Rising tide of agents makes waves in real estate sector

When Craig Griffiths was ready to off-load his Fort Collins investment property, he didnt think twice about whom to call.

“Robertos a great guy,” Griffiths said of his real estate broker Roberto Ortiz, who owns Buyers and Sellers Real Estate in Fort Collins. “He helped us buy the property in the first place.”

The fact that Griffiths returned to the same broker is, for anyone in business, a sign of a job well done. But whats slightly different is that Ortizs operation is just one of the more than 300 Assist-2-Sell franchises in the nation that offer either flat fees for…