We once wanted to know the lender to try and have our agent contact directly because we suspected the listing agent was dodging us in order to get someone she knew a short sale property as low in price as possible.
We couldn’t get her to respond or take an offer from us, finally we got an agent who contacted her and she said it was off the market.
Three months later it sold for less than we tried to offer.
Maybe everything was on the up and up, but everything about the way the listing agent responded to us, even when it was clearly on the market suggested she did not want to sell it. So we were left suspicious she told the lender “sorry, this is the best the market will bear” as a friend of hers got a steal. We could be wrong, but that’s what we think happened.
So we’ve thought we wished we could have contacted, or had an agent contact, the lender directly, but reading this it appears they would not have talked to us anyway.
