Dealing with Real Properties in Baguio, Philippines

3 years ago, I wanted to sell my home.
Not anymore

If one day, you will find yourself in a situation where you have to sell your home, you will be facing tough and anger-provoking situations soon. In most cases, selling ones home is coated with mixed emotions. Surely, it will include one of these strong emotions - happiness or sadness. Perhaps, at first, you are enthusiastic and hopeful that your real property will soon be sold at a good price. With the advancement in technology, connecting real property sellers and real property buyers appears to be reduced to a simple click. "This is common sense," you may even shout out. But then, believe me when I say that hours will turn to days...then to months...then perhaps years and while your enthusiasm wanes, your hopes undermined, engaging the services of a real estate agent will start toying in your mind. In fact, perhaps, many real estate agents may have already contacted you, offering their services and asking you to sign an exclusivity contract. If you haven't succumbed to their appealing offers, you must be clever and pedantic.

It is not bad to engage the services of real estate agents. As a matter of fact, this may hasten a potential deal to end up to a fruitful one. But this is only if you are cautious in dealing with real estate agents. As expected, they will have a cut in the deal. Well, that is their compensation for working hard to come up with a sale. This is to say if the real estate agent is one who indeed work hard for the sale. I have known several real estate agents who are sneaky and cheaters. They are too fast in claiming their commission even if it is not commensurate to their efforts. There are even those who deal with your property as if they own it and have a full discretion on its disposal - they negotiate with the buyer on the price. Now, this will surely boil your blood to a medically critical level. Note that this is not the only thing that will break you when you deal with a real estate agent. In my experience, my patience was stretched to the maximum when I was dealing with real estate agents while my house was offered for sale.

I will be posting some tips in dealing with real estate brokers in the Philippines soon.

Have you ever had a wonderful experience with a real estate agent? You must be lucky. Let us hear from you. I bet that most of us had experience the reverse.