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I am thinking of changing the name of this blog to The Angry Real Estate Blogger

May 5th, 2023

You want to list your house. So, you hire a Realtor. They are charging your 5% on a $500,000 house, so $25k.

And they put this on the listing:

LISTING AGENT IS NOT REPONSIBLE FOR ENTRY ERRORS ON MLS

This means, that buyers cannot rely on the information on the listing to determine their interest in the property.

I understand, this is about liability. The listing agent is worried, that they may make an error and they might get sued.

FOR $25k. Don’t make an error.

There are many buyers that come to town every day to buy a home. In Pasco County Florida, it is around 1300-1500 closings a month. So, every day around 45-50 homes go under contract.

These buyers rely on the information in the listing to decide what homes to look at, and ultimately, what home to buy.

Much of the information that buyers use to select a home are deal makers and deal breakers. Pet restrictions are a deal breaker, for someone with pets. Leasing restrictions are a deal breaker for landlord buyers. Deed restrictions are a deal breaker for many buyers. Room sizes are an issue for many buyers, I once sold a home in one day because of the measurement of the den, the buyer had a pool table. Many listings say buyer to verify room dimensions.

If the information is not on the listing to make the first decision, to go look at a home, we will likely skip the home. Wait we won’t skip it; it won’t even be on the list to consider skipping it.

If you are shopping for a Realtor to list your home, and they have buyer to verify, or Realtor cannot verify the information, or there are blanks or information that is skipped on their listings, perhaps this is not the Realtor for you.

You need to have the widest possible audience to get the most amount of money for your home, in the least amount of time.

One neighborhood I have blogged about is Plantation Palms. It has no pet restrictions. Of 65 listings in the history of the neighborhood. My listing was the only one to say NO PET RESTRICTIONS, which is another way of saying 100 lb. + dogs are ok.

Unfortunately, every listing in the neighborhood says, buyer to verify under pet restrictions. Buyer to verify? Not going to happen. These homes never make the list to being considered.

Angry Randy.
Buyer to Verify is Realtor Malpractice

April 29th, 2023

I keep telling myself. “Don’t Blog Angry”.

But that is the only time I have something to say.

Buyer to verify on a listing makes me angry.

For those of you that read my content, you know I have bitched about this before.

A listing for real estate requires the listing agent to fill out an MLS data entry form.

When the listing agent is lazy or perhaps hopes they will have more time to sell their own listing if they do not completely fill out the data entry form, we may see those evil words, buyer to verify.

It means that the information to analyze a property is not provided by the listing agent.

Examples: Pet restrictions, lease restrictions, building/development restrictions and more.

Plantation Palms is an excellent golf course community. Very Nice. NO PET RESTRICTIONS. But of 65 listings up until last year, every listing said buyer to verify for pet restrictions. I know why, it took me 5 days to verify with the HOA, that there were no pet restrictions. Here is the big deal. If you come to town with your 120 lb. dog, you will not know that this neighborhood allows dogs and more importantly big dogs. There is only one listing in that community now. It says buyer to verify under pet restrictions. $735,000 home and every buyer’s agent with a client with a dog, will have to call the HOA to verify.

AHHHHH. Staying on pet restrictions. Right now, April 29, 2023, at 7:55 am, there are 1911 active residential listings. 42 of them have no pet restrictions. 82 listings allow a 101 lb. pet. Think about that. Here is a topic for another blog post. How to search for your criteria.

Lease restrictions. Some communities require you to own a home 1 or 2 years before you can rent it out. When it says buyer to verify, it means that it will not show up as an option for a landlord. If there are no lease restrictions and it says buyer to verify, it means that buyers agents will not put it on the list for landlord buyers.

Here is a statement on a vacant lot. Seller has no info on the lots. All info would be gained through Pasco county development. The seller is related to the Realtor. This seller bought the lot in 2005 for $12,400 and is now trying to sell it for $12,500. The owner has held it for 18 years, paid the taxes for 18 years, can’t sell it, won’t develop it and is refusing to disclose. After 18 years, this seller has no idea about this property. If I was the Realtor, I would disclose or refuse to take the listing.

So inconclusion: DO NOT LIST YOUR HOME WITH A REALTOR THAT PUTS SELLER TO VERIFY ON THE LISTING. If they are too lazy to do their job on one of the simplest most basic parts of the job description, you have to ponder what else they are not doing.

Randy Jenkins. Bitcher.

Tag: Pet restrictions

I am thinking of changing the name of this blog to The Angry Real Estate Blogger

Buyer to Verify is Realtor Malpractice