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Honestly, I've never heard of an Attorney reviewing a listing agreement. After 3 months of working w/ this agent, I'm sure you did the right thing. Good luck!
Location: Mokelumne Hill, CA & El Pescadero, BCS MX.
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Originally Posted by Travlin'grl
wondering if we had been hasty in not taking the time to have an attorney read over the contract.
Wow! Back in the days when faxes were new, my real estate company had a WORD PROCESSOR! We took the standard Washington State contract (one legal sized, barely legible, 5 carbon copy layers), and had it transposed into a double spaced typed contract. One of our clients took the form to his attorney, who then had it transferred (manually) onto a legal pleading form (with the line numbers down the side) and approved it for his client at the tune of $200.
Not a word or punctuation mark was changed.
I'm OK with any legal representative looking over a contract. There are so few places in our standard listing contract to enter a variable, I would think that almost anyone could understand the variables without paying at least $100 (at the rate my attorney charges) to a third party.
Your husband knew what he was doing, he took charge. You just dont agree with your husband after signing.
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Last night we met with the realtor. She had said she had papers to "drop off". In her time at our house we did a walk through and she mentioned the remaining things she felt necessary to tweak. She then said she had clients she wanted to bring by this Saturday, tomorrow. We were asked to sign her paperwork which my husband opted to do, reading as he went along.
I'm not surprised at the response. It's appropriate.
The most recent real estate transaction I had, prior to this, was the sale of my mom's condo after her death.
It was painful (nothing to do with my mother). The executor insisted everything be read by his attorney. My guess (after paying the exorbitant bill) is that it was a massive scam. But it set me up. Somehow, despite "knowing" otherwise, I felt like I wasn't doing due diligence without this.
Sigh.
Thanks for the reality check.
You ran into a Realtor who obviously didn't pick up on your reluctance. You know, you have this stuff shoved at you all the time, about how experience and blah blah blah makes for a good realtor. Supposedly they can interpret the buyers or sellers and then bring their skills into play to make deals happen.
Well, that Realtor missed the most important thing about this situation, reading the client. It isn't rocket science but you got pushed and rushed.
Call them back, tell them you didn't appreciate the rush, want more time to consider your options and no, the Saturday the house is being painted is not going to work for showing.
As someone else said, this isn't their deal, it is yours. It isn't their house, it is yours.
Expect that they have someone who will probably offer at or slightly less than asking and the asking is probably one they steered your way.
Showing your house before painting is done? Yeah, that should work well for you.
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