Advice from a longtime real-estate agent: ‘Owners are moaners, and buyers are liars’

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The longtime real-estate agent snickered when I asked her to look back on her career and her clients. She said she had learned something that all agents soon come to recognize: “Owners are moaners, and buyers are liars.”

Would she be willing to expand on that? Oh, yes, she’ll dish, provided I do not print her name here. She is mostly out of the game — she has announced her retirement several times but keeps getting “just one more last deal” that she can’t turn down. 

She probably won’t have any more clients in the future, but, just in case, she wouldn’t want them to look her up and find an article full of what some might call indiscretion and gossip — and what I would call good 411 and background advice.

She has represented both buyers and sellers in an area that features a mix of small towns and rural or semi-rural homes in popular recreation areas dotted with parks, lakes and hilly, wooded hiking trails. There are many exceptions, but full-time residents are typically drawn more to the towns, and weekenders to the countryside.

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