All Forum Posts by: Sarah Reynolds

@Guy Gimenez  Understood.  Thanks! Much appreciated.

@Guy Gimenez So when the listing agent is acting as an intermediary, does he most likely get permission from the seller to disclose to the buyer he also represents what the other offers are so that his buyer can end up being highest and best?

Thanks for your replies, everyone. Do you all think an escalation clause alone would get me the deal (assuming that I'm in fact the highest offer) or are my chances dramatically improved by getting the listing agent to represent me as well? @Russell Brazil @Kevin Dong

Was hoping someone else had experienced something like this.  Anyone?

Hey BiggerPockets,

I'm pretty frustrated right now, and I was hoping to get some feedback from everyone.  Two times now I have lost multiple offer situations in which highest and best was requested.  When I come back after the deal has closed to see who won and by how much I see both times that I lost by only about $1,000.  I also see that the listing agent ended up representing the winning bidder.  It is feeling like my own high bid is simply being used as a marker for the listing agent to tack on a nominal amount and award the property to his own buyer.  Is this a new practice?  I'd never had this happen before, and now it's happened twice in one month.  Do people get the listing agent with all his insider information to represent them and ensure that they are the highest and best?!?!

Thanks for your response.  My understanding is that it is not illegal to mail to them, as they always have the option to just throw the letter away.  However, I'm not a fan of receiving angry phone calls month after month, so I probably would be inclined to just remove them from my mailing list.  I'm just curious about what the common practice is.

Hi all,

I've heard many real estate educators say that they never remove anyone from their mailing list after sending out a direct mail campaign, even when requested to do so.  My question to everyone is, do you remove people from your mailing list when they ask you to?  If not, how do you respond to this request? 

Thanks!

Thanks so much everyone for your replies.  I'll still have to go by the house to confirm that the dog did dig underneath the fence, but I have every reason to believe that he did.  I found him in the yard about two weeks ago when the house was still vacant.  He had shoved through one of the boards.  After that I had work done to strengthen the fence, which clearly was not enough to keep him out.  I really like your suggestion, @Randy E., of using the cinder blocks.  Thanks! Hopefully that does the trick. I'll speak to the neighbor as well, but I'd rather just go resolve it than wait for him.

Hi everybody,

My brand new tenants just informed me that the next door neighbor's pit bull has been digging underneath the fence and setting up shop in their backyard.  I plan on discussing it with the neighbor, but I really don't want to have to depend on him to resolve this, so I was hoping that someone who has successfully dealt with this could give me some suggestions on how to keep the dog out of the yard. 

Thanks!