You may just need to be creative if the seller starts jumping up and down.Is there a reason you want to avoid the double close other that saving a few hundred dollars?

You will likely come across HUNDREDS of similar stories here on BP if you look back at enough threads.

:P) about the floors with the cabinets. 

You are looking at a business liability of likely a few hundred k and the landlord has a center in the millions to tens of millions in capital exposure for their risk side. 

Up until now I have been reading hundreds of articles over the past several months almost religiously on a daily basis and podcasts daily each way on my 45 minute commute to work (I am running out of BP podcasts and alternate with audible audiobooks). 

Agents are hired to represent buyers or sellers, and no matter on whose size I am, that is the client that will do the absolute best deal, or in a hot market like Chicago right now - will get the deal in multiple bids.In the fsbo cases, I had every seller that thought they saved a commission by listing in mls on their own take a lot less than if you had an agent.Regarding Redfin, I have my own opinion based on my experience with their agents and with clients that bought or sold with me after meeting them, however I can't express my thoughts here as is illegal for me to comment on a different brokerage.Please understand that the experience a broker that sold hundreds of properties, negotiated with all kind of personalities and saw all kind of situations - brings at the table a lot more than writing an offer.  

There are thousands (well, hundreds of thousands) of people who pass through these doors in almost every walk of life.

Now, if you are a large hedge fund that buys hundreds of properties sight unseen, the numbers will shake out, an individual could have 10 loosers in a row

I called a few plumbing companies and they quoted me at least a couple hundred to come out and do a pressure test.

But the worst and strangest experience was when I responded to and ad for some oak cabinets in a well-to-do neighborhood.