Seller speaking to Buyer in person

Richard_Webster

We saw our role as: -

1) Get a good buyer.

2) Make sure the sale went through by chasing up at all stages and ensuring issues were resolved.

3) Perhaps few agents realise this but we saw our role as someone to talk to when the going got tough for either the buyer or the seller. I repeat - when the buyer and sellers talked to each other it did usually reduce the stress considerably. However we urged the buyer and seller to let us know everything that was said between them. We did NOTsee it as as tactic to cut down our involvemnt/workload.

I'm inclined to agree. Some people are scared of talking direct but in a lot of cases it oils the wheels. If you have a query or a request then you pu tit to the estate agent to put to the other side and the message gets conveyed. the other people can't talk direct so wonder what is behind the query/request and imagine all kinds so implicaitons. If you are talking face to face you tell by the expressions on their faces and what they say, whether to go on, or to modify the way you put something, etc....