How to Know if Your Buyer’s Agent Is Right for You

Matt Fetick Keller Williams Real Estate Podcast

If you’re buying a home, you should interview one or multiple agents and ask them different qualifying questions to get a sense of their capabilities and how well they match with you.

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If you’re a homebuyer, how can you know if a particular agent is the right fit to help you buy a home?

Our lead buyer specialist David Williams knows all about this topic. David has been part of our team for eight years, and he’s helped more than 249 people purchase a home. He’s exclusively a buyer’s agent, which is a little different than most agent’s you’ll meet.

He’s still amazed by buyers who go to open houses or stop at a new construction site and end up hiring the first agent they come across. That’s all well and good if that agent can represent them well, but if you’re considering buying a home, it’s important that you interview one or multiple agents the same way a person would if they were listing a house instead of buying one.

Your house is your biggest financial asset, so the agent you hire should know how to represent you, how to work the market you’re currently in, and know what’s important to you for the long term. We’ve even created a list of about a dozen questions a buyer should ask an agent before working with them. Some of these questions include:

• Why did you get into real estate?
• What are some things that can happen during the transaction that can cause problems?
• How long have you worked in the area?
• How many homes have you sold?

There are many different qualifying questions you can ask an agent to find out what their experience is, how actively they can solve problems that come up, and how well they can represent you in the process.

The agent you hire should know how to represent you.

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