‘She kept lying to us’: Home buyers fire agent after she refuses to submit their application to a seller despite their wishes, nearly costing them their dream house

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Sep 13, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

When you are a kid, there are many things adults do that just seem impossible for your little brain to comprehend. How do adults understand every road sign they see while they are driving? How do they know where to go when they are abroad? How do they pay taxes? How do they buy a house? 

Granted, as a 26-year-old woman, I still have absolutely no idea how adults do most of the stuff they do, and I am sure I am not the only one. How really does one even begin the process of looking for a house to buy? Such a mystery to me.

I support the first step would be to hire a real estate agent who'll guide you through the process, but then you might end up with someone like the agent in this Reddit story. OP (original poster), had to let go of their agent after she kept asserting her opinion on the houses they wanted, and downright refusing to make offers in their names. The situation reached a boiling point when the agent lied about submitting an application for a house OP and their partner really wanted, which they only discovered by chance. This led them to fire the agent, and now they might even report her…

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    Buyers agent lied
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    My husband and I recently let go of our buyers agent because she kept asserting her opinions and wouldn't put in offers we wanted.
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    She always put in "verbal offers" aka speaking to the sellers agent and saying "the sellers agent says they won't accept anything less than
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    There was a house she showed us that had an assumable loan and I was listed at 560. It had been on the market for a year. We wanted to offer 450 because the seller
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    was motivated. Our realtor wouldn't put in the offer formally and said she spoke to the sellers agent and the seller wouldn't accept more than 550k and that
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    the loan wasn't assumable because she had a previous buyer and they were told assuming the loan would end in a 200 day closing.
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    We moved on from that house but kept thinking about it because it truly felt like home to us and we felt like there couldn't be a better house for us. When
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    we looked up the home again we saw that it was taken off the market (meaning the seller's contract with her real estate agent ended).
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    My husband and I talked about leaving a note in her mailbox saying "hey, we toured your house and this is what we can offer". My husband was dropping it off and saw the owner of the
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    house sitting on the porch (she was there when we toured the house which I know is unconventional). They got to talking and she said that her agent never brought her
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    any offers. She didn't say anyone was interested in the house or ask her what the lowest she'd accept is. She said she would've been happy at our offer. She also said her loan was assumable AND
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    that there was no previous buyer who was quoted a 200 day close. This wasn't the first time our buyers agent lied to us and it's. extremely frustrating to know that we could've possibly made a deal with bought this house months ago.
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    STAR Far-Collection 7085 • 1d ago You need to report that agent. Completely unethical. Unacceptable behavior.
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    Powerful_Put5667 • 1d ago Cancel your Buyer Agency contract. She lied. I am sure the seller would be happy to give you a short signed and dated note documenting this. If you do decide to go with that home best to have an attorney draw up the paperwork.
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    Much Development7084 1d ago Report the agent to the local MLS and her broker. He/she is REQUIRED to submit your offer to the seller. She may advise you. But not refuse to make an offer. This is possibly illegal. But absolutely unethical.
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    SnooWords4839 1d ago Now if she still wants to sell, use lawyers, no agents!
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    Mindless_Corner_521 • 1d ago She wanted paid, she didnt want to wait for an assumable mortgage. I seen where others have posted it's a lengthy process
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    RetroBerner 1d ago The agents were colluding to get more money for themselves, report them.
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    Someone_Cooked_Here • 1d ago You made the right choice to fire them. Report them and their unethical, moral-less behavior.
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    Inner-Leek-3609 • 1d ago As many have said...Report her. You might even have civil case for $loss. An agent is supposed to represent you. Basic RE fiduciary duty. Disgraceful in this challenging market.
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    Still-Inspector 7645 • 1d ago Is no one else finding it hard to believe the seller would have been happy with 110k off list price? I think OP might be stretching the truth a little bit.
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    livefree623 OP • 22h ago The house is overpriced. We did comps in the neighborhood and similar homes are selling for our offer price. The seller is motivated. We are not willing to overpay in the market.
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    PhoenixBeee • 1d ago If she was happy to accept that amount.. why hasn't she lowered the price of her house? Lol
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    livefree623 OP • 22h ago Because she has a sellers agent and would have to pay 6% of her sale price. Now she doesn't so she's saving that. We're also offering her to leave all the
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    furniture and junk in the house and we would dispose of it for her. She's elderly and does not want to spend another winter in the northeast and is sick of the real estate market at this point (her words).
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