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Real estate is not brain surgery. Just how "stressed" out can you be? Stress comes from being unsure of what you are doing...lacking confidence and far too many realtors fall into this category. They got a license to make money not thinking that perhaps they needed to know something and actually work at it. The level of ignorance on the part of realtors at the other ends of my transactions is appalling. There is no job that doesn't have a certain amount of stress.....being rude doesn't automatically go with this. Rude is the way of the country right now and I just don't choose to participate. If we allow those to be inconsiderate, rude, arrogant, spiteful, antagonistic and treat us with disrespect...realtor, buyer, seller, lender, because there is a "commission" involved.....what then happened to integrity?
Stress comes from foreclosure. I have seen many an agents name come across my weekly foreclosure list. Some agents are teetering on the edge financially.
The agents that I see that are the most rude are those that don't study the market so they set themselves and their clients up to fail. They don't get that lending has changed and rather than accept that as fact, they get all bent out of shape about it.
Some people just don't handle change well. I'm not saying it's okay, but other than call an agent on their tone of voice, there isn't a lot you can do.
MoveedfromFL, and any other buyers out there. Be sure to have your 48 hour walkthrough. If you are far away, the realtor should have done it and if you knew and trusted any family member or friend in the new town, they should go to. He/she could easily have spotted all that extra junk lying around, and insisted that it be taken out before the closing.
...If you are far away, the realtor should have done it ...
May depend on brokerage policy. Mine does not allow agents to do walkthroughs on their own for clients due to liability concerns. They recommend that a friend or relative represent the buyer in this situation.
I too prefer to work with others to get a deal smoothly to closing. Unfortunately, some feel they have to take the adversarial approach but fortunately they are the minority. OP, it seems to me most of that you described actually falls on the seller and not the agent. The seller failed to pack and move, the seller failed to have proper documentation. Also, I wasn't there but maybe the agent was acting how her sellers told her to. Maybe not, but I'm just playing devils advocate.
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