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Did Your Buyer's Agent Sabotage Your Offer on That Sacramento Short Sale?
All signs pointed to this weekend being slow but I managed to put four short sales into escrow. Even with our gorgeous weekend weather in Sacramento, most agents continued to work through Saturday and Sunday. One of these short sales going into pending status even though we haven't yet received approval from the bank. Why? Well, for one thing, agents keep calling. It wouldn't be so bad if it were buyer calls, but agent after agent calls about it.
Buyers I can put on a waiting list or perhaps suggest another property to buy. But agent calls are considered by many in the industry as time wasters. Or are they? I don't mind speaking to agents, even if it's a non-income producing call. Because I might run into that agent down the road of life -- either as a listing agent and they have another buyer -- or as a buyer's agent, and they have the listing.
It's networking that sells homes. If you don't believe that for one little minute, you've never been a listing agent with multiple offers from multiple agents. All things being relative, which do you guide your seller to choose? If you're me, it's the agent ... more

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