Urban sometimes you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. You can pull out stats and many examples about how going directly through the listing agent does not give you the golden ticket such that your offer will be accepted. For the most part your entries will be thought of as solicitations. Kristian Peter does alot of REOs as well, (currently they use TAZA for thier entry system) and there are guys like Earl Gervias at American Eagle as well. Your point, and sdr has said it alot as well is that if you run the numbers it would be surprising how many of these guys actually double end deals. Does it happen? Yes. As much as people think? Probably not. It is understandably frustrating for buyers though. I would also strongly agree it is the small timer onesy/twosy guys that are more susceptible to be a sheister.

Also on the other thread BSR referred to there was a comment about cash being king which is true BUT within limits. It is king for a few percentage points, however if there are lots of contingencies or a longer escrow it is not.

Here is an idea, for anyone out there, if you see an REO and you wanna know how many double ends that particular agent has done or that brokerage list the REO and one of us will post the numbers.