1 – The offer or offers have been submitted to the lender and the seller does not want anymore showings. Thus the home is not pending, and the seller doesn’t want to be bothered anymore and thus the home is correctly put into withdrawn status until the listing agent finds out more information from the lender.
2 – Similar to 1 but instead of offers being sent to the lender the seller is attempting to mod the loan and again, doesn’t want any traffic during that process.
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Actually if all of the actives that are in reality inactive because they have offers into the lenders and are either only fielding backups or they are simply not yet pending because they are waiting for responses back, we would see a reduction of actives.
The MLS really should create another category of actives because many actives are very misleading if they have offers into the lender. There are mandatory remarks now that you have to put in but that is not a sufficient flag to warn the public, especially for the 3rd party sites that listings go to.
