Less Impressed with Highest & Best! Part of being an effective listing agent is to aggressively market properties, encouraging feet through the door to get them sold. Discussing details of any and all offers that may come in, is also a standard practice. A particular home hit on all marks for several buyers, resulting in a multi-offer situation. Agent and sellers started reviewing all contracts. Agent gets a call from a buyer agent, asking why their offer was not accepted. She  began to explain and suddenly the BA starts yelling, saying she is stupid, inept and that if she was smart, she would convince her clients to accept his buyers cash offer, which was well over list price plus a quick closing! The sellers heard the conversation, then asked which real estate purchase contract did th... 11/30/2022

Expired Can Get You Fired! Agent lists a property early on Friday and then leaves town and cannot be reached by phone call, text message or email. Upon his return, there are 9 offers on the table and unfortunately, each of them have expired.  Not only did the listing agent fail to best represent the sellers to the highest ability, he quickly found out that he was fired. The nine other buyer agents also did not do their best to seek a viable solution for their clients.  None of them contacted the LA's brokerage or attempted to reach the sellers after that agent left town for 3 days. What would you have done to ensure that the client's offer had eyes on it before expiring?  First, I'd call the LA's brokerage, ask for the broker or the agent chosen to help in his absence. If no results, I'... 12/01/2022