I met with my seller/buyer friend at their house, to talk about their listing and to have the kids play. Little chit chat, blah blah and they mention something about some house they like.
i know they were looking at some houses in an area where i normally don't cover. They felt bad that they were dragging me all the way there to see couple of houses when they weren';t even sure that they wanted to live there(great school, nice town but longer commute/far from family) so they went with another agent, who supposedly knew about every house that were to come out on the market.
Anyway, assuming it was a house there, i was surprised to find out it was from the neighborhood that i've been working with them on for the past....couple of months. they have been updated on every new listing, we've practically have been there every weekend looking at the new listings and such. they mention the address... i know the address, it was the one that ultimately we took off the list because it was on a busy street.
My seller/buyer friends begin to tell me a story
Awhile back, they were driving around and saw an open house sign. they go in, look around, not impressed. The agent asked them to sign in, make small conversation, asks for number/email. for the next couple of weeks, the agent kept on calling them.
"hey, it's me, there's a great new listing i think you'd be interested in.. blah blah..."
they just ignored him couple of times but kept on calling on the cell phone, at work and emailing about things that we have already seen. it was annoying, but they really couldnt' tell him off. they told him that i was working with them already but this did not stop this man from contacting them about other properties(doesn't this violate some ethics code??) this continued for couple of weeks and on Friday, he called them about this particular property.
"this property is really great, it's got everything you want, it's really hard to show and people have not been able to go view it but i work with the listing agent and she befriended the seller and they can do me a favor and get us in, today and probably today only, otherwise it will be difficult."
they got the sales pitch of "act now or regret for the rest of your life" and they figured they had nothing to lose, they went and they loved the place.
$1.2million, great location, just on a slightly busy street, got everything they wanted~
i think they might go undercontract and the wife is mad that they could not get this through me(their point is that this agent was making them miserable and annoyed for couple of weeks and will now benefit(commission and lots of it) from it
normally when i meet a potential buyer/seller i ask if they are working with another agent. if they say they are, i'd give basic information that they are looking for but i tell them to go back to their agent, telling them i can't represent them. but for an agent to keep persuing customers who already have an agent that they are working with.. i don't think i can sleep at night.
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