Most people picture a buyer's agent as someone who opens doors at home opens. The day-to-day work looks fairly different.
Inspections happen after hours and in awkward conditions. beagl's team has climbed a boundary wall to get access when a gate was broken, and gone under floors to check what is happening beneath a house. That kind of access is often where problems first become visible.
Practical knowledge counts as much as market knowledge. Being able to light a hot water system, reset a reticulation box or work out why a pool pump has stopped tells an agent whether a buyer is looking at a minor repair or a significant one. A buyer standing in the same spot without that background has no way of telling the difference.
Years of transacting build up a long list of these small competencies, and they are what keeps buyers out of expensive surprises. The unglamorous parts of the job, the checking and testing and asking, are usually the parts that protect the purchase price.
Anyone weighing up representation should ask what a buyer's agent physically inspects, and how many properties they see in a typical month.
Transcript
Climb that fence that time. We should tell the best story. Clara let me into a property after hours. Well, you know, like I'm a buyer's agent, a registered buyer's agent, so I was at the gate's broken she's like I was like I'm not going to go in. Like I can't get in, it's dark. Turned back the next day and she's like I took my shoes off and I jumped that fence. That wasn't a fence, it was a wall. I'm going to get up there. I don't know what's happening here.
What shoes are you wearing? The things we do. I've been under floors, I can light a hot water system, reset a re-tick box, I you know, sort out a pool pump, I've got it. Yeah, that's like years of experience that you just sort of all those little nicknacks.
