First Time Blogger

Welcome to my first blog! I’m a real estate broker in Asheville (that’s Ashevegas to some of you) NC with Century 21 All Seasons. My game plan is to utilize this blog for real estate information, both regional and national, and for general info about what’s going down in the big city of Asheville. A big thanks to Chad Huck for getting my wheels turning on the blog scene this morning. I’m looking forward to many discussions with all of you kind folks in cyberspace.  Here’s something to chew on for today.

I just put one of my listings under contract that was in a multiple offer situation. Being the thoughtful agent that I am, I advised my client to hold off on responding to the first offer until we had the 2nd offer in hand. At that time we would review both offers and make a decision. Pretty straight forward, right? The problem that occured was that agent #1 never contacted me before quietly dropping off the offer to my office. Agent #2 had shown the property last week, called me to see if I had anything cooking, and then set up a 2nd showing for yesterday. Agent #1 had placed himself on the short end of the stick by not coming in with a competitive offer (due to the fact that he was not aware of the competitive situation). My client quickly executed agent #2’s offer without even thinking about going back to agent #1. How do you think that agent #1’s clients felt about this. Hey it’s only business, and ethical business at that. Any opinions out there?