best for you’re the real estate buyer. In the Reality of Real Estate buyers agents are NOT searching all possibilities. I had a Realtor tell me the other day that they did not think that the agents in their office would see what I had for sale on my website.

This is TRUE, I have seen this a whole lot over the last 8 years. Realtors are sooooo depending on the MLS database that they, themselves do not seem to use search engines to find other options for you the real estate buyer to buy.

Realtors will, however, call about something on one of our real estate internet marketing website when their buyer finds it and calls their Realtor asking why didn’t you tell me about this option.

Realtors are not working for your best interest, I guarantee it.

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Who Decides Which Title Company you Use to Close Your Real Estate Transaction

In Most of my real estate transactions the Realtor decides who the Closing agent is.

Due to affiliations, past work load history, inner city or small town relationships, and a variety of other “excuses” – reasons - the Realtor tells the buyer what Title Company to use and they enforce this. By enforce I mean they have the Seller counter offer this point, they push the Buyers agent, push the buyer and they get their way.

The Buyer just wants to buy and does not want to rock the boat so they give into the Realtor’s demands that are offended past off to be what the Seller wants when in Reality the Seller does not really care. To the Seller it is just one more chunk of money out of their proceeds and is Really of no Valid use to them.

What Does the Association of Realtors Say about This Issue.

The National Association of Realtors and your Local Realtor may say that the Buyers, making the offer, get to decide which title company that they will use in closing their real estate transaction.

This is NOT True.

Realtors claim that it is part of the offer, part of the negotiations but for me as a real estate broker owner, I would have to say that in the Real World the Buyer does not really choose but is instead coerced in some way.

Most of the time the buyer comes to town and does not really know which title company to use so they go with which ever title company that the Realtor Suggests. In most cases, in my transactions, the Listing Agent decided who the Title Company would be. The Buyer would make an offer with one title company and they would mark it out and put in the Title Company of their choosing and then tell me that “Well, this title company has done so much work that we feel we need to use them”. And these Broker Owners are quite demanding about this.

It does not matter to them how much work the other Title Company choice may have done for the Buyer or for the Buyers agent. These Brokers run the show, these Realtors decide what is best for the Consumer by what is best for them and their future relationship with this title company that Will Have their Backs.

The Buyer SHOULD absolutely be able to choose which title company they want to use, based on their comfort level and knowledge of the company. And the Buyer should be able to do this without interference from the Realtor.

Now NAR can tell you all they like that this is not how it happens but it is.

Every offer I have made to Century 21 in Eureka Montana, my Buyer has been Made to use the title company that the listing agent insists that they use. We make an offer, with the Title Company that my buyer chooses and the listing agent calls and tells me that the Seller really wants to use First American Title because they have done so much work already. Or the agent will put this in a counter offer that supposedly comes from the Seller.

This has happened to me for years and though it was annoying and though I really wanted to use the other title company, I had no idea that it was a RESPA violation.

Today I am told that Section 9 of RESPA prohibits a seller from requiring the home buyer to use a particular title insurance company, either directly or indirectly, as a condition of sale. Buyers may sue a seller who violates this provision for an amount equal to three times all charges made for the title insurance. For information on RESPA Rules and Regulations, please visit http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/res/respa_hm.cfm

A real estate Broker making you use a particular title company because they have done so much work already, is illegal. It violates Section 9 of RESPA Laws, but here in Eureka Montana, at Century 21 especially, anything Goes.

Folks, Today this is News to Me and SO now it is news to you.

When I would have a real estate buyer pick a title company and have me write this on my buy sell agreement and the Listing Broker would call me and say well we have to use First American Title because they have done so much work and the Seller feels obligated to them, my buyer would agree to not rock the boat or lose the deal.

I found it annoying but did not know that it violated RESPA laws. Century 21 in Eureka Montana does this with EVERY deal I have ever done with them. I cannot believe what this office can get away with. It is as if they are invisible from the law.

If you are owned by the Largest Real Estate Group in the World than you are above the law, E an O insurance protects the Realtor and not the consumer and what this means to you is that it does not matter what the Realtor says or does their Franchise and E and O insurance will make you the Real Estate Victim wrong. Realtors do not seem to know the laws that affect you personally. Realtors are NOT made by ANY governing authority to know, practice or enforce the laws that affect Your Life.

Realtors Harm real estate consumers and are seemingly “untouchable”.

You, the Real Estate BUYER gets to Choose the Title Company that you want and Do Not let a Realtor Strong Arm you into thinking ANY different.

Find Out More Folks.. Knowledge is Power

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