You accepted an offer while a showing was in progress? I suppose there are so many variables to consider that it’s hard to criticize.
I was showing a property today and my clients knew pretty quickly that this was “the one”. We stood out in the front yard for a few moments discussing our offer and then I headed back to the office to contact the other agent. I pulled up the property in the MLS to get some information on the property, and then pulled up a nearby property that had just recently sold. When I went back to the property in question…it was “Pending”! If you’ve been in that situation you can imagine the feeling of defeat. I immediately called the other agent to make sure I was seeing this right and she did confirm that 
she just updated the status and the offer was accepted about an hour ago…during the showing with my client. Ugh! My clients were crushed to have missed it by so little.
After thinking it over I know there are reasons why they may have needed to move on a good offer so I don’t have any hard feelings but it did make me think. If you know someone is in the process of viewing your listing and you have received a good offer, do you go ahead and accept the offer or do you wait until the showing is over and see if by chance you get another offer?
