Impressive fight-back:
1) Your info is useless to me, let me re-state. Your info might be useful for some buyers who don’t know how to dig out information.
2) “However, my knowledge and skill are worth plenty”: Hmmm, post some testimonials?!
3) “Please keep us posted on your success in encouraging people to breach valid NJ contracts.”: My success is legal and of course, impressive.
4) “And, how is it that your efforts to circumvent and/or breach valid agreements is somehow acceptable behavior”: See, how frightened you are, are you scared by these legal tactics?

Take a rest and prepare for the next fight for your 30K nonsense fees…

Go back and read some archived stuff here. I’m no apologist for NAR. In fact, I’m quite the opposite.

Notice that no one here is joining you in your feeble attempts to take a run at me. Each successive post of yours tops the previous one on the idiot scale.

Googling for bug pictures is a good activity for you. Keep it up.

I was beginning to think I was going too hard on you; however, it appears I haven’t been hard enough. Each subsequent post reveals you to be more of a liar and dirtbag than I originally sized you up as being.

Let’s go to your latest list of idiocies:

1. I don’t ask “sharpest/greediest questions”. My questioning is for the purpose of discovering what a prospect’s needs are and whether I can help. Some people- like you- are unable to accept or acknowledge help…for them, I have nothing to offer.

2. My “information”- as is all RE information- is indeed useless. That info is ubiquitous has rendered it so. However, my knowledge and skill are worth plenty. Perhaps you are one of the many LODs who have cannot understand the difference between information and actionable knowledge.

3. Please keep us posted on your success in encouraging people to breach valid NJ contracts. Very impressive.

4. And, how is it that your efforts to circumvent and/or breach valid agreements is somehow acceptable behavior…while if a Realtor did the same thing, you would probably howl with indignation? The only explanation for this would be that you are a sociopath; judging from the tone and content of your writing, that may well be the case.

Enjoy your Googling for more bug pictures.

Looks like “Clotpoll” is full-time NAR watchdogs, no, a watch-mosquito:

http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/Personal%20photos/KonMin_A2_MacroSamples/originals/mosquito.JPG

Clotpoll: you win, as usual!

“BTW…to you, RentLard and others: if you engage me to help you, agree to pay me 30K, and I make- or save- you 40K, have you gained or lost?”
Pay you 30K? Give me a break. Your info is worthless, at least to me.

“defaming my industry”? I don’t have to ‘defame’. It is already ‘notorious’.

“Until then, enjoy your continuing effort to re-invent the wheel.”: I have already done so. Just need to verify in NJ.

“most listing agreements also have a 60-90 day “protection period” after expiration, to discourage buyers from waiting until properties expire to approach sellers directly with offers.”: You just list another fact how greedy the NAR is.

Again, where’s the monopoly? You can go FSBO, flat-fee ML access or any number of alternative routes to transact RE. Anyone can buy or sell a house. Information on RE is ubiquitous. If you can’t get it in one place, go to another.

And, who are these “people at the top”? Congress? The board of NAR? What’s there to discuss? I have plenty of quibbles with NAR, but in all the communications I get from them, I’ve never seen mention or discussion of commissions…from ANY point of view.

The reality is, you are a member of a trace minority of people who feel entitled to free access to the intellectual property of others- intellectual property which goes far beyond mere compilations of basic information- and is looking for something for nothing. Over 85% of all Americans who sell a home simply engage an agent and get on with it. We don’t hold these people at gunpoint…they CHOOSE to engage us. We provide a simple level of comfort and convenience that they are willing to pay for.

If millions of American homeowners mobilized against us in dissatisfaction, our fees would reflect this situation immediately. Certainly, there’s no shortage of “alternative” RE companies out there shouting to high heavens how traditional RE is a useless, money-sucking cost center in the sale of property. Why, after years of this saturation of negative publicity, do so many Americans remain unmoved? As it stands, commissions- as a percentage of selling price- have gone DOWN over the past 10 years, so the allegation that we’re colluding to “fix” fees is laughable. If we’re doing that, then we’re not doing a very good job of it.

You further expose your abject ignorance with each post. Colluding with a seller to cut an agent out of a deal on a listed property is a breach of the listing agreement, which most certainly IS a valid contract…and enforceable. In addition, most listing agreements also have a 60-90 day “protection period” after expiration, to discourage buyers from waiting until properties expire to approach sellers directly with offers.

You also seem to be working under the assumption that sellers who have listed with an agent have done so under duress and that there’s a wide audience of angry sellers waiting to entertain your sleazy proposals. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most of my clients over the years would’ve hung up the phone on you if you called them with one of your harebrained ideas.

Call me? Don’t bother. You couldn’t make it thru the first five questions of my interview (yes…I interview prospective clients). Sleazeballs and wheel-reinventors need not apply.

If you have bought successfully in the past without ever using an agent, why the interest in coming here and defaming my industry? You’ve ostensibly done well and have never needed us. Why the desire to go on the attack?

Your comparison of RE as an asset class to travel agency and stock brokerage is predictable and again shows your lack of comprehension. Plane tickets, hotel packages and securities are all mark-to-market, “commoditized” assets; RE is not marked to market and is illiquid. Over the years, scores of companies have attempted to treat RE- and RE sales skills- as fungible, commoditized entities. The one common denominator among all who have tried this is failure.

The day that you can put a price tag on a house, and all the potential buyers in the running for that house are willing to pay the same price for it, you’ve turned RE into a commodity. At that point, the deal you get and the price you pay will simply depend upon which living-box you choose, and the timing of when you click the “Buy Now” button. Until then, enjoy your continuing effort to re-invent the wheel.

BTW…to you, RentLard and others: if you engage me to help you, agree to pay me 30K, and I make- or save- you 40K, have you gained or lost?

d2b, regarding your comment “Someday the entire world will come around.” – It only takes a few at the top to call the shots on changing the commission structure (or atleast put NAR under the microscope for monopoly). It does not take the entire herd to achieve this.

Just mail your offer to the seller. It might be better to find the seller’s name from county record.

I really don’t care about the real estate monopoly. I’m not buying or selling my house. But if I were I would rather figure out a way to manipulate the system rather than reinvent the wheel. There are ways to do this. Drop off a copy of your offer to make sure that the seller gets it.

My positive experience with one Realtor hardly constitutes a glowing endorsement for the whole industry. Sure there are issues, but it’s their system. You know the commission structure, so discount accordingly.

The bottom line is my bottom line. I’m going to do what I need to do to reach my goal. If I were selling, I would list with an agent. I want maximum exposure and I wouldn’t want to have to show my house. If I were buying, I would go it alone for a while until I found a place. Then I would bring in someone that is better suited to close a deal.

Now, I’m getting back to work, so I don’t have time to respond to your clever twists on my screen name. You just keep screaming with your fingers in your ears. Someday the entire world will come around.

If a home you are interested has a contract near expiration, contact the buyer and let them know that you’d like to make a deal after the contract (and any other contingencies) expire.

If you go this route, do not make contact with the either the listing agent, or any other buyers agents. At no point should you ever let an agent claim that they are the “procuring cause”.

Or, you can try to find a home that is listed under an “exclusive agency” contract. This lets the buyer sell the home on their own, without an agent. In this case contact the buyer directly as well. These listing types exist in NJ, but they aren’t very common. For example, only 82 listings in Morris out of more than 3,600 are this type.

jb

Thanks.

It’s a monopoly favoring the Realtor and his agency.