Your client (Seller) wants direct contact w/buyers agent?

[Jay G.]

Imagine you're an agent who is constantly in the field and for whatever reason has limited or no access to email to expeditiously forward communications and documents back and forth during periods of time-sensitive negotiations, offers, counters, etc.  In most cases you take care of email during the mornings & evenings which causes delays to the process during the rest of the day.

Your client wants no more of that process & wants to eliminate communication issues and other delays. Your client is requesting to be CC'd on all communications (Client wants his email address in confidential notes to be CC'd for fast response to any offers/counters) . Primarily client wants to quickly negotiate with potential buyers to negotiate informally of what potentially would be accepted as a formal offer or counter. 

You're going to lose the listing and considerable future business from this client if you don't agree to this. What do you do and why?

[Jay Hinrichs]

you may want to look for a limited representation broker.. there are many that do that... save you a bunch of money as well..

although I have found over the years letting buyers and sellers talk is not usually a good thing as emotion comes to play too much and the deals do not come together..