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EA contracts
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On these boards, there are often people asking about whether their EA needs paying, or trying to get out of their agreement, or confused over what their liability is.
I have just put my flat on the market. I decided to use an estate agent had previously let a house through as a tenant, the agent had always treated me fairly when I was tenant so I was confident using them to sell my house. The I have with them contract consists of a single sheet of A4 with nine terms on it. Everything is written out in plain English, and it was really easy to see what we were signing up for.
How does this compare with other people's experience of estate agents' contracts? Do other estate agents tried to tie themselves in knots by writing difficult contracts, or are they all like ours, relatively easy to understand?
I have just put my flat on the market. I decided to use an estate agent had previously let a house through as a tenant, the agent had always treated me fairly when I was tenant so I was confident using them to sell my house. The I have with them contract consists of a single sheet of A4 with nine terms on it. Everything is written out in plain English, and it was really easy to see what we were signing up for.
How does this compare with other people's experience of estate agents' contracts? Do other estate agents tried to tie themselves in knots by writing difficult contracts, or are they all like ours, relatively easy to understand?
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They tend to be one page.
The ones I've signed that have been longer have been those where you pay for different elements of the service in different ways and professional photographs etc are involved so there's more to agree on.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Mine (an EA) is one page and in plain English. My solicitor does not like the way I altered his version to the plain English as he says it is not so water tight. May be so but it is a document I would be happy to sign.
However some of my friends, around the UK, have very diverse contracts and the most onerous, on four sides andin very small print!A retired senior partner, in own agency, with 40 years experience in property sales & new build. In latter part of career specialising in commercial - mostly business sales.0
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