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Help me find a real estate agent?
Jul. 11th, 2011 12:34 pmHello, lovely network:
Would anyone be able to assist me in finding a good real estate agent, to help my parents sell their apartment house in central Maine?
This is the property in question: http://57highstreet.com
Why yes, I have been assisting them in setting up an internet presence! But I know that just slapping up webpage somewhere isn't going to make anyone show up at their door with a half-a-mil check. So, I'm hoping to hook them up with a decent professional, and have their permission to introduce them to someone with a good reputation.
I know so little about how real estate agents operate that I don't know if (in 2011) they're necessarily bound to their respective local geographies. So I dunno if I should be restricting my search to agents physically located in central Maine, or if I can search more broadly. (And, more to the point, search local-to-me.)
It's trivial to find directories of agents on the web, but I hope to find a referral -- or, failing that, a yelp-esque directory of professionals that invites client reviews. After some 50 years of property trading, my parents are actually deeply cynical about working for anyone else, and they trust me to connect them to someone better than a dart thrown at a phonebook. (Which is pretty much the best that they could do, having no internet access themselves.)
Any pointers would be deeply appreciated!
Would anyone be able to assist me in finding a good real estate agent, to help my parents sell their apartment house in central Maine?
This is the property in question: http://57highstreet.com
Why yes, I have been assisting them in setting up an internet presence! But I know that just slapping up webpage somewhere isn't going to make anyone show up at their door with a half-a-mil check. So, I'm hoping to hook them up with a decent professional, and have their permission to introduce them to someone with a good reputation.
I know so little about how real estate agents operate that I don't know if (in 2011) they're necessarily bound to their respective local geographies. So I dunno if I should be restricting my search to agents physically located in central Maine, or if I can search more broadly. (And, more to the point, search local-to-me.)
It's trivial to find directories of agents on the web, but I hope to find a referral -- or, failing that, a yelp-esque directory of professionals that invites client reviews. After some 50 years of property trading, my parents are actually deeply cynical about working for anyone else, and they trust me to connect them to someone better than a dart thrown at a phonebook. (Which is pretty much the best that they could do, having no internet access themselves.)
Any pointers would be deeply appreciated!