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Yes. The seller's agent will not represent u if u do all the paperwork.... Any mistake done, u r responsible for that.. Also the agent will may tell u a high last offer to scare u off, unless u willing to pay those sky high price....

There are still good agents around... If u found a good agent, then next transaction u can call her again to help u.....

With this competitive industry, one got to protect themselves from other ppl snatching their biz(units).

Actually u can bring e letters to post office n tell them that u r the new owner. They will know what to do...

They got no basic pay to survive leh.. Think about it... Of couse with more $$ they will work for you...

I had seen some agnts "punishing" the owners and end up the owner find agnt D to do and I think sold at lower price.....Actually exclusive form is to protect agnts from owner later don let them sell. End up after so many advert, get nothing. But many agnts take for granted and abuse the exclusive until many sellers scared.

It becomes public when u put yr number there. They will not be remove by agents themselves but from the 3rd party program.. The only way to stop the calls is to change your number......

This is the downside of selling your house your own coze your number is being exposed. Sometimes it is not from the company's database. It is from a third party database and it can be stored in their server for very long period of time....

Simple. Agents A,B,C will call each other up to c-broke as real estate co got listings that can be seen easily even w/o putting address. They got the ways to do it... In this case, the sufferer will surely be owner. Worst case, the agents will co-operate and "punish" the owner for engaging so many agents. In the eg given by pebsb, he/she is referring to buyer to call which agent's number. Surely the buyer will call the cheapest one. In the end, who suffer again? The owner. Of course the downside of signing exclusive is the agent take very long to sell. It is being tempered by many unethical agents. My experience is that with exclusive, a good and efficient agent will sell your flat very fast and w/o exclusive, they just hack care. Unless you find a good, new agent and w/o exclusive, they will rush for u to sell coze they wanna clock sales...

This is true. Many owners/sellers do not think this way... Many tot more agents selling means better prices which they are wrong.... If the agent get your house for sale, they will advertise even if they do not have exclusive. This is to lengthen their advertising column longer so that more ppl will see it... As for your serenerio, it is down to the agent's ethical to tell you whether there is any offer of $200k instead of $180k as highest. It is actually not right to take comms from both parties. If is taken at both side, the agent should inform both seller and buyer. But in reality, sad to say, not many agents do that.... But w/o exclusive, there will surely be a price war and end up the loser is the owner/seller.

Best if u call the banks directly first... If really cannot get what u want, then ask the agent for help..... They are agents, not bankers. If they insist you to get bank loan, mean they will be getting some referral fees from banks... Thus be careful.....

Do u place any ads on the papers using your number????