Real Estate Agents Listen Up! #RealEstateAgent #shorts #shortvideo #realestate #realestateinvesting

20 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Steve D Valentine delivers a short, direct message to real estate agents urging them to value their services and not let selling agents set their compensation. He critiques the trend of commission compression (examples: commissions moving from 3% to 2–2.5% and some agents accepting 1%) and challenges experienced agents to defend the value they provide rather than conceding income to less-experienced sellers' agents.

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You're not using a buyer broker. You are allowing the selling agent to dictate the amount of money that you're worth. Our commissions are two to two and a half. They've gone from three to two and a half. And, you know, some agents are awesome, and they're like, here's 1%. Right. So you're allowing the selling agent to dictate your income. How many believe that you are worth the value that you provide in whatever percentage? Right. Typically, we go to 3%. Right. Why is it that those of us that have been in this business for a long period of time and have experience will settle for somebody else to dictate our income and will allow somebody that just got 90 hours of school to. To go get paid the same amount of money we do? Where's your value?