I have refused to work with buyers that have run amok and/or will not sign a Buyer/Broker agency agreement with me. I would typically use my extensive RE knowledge and intimate knowledge of particular areas and tracts to assist them in getting the best deal and likewise, I insist on loyalty to me.
In short, I will not tolerate wayward buyers and will not work with them.
A few of the very established agents around me will not list a property unless the seller signs an agreement that they will use the agent’s cleaning/staging company to stage the property first because most sellers have an “emotional investment” in too much stuff (and think everyone else wants to look at it, too. The banks are cleaning and rehabbing their cosmetic fixers as fierce competition, causing these agents to control their sellers more these days.
Pithy-scaredy, I have personally seen several established lawyers drop clients who do things to piss off judges when they have already been warned and also unmotivated or apathetic clients who will not hold up their end to help themselves or mitigate their own damages, even if they are paying clients.
I don’t blame them for doing so as the aggravation in dealing with a recalcitrant client over an extended period of time is not really worth the money.
