How could there be any question that feedback is ESSENTIAL.

Listen fellow realtors…this is a cooperative business…if you are smart, you can give honest feedback without giving any advantage to the seller…JAY? you are kidding us right?

I think somebody in texas needs a little review.

Words have meanings.

Buyer agent means agent for the buyer. If your state passed laws that say something else then they are wrong!

Anyway, Teresa, you are right that when you are repesenting a buyer it is not proper to give feedback. (Unless there is a significant health and safety issue – that is another story.)

We just try to be polite and sometimes will tell the listing agent “the home is no longer under consideration” or “the home is still being considered.”

Regards,

Jon Boyd
Exclusive Buyer’s Broker
Past President of The National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (naeba.org)
The Home Buyer’s Agent of Ann Arbor, Inc.

www.BuyerRemarks.com

Works great. Less intrusive.

The answer to that question is extremely easy.

If your buyers are interested in the property don’t leave feedback. Or leave general feedback that opens the negotiation. For example “they were a few things that didn’t meet their criteria, but I think we may submit an offer and see if the price is right”

And of course never leave offensive feedback. Bed tacktfull just in case they change their mind later and come back to it.

If they are totally not interested and its obvious give them your opinion. Help um out. Markets change almost daily where I am. And dont be a knowit all.

And then I’m supposed to have the curtosy to return more than a 100 phone calls? And you actually think I remember.

There is really only one home I’m interested in. They one they want. The rest . . .

“The president of the country can attempt to return your call, misdial, try again, and tell you he’s too busy now, how ’bout later?”
You’re not the president. Return calls ASAP.

Those who don’t, deserve any abuse they receive. And they get plenty me. In fact, I treat it as a sport.

If you want to receive feedback, you should provide it when asked. You have to give to get.

The email feedback shows a lack of genuine interest in discussing topics on the home. Too little dialog, no conversation.

On the phone, in addition to the “feedback” angle, I can also get a good look at the competency, professionalism and personality of the agents in the market. Someday, I may have them on the other side of a deal, across the table for a friendly lunch or in my office as I try to recruit them to join my team.

The insight from a nice conversation can go a long way, if they actually return the call.

Whether the Buyers agent feels providing feedback would compromise their position or not, at least have the professional courtesy to return the flippin’ phone call.

72% of my business is on the listing side. In this market, I am diligently following up with buyers agents to generate feedback. Maybe it will help me in my discussions with sellers on what they need to do to sell their house. Maybe not. Regardless, at least provide the freakin’ professional courtesy to return my call, even if to say “no comment”. Finewhatever.

I know when I receive a feedback request, a genuine phone call (that canned email crap is ignored), I am as candid as I can be, without violating any laws or jeopardizing any negotiating position… especially if my client is not interested. I believe it is helpful to the Listing agent in their relationship with the seller, and by doing so, I hope I receive the same consideration from other agents.

(But as my Dad used to say “hope in one hand and s**t in the other and see what fills up faster”.)

I’ve always felt that the only good feedback was a contract, other than that, the home didn’t work for the buyers for whatever reason.

If there are negative issues with the house, I hope I wouldn’t be the first to point it out to the listing agent to pass along to the seller.