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Article #1792Re: Realtor recommendations needed
From: Kevin
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:00
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I think I am in agreement with most of what you said. I actually thought our lawyer was worth the $500 we paid him. He was really the only person in the whole transaction who looked after our intertest. Everyone else just wanted their cut of the money. When I think that the realtor pulled down more than $10K for maybe 3 hours of work, the lawyer was a deal! Even the loan people made perhaps 1-2K off the deal. In my mind that's reasonable as you are always going to pay money to borrow money. My wife who is an attorney (so maybe I am biased here though she doesn't do this kind of law) says that all the costs in the closing are negotiable. You could theoretically negotiate to have the seller pay the bank attorney's fees. The problem is that in this market, with two or three people trying to get the same house, no one wants to rock the boat. Kevin * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5127,1d39a9165ee8c90c X-Google-Attributes: gidf5127,public X-Google-Thread: 1130cb,1d39a9165ee8c90c X-Google-Attributes: gid1130cb,public X-Google-Thread: 100afe,1d39a9165ee8c90c X-Google-Attributes: gid100afe,public X-Google-Thread: f9acd,1d39a9165ee8c90c X-Google-Attributes: gidf9acd,public From: Kevin <kvolkanNOkvSPAM@post.harvard.edu.invalid> Subject: Re: Realtor recommendations needed Date: 2000/05/30 Message-ID: <0022fa5e.31239651@usw-ex0107-055.remarq.com> X-Deja-AN: 629085299 References: <OmzU4.70888$WF.3951750@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <02ac9ce4.14d29c32@usw-ex0108-063.remarq.com> <392690e1.941324@news5.bellatlantic.net> <05fa4a8b.8ff43644@usw-ex0107-055.remarq.com> <392d7b4c.664665@news5.bellatlantic.net> <Fv4ury.K8t@world.std.com> Bytes: 1026 X-Originating-Host: 134.174.153.129 X-Complaints-To: wrenabuse@remarq.com X-Trace: WReNphoon3 959707136 10.0.2.55 (Tue, 30 May 2000 10:18:56 PDT) Organization: http://www.remarq.com: The World's Usenet/Discussions Start Here NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:18:56 PDT Newsgroups: mit.bboard,ne.housing,ne.general,harvard.general X-Wren-Trace: eJSxmZiBxozH35aTnd+Uk6aXi4KF3tyDg46ahZnOiNCO0oXGzprQzczbwcTJmtbRzA==