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So remember that house I talked about a week or so ago. The house was a really nice house but had some querks we thought we could live with. The house was 249k and we offered 250k and they countered. Well when after about 24 hours from their counter to us, they called our agent and asked what we were going to do because they had another offer coming in that night. I told Mike to let them know we would need the weekend to think about it because we were putting in an offer on another house which was better and cheaper. Well on Monday the homeowner called Mike and pretty much demanded to know any feedback about why we weren’t jumping at their counter offer. He explained that we were upset about his commission being lowered, them wanting to rent the house for a month at lower than our mortgage payment projection, and the fact they were placing such high value on their theater equipment. The homeowner replied to Mike that “this must be the best you can do for what you know how to do” or something along those lines. And they didn’t have another offer.

At this time the house is still available and not under contract. Furthermore now that they have made a personal attack at our agent, you can be sure he won’t purposely show or promote this house to his buyers. Its no wonder they haven’t sold their house in 7 months.

Just to note, we had to contact the buyer directly because while they do have an agent, we are to deal directly with the buyer. Its one of those things where they seller just pays the agent a one time fee of like $1,000 for listing on the mls and a sign in the yard. The seller handles all negotiations and paperwork.