Buying and Negotiating - Conflict of interest?

[Justin H.]

There's a short sale I'm working and the negotiator is the biggest PITB that I've ever experienced. Seems like he's going out of his was to shut it down. When I talk with him, he says he's just waiting on a couple things to get back to him, then he calls the homeowner and says unless he gets authorization to speak with the realtor instead of me then he won't continue. I'm really not aware of anything that I've done wrong at all and I've been nothing but polite. He also told the homeowner there's a conflict of interest because I'm buying the property and negotiating it. Then he said I have no idea what I'm doing, blah blah blah. I've tried to call him but he avoids the calls and doesn't reply to emails and doesn't call back. I have no IDEA what the problem is here, I haven't had the problem with anyone else. Typically, people are actually impressed

Is this really a conflict of interest? As far as I know, companies do it all the time. It sounds like he's just being an *** for some reason.