You provide one and I will retract my statement indicating that you know your statement to not be true.Good luck with that challenge

I know that on the residential side the process is pretty structured, but how does it work on the commercial step by step before you actually sign a purchase and sale agreement, that is you are expressing your interest to purchase and documenting what you need from the seller but before you make any non-retractable commitment?

They should have no problem sharing the original application with certain information retracted (date of birth, social, driver's license, etc.)I use a screening score sheet.

I sure hopes that someone on his staff slaps him upside the head and makes him retract.

The para legal inadvertently did have my usual admin fee recorded on one & we had to retract it.

I retract my statements about being in the business not being the same as investing - because I suspect from his language that David would agree anyway!

@Rich RodmanRich: Thought I'd chime in with a quick note about tenant risk ...On small properties (under 80+ units), tenant-specific risk can be substantial in an economic retraction.

Is there any risk of getting into trouble with the appraiser or bank, or having them retract or change our loan terms?

If you do mind me asking, I retract the question.

By having this agreement in place prior to, and given the buyers agent can retract their commission, it may be less expensive to pay your buyers agent through the closing instead of raising the price by an amount you might have otherwise have agreed to go.In the situation you described, if the actual fact is the listing broker is attempting to double end the deal to their own buyer client but the two offers are similar it may have saved you a couple/several thousands of dollars had you agreed to pay your buyers agent a fee/% in exchange for retracting their rights to a commission and raised your offer by x  dollars.In the past when working CRE brokerage exclusively, I would propose this to my buying clients when a competitive buying situation arose, but with the added caviot that my fee went into the deal on a pare pasu equity basis and I also got the management/brokerage work for the project.