Just to add: You could always go talk to the Principal agent and let them know you don't like your current agent, but would like this other guy - or you will be taking your business to another agency all together, they 'may' choice to get involved and help sort out an arrangment for you. Or they might just put it in the too hard basket and say good bye. It depends on how much property they have on the market at the moment and how the sales are going on a more general level.
... and don't feel bad about telling someone they're not good at their job. This is a big life-affecting deal. After I listed with one agent, the other one called to find out why and I told him, warts and all. No point beating about the bush, the losing agent just didn't do their job as well as the other guy and it was only fair of me to point that out if he wants to improve.
Sometimes it's hard to see beyond my hothead temper to work out if it's me that's wrong or other people! Lol
I'll chat with DH about it, as far as I know the male agent is chasing up the buyers this arvo, so if nothing comes of it we will give them all the flick, just to make it easier lol
We had the issue when we sold our house in Melbourne that we were not in the zone for the office we wanted to use. As a result we had 2 offices and therefore 2 agents. At first we disliked the idea, but is worked well in our favour. There ended up being a bit of a competition between both of them so see who could sell it. So of course the price went up and we were the ones who benefited
Urgh I had to talk to her again this afternoon. Apparently the male agent rang the wife of the couple who came through on saturday - and they are looking at it as an investment property (which it would totally be an awesome investment property, rates and body corporate are ridiculously cheap and the property is pretty cheap too considering!) but they have to go through their figures with an accountant and see what position they would be in if they did buy it.
Couple of things worry me now - my RE Agent said something about us renting it from them if they buy it because we're not moving till next year. She seemed surprised when I set her straight that NO, we would rent something in town because we're too far out here. So now I'm worried that the idiots told these people that they would basically have guaranteed renters for a year!! Plus, she said something about how rental would be $240 a week, and I said, no they would get $285 cos I've already enquired about it when we were thinking of renting it out, and she was really surprised - so who knows what they have told the potential buyers?
So now we are giving the potential buyers "breathing space" to make their decision - and the male agent is ringing them in about 3 days time - and then we'll know what we are doing. If they don't want it, then we'll drop the agents because they don't seem to be listening to us, making their own stories up and exaggerating lots of things as well.
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