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Originally Posted by Mastodon
So... do you normally have two real estate agents involved in a house purchase in the US? Here, there won't ever be more than one, and I think it is becoming more and more common for people to sell their houses without any realtor involved at all. What is the purpose of having one for the buyer and one for the seller? Do they do different things?
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Yes, usually there's a buyer's agent and a seller's agent. Each represents the interests of their client. Mine has told me that in our state they can do the... dual-something... I forget the term. But she said she is more likely to hand the sale over to another agent from her office and represent just the seller.
When we bought the house we live in now, it needed some repairs. Our agent and the seller's agent handled the discussion about what would and would not be repaired prior to purchase. One of the repairs was not completed in time, so our agent had the seller pay part of our closing costs to compensate.