You just walked into one of my listings. Before you fall in love with the kitchen, read this.
I work for the seller. Not partly. Not technically. Completely. I'm Connor MacIvor, and I have been a sellers-only agent since September 2021, after 27+ years in Santa Clarita real estate. Before that I spent seventeen years with LAPD reading people their rights before they said a word to me. I retired the badge. I kept the habit.
So when you walk through my door, you get the real estate version of Miranda, from my mouth, before you say a thing:
That's not hostility. That's the only honest way to open a door. Every agent at every open house you've ever walked into worked for somebody. Most just never said who. I say it first, out loud, so you can decide what leaves your mouth with your eyes open.
And because a warning is only half of plain dealing, here is the other half. This is my pledge to you, every buyer, at every one of my listings, in writing where you can hold me to it.
The Pledge
I will never lie to you. Not about the house, not about the process, not about whose side I'm on. Honesty is owed to everyone. Loyalty is owed to one. You get the first in full.
Every material fact.The Transfer Disclosure Statement. My own written visual inspection findings. Every known defect. If it's material to that house, you get it, whether you have an agent or not. Hiding a bad roof from you wouldn't be loyalty to my seller. It would be illegal, and it would be beneath both of us.
The warning, up front.The Miranda above, spoken to your face before you volunteer a word that costs you. Nobody gets ambushed at my door.
A free, open door.Since the settlement, an agent can't even show you a house until you've signed a representation contract with them. But the open house still has no signature on it, so I built SantaClaritaOpenHouses.com: every open house in this valley, every weekend, one page, free. Walk twenty homes and never sign a thing.
Your offer, transcribed exactly.If you come unrepresented and want to make an offer, I will write it up with your exact terms. Transcribed, not suggested. Your numbers, your words, on paper, in front of my seller.
I will not tell you what to offer, coach your negotiation, or tell you what an inspection report means. The moment I do, California law can make me your agent by conduct alone, and an accidental agent is worse than no agent. Need an inspector, a lender, an attorney? You get three names, never one, and I don't take a cut from any of them.
Pressure.No manufactured urgency, no scripts, no chasing you to a decision. The facts, the documents, the door. What you do next is yours.
A fee.You will never pay me a dime. Not a commission, not a referral fee, nothing. My seller pays my fair fixed fee, and that is the entire paycheck. There is no pocket of your money anywhere in my world.
Pretend representation.I will not act like your agent while being paid to negotiate against you. If you want someone in your corner, get someone whose only job is your corner. I mean that.
What to Do With This
You've got two clean paths, and I respect both.
Bring your own agent, on your terms, under the agreement you negotiate with them. That's real representation, and if you want advocacy, it's the only kind worth having. I wrote out exactly what I can and can't do for buyers so you know where my line sits before you ever test it.
Or come straight to me, knowing the rules are posted at the door. You'll get every fact, every document, every disclosure, raw. You'll get your offer written exactly as you dictate it. You'll get the truth about whose side I'm on, every single time, starting with the warning itself.
People ask why a sellers-only agent would build a free open house map and publish a pledge to the side he doesn't represent. Simple. My sellers want buyers. Buyers want doors. I make my living removing what stands between them, and I built that door myself. If you want the full ground rules of the model, they live in the Sellers-Only Doctrine.
The Close
Twenty-seven years I've watched buyers walk into open houses and hand strangers their leverage in the first ninety seconds, because nobody told them whose team the friendly agent was on. That ends at my door.
I couldn't fix the whole industry. So I fixed my side of the street, and I put it in writing. Everything above is the deal, every listing, every weekend, no exceptions. Hold me to every line of it.
Selling in the Santa Clarita Valley? $17,000, fixed, seller side only. Sellers only. Everyone gets the truth. One side gets the loyalty. The doors are open every weekend at SantaClaritaOpenHouses.com.
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