Why  choose  a  Real Estate Agent ?

 Why choose a specialist?

A consumer will sometimes try to save the expenses of real estate services and will try to sell or buy his own home. It is certainly possible to do it, but weigh the savings in commitment against the peace of time, spirit and the money which you are likely to lose. 
 

A REAL ESTATE AGENT is available to answer your questions and to guide you through all the stages of the process. Because the REAL ESTATE AGENT knows the local market, Real Estate is our life..he or she knows which time is most favourable to sell or buy and which is the best price that is required. A REAL ESTATE AGENT has experience in the field of the mortage financing, as in several other aspects of the real estate business which could help to make a success in the negotiations. 

Qualities of a real estate agent: 
Here are four principal qualities of a real estate agent:
Knowledge:

If knowledge is a pledge of success, the REAL ESTATE AGENT member of the A.C.A.I.Q is the most powerful ally on which you can count on at the time of your purchase or the sale of a property. 

When you work with a REAL ESTATE AGENT, you benefit from the advantages of the vocational training combined with the practical experiment. The REAL ESTATE AGENT gives you the facts: comparative prices, practices of the vicinity, market rates of the dwelling. The REAL ESTATE AGENT will help you to include/understand the importance of technical terms such as ``offer being conditional ", ``financing capacities," and ``rights to refusal ".   

Confidence:  

So difficult to gain... and so easy to lose. For this reason confidence in your REAL ESTATE AGENT is your most valuable asset. The real estate agent puts all to implement and to gain your confidence and endless work to keep it. It does not matter that you are a purchaser or seller, your REAL ESTATE AGENT will always be at your sides when you require assistance, and you will be informed of progress of the transaction that you entrusted to him. Each REAL ESTATE AGENT received a specialized training and was put to the test. The REAL ESTATE AGENT member of A.C.A.I.Q. must obide to a Code of ethics and many rigorous Normes of control, which ensures the equitable processing of all the parties in question.  

Service:

A question of attitude. A state of mind which differentiates the true professional from the simple salesman. The REAL ESTATE AGENTS, are committed to giving best of themselves to their customers. They can listen. And they have accounts to return to you. Wether you buy or sell a house, the REAL ESTATE AGENT will make his utmost to recognize your priorities and to satisfy your needs. They are the experts in the art of negotiating, they know the real market and can evaluate the vicinity correctly. 

Integrity: 

Or you have it, or you do not have it. When one speaks about honesty and frankness, there is no nuance. A REAL ESTATE AGENT member of A.C.A.I.Q. is your pledge of integrity when it comes time to buy or to sell your home. The REAL ESTATE AGENT is subjected to a Code of ethics and 27 rigorous Normes of professional control. Their engagement is the integrity even when it is a question of diffusing information on the properties, and the frankness is their priority when they transmit the facts to you which enable you to take one or more decisions that's most important to your life's belongings. The REAL ESTATE AGENT has access to the Service inter-agences®, the best tool in determining the real market of property value in Canada.   

The advantage of being advised by a professional:

The fact of working with an agent member of A.C.A.I.Q. makes all the difference, this will urge the agent to be behaved in businesses in accordance with higher standards of professional control and with a rigorous Code of ethics. 

The Code of ethics describes the ideal efficiency to which the public has the right to expect from it's members and it makes of this output the `` standard " for all the members of Association. 

For example:

A REAL ESTATE AGENT knows about progress and tendencies of the real sector. A REAL ESTATE AGENT is held to treat in an equitable way all the parts with a transaction. A REAL ESTATE AGENT is committed to improving its formation unceasingly in order to improve its competences and its effectiveness in the real negotiations. It does not matter that you buy or that you sell a house, you are ensured an engagement at all level services and protection if you need to use the services of A.C.A.I.Q. This insurance makes all the difference! 

[ REALTOR, REALTORS, as well as symbol REALTOR are marks of trade which are used to identify the expertise of the real estate who adhere to A.C.A.I.Q. and who, as such, subscribe to a higher standard of professional service and to a rigorous Code of ethics. ] 

The profession of a real estate agent:

Role of the agent and the broker:

The sale or the purchase of a building requires technical knowledge. This is why we recommend you to resort to the services of a professional of real broking in order to ensure you that all the necessary operations are carried out according to code's of practice. The principal function of the broker or the real estate agent is to be used as an intermediate for the purchase, the sale or the lease of a building. Thus, it plays the role of a prospector by detecting a building with the purchaser and a customer with the salesman; it acts like a negotiator by facilitating the communication between the parts, and especially, it acts by way of advise to help the parts to determine their needs and to supplement their real transaction in a satisfactory way. 

Duties and obligations of an agent:

Real broking is a regulated and controlled activity so that the public is protected when it carries out a real transaction. The Law on real broking, the payments of Association and the Rules of deontology of the profession determine how the occupation must be followed, so that the consumers may have been used as equitable and in a best of qualified way. 

Honesty towards the customer: 

The broker and the real estate agent are bound by a strict obligation of honesty and fidelity towards their customers, of which they are held to promote and protect their rights. They must act in an equitable way towards each part to finalize a real transaction.   

Disclosures:

If your broker or your real estate agent has a personal link with the other part or if it acts for his own account, it must inform you before the signature of the undertaking to purchase. In the same way, if your broker or your real estate agent receives a remuneration from a financial institution or a professional, that it would have recommanded, he must also warn you about it.

The broker or the real estate agent must advise and inform the parts with a transaction with objectivity and provide them all the explanations necessary to the comprehension and the appreciation of the services that it may give him. He or she must also inform the parts of any factor which can affect the object of the transaction unfavourably. The broker or the real estate agent must also be able to show the exactitude of information which it provides by means of relevant documentation. 

Necessary formation to be real estate agent: 

To exert as broker or real estate agent, a vocational training in real estate of collegial level is obligatory. The requirements of formation vary according to the type of required certificate. 

Requirements: 

Real estate agent affiliated must have a secondary diploma of studies or a certificate of equivalence recognized by the Minister for Education and Science 

To provide a certificate of collegial studies relating to the following subjects: 

Real Estate evaluation (45 hours) Real-estate law (60 hours) Mathematical (45 hours) Law on real estate broking and its payments (45 hours) Drafting of contracts and documents relating to the real estate (45 hours) 

The compulsory insurance responsibility: 

The holder of a certificate of approved realtor broker, must at all time bear a safety, aiming at guaranteeing it against the pecuniary consequences of the civil liability which can fall on to him because of the faults, errors, negligences or omissions made in the exercise of its activities of real broker or of those which can be made by its agents, employees, representatives, people who it authorizes to act for him, present or past, in the performance of their duties. 

Such a safety must consist of a professional public liability insurance for at least 100 000 $ per complaint and, for the whole of the complaints which refer to one 12 months period, at least $500, 000 

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