This thread is one of the best and most informative in a long time. I knew that it couldn’t possibly be just I that had these problems with difficult agents.
Here’s a twist I’d like to hear everyone’s opinion of: In the boom days, the only way to “get” a house was to enlist the listing agent as a dual agent, or to hire their buddy-from-the-same-office that was babysitting the open house.
This predictably compounded the problem with getting lowball offers written and presented.
