What a great neighborhood! For an out of state buyer looking to build from the ground up do you have an idea of how often a homebuyer would need to be present in person for any meetings?

☺I have been a silent watcher and really appreciate your video content on Blythewood, South Carolina. I have my sister and her family who are already living in Blythewood, and I really love this area every time we visit from Florida. I hope my family and I will be future Blythewood residents soon and will reach out once we are ready. 🙏

Why are you erasing the truth? I said SC is full of racism and bigotry. If you hide this then your part of the problem.

Please don’t move to Blythewood 😂😭, yall are turning our small town into a townnnn

Brandon is the best. Highly recommend Brandon. He helped us with our home. We were out of state, and he was our eye and hears during our home buying process.

THANK YOU 😊

Yikes... at 50 seconds you kinda blatantly ran that red light... Good info on Blythewood... Any specific crime/safety stats??

📌Hey all, it's Brandon! Don't hesitate to schedule a chat with us at brandongaron.com if you are looking for more info about the area!

I grew up in Greenville and moved to Columbia for work. It’s not even close. Greenville by far. Folks from Greenville literally laugh at people who live in Columbia. The taxes in Columbia are outrageous. The schools are not even close. School board members literally get in fist fights in Columbia (google it) if that tells you the level of disfunction in Columbia. The weather is not even close. Columbia “holds waters” and is a swamp. Hence the amount of bugs and gnats. With Greenville’s hard freeze once a year those bugs aren’t as bad. Don’t even get me started on crime. I don’t go to downtown Columbia except for work. Almost everyday there’s another shooting reported in Columbia. As soon as I can, I’m leaving Columbia. I have to say it’s fun to watch the renovation of Finlay Park. I’m sure the homeless are going to take it over like the last time. Waste of more public funds.

Discount brokers will thrive under the new, unrigged process. See the first #5 below, & #7 below. Traditional brokerages will go out of business, or lower their fees. Our free market is BRUTAL. Old Rigged System: 1. Seller FORCED to pay buyer agent fee. 2. Buyer FORCED to hire agent, supposedly for free, which was a lie. 3. Which FORCED the seller to include the buyer agent fee in the sale price. 4. Buyer FORCED to pay higher home price. 5. Discount brokers FORCED out of business, as agents will STEER their buyers to homes with higher agent fees. Bottom line: FORCED = RIGGED SYSTEM New Unrigged System: 1. Seller not FORCED to pay buyer agent fee, but he’ll tell his seller’s agent that he will pay a 3% buyer agent fee, to attract more prospective buyers. This is the only way to keep agents from STEERING buyers AWAY from his home. 2. Buyer not FORCED to hire agent, but still can. 3. Represented 3% buyer offers will be lower than unrepresented buyer offers (due to the 3% buyer agent fee being an expense for the seller). 4. Represented 1% discount buyer offers will be lower than 0% unrepresented buyer offers & 3% buyer offers (due to the buyer agent fees being an expense for the seller). 5. Seller will accept the unrepresented 0% buyer offers (if received), otherwise, he’ll accept 1% represented discount buyer offers (if received), as they will be higher than the offers from the 3% represented buyers. 6. Unrepresented buyers & 1% represented discount buyer should include a requirement in their offer contract, stipulating the seller will acknowledge receipt, directly to the unrepresented buyer & 1% represented discount buyer, within 24 hours. This guards against seller agents depositing offers from unrepresented buyers & 1% represented discount buyers in their trash cans, in an attempt to rig the system against unrepresented buyers & 1% represented discount buyers. 7. Discount brokers not FORCED out of business, as STEERING is neutralized and more 1% represented discount buyer offers will be successful. Bottom line: FORCED RULES REMOVED = UNRIGGED SYSTEM

Thank you!!!

Deer are a problem all over the East. Here in the Northeast, they cause numerous accidents everywhere. In New York State, there are deer all the way down to wooded areas in the Bronx. The most dangerous times to be on the road is at dawn and dusk.

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That’s my school ahhhhhh

Good now yall can leave

Hey Brother Love You video love your content. I would appreciate if you dropped that background music it's so unnecessary

Do you have any news if Summer Orchard community is building new phase?

Driving too fast

Eastwood Homes dropped their new construction pricing in Woodleigh Park (Lake Carolina) by about 30k. This is based on my new home purchase in April 2023 and the exact same new model across the street from me sold for 30k less than mine. This home had more upgrades than mine. I feel sick.

Interview multiple buyers agents! Unless they are very experienced, KNOW the market, and are brining a LOT of value to the transaction they are not worth it. I have purchased several houses without an agent. Worked directly with the selling agent and hired an attorney for around $2k instead of $20k

New home construction in the south (not just SC) usually means higher density subdivision living. Typically on a quarter to one third acre of land complete with default HOA's. The main reason local city governments allow higher density construction is because services to those residences are absorbed by fees paid to their HOA's . Local governments get the new tax revenue with reduced cost of services. So the roads become increasingly glutted, haphazard and pattern-less construction runs rampant and most transplants willingly overpay for all this.

I always thought the commission was set at a % of the sell price. Not on top of sell price. So a 5% commission of a $200k would be $200k -$5k(commission selling realtor) = $195k for the seller, every one goes home happy.

Good information, but the housing market still needs to fall. By a lot.

I get what your saying Brandon, but eventually the outsiders like myself are going to stop coming in waves like it was from 2020-2023. Most remote workers have moved already or willing to stay where they are. It is all about locals affording the homes in their own state. The housing went up because fools like me sold their NY home and go down south and “overpay” for a house because that house up here would be 2million. I will say this, nobody is moving to Lexington from NY, Cali, NJ etc unless they can bring their 6-digit salary with them. They are not leaving their jobs to start over. They will only move if their jobs come with them.

📌Hey all, it's Brandon! Don't hesitate to schedule a chat with us at brandongaron.com if you are looking for more info about the area!

Thank you so much. I haven’t been there yet but we are planning on moving there from Florida. I appreciate your help

Lived up northeast Pa. (NEPA) knew some one who called off work because of snow, ice on road. Weather advisory to stay off roads, icy roads condition. He was fired. That animal food maker company would rather see you die and could careless than keep their enployees. Northern yankee sons of dogs in heat! I mean that! Profit over people, thats the truth about the north and their mindset and cold heart. They still in the ice age! They think snow is pretty. So does neanderthals.

As a native, I have Never heard or used a hooker as a tow truck 🤣

COLUMBIA has better healthcare. Greenville is lacking. Spartanburg is crime infested. Laurens County? You got to be joking. Majority of the county is on welfare. As far as Michelin Star Resturants, there was one in Greer between G'ville and Spartanburg.

And dual agency is another lawsuit setup.

Good video. Better than most. The state will eventually provide a buyer agent. The government wants to take over real estate. Entrepreneurship is under attack. Whose industry is next?

This is the correct video. It's a local guy wants to raise his prices by $10. It is smarter for us to drive to Walmart to save the money and also do other shopping... We are not problem customers. We do not complain. If he raised his prices $2 then we might be OK with those prices...but not $10.

You are wrong.... The reason I would leave is because for that $10 increase. I can drive to Walmart and Save$l7 Plus get on my other shopping done.... My neighbors and I only shop at the little place in town to try to support them but not if it's going to cost me 10% increase.

You guys know that you dont have to use an agent right? As matter of fact for the most part it only happens in the US. I dont know why anyone would hand over their property to someone else to make money of his saving efforts.

If I am a seller & I only want to offer a 1.5% commission then the steering funneling aspect is even more pronounced & discriminatory because nobody’s going to want to list my property for sale on the MLS without pressuring me & putting me through the gauntlet of more cajoling to up-the-ante on the commission side. That’s simply is NOT a transparent level playing field. BTW??, Why are the closing costs, concessions, & commissions NOT deducted & off-set from the VALUE of the House-Sales Price?. Erroneously reporting an invalid inflated “value” to the various County Appraisal Districts. That’s a quasi VAT or value added [indirect] Tax!!!. Thimblerig 3-card Monty skullduggery.

Just do away with commissions and go to a flat rate system.

as a seller, i am not going to pay 6% to two agents and then turn around and be a buyer and pay another 3% or a fee to buy another home. i would end up with little to no down payment for next home. i will buy land and put a 800sqft amish cabin on it and the whole money grubbing system can pound salt.

From the first i heard of this i didn't understand who it was supposed to help. But, it has been interesting to hear how "all the sudden" commissions are negotiable. I don't recall that being let out of the vault before. For sure buyers agents have a lot to do with some clients, on our first try we looked at 8 houses that looked better on paper than in person and two places didn't like our offers. On the other hand, between Zillow and Redfin, we narrowed down our two purchases so all the agent did was unlock the door. An interesting note, i met a guy that was renting a warehouse space for his woodworking hobby. He was literally looking for a house the same time i was. I bought a house with a space 3 times his rental space that he had never seen, because his agent didn't show it to him.

But what is not said is how the property taxes are so high in Richland county. Lexington is slightly cheaper but just a stone throws away in Kershaw county it is way cheaper and not far from Columbia. I've lived in many spots through Richland and Kershaw county since the mid 80s. If y'all want better living, head to the upstate and live in Greenville or Pickens County.

Where did you move from that was so spectacular and when are you returning?

I will never use a realtor again, once poison well you get a bad taste in your mouth, it’s hard to trust afterwards, actually 2 times selling w/ agent was a nightmare and very, very costly.. now I have bought without a realtor and sold, found the process easier and less pay full after losing all equity from corrupted realtors and lying investors. I actually had a realtor take my small home and sit in w/ investors for 4.5 hours not wanting me back in my home, while No afford came them , I ask the agent what the hell was going on, she reply,” I get more money working w/ investors and not the seller” you can’t make this shit up, finally she said they wanted me to take personal items only and leave everything in place for immediate AIRBNB. The offer was 100,00 and I paid 150.00 and 10,000 in additional repairs . You tell me why I should ever, ever paid a realtor.

yall might of saw the post pop ups. D.R Horton was one of them saying they have your back... STAY EXTREMELY CLEAR OF ANY HOUSE D.R HORTON IS SELLING.

Great video man! I’m a realtor in Raleigh! Subbed!

There's so many lies on the internet the lenders are destroying the housing market they pick and choose who gets loans.

I for one will not use a realtor. They do not do enough to justify their fees. Simply put their salaries and lack of work performed are just too lucrative.

Now they want to charge to show a house what?

They are still doing it. I've had 3 agents that terminated my contact because I didn't agree to the sellers' prices terminated. Kept trying to convince me to pay the listing price

Realtors are going to be Obsolete and people are going to just hire a lawyer

Are you a Veteran, Brandon?

My problem with signing a contract with a “ buyer’s agent “ is the agent isn’t always available to show houses. That’s understandable because everyone has a life. But when houses are moving quickly and they aren’t available, that’s a problem. I saw a house I was extremely interested in. It hit the mls minutes before. I contacted my agent to make an appointment to see the house. Later that day my agent tells me the seller wanted final offers by 2 days later at 3 pm and the agent’s only availability was 2 days later at 2 pm. That meant I would have 1 hour to walk through the house and submit an offer. I went, liked a lot about the house, but I had concerns about the basement. Then my agent tells me the seller’s agent wants all offers submitted on their contract, not the one I’m already familiar with. So, I had 30 minutes to make a decision about a potentially bad basement and make an offer on a contract I didn’t have time to read. I ended up not making an offer because I wasn’t comfortable with that. Signing an exclusive contract with an agent who can’t take you to see houses in a timely manner doesn’t sound ideal.