Fishhawk Lake Real Estate-What Do You Prefer to Be The Listing Agent or The Buyer's Agent?

WHAT a dream you had!!  HA HA HA  The three of use all in your bed?  head?  HA HA HA HA HA HA HA  YES, Melinda is there, and my dear friend/colleague Cindy Westfall too!!! 

Someone has to sell it and if you LIST and get a BUYER you did your job! and then some......... ;) Not to mention some Buyers figure they will get the house if they GO straight to the listing agent!

Gayle ~ Ok girls (Carla included)... You're gonna make these kind folks think it's true what they say about Oregonians... we're all a bunch of inbreds.  Now, take that back and say it ain't so!  What are you doin' dreamin' about us Gayle?!  Sorry I haven't been able to call... I've been in crazy meetings all week.  Saturday perhaps?!

P.S. Congrats on the feature!

Well now, this conversation has sure taken a spin. I'm an Oregonian (Corvallis), can I join in on the fun?

I represent both sellers and buyers. I think it is important to have experience on both sides of the fence.

Comment #30, and the beat goes on. You're doing GREAT Gayle, and I am very proud of you.

Congrates on the feature GF and since I"m not a Realtor, I'll just say I'd prefere spending time with you at your gorgous home in Fishhawke Lake! That is a win-win! lol. BTW - why is Gary always so mean to you - LOL!

I do both....but always enjoy buyers. Quick deals and they are normally happier at the close than sellers it seems

Gayle, 

No two areas are the same. I work exclusively with listings and I do not show properties because my market allows me to do it. . in your case being a smaller market, i don't think you have a choice. .you have to do both.. 

That is my opinion.

Kristine, Gayle is one of those people with a delicate ego. You have to nurture her along the way. Yes I am so mean to her to toughen her up. Do a little welcome to this place. Tell her to add a little photo here and there with her great writing. Next thing you know she is taking her clothes off next to billboards, tripping over dogs in the middle of the night at the homestead while breaking her wrist, then there's getting features without even a single comment. You have to admit the girl has come a long way, but I am so hard on her cause I expect more. You can't let up on these sensitive ones or she will return to be a shrinking violet so expect more of that meanness I send her way each day kind of like what you might call tough love. She is special but she forgets it now and then, and this post with the oodles and oodles of comments will remind her of that specialness she brings to us each time her smiling face graces our world. And THAT Kristine, is the rest of the story!!

I tend to be mostly a buyers agent - but I find that listings are more reliable.  BUyers are very very fickle right now and they seem to want way too many showings to get to an offer.  So many will run you ragged and then disappear.  So I'm starting to switch my focus. Its going to be painful to change - but the people who have listings are surviving. Buyers agents are broke right now.

Gary - you totally crack me up - thanks for the laugh. Now just back off my Gayle and be a little nicer - yes, I know she needs some tough love once in a while and she'll even break an arm just to put out an interesting blog. She is shy and to your point, we don't want her to become a shrinking Violet - I worry all the time about that too, but ya gotta love her - LOL!

I like the joy of a buyer when they closed on their first home.  Because of that, I think I would be hard pressed to really ever just do listings.  But, lately I have received great satisfaction in closing short sales for people in financial distress.  

Hi Gayle. Good question to think on...

I enjoy working with both sellers and buyers - as long as they are serious about getting their job done. The difficulty with either group usually comes with all the other friend and family "experts" chiming in.

Each situation brings it's own challenges so both buyers and sellers are fun to work with and just about as much work either way.

Post #19 "says it all" for me. I don't want to be a "Top Producer" with a team. I just want to help folks buy houses...one or two clients at a time. That's enough business to pay my bills, and be happy. Listings are more expensive (except for the gas to drive buyers around these days), and sellers are usually not happy people...many times not even when their house sells. Maybe in a different market, but I've been licensed since 2007, and have been dealing with folks losing money for the past 4 years. Buyers tend to be much happier people and make MY job a lot more fun. If I wanted a job that wasn't fun, I'd have stayed in corporate America!

Thanks for the very, VERY timely post Gayle!!!