I'm somewhat annoyed, but maybe wrongly so. Need some input from the professionals out there.
Backstory: We've been working with an agent that's an acquaintance (kids go to the same small school). We reached out to her to help us find our first investment property in our local area, saw a handful, made a few offers, but kept coming up blank. It's a very desirable market where it's tough to make the rental numbers work. We ended up focusing 30 minutes away in a more attainable market (pretty far outside of her normal market) and ended up closing on our first duplex with her there in March. Since then, we've been focused entirely on this other market.
Question: We found a triplex in this other market and told her we wanted to see it. She jumped on scheduling the appointment (like she always does...love that!) and told me we were on for 5:15 yesterday. It's about an hour away from where I work, so I ended up getting there early... and learned she was there showing the same place to someone else at 5:00. Is this weird, or just how the game works? She did tell me that if the other guy wanted to make an offer it would be through one of her colleagues, or blind. I guess in the end, the part I'm really hung up on is that I don't believe she has many investor clients and I certainly didn't think she was representing more than one of us in this market that's the better part of an hour from where she lives. Am I being naive?
FWIW... we passed on the triplex. It wasn't the screaming deal we thought it was.
