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Take The Quiz!
YOUR CHOICE… CUSTOMER OR CLIENT SERVICE
For a practical insight into the difference for you having a real estate licensee working with you as a customer or working for you as a
client when you are buying a home in Alabama, please complete this questionnaire by selecting between A or B or C.
Please record your choice A B or C.
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A. A real estate associate who is duty bound by law to try and sell you their owner client's home?
B. A real estate associate
while not duty bound to a seller would not be responsible for looking out for your best interest either.
C. A real estate agent that is duty bound to help you find the home of your choice?
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A. A real associate who will be duty bound to try and sell you the homes his / her company has listed at their asking price?
B. A real associate who could not protect you from paying too much for a home?
C. A real estate agent who will be duty bound to help you buy the home you choose at the lowest price possible?
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A. A real estate associate who is duty bound to try and get you to pay all the sales and loan closing costs?
B. A real
estate associate who could explain the reason for the various closing expenses, but could not advise you on what you should or should not agree on?
C. A real estate agent who is duty bound to you
and will attempt to get the seller to pay these costs?
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A. A real estate associate with whom you cannot openly discuss your needs and qualifications because anything you tell them
concerning your needs & qualifications for buying a home, they are duty bound to tell their seller client?
B. A real estate associate while not duty bound to disclose to a seller information
they receive from you could provide information to anyone because the do not have a confidential relationship with you?
C. A real estate agent you can trust to be on your side and would be duty
bound to keep your discussions confidential?
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A. A real estate associate that if "push comes to shove" during your attempts to buy a home would be duty bound to take the sellers
side?
B A real associate who cannot take sides with either the seller or you?
C.A real estate agent you know is always on you side, and is duty bound to look out for your best interest when
"push comes to shove"?
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A. A real estate associate who when locating a home that has the features you told them you wanted and that has just been listed at
a fantastically low price, will be duty bound to call their buyer clients first, and give them the first opportunity to buy, and will call you only if their clients don't buy it?
B. A real estate associate who could take the day off not having a duty to either a seller or you?
C. A real estate agent who would be duty bound to call you first and give you first choice?
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A real estate associate is any licensee who you have not given a written agreement to represent you as your agent. They can only
work with you as a customer.
A real estate agent is the licensee you have given written permission to represent you. They have a fiduciary duty to protect and look out for a client's best
interest.
If you have circled C as your choices, you want an agent to represent you, and it only requires you to give he / she written permission to do so. It should not cost you a penny more!
Giving written permission to a real estate licensee to serve you as an agent is required by the Alabama Real Estate License Law.
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