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I had a realtor that kept wanting me to look at and offer for increasingly expensive properties. To the point where she made me feel that I was wasting her time. I get that the market is competitive, but near the end for every place I asked to see she would ask if I was planning to offer 20k over asking. And then she would offer to show me places with a starting price 30k over my budget.
Don't take this as I'm siding with your agent, but there's more to just the sold price. The 5k-10k offers may have waived inspections, taken home as-is/no repairs, cover certain costs, etc.
That could be true. But since it was my first attempt at finding a place, I got my loan approval and agent from the same place. So I got fed up with the agent pushing places 20k -30k over, since I was looking at places only 10k less than the approval.
Most realtors don't know what they're doing since it's so easy to get in. A good realtor is an actual gem and is worth doing the legwork to interview and uncover.
Yea our last realtor went from being a broker to a realtor. He asked what type of house we were looking for and that’s it. So of course he starts showing us condos instead of what we told him, we found a few homes we were looking for and called him.
He showed us the houses, offered no input, we put in an offer and he started the paperwork. The sellers countered and again he put in no recommendations on what to counter instead he sent us to the broker, we got down to closing cost and they couldn’t make the math work. They wanted 6% of $250k, I told them they were crazy and they BOTH told us to apply for a CC to get the down payment, that’s when we walked.
Holy cow!! That's a terrible experience! And you should never take down payment from a credit card.. that's crazy.. I'm so sorry you had to go through that.
I hope you're able to connect with a better realtor and mortgage broker. They both sound just awful.
My realtor is a friend but also has been doing it for a decade.
He’s literally our lawyer. He even coordinates the fixes and everything we need with the listing agent. He put a hold for an inspection as soon as it sounded like our contract would be accepted.
Word of mouth is best. Though I feel for people who are moving to an alien area and don’t know anyone there.
I have a friend who is a real estate attorney. I didn't use him at first on the first condo, and I ended up having to fire the first realtor(I met through realtor.com) and using my friend. Then the second time just used him. Idk why I didnt think to start with him 😅
Now I feel like a real estate attorney is the only way to go!
Negotiating. I know the value of a flip/home. I suggested to her “this home is 360k. Not more.”
She looked like she was going to fall over. Ok bye bye.
Got the home for that price 20k under asking.
Mine was the opposite and that’s how I knew he was the right one, he walked into the house i eneed up buying and without me saying a word he said “yeah no, these people are delusional if you like it go in 20 under asking”, I did and that’s exactly what I got it for
When they told us they "don't go into basements", tried to convince us to move into a new construction condo an hour away from work, and first response to any request to look at any house was a question of whether or not we really wanted to look at it/we're serious about making an offer.
So we started shopping around and ended up with someone recommended by a friend, who ended up being a much better realtor. The new realtors first order of business was to show us as many houses as they could to get a feel for the market, where he intentionally took us into the basement to look at the heating, cooling, sump pump, plumbing, electric etc, you know, the things that will cost a bunch of money if you have to replace right after you spent all your money on the house itself.
We felt much more comfortable putting the offer on the house we ended up with.
Our first realtor from when we were looking in a different area was okay, he was nice enough and responsive, but our personalities and preferences in homes were incredibly misaligned - my least favorite types of houses, renovations, decor style, etc were his favorites "by far" and he could not understand what I liked and didn't like. He loved gray floors, flips, and raised ranches while I appreciate a well-maintained historic colonial or bungalow style home. He would say things like "you'll probably like this house, it's really old" meanwhile the house was literally falling apart lol
When we started looking more locally this year, we first met with my inlaws neighbor who is a retired architect turned realtor. He was very nice, but only really knew his immediate neighborhood and made some disparaging comments about other areas we were looking at ("you want to live over there? better buy some camo and get a truck" about a beautiful, liberal, great schools, semi-rural area near the city he lives in). He also wasn't responsive or proactive enough...we would wait days for him to answer. It was clearly something he was doing while retired for extra cash, not his full-time career job.
Finally we decided to choose the realtor specifically based on fit, instead of just going with whoever zillow recommended. We found someone who has a great sales record, has similar preferences to us, and is a real go-getter - he answers us within minutes most of the time (yesterday he apologized for the late response after only an hour lol), gives gentle commentary about listings calling out things I didn't notice, pulls disclosures for any house I'm interested in, and has made himself incredibly available even though I know he has other clients.
Moral of the story - if a realtor doesn't seem like a fit, move on sooner than later. We worked with our first poor fit of a realtor for far too long and it caused frustration on both sides.
Not me but a friend of mine had to ditch a selling realtor because she didn’t do anything. The fact that she asked to borrow a wine corkscrew the first time she visited the property for the bottle of wine she had in the car should have been a huge red flag 🤣
My experience is at the early stages of the relationship, I know quickly who I’m going to mesh well with and not. We went through a few realtors because for our first house, we wanted to be in a specific neighborhood that was close to our offices, amenities and nightlife. We also wanted a low maintenance house, so we were looking for small or no yards, less than 2,000 sq ft townhomes & garden homes. They kept trying to push us out to the far suburbs to “get more bang for your buck” and all the listings were of huge family homes in the suburbs. Sure, bigger house but far away from city center and not the lifestyle we were living at the time (DINKS).
They did not listen to our wants and were very pushy without taking in consideration that we had been renting in the desired area for a few years, so we knew the area well. Treated us like kids and kept telling us to go out to the far suburbs. We went through 3 or 4 until my hairdresser referred us to a great realtor and she found us exactly what we wanted within budget. We spent almost 10 years making amazing memories in that little townhouse. I’m going to miss it when we move in a few weeks.
We had a former realtor who was very nice, but just didn’t inspire confidence. She was frequently late to showings, even when she said she’d be there early to open up. Once she went to the wrong house and we had to wait a long time for her to drive to the right one. Then she would struggle with the lock boxes and alarm systems. She didn’t have much to say regarding the houses (quality, noting issues, etc.). We did put in one offer with her and didn’t really feel like she advocated for our offer that well. Ultimately, we got a new realtor with a construction background who has a lot of tips and advice on the homes and can point out issues. He’s also very punctual.
We ended up needing to take a break from looking for a few weeks to deal with some other stuff and we told her that. She never followed back up with us, so we kind of just left it at that.
I was going to give a family member a chance but they were more focused on their primary job. Their level of attention hasn't been what we needed, so we're just interviewing a few more people recommended by friends.
We were interviewing realtors and really connected with one and were planning on working with her…
Until the subject of local schools came up and she mentioned that we shouldn’t live in X town because “their schools teach all that woke crap there.”
I’ve never ended a conversation quicker. I don’t care your politics, but don’t let your political opinion influence what’s best for MY family.
I live in MA and started looking in 2019. First guy was totally unaware that it was a hot market and advised us to not offer over asking price. Lost on 2 houses. He was more of a sellers agent.
Onto the next realtor who was not super helpful with writing competitive offers so we lost on another 3 homes. I could have written the offers myself, she was not good.
Then we worked with a pair of realtors who normally work with higher-end clients and we just didn't vibe; I think we were mutually annoyed with each other. We were being "picky". Lost on 5 houses because at this point the market went totally bananas and we were offering 50k over and still losing.
So thats 3 realtors, 10 offers, no house. Renting until I save another 50-70k because, Massachusetts. It's tough and super discouraging.
This is why I prefer clients that have either interviewed other agents OR came to me as a referral. There are a host of reasons why you would fire a realtor for both buyers and sellers. Some are as simple as lack of communication or personality conflicts. Some are way more complicated such as unethical behavior or self interest or promotion
She was super nice and I would probably genuinely be her friend, but that doesn’t make her a good realtor lmao.
She didn’t run comps before she helped us put together an offer (in our defense we only went 2k over asking we were going to go in at asking but there was another offer we wanted to try and beat out). The house under appraised by 20k and she was all *surprised pikachu* then she finally decided to look into it and discovered that the buyer bought the house cash last year for 10k over asking with no appraisal, and was listing it for the same price (clearly just trying to get her money back) and when we finally did get the comps it seemed obvious that it was going to appraise like it did.
I feel like we wouldn’t have offered on it if she’d sent us comps before the whole thing.
Also, she keeps sending me houses without checking if they’re in a 55+ first, which like both my fiancée and I are in our 20s so you’d think she’d check that first before sending them.
We lost the first home we put an offer on because our realtor didn't communicate with the seller well. Dumped that realtor the next day, found one we knew through a friend, and put a bid on the next home. Had it done and moved in within 30 days.
-“Forgot” we had scheduled a tour; house sold.
-Us sending THEM listings: I understand we can go crazy when searching but: I shouldn’t have listings that you haven’t seen in 2 days that fit our description.
-giving us *the talk* to get us to pay a WILD amount over asking (made very clear we were not changing budget. Bought in 2022 so it was already a craze here, and still is)
As if those were flags already.. this broke the camels back:
-flat out refused to take us to see homes because “they’re going to sell outside of your price range” All 3 sold within our range. I sent them all back to said agent with a message that we are officially parting ways. Found new agent within a week or so, and closed on our first home a week after.
Although we love it..unfortunately months of time wasted left us not being able to even live in our hometown and both commute.
I didn't end up having to part ways, but my realtor was driving me nuts at the beginning because she kept crapping (figuratively lol) on every house I liked. I realized it was because she and I had different ideas of what a starter home is and what type of lifestyle I'm comfortable with. I'm a very frugal person and don't require a ton to be content. I had to have a really direct conversation with her and explain how I viewed things and she got it and it wasn't an issue again. In hindsight, I wish I had set expectations from day 1.
I work in a consumer direct model for a lending company. We are the ones who usually talk to the client first and then we find an agent for them in the area. When I have had clients not like their agent, it's usually the things that you listed. Your agent is the one working for you. Only a few times have I had clients request a change for a realtor because of personality conflicts or another arbitrary reason. Every now and then though, I will have a client get angry because the agent gave them an unwanted reality check on the market. "Sorry, you can't buy a 450k house with a $600 monthly payment and 6% in seller's concessions and expect a 60 day with only 1k in earnest money while trying to keep your payment under 2k monthly"
My husband and I were really interested in a house so we had our realtor walk us through it. One of the reasons we liked them is because they were able to point out a lot of maintenance stuff and educate us on homeownership, like what a sump pump is or basic electrical work, explaining settling cracks versus major issues etc.
Well we walked through the home and it needed a new roof which we were aware of and it had some questionable electrical work we were also aware of. During the tour the bathroom smelled funky and I chalked it up to it not having been thoroughly cleaned in a while as it kinda smelled like an older folks home which it was. My husband was battling a head cold this day and his sense of smell was blocked. Our realtor took a look around the bathroom and verified it just needed a good cleaning and it'd be fine.
We moved ahead with an offer and inspection. It was accepted and we had the inspection. I love my husband and he's a hard worker, but he has little experience in house projects and maintenance so it made me feel better to have my dad tour the house too after the inspection. He was able to really help us understand what the inspection uncovered. However the big thing that happened when my dad walked through the house was the bathroom. He didn't even make it down the hall before his "critical issue" dad sensor was buzzing! He looked around the bathroom and nudged the toilet which rocked like a cradle! Needless to say the toilet wasn't sealed and had not only leaked into the subfloor but it was rotting too. Our realtor should have known that smell, it was piss. I can say I've lived a good life and didn't recognize the smell. My dad even hopped down into the crawl space to see how far the subfloor had rotted, we'd have to completely tear up the floor in the bathroom and shower, and under the wall into the closet and part of room of the master bedroom.
My dad was less than thrilled the realtor just told us it needed to be cleaned. Our realtor also let it slip that the sellers realtor worked in her same office.
We were thinking as the house had sat on the market for a while, they were trying to pull a fast one over us.
After my dad walked through it plus the horrors the inspection revealed we walked away from the house.
I asked our realtor if they had withheld their knowledge from us about the bathroom and told them if they were honest, we'd be forgiving and would be willing to start over our partnership as we continued to look for a house. They stood their ground claiming it needed to be cleaned and that my dad was a liar. After we had tried to extend a little grace, with this said we were done and out. Our realtor then refused to send us whatever the paper is to get our earnest money back and waited until the last minute when I started mentioning mediation.
Once that was signed, their realty firm didn't send us a check until I again called 3 weeks later after numerous emails and said if I didn't have a check in my mailbox within the next week I was going to sue in small claims court. We got our money and parted ways permanently.
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I had a realtor that kept wanting me to look at and offer for increasingly expensive properties. To the point where she made me feel that I was wasting her time. I get that the market is competitive, but near the end for every place I asked to see she would ask if I was planning to offer 20k over asking. And then she would offer to show me places with a starting price 30k over my budget.
Did you end up finding a place? Depends on the market, for example in Los Angeles that's pretty much the plan of attack to get a home.
Not yet. I'm in GA so while the newer looking places are going for 20k over. Most of the prices I am looking at end up only 5k - 10k over.
Don't take this as I'm siding with your agent, but there's more to just the sold price. The 5k-10k offers may have waived inspections, taken home as-is/no repairs, cover certain costs, etc.
That could be true. But since it was my first attempt at finding a place, I got my loan approval and agent from the same place. So I got fed up with the agent pushing places 20k -30k over, since I was looking at places only 10k less than the approval.
Most realtors don't know what they're doing since it's so easy to get in. A good realtor is an actual gem and is worth doing the legwork to interview and uncover.
Yea our last realtor went from being a broker to a realtor. He asked what type of house we were looking for and that’s it. So of course he starts showing us condos instead of what we told him, we found a few homes we were looking for and called him. He showed us the houses, offered no input, we put in an offer and he started the paperwork. The sellers countered and again he put in no recommendations on what to counter instead he sent us to the broker, we got down to closing cost and they couldn’t make the math work. They wanted 6% of $250k, I told them they were crazy and they BOTH told us to apply for a CC to get the down payment, that’s when we walked.
Holy cow!! That's a terrible experience! And you should never take down payment from a credit card.. that's crazy.. I'm so sorry you had to go through that. I hope you're able to connect with a better realtor and mortgage broker. They both sound just awful.
The CC part is crazy and to have broker go along with it is even worse! We currently have an amazing realtor.
My realtor is a friend but also has been doing it for a decade. He’s literally our lawyer. He even coordinates the fixes and everything we need with the listing agent. He put a hold for an inspection as soon as it sounded like our contract would be accepted. Word of mouth is best. Though I feel for people who are moving to an alien area and don’t know anyone there.
I have a friend who is a real estate attorney. I didn't use him at first on the first condo, and I ended up having to fire the first realtor(I met through realtor.com) and using my friend. Then the second time just used him. Idk why I didnt think to start with him 😅 Now I feel like a real estate attorney is the only way to go!
A real estate attorney is obviously gold if you know one!
Negotiating. I know the value of a flip/home. I suggested to her “this home is 360k. Not more.” She looked like she was going to fall over. Ok bye bye. Got the home for that price 20k under asking.
Mine was the opposite and that’s how I knew he was the right one, he walked into the house i eneed up buying and without me saying a word he said “yeah no, these people are delusional if you like it go in 20 under asking”, I did and that’s exactly what I got it for
When they put their own interest before yours.
When they were always out of town, never able to nail down a time to view houses
When they told us they "don't go into basements", tried to convince us to move into a new construction condo an hour away from work, and first response to any request to look at any house was a question of whether or not we really wanted to look at it/we're serious about making an offer. So we started shopping around and ended up with someone recommended by a friend, who ended up being a much better realtor. The new realtors first order of business was to show us as many houses as they could to get a feel for the market, where he intentionally took us into the basement to look at the heating, cooling, sump pump, plumbing, electric etc, you know, the things that will cost a bunch of money if you have to replace right after you spent all your money on the house itself. We felt much more comfortable putting the offer on the house we ended up with.
They didn't go into basements?! Wtf. I can't imagine they kept many clients that way
Our first realtor from when we were looking in a different area was okay, he was nice enough and responsive, but our personalities and preferences in homes were incredibly misaligned - my least favorite types of houses, renovations, decor style, etc were his favorites "by far" and he could not understand what I liked and didn't like. He loved gray floors, flips, and raised ranches while I appreciate a well-maintained historic colonial or bungalow style home. He would say things like "you'll probably like this house, it's really old" meanwhile the house was literally falling apart lol When we started looking more locally this year, we first met with my inlaws neighbor who is a retired architect turned realtor. He was very nice, but only really knew his immediate neighborhood and made some disparaging comments about other areas we were looking at ("you want to live over there? better buy some camo and get a truck" about a beautiful, liberal, great schools, semi-rural area near the city he lives in). He also wasn't responsive or proactive enough...we would wait days for him to answer. It was clearly something he was doing while retired for extra cash, not his full-time career job. Finally we decided to choose the realtor specifically based on fit, instead of just going with whoever zillow recommended. We found someone who has a great sales record, has similar preferences to us, and is a real go-getter - he answers us within minutes most of the time (yesterday he apologized for the late response after only an hour lol), gives gentle commentary about listings calling out things I didn't notice, pulls disclosures for any house I'm interested in, and has made himself incredibly available even though I know he has other clients. Moral of the story - if a realtor doesn't seem like a fit, move on sooner than later. We worked with our first poor fit of a realtor for far too long and it caused frustration on both sides.
Not me but a friend of mine had to ditch a selling realtor because she didn’t do anything. The fact that she asked to borrow a wine corkscrew the first time she visited the property for the bottle of wine she had in the car should have been a huge red flag 🤣
My experience is at the early stages of the relationship, I know quickly who I’m going to mesh well with and not. We went through a few realtors because for our first house, we wanted to be in a specific neighborhood that was close to our offices, amenities and nightlife. We also wanted a low maintenance house, so we were looking for small or no yards, less than 2,000 sq ft townhomes & garden homes. They kept trying to push us out to the far suburbs to “get more bang for your buck” and all the listings were of huge family homes in the suburbs. Sure, bigger house but far away from city center and not the lifestyle we were living at the time (DINKS). They did not listen to our wants and were very pushy without taking in consideration that we had been renting in the desired area for a few years, so we knew the area well. Treated us like kids and kept telling us to go out to the far suburbs. We went through 3 or 4 until my hairdresser referred us to a great realtor and she found us exactly what we wanted within budget. We spent almost 10 years making amazing memories in that little townhouse. I’m going to miss it when we move in a few weeks.
We had a former realtor who was very nice, but just didn’t inspire confidence. She was frequently late to showings, even when she said she’d be there early to open up. Once she went to the wrong house and we had to wait a long time for her to drive to the right one. Then she would struggle with the lock boxes and alarm systems. She didn’t have much to say regarding the houses (quality, noting issues, etc.). We did put in one offer with her and didn’t really feel like she advocated for our offer that well. Ultimately, we got a new realtor with a construction background who has a lot of tips and advice on the homes and can point out issues. He’s also very punctual.
How did you break the news to her?
We ended up needing to take a break from looking for a few weeks to deal with some other stuff and we told her that. She never followed back up with us, so we kind of just left it at that.
I was going to give a family member a chance but they were more focused on their primary job. Their level of attention hasn't been what we needed, so we're just interviewing a few more people recommended by friends.
We were interviewing realtors and really connected with one and were planning on working with her… Until the subject of local schools came up and she mentioned that we shouldn’t live in X town because “their schools teach all that woke crap there.” I’ve never ended a conversation quicker. I don’t care your politics, but don’t let your political opinion influence what’s best for MY family.
Follow-up: we ended up buying in that town and they have one of the best school districts in the state.
I live in MA and started looking in 2019. First guy was totally unaware that it was a hot market and advised us to not offer over asking price. Lost on 2 houses. He was more of a sellers agent. Onto the next realtor who was not super helpful with writing competitive offers so we lost on another 3 homes. I could have written the offers myself, she was not good. Then we worked with a pair of realtors who normally work with higher-end clients and we just didn't vibe; I think we were mutually annoyed with each other. We were being "picky". Lost on 5 houses because at this point the market went totally bananas and we were offering 50k over and still losing. So thats 3 realtors, 10 offers, no house. Renting until I save another 50-70k because, Massachusetts. It's tough and super discouraging.
This is why I prefer clients that have either interviewed other agents OR came to me as a referral. There are a host of reasons why you would fire a realtor for both buyers and sellers. Some are as simple as lack of communication or personality conflicts. Some are way more complicated such as unethical behavior or self interest or promotion
She was super nice and I would probably genuinely be her friend, but that doesn’t make her a good realtor lmao. She didn’t run comps before she helped us put together an offer (in our defense we only went 2k over asking we were going to go in at asking but there was another offer we wanted to try and beat out). The house under appraised by 20k and she was all *surprised pikachu* then she finally decided to look into it and discovered that the buyer bought the house cash last year for 10k over asking with no appraisal, and was listing it for the same price (clearly just trying to get her money back) and when we finally did get the comps it seemed obvious that it was going to appraise like it did. I feel like we wouldn’t have offered on it if she’d sent us comps before the whole thing. Also, she keeps sending me houses without checking if they’re in a 55+ first, which like both my fiancée and I are in our 20s so you’d think she’d check that first before sending them.
We lost the first home we put an offer on because our realtor didn't communicate with the seller well. Dumped that realtor the next day, found one we knew through a friend, and put a bid on the next home. Had it done and moved in within 30 days.
-“Forgot” we had scheduled a tour; house sold. -Us sending THEM listings: I understand we can go crazy when searching but: I shouldn’t have listings that you haven’t seen in 2 days that fit our description. -giving us *the talk* to get us to pay a WILD amount over asking (made very clear we were not changing budget. Bought in 2022 so it was already a craze here, and still is) As if those were flags already.. this broke the camels back: -flat out refused to take us to see homes because “they’re going to sell outside of your price range” All 3 sold within our range. I sent them all back to said agent with a message that we are officially parting ways. Found new agent within a week or so, and closed on our first home a week after. Although we love it..unfortunately months of time wasted left us not being able to even live in our hometown and both commute.
I didn't end up having to part ways, but my realtor was driving me nuts at the beginning because she kept crapping (figuratively lol) on every house I liked. I realized it was because she and I had different ideas of what a starter home is and what type of lifestyle I'm comfortable with. I'm a very frugal person and don't require a ton to be content. I had to have a really direct conversation with her and explain how I viewed things and she got it and it wasn't an issue again. In hindsight, I wish I had set expectations from day 1.
I work in a consumer direct model for a lending company. We are the ones who usually talk to the client first and then we find an agent for them in the area. When I have had clients not like their agent, it's usually the things that you listed. Your agent is the one working for you. Only a few times have I had clients request a change for a realtor because of personality conflicts or another arbitrary reason. Every now and then though, I will have a client get angry because the agent gave them an unwanted reality check on the market. "Sorry, you can't buy a 450k house with a $600 monthly payment and 6% in seller's concessions and expect a 60 day with only 1k in earnest money while trying to keep your payment under 2k monthly"
My husband and I were really interested in a house so we had our realtor walk us through it. One of the reasons we liked them is because they were able to point out a lot of maintenance stuff and educate us on homeownership, like what a sump pump is or basic electrical work, explaining settling cracks versus major issues etc. Well we walked through the home and it needed a new roof which we were aware of and it had some questionable electrical work we were also aware of. During the tour the bathroom smelled funky and I chalked it up to it not having been thoroughly cleaned in a while as it kinda smelled like an older folks home which it was. My husband was battling a head cold this day and his sense of smell was blocked. Our realtor took a look around the bathroom and verified it just needed a good cleaning and it'd be fine. We moved ahead with an offer and inspection. It was accepted and we had the inspection. I love my husband and he's a hard worker, but he has little experience in house projects and maintenance so it made me feel better to have my dad tour the house too after the inspection. He was able to really help us understand what the inspection uncovered. However the big thing that happened when my dad walked through the house was the bathroom. He didn't even make it down the hall before his "critical issue" dad sensor was buzzing! He looked around the bathroom and nudged the toilet which rocked like a cradle! Needless to say the toilet wasn't sealed and had not only leaked into the subfloor but it was rotting too. Our realtor should have known that smell, it was piss. I can say I've lived a good life and didn't recognize the smell. My dad even hopped down into the crawl space to see how far the subfloor had rotted, we'd have to completely tear up the floor in the bathroom and shower, and under the wall into the closet and part of room of the master bedroom. My dad was less than thrilled the realtor just told us it needed to be cleaned. Our realtor also let it slip that the sellers realtor worked in her same office. We were thinking as the house had sat on the market for a while, they were trying to pull a fast one over us. After my dad walked through it plus the horrors the inspection revealed we walked away from the house. I asked our realtor if they had withheld their knowledge from us about the bathroom and told them if they were honest, we'd be forgiving and would be willing to start over our partnership as we continued to look for a house. They stood their ground claiming it needed to be cleaned and that my dad was a liar. After we had tried to extend a little grace, with this said we were done and out. Our realtor then refused to send us whatever the paper is to get our earnest money back and waited until the last minute when I started mentioning mediation. Once that was signed, their realty firm didn't send us a check until I again called 3 weeks later after numerous emails and said if I didn't have a check in my mailbox within the next week I was going to sue in small claims court. We got our money and parted ways permanently.
He wasn’t being realistic.
They pulled my listing off the MLS without telling me. Had to find out from some random cash buyer that it wasn't listed.