Ok mine is just mostly untech friendly clients - they don't email, dont own a cell phone and even getting to a fax is difficult for them...
But the client pet peeve that gets me most ( and sometimes this applies to agents too) is the contract or paperwork scanned in on some flatbed ONE PAGE AT A TIME - and I recieve an email with 1000 different attachments! UGGHHH!!! I'm printing one now, so that I can sort it and scan it IN properly..

DRIVES ME INSANE!!!!!

Small yes - but my biggest pet peeve!

Share yours and make me feel better!

I love when you get a new listing and you tell the seller certain repairs really need to be made and they just let it go and let it go till it's almost time to expire and they say you didn't do anything to sell the house.

Perky, I have one like that now. I told the client that they needed to weed the flower beds and to put down mulch. The husband bought one bag of mulch and spread it over an acre and did not pull out one weed. Ok, I might be stretching the 1 acre but it was one bag in a huge flower bed.It would have been better not to do anything.

And now the wife keeps calling to change the mls photos. The house keeps getting shown but 75% of feedback is negative. A little bit of work could go a long way.

Those get me too...I recommend they do XXX or price for the lack of doing XXX, then they do neither. And of course then they blame me for the lack of showings/offers!!!

Because of many similar experiences, I started telling my clients that if you go to a doctor, and you refuse to take the medicine prescribed, don't blame the doctor when you don't get better!

I can accept that behavior from a client, don't like it but I deal with it. I deal with with more agents that do that, even better when the agent says "I don't do email"?

I never depend on clients to do anything. It is much easier in their mind to not do something and hope a miracle happens. The price of the listing is related to the condition of the property.We can sign a listing agreement today based on a future date when it will become effective pending the seller completing certain action items put in special stips section. If the seller will does not do those action items by that date then we will amend to list at a reduced price to reflect property condition or I will terminate the agreement.

I do not give them the chance to blame me. Time is money and they get on board the train or I leave the station.

Consider it a "courtesy listing at the sellers' request" and keep it. Then use it to fish for real sellers and buyers.

There are ways to get sellers to do what you tell them to do - and I don't mean lecturing them or scolding them or anything disrespectful like that. I had a Realtor once give me a "to-do" list and waltz away... I didn't do anything on the list and I'm sure she later complained about it when the house didn't sell.

But if you approach a seller with the right attitude and inspire them to WANT to do what needs to be done to sell the house, they usually will do it. It's just like pricing right - if the agent can't persuade the seller to do what needs to be done (price, condition, accessibility, whatever)... it's the AGENT's fault, not the seller's.

Okay - my list of agent pet peeves could grow LARGE...my client ones are small but manageable...never said I couldnt deal with it...just irritates me half to death.
But other agents....dont get me started. 70% of licensees...should not be!

When a seller keys on one fact about his house and neglects all the rest. So he has a 2 acre site and thinks it should be priced 30% higher than all the comps that don't have a 2 acre site, even though they are all better homes...