All Forum Posts by: Kara Daugherty

Thank you for your response Charlie & Wayne.  The real unfortunate part is he is the broker of the agency so there is no one to turn to.  We tried to speak with him and he owns no part of it as his fault in misleading us.  It is a small real estate agency and I can not find any corporate information other than branch run offices.  We are going to file a compliant with the Florida Real Estate Commission at this point.  He is well aware we plan to file and obviously doesn't care.  We don't want him to do this to anyone else.  As for moving the closing of our current home unfortunately the buyers would not even allow a 24 hour lease back to coordinate moving.  To say the least nothing about our buying and selling experience has been pleasurable.

We recently put an offer in on a short sale property.  We never intended to list our current home until we were under contract on another home.  Our realtor emailed us that "the bank agreed to everything" and asked when we would like to list our home.  Us not being real estate experts took his word and assumed the signed contract we received was bank approved not just seller approved.  We listed our home and accepted an offer.  Hours later our realtor informs us the bank wants 125K more on the short sale property and proceeded to tell us it was always subject to bank approval.  First of all it had been two months so why wasn't he following up?  Second but most importantly can he be held liable for misleading us in the first place.  We would have never listed our home had we known it was not bank approved.  What code of ethics has he violated?