Can Agents Block Offers

[CO Yilmaz]

Hi BP Florida Forum,

I have a strange situation and I wanted to know what your thoughts were on it.

I've signed up with an agent (let's call him Agent A) to look for an investment property in Jacksonville. After a few weeks, we found a property and asked Agent A to contact the sell side agent/broker so that Agent A can provide a video tour for myself. Agent A contacted the sell side for four days straight but no reply.

I then under a different name contacted the sell side agent/broker via Zillow and was able to get a video tour within a day. After the tour, I asked Agent A to ask again for the video tour and Agent A was still ignored by the sell side (Agent A showed screenshots of emails/messages). While in the meantime, the sell side agent/broker was sending me emails and asking if I would make an offer.

Agent A And I then came up with a plan to submit a formal offer that would be 5K less than the purchase price so that the sell side would have to respond and provide access to the house for inspection. We submitted the offer, but no reply/response or counter offer from the sell side.

Is this normal in Jacksonville and could it be possible that the sell side agent/broker is blocking offers from other agents for some reason?

[Russell Brazil]

1 of the 2 agents involved is either shady or incompetent.  Most likely the listing agent, but its also possible your agent is incompetent and just not doing a good job at getting in touch with the listing agent.