I didn’t go into work today. I gave myself a huge headache by getting upset about losing the townhome. I’m trying to be positive about this by thinking that it just wasn’t meant to be and we’ll find something even better, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m pissed off about what happened.
The listing agent was the one who wanted to work out the deal late Tuesday evening and we didn’t want to waste any time and agreed. Once we had their verbal agreement, we arranged to have me initial the new paperwork and then get the seller’s signatures. Apparently we didn’t get them quick enough. What irks me the most is how the listing agent avoided our agent’s calls and made us wait until late last night to tell us they accepted another offer. Not only that, but she didn’t even give us the opportunity to match or exceed the other offer. To me that is just unethical. If I was the seller, I wouldn’t do that. Oh that’s so easy to say, you’re probably thinking, but I wouldn’t. If I’ve agreed to something, I stick to my word. If the seller really didn’t want to sell us the place for the price they eventually agreed to, they could have said no. Hell, they could have told us they’d sleep on it. It would have sucked, but at least we wouldn’t have thought the place was ours.
I’d be really interested to see how much it ended up getting sold for. I know our agent will tell us once everything is said and done. I will be so angry if it’s a couple thousand dollars because I think we would have upped our price just to ensure we had the place. It was that nice. Hardwood floors, lots of space, great layout. Ugh. I was going to post pictures but there’s no point in doing so now. I feel like such a gullible person too. This has definitely changed my whole attitude about the process. And our agent apparently gave the other agent an earful as well. I don’t know who she is, but I told our agent that we refuse to even look at a place that she’s selling in the future.
As for the sellers, I’m angry with them too. I understand they only lived in the place for two years and had to do what they could to get as much money as possible, but the way they went about it was not nice. They should have either started off with a higher asking price, or like I said, not agreed to ours. And what gets me is that the final agreed upon price was right in the middle of what the same exact layouts were sold for in the same subdivision. So it’s not like we were asking for a steal. Some appliances were new and others were quite old.
Oh well, no sense in talking about it anymore. I will be angry about this until we do get a place. But I won’t talk about it here until it really is a done deal. I feel like I jinxed things by mentioning it.