Are Your 08' Deals In The "Bermuda Triangle"?

Are Your 08' Deals In The "Bermuda Triangle"?

  I've had my share of Good Deals Gone Bad.  For example I had a sale many years ago where the buyer, about 90 years old, was getting on a plane to come to the closing and DIED before the plane took off.  I use that example a lot in telling agents "DON'T spend the commission until it's IN HAND".  And everyone has had those newbie first time buyers that you show them 100 houses in 8 months just to find out they "Bought from another agent".

  See...they know something we don't know...."ALL Real Estate commissions nationally go into a "COMMISSIONS POOL" ... then the NAR divides the checks and mails them to all the agents equally" ...right?

  I have a real estate friend that had a great year in 2007 but in 2008 he's had the following happen:
    L  A newbie real estate agent didn't disclose he was an "agent" and had my friend show him a house 4 times and then told him he wanted to make an offer and THEN wanted to know if he was getting "his" part of the commission"
    M  Then he had a 3 house sale transaction where the 1st buyer in line lied about being preapproved and crashed 3 sets of sales all because he "thought" some "other" agent could get him a loan when he'd already been turned down.
  ä Then he sold one of the same houses in this 3 transaction deal that involved 2 houses and the 1st buyer in line doing a VA loan backs out 3 days before closing because he said his "salary and position" changed and he no longer qualifies for the loan.  This is after my friends seller he represented paid for a survey and made a bunch of special request repairs.
  … Then he had a listing from someone that lives out of the country and after going to hell and back over 4 months getting it sold, thought a second listing from this seller would be easy and he spent over 4 months just getting it on the market.  He figures IF it sells he'll wind up with less than McDonald's wages.
  D  Then he gets a listing on some land that the owner said it was located in one place when all indications were from 2 separate surveyors that the land was in a totally different location.  It's taken almost 4 months now for him to get the seller to pay for a survey, but only after he sells off a small piece of the land for enough money to pay for the survey.  His commission on that is a whopping $300.
  ·  Then he has another land and mobile home sale between a relative and a seller client and what was supposed to be a easy, fast closing has turned out to be the deal from hell with all kinds of title problems to work out and after working on it for over 3 months and 3 delayed closing...he MIGHT get it closed.

WHEW...it gives me a headache thinking of the bad luck he's had this year alone!  It's almost like the Bermuda Triangle has shifted over any area he has been working on this year.  HAVE YOU HAD MORE DEALS GO "SOUTH" THIS YEAR THAN NORMAL?