With the real estate market having so much variation with what is selling and what is not selling, my question is just because you are licensed in the state does that mean that you should try to sell property in a market you are unfamiliar with? I currently work in second home/investment market that is located in a ski town and about 1 hour from Denver. My market is extremely different than the Denver market and yet we have agents from Denver trying to sell property up here without even doing there research. Just recently I had an out of town agent set up a showing on one of my listings and then leave me and my sellers negative feedback because they were unable to locate the property. Please note that if they were even the slightest bit familiar with the area they would have found the listing. This is only one example, and I do not want to say that out of town agents should not be allowed to show property, what I am trying to get at is that if you truly want to provide a service to your client you should be familiar with the area you are showing property. Just because I have a license in Colorado and can write a contract throughout the state does not mean that I should be selling my friend a house in the city! I do not know that market and would not be able to provide a service to that client. Agents stop being gready and provide a service to the people we are helping. You can still get paid via a refferal and then you would actually be helping your client.
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