Welcome to our monthly feature, Close-ing Time – in partnership with TheClose.com.

In this episode Chris attempts to answer an important question: Can real estate agents ethically represent both parties in a real estate transaction? Chris takes time to present and discuss the potential upsides and drawbacks of dual agency. Chris mentions scenarios when dual agency might make sense, and also where it can become problematic. By the end of this episode, you’ll have a better understanding about whether you should or should not engage is this controversial practice.

If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!

Chris Linsell can be reached at [email protected].

Transcript

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Welcome to keeping a real the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Paris. I am your guide and host through the show, and today is our monthly series called closing time with Chris Lynn sell from the closed.com. This is a partnership between keeping it real and the clothes.com. And let me tell you about the clothes. The clothes.com is the kind of real estate website designed to give agents teams and brokerages actionable strategic insight from industry professionals, they cover real estate marketing, lead generation technology and team building strategies. From the perspective of working agents and brokers who want to take their business to the next level, please visit the clothes.com That’s th e c l o s e the clothes.com and subscribe to their newsletters so you can be notified every time they publish an article and with us as always is crystallin Sal now he is a staff writer and real estate coach for the close. Now Chris is the closest resident expert on real estate topics ranging from marketing lead gen transactional best practices and everything in between. He’s licensed agent in the state of Michigan and Chris has been part of hundreds of real estate transactions from modest rural starter homes to massive waterside compounds. When he isn’t writing, you’ll find Chris fly fishing or performing on stage, although maybe not as maybe virtually at the moment for his local community theater production, although we are always excited, but Chris did just have a big project. So what you see behind him is his newest DIY project for shelving. But Chris, welcome once again to keeping it real. We’re excited to have you.

Chris Linsell 2:23Yeah, thanks, TJ. Yeah, I’m standing in front of my brand new video background. You know, I’m not very handy with hammers and nails, but I can figure out how to put, you know, some stuff on the wall. So so here we are.

D.J. Paris 2:36For our for our listeners, you’ll have to just click on the video to see this. But for our viewers, you’ll see it it really does look like a virtual background because it is so sort of perfectly done. I said to Chris, I was like, Oh,