When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. \u00a0I scheduled an appointment to see a home in a nice community. \u00a0The school districts are great as well as the neighborhood. \u00a0The price was right and this home was not a short sale, not an easy find in South Florida. \u00a0After getting four appointments cancelled by the seller, my buyer was getting rather desperate as his moving date was only 4 weeks away, as his landlord was kicking him out because he would not sign a one year lease.<\/p>\n
The buyer decides to write an offer sight unseen. \u00a0The offer was full price, cash, with zero contingencies. \u00a0The urgency was high, as this buyer wanted to be in a home and have the sweat heart school district. \u00a0Surprisingly the offer offer was never even looked at by the seller, because she had a change of heart on selling. \u00a0Besides the fact that I was owned a commission and deciding not to waste my time to chase it down, the buyer then ends up firing me because I was unable to pull this deal off.<\/p>\n
Hence the title, full price wheel barrel of money and a lost client: Realtor gets tko’d. \u00a0What has your experience been in situations like this? \u00a0Reporting live from the trenches of a warm muggy humid South Florida, I’m Robert Worthington, and I promise to have yet another doozy to report on soon! \u00a0I’m keeping my head up, ears up, tail\u00a0waging,\u00a0 and I’m sniffing out my next deal! \u00a0When your part of the bloodhound pack, you never quit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. \u00a0I scheduled an appointment to see a home in a nice community. \u00a0The school districts are great as well as the neighborhood. \u00a0The price was right and this home was not a short sale, not an easy find in South Florida. \u00a0After getting four appointments cancelled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3265,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3265\/down-payment-gift-programs-yea-or-nay\/","url_meta":{"origin":14937,"position":0},"title":"Down Payment Gift Programs: Yea or Nay?","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"June 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"On June 9th, in a speech to the National Press Club, FHA Commissioner Brian D. 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