Over the years I have fielded some very dumb requests by agents who purported to be representing their clients. I say it in this way as to wonder out loud if actually what they were doing was representing or was it just laziness on their part?
Here is the Story. I had been working on a very difficult sale that required several Closing Date Extension requests by the Buyer. Each one was trying but understandable and granted by the Seller.
Each one was always met with delay in gaining the Buyer's Signature as they were in a remote location out of Country. Each addendum was always acknowledged by the Seller without the benefit of the Buyer's signature. Signatures from the Buyer were always followed up with and came within 10 days of the the Seller's Signature.
Not the way we like it but a cross we had to bare for this transaction. An unsigned request came once again from the Selling agent for a closing extension lets call this request Number 3. As normal the Seller grumbled but granted on the following day. I sent it on with an imediate request for Buyer's signature and was given the standard reply " I will get it to you as soon as possible ".
About a week went by and I got another request for extension from the Selling agent. Addendum Number 3 was an extension of only one week and they discovered that the Buyer would not be able to preform in that short amount of time. So they sent us addendum number 4 complete with all the Buyers Signatures before hand. I imediately asked where the signatures were for number 3. The answer that came was that the selling agent would get them in a day or so.
This time the Seller looked over the request asking for an additional 3 weeks of time. Feeling uncomfortable he asked for a partial release of the earnest money. That was imediately met with resistance from the Selling agent.
I sent on the Request none the less and asked for a signature either accepting or rejecting. All I got was a reply that the Buyer was just going to hang on without signing for the time being.
A day or two later I once again made the request for the signatures on Number 3. Here is the answer that I recieved from the Selling Agent. " We do not have to give it to you as we have given you a signed request on number 4. Given that we have moved past number 3 with number 4 the signature is not needed.
I have never heard of any one using this perverted sense of logic before. Have you ?
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