Ray calls upon his background in real estate and sociology to advance and sharpen consumer awareness. Call me regressive .
Extinction is a natural part or the process of evolution.
In Bought, Not Sold , I do acknowledge that single agency on both sides can take place in a one or two person agency with a very small number of listings and an equally small number of buyers in a huge market providing all clients with many alternatives. It requires full and upfront disclosure to all consumers, literal and informed permission from all clients to operate that way, and the self-discipline of a saint. If the agent s first contact with a potential buyer is as agent of his sellers, and the sellers allow him to contract with the buyer after the buyer indicates no interest in their properties, there is no violation of the sellers agency contracts. Under the Common Law, people can agree to such things, provided there is full disclosure and no deception. It is not as simple as it sounds, and good single agents must develop procedures for contingencies and inevitable problems.