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No conversation here. You're assuming things that's not true. You must be an agent.
I'm not an agent. I've had real estate transactions so I know from experience what I'm talking about. Based on what you're saying and not saying (you couldn't even answer a simple "yes or no" question), you have no idea how real estate works. She did absolutely nothing wrong. Now you're saying she's the seller's agent, which means she is not obligated to you. You chose to use another agent. Lesson learned. And why do you refer to her as "your agent" when you said you never met and never made an appointment?
And I stick by comment. I'm pretty sure my assumption is accurate.
No contract signed. But the issue here is she did not give me a chance to counter offer with downpayment. Even if I paid all cash she wouldn't let me because of the incident. The seller would never know all bids on table. That is violation of code of ethics in real estate.
Right, so there was nothing done wrong here. You didn't have a written contract with any of these agents, so they had no responsibility to you, as you had none to them.
There is no legal battle to be fought on this issue. Unfortunately, a seller is able to chose whichever offer they want, and the seller chose the other offer over yours.
Suck it up and move on.
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Originally Posted by lextreven40
We never made apt. Read carefully
You've answered my post twice now. You obviously have reading comprehension issues.
Read carefully: IT'S OVER. GO GET YOUR OWN AGENT AND FIND ANOTHER PLACE.
I am a real estate agent and the listing agent did nothing wrong.
You are complaining that the listing broker did not let you bid fairly however you stated that you had a chance to raise your original offer to the asking price after being informed that there was a higher bid - this WAS your chance to bid fairly.
So you countered along with all the other bids and the owner decided to take the strongest one at that moment in time. There's no foul play here.
Perhaps if you expressed to the listing broker after you raised your offer to ask that you had wiggle room in your down payment or offer then she and the owner would have kept you in mind. However if you didn't disclose this to either of them, how are they suppose to know?
My advice to you for future properties as I always do for my clients is to have great rapport and communication with the listing broker so you can gain as much information about the bidding landscape as possible. This will help you determine whether you want to come in strong and go for the kill or play games and risk losing the apartment.
Go get em!
-Andrew
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