I am inclined to believe that the Brokerage lady is stalling so she can get full commission on the place, because I have LOI from the bank, and my earnest deposit would make me believe that I was a serious buyer.

I was able to place a lady with two kids just a few months ago.

The parcel resurfaced when a land buyer reached out to the lady owner via a letter.

I haven’t put an official contract on the property yet cause the lady is giving me until she moves to see what I want to do before they list it.

This has been discussed previously on Bigger Pockets and online, but answers are unclear (the online blog entries conflict wildly, see below for a couple of examples). 

I told her to find another broker because you need to call people back within five minutes because the first person to communicate with a lead wins their business 95% of the time.You basically want a broker that will let you run wild and sign off on deals quickly.Now to find a good broker, you first need to put yourself in the driver seat by building a list of LOCAL buyers/investors and what they want.

Wild times

I sleep with the lady that cleans my STRs.  

I see ladies trying to break into GC and contracting.

A young lady here was in a similar situation and questioning whether she should be putting money into her various cash deferred accounts (ex.