Contract expired; agent still showing property (new agent, commissions, sale, contracts)
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Seems very odd to me that 6 weeks after our contract with her expired, this agent is still listing and showing our place. When we were in the process recently of switching to a new agent, the old one said she had an interested buyer (common, I know) but that her colleague was handling this buyer.
I'm curious that if a sale comes from this convoluted scenario, would the old agent get any part of the commission, since at the time she "found" this supposed buyer, her contract with us had long since expired. This is Utah.
Amazing she wouldn't keep tabs on expired contracts.
Read your contract. It probably has a "protection period" that is for a specific amount of days that if she brings someone or a buyer who already saw the place writes an offer, she's protected for commissions.
If you already listed with another agent, she probably has no protection period, unless you specifically excluded that buyer from the new listing agreement.
It's ironic that you think it's amazing she's not "keeping tabs", but have you fully read your contract for the protection period?
she shouldn't be showing it the day after your contract expired.
she shouldn't have a lockbox on the property, and the keys should be in your possession - unless you explicitly told her to hold the keys for the next agent.
Do you have a new agent? Has that agent listed your home in the MLS ?
Yes and yes.
Of course I'd be delighted if the old agent brought a buyer, but I was curious because the listing had long expired by the time she found this "buyer" so it doesn't seem like the "protection period" would be valid. Doesn't matter to me, as long as it sells.
I just thought it was interesting that an agent would continue to "work" without a contract....
Have you read your contract? That's been asked, but you haven't answered.
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