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Is It Risky Business Selling Your Home With An Agent Friend?

You're ready to sell your Cincinnati home and you've got a friend who is a real estate agent.
Is it risky to mix your friendship with business?
Perhaps not.
You already have a basis of trust, and that's key to a good working relationship with your agent.
And we're going to assume your friend the agent is competent and your home isn't going to be their first rodeo.  No learning curve on your home's sale, they've been there and done that a bunch of times.
And if you're in a hot market with a serious edge to the seller, the risk might be pretty minuscule.  Price the home properly and you're working relationship will probably be pretty short.  Get the home sold, and resume your friendship (just as long at that check you saw at the closing table go to your friend doesn't alter the relationship).
But what if the market is NOT tilted to the seller?
That's where things could get a bit riskier, both to your friendship and to the sale of your home.
Face it, when a home doesn't sell, there's stress.
Even with clients that aren't friends, I've been a hero as their buyer's agent and the goat as their listing agent when the home didn't ... more

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