We used Adam; I think stuff went pretty well. We wound up looking at a bunch of pretty good houses indirectly via their search tools, though we found our current place through an open house. When we were ready to make an offer, stuff went pretty quickly.
There were several points in the process where I felt that we were handling things ourselves that a full-service agent would have done for us, and I felt that our agent was paying attention to us only when a) we asked him to, or b) it was time to move to the next part of the process. With that said, however, I don't think that getting more attention and reduced organizational load by going through a regular agent would necessarily have been worth several extra thousands of dollars in fees.
One piece of homebuying advice: get yourself a way to send and receive faxes from home/work if you haven't got one already. The whole process, from loans to lawyers, is heavily into faxes.
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Date: 2009-11-28 12:12 am (UTC)There were several points in the process where I felt that we were handling things ourselves that a full-service agent would have done for us, and I felt that our agent was paying attention to us only when a) we asked him to, or b) it was time to move to the next part of the process. With that said, however, I don't think that getting more attention and reduced organizational load by going through a regular agent would necessarily have been worth several extra thousands of dollars in fees.
One piece of homebuying advice: get yourself a way to send and receive faxes from home/work if you haven't got one already. The whole process, from loans to lawyers, is heavily into faxes.