Many new home buyers seem to be do-it-yourselfers. They know what they want and
they don't need any help. They certainly don't need a real estate agent
making a big commission for doing seemingly nothing.
They will wait until they are ready to sign the contract before they bring up
the fact that they aren't using a buyer's agent and therefore want a reduction
in sales price commensurate to the commission that the builder won't be paying.
Nine times out of ten, the sales agent will tell them that that is out of the
question. They explain that those commissions come from the overall marketing
budget. That marketing budget anticipates a certain percentage of buyers
not having agents representing them. So there really isn't any extra money
sitting there to be given to them. If they don't end up using all of that
marketing budget by the completion of the development, that money is either
profit or bonuses for the development sales agents. But they can't give it
away ahead of time to buyers without agents.
After showing a little indignation, the buyer will continue on and sign
everything and go through the process by themselves even though they are paying
the same as the next buyer who is getting help from their buyer's agent.
Here's a better way.
Tell them that you are working with Tim Maitski as your buyer's agent.
Then call me up and I can be there with you when your are ready to sign
the contract.
Most of the time the builder is paying a buyer's agents a 3% commission.
On a $500,000 that works out to be $15,000.
You get $7500 and I get $7500. The builder gets a satisfied buyer.
Everyone's happy.
I will give you any advice that you might
want. I will be there every step of the way, if that's what you want.
If you have some kind of aversion to real estate agents, that's fine too.
I am happy to stay in the background and be happy that I was able to save you a
big chunk of money while making some money in the process.
Our market area is in the
north metro Atlanta area.
We service Cobb County,
north Fulton County, Dekalb
County, Forsyth County and
Gwinnett County. We
are very familiar with Sandy
Springs, Dunwoody, Marietta,
Roswell, Alpharetta,
Buckhead, and Midtown.
We have sold homes inside
the perimeter and outside
the perimeter. We
can't know everything so for
clients who want to look for
property in Peachtree City,
Newnan, Stone Mountain,
Douglasville, Macon and
areas further out we will
gladly recommend a good
agent who specializes in
those areas.
We help buyers negotiate
with builders for
residential new construction
houses. New houses in
Atlanta are hot right now.
We can represent you in the
purchase of your new house
built by any of the
following builders: Torrey
Homes, MDC Homes, Centex
Homes, Pulte Homes, Morrison
Homes, Ryland Homes, John
Wieland Homes, Winmark
Homes, Meridian Homes, John
Willis Homes, Benchmark
Homes and many more home
builders.
We can help clients find
short term apartments for
rent but normally we don't
work with clients who are
just looking for rentals.
We do help clients find
Atlanta condos. We can
also help you purchase HUD
homes in Atlanta. We
are an authorized agent with
them and have the HUD key to
get into HUD homes. We
have access to foreclosure
homes that banks want to
sell.
We love showing executive
homes and luxury homes. We
always like to know how
people find our site.
Send us an email and tell us
which search term you used.
Some terms that we might be
found by are realty Atlanta,
Ga homes, Atlanta realty,
condos Atlanta, Atlanta
realestate, Atlanta
property, houses Atlanta,
Atlanta realtors, Ga houses,
or realtors Atlanta.
Maybe you found us by typing
in Atlanta MLS listings, or
Atlanta MLS search, or MLS
Atlanta GA. Hopefully we
don't come up under nursing
homes or funeral homes.
It is always amazing to me
how the Internet can allow
total strangers to find each
other and build new business
relationships. It
truly is becoming a small,
interconnected world.
