09 Mar 2011 10:02 PM:
Yes your contempt for the buyers is obvious. You do not really see them as people. No wonder buyers do not want to buy from you. I am in the process of buying a property in Spain. I am a cash buyer with a budget of 250 000, and I am looking at a property within 300 meters from the beach in one of the costas. But I will buy from owners directly and I refuse to go through agents. I am sure that there are good agents but the many rotten eggs makes the good one difficult to find. My experience so far is that it is very pleasant to talk to the owners. They give me all the information I ask for and more. For instance I often want to know the location of the property in question so I can look it up on Googlemaps before I decide if it is worth visiting or not. Owners do not have any problems with this, but when I ask the same info from an agent they get upset. They think that I want to cheat them on their commission. I would never do such a thing but they assume automatically that I am a crook and that attitude just makes me angry. Instead of being a help, I find agents to be gatekeepers and a hindrance to actually close a deal.
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09 Mar 2011 6:32 PM:
General statements like buyers are liars and single gents never buy, is like many other generalizations just not true. I have bought more then one property without even asking my wife. And I do my homework, I know exactly my budget and what I am after. Iin my experience many agents in Spain just do not listen and try to get me to buy properties that gives them the best profit and do not care about client satisfaction at all. This message was last edited by bobueland on 09/03/2011.
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08 Mar 2011 6:46 PM:
They showed me completed ones, but empty. Maybe I use the wrong term. Maybe they are called key-ready and not off plan. Anyway I wanted resale not new built.
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07 Mar 2011 2:03 PM:
Actually I met two agents that seemed to be OK. they listened and tried to show me what I was after. The reason why the others showed me off plan, I suspect was high commission.
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07 Mar 2011 7:59 AM:
Hi Claire,
No it was not an inspection trip, I would never do a thing like that. I financed my own trip. What I described is my actual experience although I also met some descent agents, but they were an exception, not the norm. What surprised me was that they were not very good at reading people. They lost time and money driving me around and ended up with no sale. But I think that's a calculation they do. If they can make 20 000 euros by finding a sucker it's well worth it. I do not claim that every agent is like this, but there are quite a few of them. I was actually impressed with their ingenuity. I would say that real estate agents in Spain are the most creative liars in the world.
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