{"id":662,"date":"2006-11-20T01:02:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T08:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2006-11-20T06:20:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T13:20:23","slug":"dual-agency-smack-down-how-about-sub-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/662\/dual-agency-smack-down-how-about-sub-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual Agency Smack-Down, how about sub-agency?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. – Sir Winston Churchill<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you to Jeff for responding SO well to Greg’s points and issues. I do understand Greg’s points and in a perfect world – almost everything he has to say is just fine. We don’t live in a perfect world and I don’t expect to anytime soon. All of the various arguments about single agency seem analogous to a single agent describing how his service is better than mine because he – and he alone – is going to be the only person to respond to his buyer or seller. When they deal with me it is set up more like an assembly line – with different individuals taking care of each of the different aspects of taking care of the client.<\/p>\n

Who is right?<\/p>\n

Well if the single agent has only the one customer or client and is willing to devote all of his time to that client, then he is right. I’ll not spend a lot of time pointing out how this is not a viable business model.<\/p>\n

If that same agent has just one additional client or customer he now can “have a conflict” concerning his two clients. Say client # 1’s house just got a sign call and there is a buyer who wants to see it right now – and client # 2’s property just had an offer written on it and the other agent wants to present that offer right away. The single agent is only offering single agency to both of those sellers so he does not need to worry about agency conflicts.<\/p>\n

Just add one new customer into the mix and there is the potential for conflict. So, why do I bring up SUB AGENCY? Isn’t it the most awful thing to ever have happened in the history of the world? Not really. And you might be surprised at what actually killed the beast – it wasn’t the “single agency issue”. I am blessed to live in Phoenix (for a vast number of reasons) Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. – Sir Winston Churchill Thank you to Jeff for responding SO well to Greg’s points and issues. I do understand Greg’s points and in a perfect world – almost everything he has to say is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dual-agency","7":"category-general","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":297,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/297\/back-story-how-we-evolved-our-policy-forbidding-dual-agency\/","url_meta":{"origin":662,"position":0},"title":"Back story: How we evolved our policy forbidding dual agency . . .","author":"Cathleen Collins","date":"September 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Someone commented on Greg's recent post regarding dual agency. 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