http://www.delusioned.net/2006/11/01/a-tale-of-two-agents/ Diluted by the illusion of others. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:08:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.delusioned.net/2006/11/01/a-tale-of-two-agents/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Delusioned » Article » The light is shining through. Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:36:40 +0000 http://www.delusioned.net/2006/11/01/a-tale-of-two-agents/#comment-7 [...] We finally got the deal closed last night, all verbal agreements with just a few initials required by myself on the document changes. I tell you, my agent’s just great. He played his cards well in the negotiations. He knew exactly what I was welling to go to and we knew exactly what the finished place we lost out on went for. Alright, so Agent Shadow, the one I post about in my previous post, had finally came back with a counter-offer. The counter was definitely too much; 117. He told her, not just no, but hell no and reminded her knows the value of the place as she just sold the last place. Given this is a fixer-upper, it’s worth much less. So, she called back her clients and got 116 from them. My agent still wasn’t going for it; “I know what my client’s bottom line is and you better to better than that,” as he put it. She called her clients again, dropped to 115. He still wasn’t going for it. He did say it’s better but still needs some work, “You’re still not close; I know he won’t go for that.” So, she calls her client back, gets them to drop 114 and then informed my agent if they dropped any lower, they would have to bring money to the closing. My agent was apparently just having a ball giving her a hard time; “Well, it’s still not at my client’s bottom line, but let me check with him and see what he says.” We already hit my bottom line. haha … I told my agent earlier that morning 114-115 was my cap. Talk about playing hard. That’s just awesome. So, we got the place for 114, up from my 109 bid but down from the 119,900 original price. For a point of reference, the last place sold at 118. [...] [...] We finally got the deal closed last night, all verbal agreements with just a few initials required by myself on the document changes. I tell you, my agent’s just great. He played his cards well in the negotiations. He knew exactly what I was welling to go to and we knew exactly what the finished place we lost out on went for. Alright, so Agent Shadow, the one I post about in my previous post, had finally came back with a counter-offer. The counter was definitely too much; 117. He told her, not just no, but hell no and reminded her knows the value of the place as she just sold the last place. Given this is a fixer-upper, it’s worth much less. So, she called back her clients and got 116 from them. My agent still wasn’t going for it; “I know what my client’s bottom line is and you better to better than that,” as he put it. She called her clients again, dropped to 115. He still wasn’t going for it. He did say it’s better but still needs some work, “You’re still not close; I know he won’t go for that.” So, she calls her client back, gets them to drop 114 and then informed my agent if they dropped any lower, they would have to bring money to the closing. My agent was apparently just having a ball giving her a hard time; “Well, it’s still not at my client’s bottom line, but let me check with him and see what he says.” We already hit my bottom line. haha … I told my agent earlier that morning 114-115 was my cap. Talk about playing hard. That’s just awesome. So, we got the place for 114, up from my 109 bid but down from the 119,900 original price. For a point of reference, the last place sold at 118. [...]

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