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The Listing Agent Didn't Send My Offer to the Seller

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Real Estate Agent with Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker DRE #00697006

home sold for lessThere seems to be quite a few buyers who don't trust real estate agents and will believe that the listing agent simply didn't send their fabulous offer to the seller. That's the only reason they can possibly come up with why the seller didn't take their offer. The seller didn't take it because the seller didn't get it, is their reasoning. For, if the seller had actually received their offer, why it would have been immediately accepted, and they would be closed by now, moving into their dream home, except for that darned Sacramento listing agent who refused to present their offer.

How can this happen, they wonder? Somebody should pay for this.This isn't fair, and it isn't right.

Except, it didn't happen that way.

Read more on my personal blog today about Why Did That Sacramento Home Sell for Less?

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Elizabeth Weintraub is co-partner of Weintraub & Wallace Team of Top Producing Realtors, an author, home buying expert at The Balance, a Land Park resident, and a veteran real estate agent who specializes in older, classic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown, Carmichael and East Sacramento, as well as tract homes in Elk Grove, Natomas, Roseville and Lincoln. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Put our combined 80 years of real estate experience to work for you. Broker-Associate at RE/MAX Gold. DRE License # 00697006.

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Comments (6)

Emcee M. Arah
Remax Excellence - Silver Spring, MD - Silver Spring, MD
Realtor w/Architectural Dimension, AHWD CRS B-Arch

That's a humorous way to look at what some agents have to deal with from buyers, Elizabeth. It's almost like dealing with children sometimes, isn't it? "I said it and that makes it so!" Only, it doesn't!

~Emcee

Mar 01, 2013 01:56 AM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

It's not always the highest price that is the best offer.  That's something I have to talk to buyer agents about when they feel jilted after they see what a listing closed for, knowing what their own buyer offered.

Mar 01, 2013 02:42 AM
Melissa Zavala
Broadpoint Properties - Escondido, CA
Broker, Escondido Real Estate, San Diego County

I'll have to go over to your blog and see what happened. With all the multiple offers coming in, we have been doing lots of initials in the rejection section of page 8. That seems to satisfy most buyers' agents.

Mar 01, 2013 08:04 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Hey Emcee: We are all children of real estate.

Hi Chris Ann: It's the fact they feel this jilty-ness, like somebody did 'em wrong that is wrong in this picture.

Hi Melissa: I don't do the page 8 rejection because it's not required and it's such a hassle for the sellers. How would you like to have to fax 50 page 8s back to your agent plus keep track of them all? That's insane. When a buyer's agent asks for a page 8 rejection, they are saying they don't trust you. And if they don't trust a trustworthy person, what does that say about them? I would never ask a listing for a rejected page 8. I would not insult them that way -- I'd find other ways to be insulting, :)

Mar 01, 2013 11:03 AM
James Dray
Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

Don't you find it interesting on the reasoning people can come up with?  The usually do this without asking their agent and the mind races on. 

Mar 01, 2013 07:23 PM
David Grbich
Realty One Group - www.FindCARealEstate.com - San Juan Capistrano, CA
Orange County Real Estate - 949-500-0484

Hi Elizabeth - interesting post - I must say that I have had some offers where I also wonder if the seller ever saw them. It usually applies to short sales - wish all were as ethical as you. Regards Dave

Mar 03, 2013 12:44 AM