Buy houses from your customers. A tip.

Here's a good one.

I have several clients that pursue various professions. I try to avail myself of their services whenever I can possibly do so.

My wife and I are buying our first house after way-too-long renting. Being new to this process, I did not realise that I could have gone through my real estate broker client to purchase this house. As such, I did not. Instead, I assumed that I had to go thru the person who answered the phone at the listing agency. On top of that, I called my client to ask their advise on a certain procedure involving my purchase from their competitor.

I learned this after my friend told me about how this deal could have been done.

Here's the tip: if you are buying a house and your client sells houses, buy the house from your client.

I'll be grovelling for a while, I'm sure.

Cheers!