Sentences with phrase «agents force consumers»

«Real estate agents force consumers to pay more...» Your aforesaid claim ignores even the principles of basic Agency: a seller having full representation and likewise a buyer having full representation — if the market supports a bidding scenario, so be it.

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By cutting out the middleman, consumers no longer rely on insurance agents or brokers to explain their policies to them, but instead are forced to go right to the source.

Liberty Life Insurance Company provides a wide range of insurance protection and retirement income products including life insurance, critical illness and cancer expense insurance, and annuities to consumers through independent marketing companies, regional and independent broker dealers, the Internet, other direct marketing channels and a field force of approximately 200 full - time career agents.

You propose to ban double ending but if double ending is banned the «scumbag agents» (as you refer to them as below) will simply refer the buyer to another agent for a few hundred dollars and then disclose the contents of other offers to that agent, so banning double ending won't change anything other than preventing consumers from being «allowed» to deal with the listing agent whom they may know and trust and / or feel that agent knows more about the property or area than other agent and «force» the consumer to choose another agent who they may not know or whom may not be as knowledgeable about that property.

In fact, it restricts the marketing opportunities of all consumers, forcing them into the narrow alley driven by whichever vehicle the listing agent chooses.

«This continues to create growing issues in the market involving poorly trained cooperating agents, ethically challenged agents and brokerages, as well as a reduced value perception of consumers when forced to deal with these lesser caliber institutions and agents.

Through a series of vignettes, the TV spot demonstrates consumers» ever - changing lives and how the brand's agents are a grounding force in all the movement.

The end result is we will again be forced by outsiders to change the way we remunerate buyers and their agents and it further diminishes our value as REALTORS in the eyes of the consumer.

Real estate agents can't force consumers to do anything.

I guess it is you who were only in it for the money, to force consumers to use you as an agent to get information and too scared to simply compete on your services.

When Zillow burst onto the U.S. real estate scene in 2004, it was hyped as a disruptive force that would render real estate agents redundant as consumers used the site's rich data to find and sell their own homes.

That's the perspective of Bob Hale, CEO for the Houston Association of Realtors, after HAR was forced to pull the plug on a map - based tool for consumers that allowed them to see which agents had the most transactions and listings in a particular ZIP code or neighborhood.

Do you not find it odd that so many people are scared to simply let the consumer decide what they want from an agent, and continually try to justify why an agent must be forced upon them.

Some settlement agent commenters believed that implementing the Closing Disclosure would be a significant expense, would force them to raise fees on consumers, and could decrease settlement agent productivity and put small practitioners out of business.