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    REA Dirty Tricks!

    What did you think the property was worth before getting in two agents? To have two agents so close sounds strange to me, if it then sold for $55K more than the minimum of the range and $50K for the minimum range for the second one. To sell for full listing price in four days is stranger...
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    REA Dirty Tricks!

    I cannot imagine a buyer being able to get out of a contract because of a broken tile. It is possible the vendor was happy to let that buyer go rather than pursue them and force them to settle.
  3. W

    REA Dirty Tricks!

    Doesn't sound right to me... broken tile... really :rolleyes:
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    REA Dirty Tricks!

    I guess the agent could say that bluntly, but they instead hope the vendor will listen to the market. We listed high a couple of years back, and after a week, we lowered it. But some people just don't want to hear that feedback. And of course, there are many here (and elsewhere) who say this is...
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    REA Dirty Tricks!

    Good agents will continue the open houses and marketing until a contract goes unconditional. Hardly a dirty trick. As a vendor, I want my property to continue to be marketed in case a purchaser tries to weasel out of the contract using one of the well known "purchaser dirty tricks".
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    REA Dirty Tricks!

    My mum used to get very frustrated as an agent when vendors were unrealistic. By the time her sole agency was up, often the vendor would engage a different agent at a more realistic price. The first agent could have sold for the eventually realised price if only the vendor had been realistic at...
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    REA Dirty Tricks!

    This was my thought too skater. If that is the case, why not just come out and ask for real. If this is the case, isn't this a bit of a dirty trick to get fodder for an article?
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