I’ve indicated strong interest in several homes in recent weeks. Once I zero in and buy a particular home, is there any reason for me to contact the listing realtors for the other homes and let them know I’m not interested in theirs any longer? It feels polite, but I’m not sure they’d actually care.
I wouldn’t, and I’d be they don’t care. You’d just be telling them that someone else just got a commission.
Out of curiosity, tho, did you contact individual listing agents for each home you visited? We always worked with a single agent and she took care of contacting whoever she had to in order to arrange visits.
Do it. It only takes five minutes to send a group email. It’s a nice courtesy and it might get you off some mailing lists.
You must be joking. RE agents live and die by the length of their marketing string and will keep former clients, even those briefly encountered, on their contact list forever. I still get an annual calendar from one… fifteen years later, with the address updated to a state 3,000 miles away.
I just got a request to include a realtor (2008) in my LinkedIn (or whatever).
I set that up to get a phone number of someone from way back - I don’t use it (disabled and not working since 2001)
Nit pick: you should use the term real estate agent.
All Realtors[sup]®[/sup] are real estate agents. But not all real estate agents are Realtors[sup]®[/sup].
Why assume all the people I’m talking about aren’t realtors in that sense?
Ok, so what’s the difference? And what about a broker, how is a broker different from an agent? Thanks.
I refuse to recognize that level of idiocy.
And you misspelled it, it’s actually REALTOR[sup]®[/sup].
I’m with Justin_Bailey.
Except that, technically, it is REALATOR.
(It’s more fun that way.)
You misspelled “on”.
I know I’m oversimplifying things, but I think the realtors are aware you’re not interested in the property because you haven’t submitted a contract.