Recent comments from my clients made me listen up: other agents are out there to poach clients.
Generally I don't have a written buyers agency agreement with my clients, because my relationship with them is based on trust. Only sometimes it makes me feel a little uneasy.
Lately when my clients have been going to open houses they have been getting the same question: "Are you working with someone?" And when my clients then dutifully say that they have an agent in San Francisco, they figure that the conversation would end then. But no, it doesn't.
See, my clients are looking for property in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, where I am also a member of the local Association of Realtors. But somehow the other Realtors feel that I'm encroaching on their turf. They tell my clients that they should be using a "local" Realtor and that I would not be able to find them the right property.
When my clients asked "Why?" a very surprising response came back from a perplexed Realtor who obviously hadn't expected the questions: "Well, we use different forms here!"
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