From: Bob Ward 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers misc.consumers.house misc.consumers.frugal-living alt.politics.economics
Subject: Re: The Realtor Racket  thought from the UK...
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:38:22 GMT

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:26:44 -0700, Anthony Matonak
 wrote:

>Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
>> On 08/16/05 04:13 am quietguy tossed the following ingredients into the 
>> ever-growing pot of cybersoup:
>> 
>>>> When we were looking for a house recently, we signed an exclusive
>>>> buyer's agency with a realtor 
>> 
>>> That is a pretty silly thing to do - why would you do that?  A senior 
>>> moment?
>> 
>> Perhaps it wasn't as long as three months; but, whatever it was, it was 
>> the wording on the standard pre-printed form.
>
>Just a note. There is no standard pre-printed form. In real estate deals
>just about everything is negotiable. The form is only standard in the
>sense that it's the form that particular agency uses and contains stuff
>that they want on the form.
>
>Anthony


I don't think this is the case in Caliornia - they seem to be pretty
particular about using the state-approved forms, even when changes are
made to the standard terms.