Yeah, that’s what our agent said to (about not working around them). Once these people cut in line due to the promise of a rental, they got under contract immediately and while we were strung along for a week (the other buyers didn’t even have a preapproval originally while I did, with perfect credit) as a backup and then even when the rental deal fell apart, they were already in escrow so just kept proceeding. Of the 2 years lurking here and that place being such a good deal.. it’s the one that hurts the most to this day.

I’m now in escrow on a place in Clairemont (following all the guidelines posted here about north of balboa, west of genesee, mount street); where I’m not nearly as convinced I won’t lose money but at least has been fairly straight forward (conventional sale).

Couldn’t resist a short sales are sketchy thread though 😉 I didn’t even mention yet that the people wanted $7500 in what I would deem a bribe for their 2 year old hot tub.. they wanted $2500 for it, and then claimed the bank wanted $5k from them to even execute the short sale and they had no money. True or not, sketchy! We of course agreed to the demands as the place was a steal, but couldn’t compete with their original visions of being able to just move down the street.