A couple of weeks ago, I had an adorable listing fly off the shelf.  After the first Open House, we had two offers - both of them excellent.  One had a lenders letter from a financial institution that gives me the hives.  The other was from a local mortgage broker who has been doing a fabulous job for years.  Other than that, they were pretty identical.  The sellers took the second offer.

Then, on Tuesday morning I got that call from the really great lender that you never want to get.  There was a last minute glitch with the financing - a huge item that showed up on the buyer's credit and couldn't be resolved. Oh, and this was after it went to underwriting.

Rats!

I immediately pulled out the file and made a phone call to the agent whose buyers lost out the first time.  By accident, I got his buyer, who when I introduced myself, got really, really happy.  When he explained that I called the wrong number but that I had made his day!  We both laughed and then I called his agent and made his day, too!

So the old offer is released and the new offer is being initialed as I write this.  We settle about 11 days later - all made possible because  this time the new buyers are using the old buyers' lender.

We were lucky.  Really lucky.

I might have made the day for the buyers and their agents, but I gotta say, they made the day for me, and especially for my sellers!