-Regarding the sudden events that occurred over the weekend in which I was asked to sign a mutual release so that the seller could pursue the cash offer - Reading through the agent's messages to me, the attorney noted some persuasion, or a force of guilt by the agent to me, to get me to sign the release.

Lastly, as others have mentioned, I don't see a value in brining a formal legal complaint to fight this, I do however see a value of using verbal persuasion to get the seller to adhere to his/her contractual privies and reassure them that you as the buyer will close and will work with them in resolving their issues of buying another home.

If you read this far, thanks for reading this essay!

Steve Mindy's gentle persuasion got me on the pod cast in about 3 years.. your message is important ,and I agree ( no offense Mindy) but many of the pod cast are just those selling something at the end of the day and I fully understand that.. 

I get the infinite return when there is no money in the deal. all my buy and holds are like that now in NZ as its essay to pull the money out when you have 10-15 growth per year. 

The podcast was good, I liked the NPR vs Fox analogy...I like Robert Cialdini a lot of for persuasion and influence psychology - he is a great speaker as well, and pretty funny.

Oren Klaff author of pitch anything Ari Galper unlock the gameJordan Belfort Straight Line Persuasion  (the movie Wolf of Wall Street was based on his life story )Since sales is not only what you say, but how you say it, its best if you get the audio video versions of these authors. 

I'm not trying to move anyone to a different political persuasion.  

The fact that I put that fee on the Credit cards and had that monthly payment staring in my face every month, pressured me to come home after work scrutinize my marketing, practice my sales pitch on my wife, read/watch persuasion books/lectures and just be non-stop until I started getting leads.

Please feel free to PM me for some help with your other questions so I am not clogging up the feed with 5 paragraph essays!