Buyer's Information As a Buyer’s Agent, the firm and its agents must: • Promote your best interest • Be loyal to you • Follow your lawful instructions • Provide you with all material facts that could influence your decisions • Use reasonable skill, care and diligence and • Account for all monies that we handle for you. Once you have agreed (either orally or in writing) for our firm and its agents to be your buyer’s agent, we may not give any confidential information about you to sellers or their agents without your permission, so long as we represent you. To make sure that you and A and W Mountain Rentals & Realty, Inc have a clear understanding of what our relationship will be and what our firm will do for you, you may want to have a written agreement. If we do agree to represent you as a buyer’s agent without a written agency agreement, before you can make an offer to purchase a particular property, we must obtain a written buyers agency agreement.

Debbie Apple, Broker-in-Charge/Property Manager

Sheila Rich, Realtor/Broker

Who Pays the Buyer's Agent fee?
Our fee is generally paid from the sellers commission. Even though the seller pays for our fee, the seller is informed in writing that we represent the interests of our buying client. If we represent both the buyer and the seller (as a dual agent, then we would treat buyers and sellers equally and fairly.

What is the first thing the buyer should do?
When deciding to buy a home the first thing you need to do is get a loan. Yes, get the loan before you shop for homes. The lender will give you a letter stating the maximum amount they will lend you given your income, debts, and the amount of cash available for down payment and closing costs.

Seller's Agent or Subagent of the Seller?
OUR FIRM WILL NOT REPRESENT YOU THE BUYER AS A SUBAGENT OF THE SELLER, AS WE DO NOT FEEL THIS IS IN THE BUYER’S BEST INTEREST.
Without a buyer’s agent or dual agent, you’re legally on your own. The seller’s agent or subagent is, in fact, working for the seller and is the seller’s legal representative. True, a seller’s agent or subagent can offer buyers some services such as finding a property to purchase and presentation of your offer. By effect of law, the seller’s agent or subagent must negotiate on the seller’s behalf and may not withhold information that could strengthen the seller’s bargaining position.
• It is rather difficult to understand the concept of Seller’s Agent or Subagent of the Seller. Most commonly, this is when a firm is the listing agent for the seller and shows the property to a prospective buyer. Instead of becoming a dual agent of both the buyer and seller, they represent only the seller’s interest even though they have helped the buyer find the property and present the offer.

Sellers and Dual Agent Information
SELLERS:
As the listing firm, our agents must:
• Promote your best interests
• Be loyal to you
• Follow your lawful instructions
• Provide you with all the material facts that could influence your decisions
• Use reasonable skill, care and diligence and
• Account for all monies we handle for you.
Once you have signed the listing agreement, the firm and its agents may not give any confidential information about you to prospective buyers or their agents without your permission, so long as we represent you. But until you sign the listing agreement, you should avoid telling the listing agent anything you would not want a buyer to know.

DUAL AGENT:
Dual agency is when the firm represents both the seller and buyer at the same time. This “dual agency relationship” is most likely to happen if the firm is working as a buyer’s agent with someone who wants to purchase a property that the firm has listed for sale. Both the buyer and seller must agree in writing to dual agency before this can occur. A dual agent must treat buyers and sellers fairly and equally. Although the dual agent owes them the same duties, buyers and sellers can prohibit dual agents from divulging certain confidential information about them to the other party.

Our office is conveniently located in the Sunrise Shopping Center on Main Street in Banner Elk at the base of Beech Mountain, where Hwy. 184 and Hwy. 194 intersect. We invite you to view all of our rental properties and contact us by phone at 828-898-9188 or Use Our Online Request Form to ask questions or request reservations.