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Top 10 Strategies For Choosing the Right Real Estate Agent
Whether you're buying or selling, use these tactics to find a top-notch professional
By Shannon Petrie, FrontDoor.com | Published: 7/22/2009
While you're buying or selling a home, your agent will be a huge part of your life. Choose someone you feel comfortable with.
#1: Trust your gut
You may interview a real estate agent who seems competent and experienced and has a great marketing plan, but if you just don't like or trust him, you shouldn't hire him.
"When you hire a Realtor, you're adopting them into your family, so you have to make sure their personality fits," Ross says. "Do you want this person in your home every day for the next however many months your house is on the market?"
Bottom line: trust your instincts. The agent you choose will represent you and your home to the world, so hire someone you can comfortably entrust with that job.
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