Builders: "Agents Drag Your Customers Way Out Here, We'll Pay Your Gas"

For developments far from the center of town, apparently the potential of a large cobroke isn’t enough to entice agents any more. More and more often, the builders are offering to kick in with gas money- this D.R. Horton offer being the most I’ve seen so far.  Usually the builders just offer a one trip gas card: [Thanks L!]

[According to Google maps, this Buckeye, AZ development is 33 miles from the center of Phoenix.]

I’m not sure if this says more about the desperation of builders, or the price of gas!

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  1. twist says:
    May 31, 2008 at 6:43 AM

    Any agent that has $1K in gas coming from DR Horton might want to collect that gas card ASAP:

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two Nevada development groups have filed a lawsuit against D.R. Horton Inc., claiming the nation’s largest homebuilder has missed payments on a large master-planned community.

    November 2005 Land Investors LLC and Summerset Development Services LLC filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Clark County District Court.

    The groups claim DRHI Inc., a subsidiary of Fort Worth, Texas-based D.R. Horton, has failed to pay more than $4 million plus interest in costs related to the Park Highlands development in North Las Vegas.

     

  2. speedynogales says:
    May 31, 2008 at 10:50 AM

    It comes as no surprise that D.R. Horton is now D.R. Hurtin. Maybe Horton needs to hear a who!

    In Horton’s desperation to push existing inventory, maybe he just “forgot” to pay that payment, oops!

  3. JoanJet says:
    June 2, 2008 at 6:53 PM

    They are dummies for even bringing up gas. First rule of sales “No Negatives”. The last thing you want in a prospective chumps mind is how much gas is gonna cost getting back and forth to outlying Suburbia. Go to this website and get involved. Housing needs to come down, supply and demand says so. Gas is going up because supply and demand deems it. We need more production and better jobs.

    http://www.AmericansForJobsAndEnergy.org

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