We Tell it Like It Is

I'm under the weather today and need to go and lay down. But, I had to write this first. I've been lucky to only have a couple of former clients that I did not enjoy working with--and they were ones that I never actually completed a sale with. 2 of them were sellers that I had listed homes for. One was a couple who bashed everything I did and truly believed my job was a joke...they felt they could've sold their house better than I could but they just didn't have the time to do it. They complained to me once about the fact that they drove around the neighborhood and counted all the open house signs i had put out and thought I should've had 9 signs out instead of 7 and that was the reason why no one came to the open house.

The other former client was a seller who had some issues that are too extensive to explain. We had gotten an offer on her house and she counteroffered at above the list price because she was upset that the potential buyer was a disabled vet who was getting a discount on his mortgage and 0% down payment on a veteran's loan. She didn't think it was fair that he got benefits and she didn't--because she was disabled too. She was hit in the head years ago by a piece of luggage and feels her memory, hearing, & sight were affected. And no one was offering HER a discount.

Pete had one buyer last year that ended up writing an offer w/him for a house and against Pete's advice, it was about $30,000 under asking price. It was rejected. The sellers received an offer later for much closer to the asking price and they accepted it. The buyer saw that it sold online and called Pete back and wanted to submit a "counteroffer". Pete explained that you can't place a counteroffer on a home that has sold.

Stay tuned for part 2 of this....