No dilemma here, it does not exist. (anymore, but it never was a dilemma for me when it was legal here)

Have to chime in about pet peeves- One of the biggest annoyances we have here is agents who don't follow showing instructions. Is it really that hard to call before you show the property? GRRRR... just rude.

Customers can drive you crazy also. I have one house where they constantly call me from the house and want to see it NOW, because they are standing in front of the house. And I guess I should not complain, but it is now has a first accepted ( should be in contract by the end of the week) and they still want to see it. Of course I will continue showing it until the homeowner says to stop.

Is that really how you all do that in your neck of the woods. Here I rearly just run out to show a property just becuase they are standing in front. Did you ask if they are looking for a property in that price range. I just can not stand those agents who shows one of my listing listings that is listed at $325,000 to a buyer who is only qualified to $180,000 and they present offers for $170,000. They had no bussiness showing the property in the first place.

A good part of my calls come from people sitting in front of the house, calling from their cell phone. That is very irritating. I usually make an appointment with them for a later time. However, impulsive people are sometimes impulsive buyers, and it may pay to run if you can. But it is still annoying, and one of my major pet peeves.

Not changing the status on listings drives me crazy.

I focus on some specific areas and find that there are agents that habitually do not update the listings.

I currently have two listings at "Pending" that closed over a year ago. I know.... I was the buying agent on one of them.

In my area, the solution is to report this stuff to REInfolink (the keepers of the MLS here). After enough violations of this type, supposedly the offending agent will lose access to the MLS!

Not holding my breath tho.

R

I work in 2 MLS systems and our corporate website. 1 of the MLS systems and the website don't even give us the option of "pending". Either it's for sale or it ain't. :rolleyes:

Yes, this inaccurate status thing is frustrating, I have found some agents also list a house and in less than a week, change to status to pending with no contract to sell the asset or dwelling on their own without any coop assistance (read interference).

I also get peeved with agents/brokers, new and old who do not put comp photos in at all. When the BPO, whether for a fee or a listing, calls for comp photos...if I or my assistant have no comp photo and I cannot shoot them at time of drive-by or inspection for whatever reason...we discard those prospects and move to another comp that has a photo.

The next thing is comp photos of just the interior and no exterior front view of an MLS listing. So the front is not as pretty as the inside, big deal, seven of out 10 REO listings I do aren't pretty on the outside

When our MLS police call on members to help narc on members for MLS violations to enforce the rules it gets old.

Yor