Your Agent Can Lose You The House, If They Don't Know-Move On

Great advice:

If your agent is willing to let you run the transaction, you probably don't have the right agent. It might cost you a great home!!!

I would be beyond tempted to contact the agent's broker and let him/her know what the agent does not know....

Yep sadly many transactions are derailed by inexperienced or even overly power-hungry agents.

Interesting to hear about the California laws, and so true about inexperienced agents. 

This is not a pass through business nor a part time one either if you want maximum results...case in point

That's really too bad Karen.  New agents should rely on the experience of their brokers and should feel free reach out to them for their expertise.

Karen, new agents probably have not the experience to realize everyone is wanting the same finish.  You are not the enemy just because you work for the seller.

Well I do disagree with you that principles should "run" the transaction. After all the agent won't be making the mortgage payments. But I do agree that the agent has to know how to explain what documents mean. Perhaps you should reach out to that agent's broker.  After all (at least in my state) the client actually belongs to the broker.

I would certainly call the broker and ask if he or she is aware of what is going on. I make it a point to follow my agents deals and lend a hand when it is needed.

Karen Fiddler, Broker/Owner usually, if the agent is new and have limited knowledge, they can always ask for help from their friends or broker - the best resource for them.

It's too bad that the other agent doesn't seem to understand the information you have given her.  Perhaps if you called her broker, she would believe the information if her own broker told her.  In any case, this agent isn't helping any of the parties involved.

Hello and congratulations on your featured blog post! Well done and hope to see you have many more featured post. 

There are so many idiot agents handing their buyers bad advice and  / or encouraging seemingly bad behavior, and you can't educate them all. You do what you can do, try to save the transaction, offer them solutions / choices, but in the end, they are the ones who need to pull up their pants, tuck in those private parts and get on with the transaction. Not everybody can do it. Next! there is always a NEXT.

Mery Fernandez Empire Network Realty Luxury Brokerage I hate to point this out in public, I don't really like to engage in humilating people unless it benefits me in some way, and this way certainly does not qualify. But why are you pasting the same verbiage into every Active Rain blog on the ledger?

Hey, Karen! 

I included this post in today's "Last Week's Favorites".  Enjoy the rest of your long weekend.

Sometimes you need to call the broker yourself to save the deal--shouldn't have to but there is always your seller to consider!  

Dont you just love it when you have to sell the house 2 or 3 times through the course of the deal just to get it closed?

Hi Karen: I understand how frustrating it is to deal with inexperienced or incompetent agents. We do our best and then move on...hopefully without losing too much sleep over it. Interesting that you have a disclosure called,  Natural Hazard Disclosure which makes sense. We don't have that in Florida though we are in Hurricane Land. (And I don't mean the team )

Great Post... it is frustrating dealing with agents who are so green and I think maybe a little scared of doing the wrong thing. Her broker should be informed and help... but she should have already asked her broker about this so that may not help... Good Luck!