If you are a buyer in today’s market, you have many choices. It may seem like a good strategy to have many different agents looking for your perfect home. Well, that game plan is probably back-firing.
Without a commitment to a specific agent, the message you are sending is “I don’t value your services and don’t need you.” You’ve given no agent a reason to go above and beyond in searching for your next home. In fact, you’ve sent signals that there is very little reason to make any effort at all. You appear to be a high risk buyer, one who will take advantage of our efforts and disappear into the night; leaving the agent with nothing.
MORE IMPORTANTLY, none of the agents really know you. There is no perfect home. Short conversations alone do not give a REALTOR® sufficient information to narrow down the myriad choices to the ones that best meet your needs. It takes comparing perspectives about on-line listings and visiting several properties together before someone can truly assess the suitability of a house to your needs and desires. You may have gotten an agent to bite and find some homes for you. But, when their first selections get shot down because they don’t truly know you, they most likely will quietly disappear and you’ll start all over again.
Unless you are prepared and equipped to spend a great deal of time and energy doing all of the research and work on your own – or going through the same steps over and over again with different agents, make a commitment to one agent. You’ll find that new home sooner and more easily if you do.
P.S. Don’t pick the first agent you meet! There’s more to come on selecting a Buyers’ Agent…
