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Hi John- excellent information for buyers. There is so much information out there and for consumers, it's hard to determine where to go. Work with an experienced local agent!

Good evening John Krol ,

Great way to put it out there to buyers. Excellent advice: Do your home work and do not get taken advantage of. 

John, you and I have some overlap in our backgrounds. I also worked in capital markets, though after a few years, I moved into Learning & Professional Development for the trading desks and all support areas. I have been all over the street as either employee or consultant. Unfortunately, the constant budget cuts only left room for the L&D jobs I that I lost interest in-  vanilla Compliance, Regulatory, or Exam training- rather than some of the more interesting programs or courses I created or taught such as a mock trading simulation, creating a new hire onboarding week long program at a hedge fund administrator, assisting in derivatives valuation courses., etc.  After so many years of seeing terrible agent after terrible agent and serving on my condo board, I decided to become an agent and do the job the right way.  It's been nearly 7 years now and happy I made the switch. 

Good morning John. Experience counts in number of transactions, not necessarily years with a license. Feeling comfortable is the first step of the process. Great advice. Thanks! Enjoy your day.

I totally agree that buyers should call an experienced agent for assistance - The only thing I would disagree with is the 60+ homes per year number. They need to have enough experience but in my area, we had 926 total residential sales in my town last year. At 60/agent, that would be a very small number of agents in business!