Some realtors are just plain crooked

[Ingrid Nagy]

I put a full price offer in on a 5 acre parcel in Central Florida. This parcel was a fire job - 3000 SF brick home with 4 garages, inground pool, etc. The asking price was $44K cash. I had previously looked at this piece 2 yrs ago when they were asking over $200K. Research revealed that the prior owner had mortgaged the parcel for $540K. The next day I was told that a higher offer was received and I was thanked for my time.

Funny part was this happened to me 3 months ago with the same realtor. When the parcel finally closed the competing offer was $1,000 above mine.

It makes you wonder why they even bother to put them through MLS when they are going to control the destiny of "certain" REO's.

[Mark Yuschak]

Now that you've added the clarification, I very much agree with you.

I get very disgusted when working with buyer's agents instead of going straight to the listing agent because of this exact scenario.