You want me to HIDE your boo-boo on a purchase offer?
The short answer? NO NO and NO! A purchase offer came across my desk with a performance impossibility on page 4 of 8 pages. The agent had checked a box asking my seller for a document that would, if accepted, become part of the contract. My seller can't provide said document, so this contract wouldn't stand up for 2 minutes in underwriting.
I called the buyer's agent and asked for a revised page 4. "Oh, he said. That check box was left over from an earlier contract I wrote for this same buyer. Can't you just use Wite-Out?". ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Do you realize you are asking me to modify an offer after your client has signed it?
By now several thoughts have gone through my head ...
- What you just asked me to do is unethical and illegal as HE$$
- Why are you using the same contract for an entirely new offer?
- If this was an OK thing to do, why don't I just modify the offer price while I'm at it?
Sorry, Charlie. If YOU want to Wite-Out a term on a purchase offer AFTER your client has signed it, then go right ahead. But don't ask me to do that. It won't happen. Not now, not ever.
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