by Amy Valentini

Created on: May 19, 2010

Kudos to Coldwell Banker Real Estate for one hundred years of serving homeowners, home buyers and the community. As a Realtor, I can admit that Coldwell Banker Real Estate is a well known and well established real estate broker throughout the United States and offers much to those who seek assistance from any one of the many offices and franchises across our great country. But the same can be said for many other well known and well established real estate brokers throughout the United States.

Buyer and Seller service guarantees are standard practice for most large real estate brokers through either the company itself or an outside home warranty company. Most agents would not even consider listing a home or selling a home to a new buyer without mentioning the option of a home warranty to protect them in case repairs or replacements are needed in the home. When disclosures became common practice, the playing field again was leveled and some states went even further and created buyer agency allowing an agent to represent the buyer exclusively instead of only the home seller.

I did my licensing training with Coldwell Banker Real Estate so I have soft spot for the broker but found better training and support from another large, well known real estate broker. After getting the best training and learning the business, I established my own feel for dealing with clients and customers which is what most agents do. It is for this reason that any real estate broker is only as good as its agents. Agents come and go from broker to broker over their career lifetime. Agents can change brokers so easily because of all the innovations that agents now have at their fingertips in today's modern real estate world. It is the ability of a real estate broker to advertise itself and its services that keep it in the public eye but the agents create and carry their client/customer base with them wherever they affiliate.

The public is inundated with advertising for several large real estate brokers, whether it is for the blue and white sign, the big balloon, or the gold jacket. But it is usually an agent's return business, an agent referral or simply having a friend who was happy with that particular Realtor that draws in the client/customer to the agent's broker. I congratulate Coldwell Banker Real Estate for its long history of service to its clients, customers and community as well as its contributions to the ever evolving world of real estate but to call them the best Realtor in the United States would only be true if Coldwell Banker Real Estate was the only real estate broker in existence. Realtors learn to proudly spout the company line but the truth is that if they can get a better commission split somewhere else, they will learn to spout that company line just as easily.

Buying or selling a home, ask for a Realtor.

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