A Real Estate agent's job is not just to hand out contracts and open doors. Matt Huneycutt, a San Diego-based Realtor discusses the responsibilities an agent takes on and should be doing to ensure your transaction goes smoothly.

What Should Your Real Estate Agent Do For You

Most people think that real estate agents are there to open doors and hand out contracts and for a lot of real estate agents, that is true. But there are three key areas that real estate agents are responsible for in serving your needs. One, consultation, even before we start opening doors and showing you properties the real estate agent is responsible to sit down with you and create a home buying plan that ties into your life plan.

We don't want to go find a home that you need to build a new life around. We want to build out the plan for your life and then find the home that serves that plan. Two access. And though all agents out there can open all doors that are available on the market to you only select teams have an inventory of homes that are not on the market yet that they can give you priority access to with less competition. Number three is representation. When you get into a contract on a home you get into a 30-day period where you're investigating the home and making sure that it's a good purchase for you.

That the home meets the physical requirements that there aren't any legal entanglements that kind of thing. In other states, this process is handled by closing attorneys. In California, it's done by your real estate agent. So it's very important that you get someone who's going to represent you well. Our motto at Whissel Realty is who represents you matters for that reason.

So to find out more about our off-market inventory or how we represent you. I'm Matt Huneycutt, reach out to me today with the Whissel Realty Group. Thanks for watching.