Dear Buyers,
I appreciate the many hours of effort you and your agent have put forth to negotiate your offer on my listing. I truly did not mind that I had to spend the first two days of my beach vacation inside on the phone and computer working out the finer points of a deal acceptable to both you and my clients. It was a pleasant back and forth and my sellers were happy to meet your terms and you got a great deal on a great property.
So here's the part that bugs me...YOU PULLED OUT OF THE DEAL this morning with nothing by way of an explanation except we changed our minds...
Your agent is embarrassed, my seller is very disappointed and I have lost two days of my much needed vacation.
I wish I could say this was the first time this has happened this year but it seems to be becoming the norm. Did you just think it would be fun to see if you could negotiate a real estate purchase contract? Were you bored this weekend?
Your agent and I DO NOT need the practice! We are very good at what we do and we represent our clients with integrity and skill. We worked hard for you. We are used to taking care of the myriad details that need to be managed in order to get you to your stated goal...that of homeownership...with no compensation until the date of closing. So were you simply kidding when you said you wanted to buy a house?
I'd love to understand what was going on in your mind during what turned out to be nothing more than an exercise for you. But more than that I'd love for you to understand that there are real PEOPLE involved in this process. People who trusted you when you said you wanted to buy, people who dropped everything to make it happen on your schedule, people who began making plans to accomodate your desires.
I wish I could say I was furious about this but I've reached the point where this has happened so often lately that I have no emotion about it when the call comes in except sympathy and regret for my client who was so happy just 12 hours ago and empathy for your agent who felt compelled to assure me that he didn't see this coming and would never have let it happen if he had had a clue you weren't committed to buying.
I think I will go stare at the ocean now. There was a reason I needed a vacation and you have simply reminded me, yet again, what it was.
It's Simple...When You Have A Great Agent!
SarahGray Lamm is a licensed, full time, residential real estate professional in the Raleigh Durham area of North Carolina with over 60,000 hours of experience. She specializes in serving the real estate needs of home sellers, home buyers and investors in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham and Northern Chatham County and is proudly associated with Allen Tate Realtors, the Carolinas #1 independent realty company.
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