subject: Hiring Real Estate Agent [print this page] In the current scenario owning a house is not a childs play. These days it is quite unmanageable to own a house. In this matter one can take the help of the real estate agent. Real estate agent is the person who is responsible for the transactions between the seller and the buyer of the property. He is the person who acts as the intermediary between the two parties who are buying and selling the property.
The real estate agent is the person who decides about all the matters related to the property dealing. Thus one has to be quite careful while hiring him. Reason behind this is if the person is not genuine then the hirer can be cheated by the real estate agent. Now this is an important question that how a real estate agent can cheat a person? The real estate agent can cheat in so many ways. He can sell the same property to two different people and can enjoy the profits from both of them. He can sell property of someone else in the name of some other person, which can create immense problems for the person concerned. The person can be entrapped in the unnecessary court proceedings which is really unbearable. There is one more way in which a real estate agent can cheat. What he can do is claim for more facilities but delivers less. When the buyer has bought the property and is not receiving the claimed benefits then he feels helpless because at this moment neither he can buy a new property nor he can sell the old property with fewer facilities.
The work of a real estate agent is quite extensive. He has to be well aware of all the market conditions so that he can do justice to his job. He should have to know all this because only after this he will be able to make the predictions about the market conditions that whether the prices of the property is going to fall or rise. Thus he can tell about all this, but only after a lot of experience. Thus when you are taking the services of the real estate agent you have to decide only after considering all these aspects.
