All Forum Posts by: Rhett Roden

Please don't underestimate the importance of the face making the offer. Crazy as it seems, sellers in emotional distress and denial over whizzing away their parent's legacy would much rather whiz it away to a local agent who is deeply embedded in their community, who works the soft-serve at church festivals and reads off the bingo numbers at the VFW hall and brings some of his homemade kielbasi to the volunteer firemen's BBQ benefit.

Do not discount your local agents who have been eating rubber chicken to pass the card at Rotary events for the last twenty years. Most especially, if that agent knew dear Grandpa Harry and ever shared a beer with him on his porch, the seller feels he's selling out to one of Grandpa Harry's old friends, not just a starred name in that agent's Rolodex.

Make a good offer, by all means, but the face that presents the offer becomes ever more important the more emotional and distressing the decision to sell the house becomes. It's not a tech thing or a generational thing. Human beings are just wires that way.

LOL.  Last I checked, dogs were not a protected class.

Then again...you ARE talking about California.  They do all kinds of crazy stuff there! :)