@Thomas Ingrao
I don’t know if my opinion is too late to matter or help but I would suggest doing some research and find out who the fiduciary agent is, if they both have gone into a home either a relative or an attorney will be in charge of their estates and I would suggest getting in contact with them directly, my husband and I had a problem similar to what you are describing several years ago when he was buying a piece of property, being a Paralegal I did my background research found out everything about the property and the owner including finding their contact information, because when we tried attempting to submit our offer (because it was low) the broker told us the owner wouldn’t accept it. So I went and contacted the owner directly talked to him told him what we were looking to offer and he said yes he would accept it, but for some reason he insisted that we attempt to try and go through the agent again now knowing he would accept it, but we were not going to tell the agent we had contacted the owner ourselves we all kept that between us. So we tried it again and this time we were more forceful and so the broker said she would review the offer with the owner and get back to us. About a day or so later the broker called us back and said sorry the seller said no they would not accept the offer, now we knew this was a complete lie because we had already talked to the owner and he said yes. So I called the owner again and asked him if he had spoken to the broker about our offer or if she had even called him about the offer we submitted and he told us she never even contacted him... We learned right there that this Broker was a lying B??ch... and this lying went on and on for weeks and weeks meanwhile we kept in steady contact with the owner regarding the entire terms of our deal even though we would then have to go back to the liar and include her in some of the details... and despite the fact she did nothing to help the entire situation but try to sabotage it (we think it was because we were not offering enough to make it worthwhile for her commission) but she made sure she was front and center on closing day to get her commission check that’s for sure.... some Brokers S?CK, not all but some do.... SO I WOULD JUST SAY MAKE YOUR ORIGINAL OFFER DIRECTLY TO THE OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE NOT THE BROKER.
