Prospective buyer received extremely discourteous treatment from a seller's agent - what to do?

[Anonymous]

I'm very frustrated with the lack of communication from a seller's agent - promises to return calls, etc., that have dragged on for months as we wait to hear back from his very slow moving client. I know that there's nothing I can do about his client, but what can I do about his own poor behavior?

[Anonymous]

Not buy from them...

[Anonymous]

mope and sulk?

[Anonymous]

Complain. Loudly. Was it Minka Goldstein in Potomac? She is the absolute worst to deal with.

[Anonymous]

By virtue of his failure to return our calls, he is guaranteeing that we won't buy from him. Where should I complain? to him? friends? his firm?

[Anonymous]

Find another house to buy. It doesn't sound like the seller is motivated to sell the property.

[Anonymous]

How far into this process are you? Are you talking about not getting a response after placing an initial offer? Is this a counter offer? Contingency issues?

[Anonymous]

We faced this situation. The buyer was extremely eager to purchase the home and very well qualified. We could not figure out what was causing the delays. So we called the buyer directly. It turned out that the Buyers Agent had guaranteed the Buyer that we would reduce the home price by $12K. We were not going to do that under any circumstance and we were completely happy to dissolve the contract. It had a time limit, so it was just a matter of letting the time run out.
We were very polite, but we had priced the home carefully and were not going to reduce the price further. Either he wanted the house at our price, or not. There were just too many layers between us and the buyer. He ended up buying the house without any further delay. But this only took a few weeks (the market was not hot at this time)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm very frustrated with the lack of communication from a seller's agent - promises to return calls, etc., that have dragged on for months as we wait to hear back from his very slow moving client. I know that there's nothing I can do about his client, but what can I do about his own poor behavior?

Please to explain

[Anonymous]

PP: oops, we were the seller ^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Complain. Loudly. Was it Minka Goldstein in Potomac? She is the absolute worst to deal with.

With a name like "Minka"???!!! You don't say...

[Anonymous]

You have to separate the seller's issues from the agent's issues before you go ballistic.

[Anonymous]

I think I've separated the two. I'm mostly just angry about the discourteous treatment I've received from him, not his client's slow pace.

[Anonymous]

We had to interface with some rude & condescending agents but when their client made it clear we were the buyers they wanted to go with, they just had to suck it up and work with us.

But if the seller doesn't pick you, not much you can do right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think I've separated the two. I'm mostly just angry about the discourteous treatment I've received from him, not his client's slow pace.

Agent responding to this one. Now you all see what we deal with. Sometimes it's not much better for us either. Are you going in without an agent so you're communicating directly with this person? If he's sweeping both sides of the commission I'm actually surprised he's not lobbying for your offer to be accepted over the others. Can I ask why it's dragging out for months though?