Watching an agent drown in a glass of water

Cynthia, it sounds like these buyers need another agent. It's a good thing you know how to do YOUR job!

Cynthia, this trend of buyers and sellers asking us to pass their voluminous virtues on to the other side must be a trend.  I just had one of sellers request that I give a list of their virtues to the buyers.  Who cares?  Not the buyers.  

Cynthia, what a great analogy! Sure, just put your head in the sand, Mr. Buyer's agent, and tell us how you like it when your deal falls apart and you're under financial duress next month! Wow.

Sharon

You know Cynthia, voicemails are like problems, if you ignore them, they go away.

Evasion, delusion, etc. are all examples of agents who simply do not know what they are doing.

Even with an all cash offer, that inspection contingency is important, although most have a "self executing" process whereby, if no action is taken by XX days, the contingency will be satisfied, or die a natural death.

When an agent doesn't understand terms and conditions of a contract of sale, they may become paralyzed with inaction.  Sad, sad.

Geesh.  Sounds like quite a mess.  Hope it works out!                                                                                                                              

There's another choice, making it four choices. Ignore.

Believe it or not, I have run into asset managers who demand non-refundable EMDs and no inspection contingency. Since it generally takes the banks anywhere from a few days to half a month to issue and sign their own contract addendums, I have, in one such case, slipped in a home inspection in advance of offer acceptance, just to protect the buyer. I called it my 24-hour emergency home inspection.

It sounds like the agent on the other side wastes a lot of time doing non-productive things like complaining...having a voice mail box that is full is a strong indication of being out of control.

Ounds like he is hiding behind some emails and some voice mails.  A modern agent...  Not a good modern agent though.

I seem to notice over the years that it feels that we have lost as Americans is the ability to negotiate. Some people feel that negotiating in an 'insult' - I think we are read many blogs about this on AR - other don't know how to do it, many don't like it, and in the attempts to negotiate, people get 'personal' because they don't know how to negotiate.

My two cents worth.

Cynthia

Why do so many agents inject so much of their selves into a deal. It seems to happen way too much. They need to understand with an asset manager and REOs, it is very impersonal and they are trying to get as much as they can in most cases. Good luck and there is always earplugs. cheers cvc

Hi Cynthia, so true. It is not rocket science,,,, accept, reject or counter, and then your client will do the same. What's the problem with that?

Cynthia, what a great metaphor for the situations so many agents put themselves in. 

Cynthia - Drama doesn't help much in our business.  The agent needs to pull it together.

Good morning Cynthia. Your title is fantastic and the piece does not disappoint. Funny, but sad really. Very nice.

It's really so simple, isn't it Cynthia? You told it like it is. Time to negotiate.

drowning in a glass of water, I haven't heard this one before, I hope that you can get him to act on the offer and start serving his clients.