I felt like something was off when my neighbors asked when the open house was and I couldn’t find any information about it posted on Zillow so I contacted my realtor Saturday morning asking what was up. After the open house was supposed to be I called him and he admitted that it was never posted apologized and wants to do one later this week.
My wife and I on the advice of the realtor paid to be gone the weekend and board our pets only to find out that there wasn’t even a point since there wasn’t an open house. What recourse do we have here? (I edited this last part realizing that open questions are better than closed ones)
Edit: Thank you everyone for your comments and advice, it’s been a disappointing and infuriating day. You can always count on the words of random internet strangers when you need advice.
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I told my real estate agent that I was going to be gone the 1st weekend of the listing. I told them it would be a good opportunity to have an open house. They didn’t have one. One week later they aren’t representing me. I booted those lazy fucks from listing my house shortly after.
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Your agent encouraged you to leave for the whole weekend, so they could have an open house for a few hours on a Sunday? Why would you inconvenience your clients so much?
If you show them the documentation of the expenses of the weekend, the hotel and boarding at least, they may take that off of their commission in the end.
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I usually encourage my sellers to leave the first weekend so we can also have free flowing traffic for the first 3 days so it might have been that combined with open house.
However this is unacceptable.
It takes 2 seconds to put your open house on the MLS which automatically feeds Zillow etc.(FYI We don’t have the ability to “put it on Zillow”)
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This is a huge miss and concerning lack of attention to detail. I’d ask for reduction of listing commission and this should be in writing with an updated listing agreement.
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They definitely should compensate you for your expenses as they were taken on based on their recommendation.
I would want a check right away as you don’t know that you’re going to sell this house through that agent. At this point, I would seriously consider switching agents.
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Yes, a discount in commission is probably in order here. I would normally say mistakes happen and to let it go, but asking you to leave for the weekend puts it on a different level.
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Fire them. They were supposed to be at the open house and they didn’t realized it wasn’t posted… if I were a realtor, I’d be triple checking the MLS post and seeing if it fed to the other sites…
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I don’t do open houses or inconvenience my clients. This does sound weird.
Did he say he was going an open house or did you assume your house would be held open.
I completed around 300 real estate transactions and zero of them were because of an open house. I spend my time sending video fly-throughs to the top buy agents in the area who have buyers who want a house like my listing. 10,000 YouTube views and the house sells.
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I open houses are incredibly dangerous anymore. Too many scamming thieves that will rob you of valuables when they roam the house. I would NOT allow anyone to run through my house with no one with them. I would have very strict rules for visiting my home, and that would be all stay with the realtor in every room at all times. Everybody else waits outside. PERIOD!
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