From: Cuse 
Newsgroups: alt.invest.real-estate misc.invest.real-estate alt.real-estate-agents
Subject: Re: Is there anything wrong with this transaction?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 03:22:15 GMT



bairdspalding@yahoo.com wrote:

>On 21-Sep-2003, "Jeff"  wrote:
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>>>Thanks.  Yes I told him I will not go over 700K, he keeps showing me
>>>850K, 789K, 799K houses even now.  I kept telling him my upper limit is
>>>700K if the house does not need ANY work.  Yet he kept showing us houses
>>>beyond our limits, kept saying "don't worry these are not worth more
>>>than 700K I will help you bring the price down".  Same thing happening
>>>all over again.
>>>
>>>Why am I still using them you ask? well as long as he keeps showing me
>>>houses I will go take a look.  However I am no longer loyal to him so I
>>>am looking myself as well.
>>>
>>>Cuse
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>>>
>>I'd tell this guy to get lost!
>>
>>Not that you need to argue with him, but if he wants to, ask him how you
>>can
>>expect him to bring the prices down when he took the price up on the last
>>one you made an offer on.
>>
>>This is the type of agent that makes us all look bad.
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>If he's a good agent he will get you what he say's he can. It's a matter of
>timing and finesse. If he keeps vigilantly in touch with the se sellers he
>can cut you a deal in your price range. If the home you were looking for
>were in the minus 200k range I would say he's insane. But in the 700k range,
>90% of these owners are in a dream world. It's not that long a wait in low
>end high end homes. They're getting burried so fast I can hear the dirt hit
>the coffin.
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I am sorry I am not a native English speaker.  I read your post several 
times, still cannot comprehend the meaning of "They're getting burried 
so fast I can hear the dirt hit the coffin" does it mean houses in 700K 
are selling very fast?

Cuse