It's become their hobby at this point, dontcha agree? Not only would I quit them, I'd warn the other agents about these people.

Gosh, you took the words right out of my mouth! I was thinking that the OP had become a real estate "hobbyist"!

Similar to another poster here who,(admonished recently and took a powder) had become a "legal hobbyist".

But earlier you said:So, which was it? (98% or 100%)

"Perception is more important that reality" Albert Einstein

They're so close . . . . and yet one can appear to be quite reasonable while the other appears to be "nickel and diming".

and this part, where he admits there's multiple offers and cash is king so he's going to fire his agent and insinuate that the listing agent pulled a fast one on him.

You all have provided enormous assistance. This forum has been exceedingly helpful.

I am now looking for a local mortgage broker (Ft. Lauderdale area). As for another agent/broker; I’m undecided at this point. As an RN, if I was to abandon my patients, I would most likely lose my license and encounter legal prosecution. I don’t want to regurgitate over spoken axioms, but I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. Yes, a 35% referral fee should be criminal, yes she should not have abandon me.

Oh well, starting again from scratch and contacting other brokers/agents. Popular brokers in this area seem to be Exit Realty and Keyes Realty, as well as the nationwide firms. Perhaps I’ll go with the smaller mom and pop operations.

It is what it is (Oh, another axiom) (-:

I’ve learned plenty, should I consider changing careers? LOL (-:

Jimmy

As an RN do you treat your patients based on what you consider best for them (or, the doctor considers best), or based on what they tell you? If one day they tell you to give them demerol, an another day tell you that they don't want any medicine at all, will you get in trouble if you did what was best for them instead of listening to what they ask you to do?

Well last I knew, a person won't die if their real estate agent tells them to take a hike.

But I could be wrong about that. People are kinda odd.

Do you give your patients each 100 free treatments and only get paid if you heal them?

If so, would you "fire" a hypochondriac who demands 100 free, time-consuming treatments (and they won't ever heal cuz they're faking it?)

I think Artiste has been hanging around with the Human Beans too long !

Wow yet again validation for why I no longer do residential real estate. What a PITA!

100 houses?? Are you freaking kidding me ?? I would never show more than ten when I did do residential.I referred out the rest who were demanding.Time is money.

The bottom line is the buyer is moaning because they thought the market would free fall and instead it just dipped.NEWSFLASH:While the market is still depressed there are parts of the country that are starting to recover and did not dip much.

If you mess around and keep getting beat out by a few percentage points on your offers then the market will climb higher and higher and you will wish you bought now.

If the sellers can hold out with the quality properties to wait for market conditions to improve there is nothing you can do.

Brokers/agents please try to LIST property instead of a buyers agent.I hear so many horror stories like this from buyers agents. If you show 100 homes such as this agent and lose out on a commission you have to start the process all over again.

If I list the property and get 6 offers on it 1 will most likely be selected and I will be paid.Think about that for a second.

Some say"But I only have time if I am a buyer versus marketing costs for a listing".This isn't true as you have wear and tear on your vehicle,gas,intensive time taken away from other potential clients,limitations of income as you can manage multiple listings at once increasing income,etc.

Yeah I agree, this could be a post from "what drives agents crazy"...lets see 100 houses shown, a lowball offer, buyer doesn't get the house because there is a higher offer, and it is the buyer's broker's fault because he didn't put a cover letter on the faxed offer? And he is "laid back"...are you kidding me? Poor agent.

I had me one of them there PITA buyers. For several months, we'd go out maybe one day a week for a few hours. I always had it scheduled during the week so she'd have to take vacation leave - I wasn't wasting my weekends for this buyer. A good agent or broker gets a "sense" about these things (listen up Public). I had to endure her PITA conversations about every ache and pain she had, her wrecked marriage, her baby daughter (the kid was 20 yrs. old!), I listened to all kinds of crap. Almost every house was a fixer-upper (our area had a severe rain storm that knocked out power so all REO's were now in worse damage than before (flooding and mold) but she would dream of fixing it up - heck, she couldn't even lift a paint brush and SHE was going to fix it up?!! She was a constant worry-wort.

Listened to that whining (and believe me, I was being p-o-l-i--t-e) the whole time and I finally semi-snapped and she FINALLY wrote an offer...that was REJECTED. She drug me down that road of 100 homes or more (her price didn't allow for a nicer home) and cheap properties were getting snatched up quickly. You must know I am an honest person, sometimes too brutally honest. I do my share of "romancing" the client but 80% of me is facts and figures - no messing around.

She disappeared and I was thankful - although I did check tax records and she purchased about 6 weeks after our drifting. Am I glad she's gone? Yes. Could care less about the commission b/c I know she'd be calling me and whining again - she can do that to her new agent-for-life now - thank goodness.

[quote=Vermont]How many other offers have you made . . . . and why didn't they pan out?

I have an elderly Couple who visits me every summer looking for their retirement home.

We look at a dozen or so homes each year; but I don't smell money. They actually made one (1) offer about 4 years ago . . . . now they're waiting until prices descend further. They've never been here during the winter. As they age, I know that they'd never be able to tolerate a harsh winter.

Their retirement will be over before they settle on a retirement home. They're fairly harmless, and looking at houses is now a routine part of their summer vacation ritual. This is what they like to do on their vacation. Nice people; but they'll NEVER live here.

I should send them packing . . . . but I don't. [b]Maybe they'll fire me !![/b] (like your Agent, I haven't been pushy enough); but more likely than not, this will just continue on until one year only one will come up . . . . and then none.

Summer Folks . . . . until the day they die.[/quote]

Dale sounds like this couple brings something else to your life other than money.You probably do not want them to fire you and will miss them when they do not return.