Here' one reason to stay solid with a GOOD AGENT

[Frank Adams]

A few months ago I got a call from the agent I work with asking me to look at a place that her office had just listed. The seller had done the usual cosmetic "make it ready to sell" and it "showed" real nice.

But; it looked like some termite damage and a quick look in the crawlspace showed the original (maybe the 1950s iron drain pipes, always a worry. Told her I'd bet it had termites and I HATE crawling around in the winter time doing drain lines. But, as it was offered at $55K, I offered them $43K and waited. They countered at $51K and I kind of ignored it.

About 6 weeks later the agent called me, turns out the sale they had had fallen apart at the last minute. This was after the seller had termite treatments and replaced a tiny bit of wood, and had all the drains replaced. Turns out the seller would like to get his sale done "timely" and the last offer to me was their "counteroffer" at $51K, and could I close a week from Tuesday?

We were going to be out of town until Thursday, and besides, I need to get a buyer lined up. "No problem" she says. You run your usual ad, telephone screen the prospects, refer them to me for showing and we'll get it done.

We ran the ad, got the usual ton of calls, she wrote a contract on the second couple that looked. The long and short of it is at 2:00PM on Thursday we were in the Title Company closing to buy, and at 4:00PM we were in the agents office (she's a notary), closing to sell.

I love it when it all comes together.

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