I will remember in the future to instruct any real estate agent that I contract with to bring all potential buyers to my attention (and as you know the fiduciary duty of an agent includes a duty of obedience). I would like to be sure that all potential buyers are treated in a welcoming manner. Furthermore, I would appreciate it if you did not include your real estate fantasies in your posts. I’m sure there are lots of other places to let those feelings out. As an alternative, you could choose among hundreds of other less distasteful ways to express your feelings here.
bearishgurl –
Although I’m not in favor of anecdotes, here goes: We are currently selling our home on the east coast and received an offer after our listing agreement had expired and before we relisted (we had gotten kind of discouraged and had decided to put off relisting until the kids were back in school). We were much more willing to come down in price (and did come down more than we had originally planned to) since we didn’t have an agent’s fee to pay. The final steps of the negotiation here take place in the “attorney review” process, so our attorney is taking care of some of the jobs that would be done by an agent/broker in CA. So in this case, the buyer is getting a better deal than he would have otherwise because there is no listing agent involved.
