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Question by Holly B: How do I buy a house "for sale by owner" if s/he doesn't want to work with my realtor? We are househunting with a realtor we love, but if the house we want is FSBO and won't work with our realtor, how do we make sure it will be a smooth transaction? Are there benefits/disadvantages to buying a FSBO home? Thanks! Best answer for How do I buy a house "for sale by owner" if s/he doesn't want to work with my realtor?:
Answer by Biggie @ Arbor Mortgage
Obviously the biggest disadvantage is them not wanting to work with your realtor! They don't want to pay the commission, plain & simple. Talk to the realtor & see if you can offer full asking price to cover the commission, or see if you can even offer a little more. You have the right to have a realtor! Good luck.
Answer by Dizzy_Lizzy
If you have a signed representation agreement with your agent, chances are it says you’ll pay the commission in this case. Unrepresented sellers raise lots of questions in my mind: Why are they so reluctant to involve professionals in such an expensive and legally complicated transaction? Are they hiding something? Are they that cheap/careless with maintaining their house? If they’re not willing to pay for something as simple as a buyer’s agent, are they going to pay for any repairs to the house found as a result of an inspect? Are they aware of what they’re legally required to do? (ex. perform municipal or utility inspections, where required by law or provide seller’s disclosures?) Are they not using an agent in an attempt to save money, and if so, are they not going to be willing to negotiate?
Answer by quizzard123
Benefit can be a slightly lower price, because the seller doesn't have to pay commissions. Disadvantage can be the lack of support from a realtor on the legalities and quirks of the transaction. You can, if you choose, offer to pay your realtor's fees yourself, which should allow the transaction to go through as sort of a mixed deal.
Answer by DeeDee
if you assure the Seller that all realtor costs will be paid by the buyer (you) then maybe it can work. The Seller may want to sell "as is" for a reduced price. You could have an inspection made at your own cost, and then present any repair to the Seller; however, they would not be obligated to fix them, nor would you be obligated to buy the house.
Answer by Real Estate Guy
yes, you have the right to have a realtor. BUT!!!!!!!!!!! the seller doesn't have to pay them. If you want a realtor and the seller doesn't want to pay them then you can pay them yourself.
Answer by Doctor Deth
she doesn;t want to pay the commission - that's why she won;t work with your realtor - only alternative is to hire a real estate agent and split the costs - if she isn;t even willing to d o that, I doubt she will ever sell the house, because the buyer should not be paying all the costs
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Filmmaking was a favorite hobby of Cambodia‘s former king, Norodom Sihanouk, and his long, extraordinary life, he played enough roles to fill a Hollywood epic. The former monarch, who died Monday in Beijing at 89, was at various times a playboy prince, teenage king, independence leader, elected prime minister, exile, and later, a peace negotiator. Along the way, he found time to compose jazz turns, throw champagne-soaked soirees and rub shoulders with the likes of Jawaharlal Nehru, Charles de Gaulle, Mao Zedong, Jacqueline Kennedy, Sukarno and Kim Il-Sung. The part he loved to play most, though, was that of ‘Samdech Euv,’ or Papa King, to the Cambodian people, known as the Khmer. “My people love and admire me and respect me so very much,†he once said. “They continue to believe I am a god-king.â€
Though he cast himself as heroic, Sihanouk, like the country he once led and long symbolized, was most defined by tragedy. His carefully cultivated status as a benevolent and glamourous ruler was marred by his cooperation with the murderous Khmer Rouge, whose ‘killing fields’ regime of the 1970s left 1.7 million dead. It was a decision that cost him dearly: he himself was held prisoner by the Khmer Rouge, who  killed five of his 14 children. His passing is a reminder of a long-past era when Southeast Asia, not Afghanistan and Pakistan, was the focus of a protracted U.S. war. During the Vietnam War, Cambodia was carpet-bombed by the Nixon administration trying to root out “safe havens†across the border, an eerie precursor to today’s drone campaign in northwestern Pakistan.
(PHOTOS: The Rise and Fall of the Khmer Rouge)
The mercurial Sihanouk was a man of contradictionsâ€"an avowed Cambodian patriot who wrote mostly in French, a man who sought peace for his people, but whose decisions seemed to lead them, time and again, to disaster. “Sihanouk was certainly one of the most interesting leaders of the 20th century,†said Milton Osborne, author of the critical biography Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness. “But I wouldn’t say he was one of the best leaders.â€
Crowned king at age 18 under French rule, the young king surprised almost everyone by proving himself a canny political operator. He helped secure independence from a reluctant France in 1953 and then, two years later, blindsided those calling for him to give up absolute power by abdicating the throne to enter politics himself. His Sangkum Reastr Niyum party dominated the political scene for the next decade. Having secured power, Prince Sihanoukâ€"still in his 30sâ€"set about becoming one of Asia’s most convivial hosts, leading Jacqueline Kennedy on a tour of the famed Angkor temples in 1967 and fêting his longtime role model, Charles de Gaulle, in a 1966 state visit. He threw legendary palace parties, playing jazz saxophone along with the bandsâ€"once stopping, Osborne recalls, to announce “un petit numéro que j’ai composé moi-meme†â€" a little number I wrote myself.
Not all was champagne and caviar, though. Sihanouk liked to refer to his country as “an oasis of peace†amid Indochina’s wars, but his authoritarian rule was riddled with corruption and decisions that sowed the seeds of Cambodia’s suffering. Across Cambodia’s eastern border, the Vietnam War was raging. Despite his declarations of neutrality, Sihanouk allowed Vietnamese communists to operate in his eastern territories, where they launched attacks into South Vietnam. The move infuriated Washington and in 1969, Richard Nixon ordered secret carpet-bombing of Cambodia. Back in Phnom Penh, Sihanouk was facing his own communist insurgency, and himself derisively gave the guerrillas a name that stuck: “les Khmers Rouges,†the red Khmers.
During all this turmoil Sihanouk was increasingly distracted by his new hobby: filmmaking. In the mid to late 1960s he wrote, produced and directed nine films. His leading role in Cambodian politics came to an abrupt end in 1970, however, when right-wing general Lon Nol seized power while the prince was abroad. Sihanouk accused the CIA of orchestrating the coupâ€"a charge that was never proven, though Washington promptly recognized Lon Nol’s government. In exile in Beijing, the prince declared support for the communist Khmer Rouge rebels he had once persecuted. The guerrillas named Sihanouk their titular head, and in 1973, the prince traveled with the Khmer Rouge into rebel-held western Cambodia with his favorite wife, Monique, to pose at one of the outer Angkor temples, dressed in the rebels’ trademark black pajamas.
After the Khmer Rouge finally took Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, Sihanouk issued a statement from Beijing lauding the victory over American imperialism. He soon returned to Phnom Penh as nominal chief of state, but he soon found himself in a nightmare of unimaginable proportions. Declaring “Year Zero†in a new peasants’ paradise, the Khmer Rouge had closed the country’s borders, emptied cities and force-marched the entire populace into mass farming collectives and executing anyone who showed signs of education. Tens of thousands were tortured to death, family life was banned and children were raised by agents of “Ankar†(the organization), led by the shadowy Pol Pot. Sihanouk and Monique, by comparison, lived comparatively wellâ€" they occasionally brought imported French food and were even allowed to keep the prince’s pet terrierâ€"but he was effectively prisoner in his own palace. Alarmed by the carnage he saw, the prince resigned his position in the Khmer Rouge government in 1976, and spent the next two-and-a-half years in constant fear for his life.
The Khmer Rouge’s reign ended in 1979 after Vietnam, disgusted with its onetime ally, invaded Cambodia. Sihanouk was spirited out of the country and, after escaping his Khmer Rouge minders, condemned the former regime. But he also opposed the Vietnamese occupiers and founded a non-communist liberation front that allied with the remaining Khmer Rouge armies to fight the Vietnamese. Cambodia once again descended into civil war. In exile again, Sihanouk split his time between guest palaces in Beijing and Pyongyang (North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung was a close friend) where, according to his longtime personal secretary, Chilean-born Julio A. Jeldres, he lobbied for peace as early as 1979. “He was always an advocate of talks,†Jeldres says. “But he was opposed by China, the Red Khmers and the U.S., who wanted the guerrilla warfare to continue.â€
(TIME’S ARCHIVE: Norodom Sihanouk: A Once and Future Prince)
By the late 1980s, with the Cold War coming to an end, all sides were finally ready to talk, and Sihanouk took on a new role as peacemaker. In 1987, he met in with Cambodia’s Vietnamese-installed prime minister, Hun Sen, and later participated in talks that led to the 1991 peace settlement. The party Sihanouk founded, FUNCINPEC, won U.N.-administrated elections in 1993, but Hun Sen’s party refused to recognize the election results.  Sihanouk brokered a compromise in which he would take the throne as a constitutional monarch and one of his sons, Prince Norodom Ranarridh, would share power with Hun Sen as co-prime ministers.
Sihanouk’s returned to the throne in 1993, but it soon became clear that Hun Sen had replaced him as Cambodia’smaster political manipulator. Though many Cambodians respected the king as the country’s ultimate moral voice, the political factions rarely listened. Four years after the elections, Hun Sen ousted Ranariddh in a coup and has maneuvered through two disputed elections to remain in power since. The king expressed his displeasure by spending more and more time in Beijing, releasing statements that implicitlyâ€"but rarely openlyâ€"criticized the corruption and violence in Cambodia. He also repeatedly threatened to abdicate. He finally made good on the last point, stepping down from the throne for a second time in late 2004. His son, King Sihamoni, now reigns, but Hun Sen holds all the real power.
Toward the end of his life, Sihanouk, the monarch who once directed his country like it was his own personal movie was increasingly reduced to cameo appearances. History will judge how much responsibility Sihanouk bears for Cambodia’s agony or whether he, like his country, was simply a victim of history, caught between forces he could not control. “Unfortunately, I am not a god. I am a human being,†he lamented in 1997. In the end, he couldn’t script a happy ending for Cambodia.
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