No I'm not the Listing Agent- Why are You Calling ME??

I advertsie on zillow and Trulia and have received calls from agents.   After a brief chat, I tell them to call the listing agent.  Often time these folks are part time and don't pay to have the MLS or lock box so they are desperate to have someone show the property to their clients.

Ginny - I was kind of surprised by your comment to BLiz (#6). We don't record the selling agent in our MLS either ... until after closing. Why is that so strange? The buyers agent isn't the selling agent until the home is actually sold. I guess you could say it is strange to me that any number of agents could have the role of "selling agent" if a house goes in and out of escrow more than once before closing. You wouldn't have had this encounter if your MLS didn't ask for the selling agent information until after close. And until that time, nobody else really needs to know ... do they? I'm just saying ...

Sometimes you just have to shrug your shoulders and wonder. But it sounds like you handled like the professional that you are.

Would have been a great deal if you had a listing that fit them!! It's amazing that people don't read the entire listing to see who the real listing agent is, even most IDX services show the originating Broker.

One thing I would like to say about the agent that mistaked you (somehow) for the listing agent is obviously they were confused and as being the representative of their buyers they are just doing their job to get the information correct. No body is perfect and we all have our off, ditzy days. I say give the agent a break! He is working just as hard as the rest of us, nothign wrong with that. :)

I'm a firm believer that every real estate license test should include an intelligence test. Most of these clowns would fail.

Two possibilities: One is that he didn't read past finding a name. The other is that he thought you'd feel so sorry for him and his buyers that you'd tell your buyers to withdraw so they could have it.

Ginny, at some point you either have to take a nice long vacation or find a new career. This is not for the faint of heart or feeble of mind.

I just wonder how new he was, or if he was part time.  I don't understand how you can truly represent your clients part time.  If his clients knew what he did, it would not look good on his resume.

This reminds me of some of the comments here on AR.  Reading is a good idea here too!!

Lots of people only see what they want to see, read what they want to read, and hear what they want to hear. As a home inspector, I often have to deal with that.

Probably read the MLS incorrectly. Would have called him back and said to call listing agent......Courtesy never hurts

I expect alot of buyer-calls off the IDX on my site but what's weird is when I got a call from an agent about 'my listing' and when I told her I don't have such a listing. She argued with me!  She said her client sent her the page from my site so it's obviously my listing.  OK- I'm lying, it's my listing?!  Right!

Ginny - nice of you to be so courteous. Some just need a little more help than others. Your MLS stats must be unreliable as to selling agents if you list the buyers agent when a property goes pending. We often have deals fall out of escrow and need to start over so the selling agent is not listing until the property closes escrow.