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Just answering your first post mits, I didnt raise the issue of the reserve price, you did. Just seems a strange thread to start with, most first posts are a question.

:eek: As if.....

Ha funny you ask that mits who has made this his first post. It didn't sell above the agents recommended reserve price. We had to reduce it during the auction in order to sell. Boom tish.

And in the overall cost in selling a house this increase is not even worth worrying about. Given re agents pass this on to the vendor I think you are more worried about other issues than a less than $50 increase. Crikeys I am charged more than that for that old nugget 'disbursements'

Well I have seen a number of agents in cars (in SA though) that are much much better than what I can afford and I earn more than $35k. My point is that $35k a year doesn't include lease payments on cars etc. So $35k to someone who is able to write off things like this is much different to Joe...

Then why do they all drive BMW cars. I think maybe that $30K has a lot of deductions added, just as in negative gearing.

In terms of work done, in a sellers market the Conveyancer does much more work than the Agent in selling a home. Really, you are paying for a name and network under which you sell your house, and access to the RE internet site. I guess you have to weigh it up as to whether the Name is worth...

No offence to Agents but the commission they make on selling a home in the recent environment has been money for jam. We paid $12k in commission for five open inspections and an auction. Ok there were some documents organized before that but after the sale the conveyancer did all the rest for...