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If you use a Real Estate Agent to buy a home in Georgia, you will undoubtedly be herded into using your Real Estate Agent’s Contract Forms.
Why is that?
Does it help and protect you, the Buyer?
Do Buyers have to use the Agent’s Forms?
Let’s take each of those questions one at a time:
Why Are Buyers (and Sellers) Being Forced to Use Agent Forms?
The reason is simple. Almost no Real Estate Agents are attorneys. As such, they are not allowed to draft contracts or even the clauses within these contracts. To do so would constitute the unauthorized practice of law and is unlawful in most jurisdictions.
To avoid Agents being accused of the unauthorized practice of law, the local Realtor Associations have created, amended, and expanded a suite of Forms for Agents to use in preparing Offers (Contracts) for their Buyer Clients.
Do These Forms Help and Protect You, the Buyer?
No. These Forms were created to protect Agents and their Commissions, NOT Buyers and Sellers. The standard real estate agent forms are bland, watered down, and full of boilerplate.
These standard Contracts were not created for the Buyer (or Seller, for that matter) and are the antithesis of what we do at AgentFree.
At AgentFree, by buying your home without a real estate agent, you can save thousands AND have your own custom-drafted Contract that was drafted for YOU by your AgentFree Attorney Partner.
Most Real Estate Agents have never fully read the contract forms they use and wouldn’t understand them if they did.
Furthermore, when Buyers do read the forms, they are being railroaded into signing; they often can’t believe some of the things they are being asked to agree to.
Have you ever wondered why Agents sign their Clients’ contracts when they are not buying or selling anything? It is because so much of the contract is about them.
Purchase Contracts drafted by AgentFree Attorney Partners are never signed by the Agents because they are NOT a Party to the Contract between Buyer and Seller.
Do Buyers have to use the Real Estate Agent’s Forms?
This can be answered with a resounding NO! One of the problems with using a Real Estate Agent is that they DON’T HAVE ANY OTHER WAY to get your offer put together. This is why so many Buyers just hold their noses and sign the forms.
With AgentFree, you don’t have to settle for these unnecessary forms anymore. Smart Buyers who want to save thousands on their next home purchase are choosing AgentFree.
They realize they do not have to use a real estate agent to buy a home in Georgia, and their forms, and can have an AgentFree Attorney Partner draft their own personalized custom contract. This Contract protects the Buyer, not the Agents, because Agents are not a Party to the Contract.
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