Working With Real Estate Agents in Chicago

[Calvin Lipscomb]

I am having some very bad experiences working with agents in Chicago.  They have all been the non-listing agents and I fully understand why the listing agents do what they do, they want all of the commission for themselves if possible.  For a point of information, is there anything that can be done if you believe that the selling agent did not present your offer?  After this deal, no matter which way it goes, I am going to try to just seek out the listing agent until I find agent that can make me comfortable.

[Philip Williams]

Well I suppose that depends who the seller is, when the property is a foreclosure it's a little harder to confirm whether or not your offer has been presented. With most of the foreclosures we are dealing with there is no negotiating it's pretty much here is our offer and find out if we win at some time in the next week. A few times there has been a highest and best counter back to my realtor but not often. My realtor is excellent but he can't control the other side of the deal and how there realtor's ethics are. I haven't looked into the south shore area very much but if I hear of any off market deals i'll shoot them your way!