"Mamatha and I have been going to quite a few open houses these days and have been getting to know the processes of buying and selling houses. We see some of the techniques used to sell houses, specifically taking advantage of the internet to find more customers, and other aggressive front end techniques to find customers (ads in the paper with descriptives, etc.). These things are very important to us and right now it seems to us that maybe this is not the approach that you are taking with selling our condo.
Although we both think that you are a wonderful person, we are just finding that our approach and your approach differ, causing us to feel not as happy with the whole process. Again, we mean no hard feelings; it's just that our styles and approaches differ.
Taking this into account, I think that our current realtor/seller relationship is getting strained, and that it might be better if perhaps we could possibly think of different options. Otherwise, we'll continue not feeling as happy as we should be.
Although we know that you are a good realtor, we just feel as if our requests are not being met, because of the differing styles in selling the property. "
how can this note make her so mad that she wants to charge us at least $500 to get out of the contract. $800-$1000 if we ask her to detail her expenses. b/c of all this i called mn real estate association to see what my rights are. and when she found out that i made the call to them, and after she hears from me that i cannot afford $500 for all of this, she decided that she will allow me to pay $350 if i sign a contract that says that i won't complain to the real estate association about her. i said yes that idea interests me.
this morning i woke up thinking that it is ridiculous to sign away my rights for $150 savings. i also don't think that she should get a penny. she didn't put up a sign in two weeks(while our neighbors who are also selling have their 'for sale' sign out), no picture on the internet, black and white brochures at the open house, and she was just about to tell realtors about our listing two weeks after we signed the contract. she did a horrible job, and she wasted our time. so why should we have to pay her a penny? (in all honesty we were going to pay her for any costs incurred, for brochures,etc., but...she definitely didn't do $500 worth of work).
anyway, i think that i just cannot sign away my rights to 'complain' or talk of the problems, and i do not want to pay $500 to her, for her work doesn't deserve it. so, we are going to keep the contract going to the end date of 5/03, but pull our listing. so i guess that i don't get a new house til the summer. we'll have to start the whole process over then.
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Although we both think that you are a wonderful person, we are just finding that our approach and your approach differ, causing us to feel not as happy with the whole process. Again, we mean no hard feelings; it's just that our styles and approaches differ.
Taking this into account, I think that our current realtor/seller relationship is getting strained, and that it might be better if perhaps we could possibly think of different options. Otherwise, we'll continue not feeling as happy as we should be.
Although we know that you are a good realtor, we just feel as if our requests are not being met, because of the differing styles in selling the property. "
how can this note make her so mad that she wants to charge us at least $500 to get out of the contract. $800-$1000 if we ask her to detail her expenses. b/c of all this i called mn real estate association to see what my rights are. and when she found out that i made the call to them, and after she hears from me that i cannot afford $500 for all of this, she decided that she will allow me to pay $350 if i sign a contract that says that i won't complain to the real estate association about her. i said yes that idea interests me.
this morning i woke up thinking that it is ridiculous to sign away my rights for $150 savings. i also don't think that she should get a penny. she didn't put up a sign in two weeks(while our neighbors who are also selling have their 'for sale' sign out), no picture on the internet, black and white brochures at the open house, and she was just about to tell realtors about our listing two weeks after we signed the contract. she did a horrible job, and she wasted our time. so why should we have to pay her a penny? (in all honesty we were going to pay her for any costs incurred, for brochures,etc., but...she definitely didn't do $500 worth of work).
anyway, i think that i just cannot sign away my rights to 'complain' or talk of the problems, and i do not want to pay $500 to her, for her work doesn't deserve it. so, we are going to keep the contract going to the end date of 5/03, but pull our listing. so i guess that i don't get a new house til the summer. we'll have to start the whole process over then.
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