The Home Search Process

BUYER REPRESENTATION

A team effort with your Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty REALTOR® will make your home purchase easier and more pleasant. Once you have decided to commit to your agent, there are ways you can help:

• All members of a multiple listing service can show all listings. It is not necessary to call each agent to see different listings.

• If you decide to look at open houses, please let the agent in the open house know you are already working with your own agent. All agents will want to know who has been in their seller’s home as a courtesy to the seller. This is why they request that you sign in. This is the best time to let them know that you are already represented by your own buyer’s agent. This is easily done by carrying your agent’s card and presenting it to the open house agent.

• If you see a home online or an ad in the paper that piques your interest, call your agent and ask about it. It may be a home you have already seen and did not recognize. In fairness to the advertising office, do not call and inquire if you have no intention of using their services. Let your agent make the inquiry. Your agent can obtain more information from the listing agent which will ultimately be more beneficial to you and all other parties.