Suzy Minken, an agent with
Berkshire Hathaway, agrees. “From the initial offer stage through closing, there is a considerable amount of ‘elapsed time,'” she says. “If you consider how many people are often a party to the home purchase transaction—seller, buyer, two attorneys, two real estate agents, mortgage lender, home inspector—then it’s easy to understand that there is a lot of time when someone is waiting to get an answer to a question or a document. And when there is a tight window of time, communication between all the parties must move smoothly and swiftly.”
