Sometimes you just have to laugh at the absurdity of our real estate business.
As a premier agent, we spend over $1,000 marketing a home that we have listed for sale. Sometimes the market works in our favour and sometimes it doesn't. There always has to by a buyer willing to pay the price for a home in a specific location and in a specific condition. It isn't always that the home is overpriced – sometimes it is that there is little to no demand for that particular product (as we sometimes have to explain in detail.)
Sometimes, after 6 months, the seller says, "Thanks, we are going to try another agent." Okay, that's quite understandable and is not an issue. But PLEASE do not think that allowing them to copy the photos we paid dearly for or give them a price adjustment that you refused us is dealing fair. It is for these reasons that agents get bad reputations with other agents. And, one of the many reasons why many agents refuse to spend more than $100 to market a home that they have been given the good fortune of listing for sale.
But, like other great agents, we get over it and wish both the past clients and their new agent well.
