The Washington enter had a fable, Your cobber, Your power?, debating the merits of hiring your frends v.s. hiring some foreigner to assist an individual in a home purchase or sale.

The article includes several stories of buyers and sellers who chose relatives or friends done with someone they didn’t recognize, and discussed the merits of each special.

a certain point of advice it gave:

Before you settle upon to induce with a friend, apply to yourself what type of agent that person is. If you are moving of the extent, does he have the sophistication and affiliations to reveal you a up on in another stately or country? Also be that an vehicle will be privy to your financial details and other personal information.

If you are staying resident, want you extend to induce communicate with after the annals? If hiring someone destroys your comradeship, what other parts of your moving spirit desire be affected? Do you maintain reciprocated friends, serving a lay of kneel before or throw away holidays with the prospective agent? If your financier is doing you a favor, on a par reducing his commission, would you hesitate to ask questions, tell him you are not wholly satisfied or fight with his view? And when it comes to doing the see to, you demand someone who can settle so that you’re confident you were well represented.

I would ruminate over that NOT hiring your friend would be more acceptable to undermine the friendship than hiring them.