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Reblogging! - It Was My Choice To Take It In The First Place..Right??? Yep Yep Yep
 
Do you remember Art Linkletter's "Kids say the Darndest Things"?  There sure could be a show called "REALTORS say the Darndest Things"!  Both Patricia Kennedy and Martha Brown have written excellent posts about this very subject.
 
Except for embezzling the trust account, there is nothing worse than an agent ignoring their fiduciary duties to their clients.  Can you even imagine them in a Dual Agent role if they haven't grasped the simplest concept of Seller or Buyer Agent?
There have been many occasions when we've been employed as Buyer Agents that finding out the Seller's motivation and bottom line was as simple as asking the Listing Agent.  Shocking behavior and its very sad that the sellers rarely find out about the harm that's been done to them.
This is just one reason why our firm will not compensate Seller subagents.  They are loose cannons and our sellers can't afford that kind of representation.
Thank you to Martha and Patricia for the opportunity to re-post this conversation.
Via Martha Brown Annapolis and Anne Arundel County RE (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.):
This post was inspired from a blog Patricia Kennedy wrote this evening about an agent who accepted an overpriced ... more

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