I just can’t help but think that every evil in our society would be remedied if we remember the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done to yourself. It seems very fitting when it comes to real estate transactions.
For example: Say you are “Mark” and you’re in the market for a house. You’re moving into the area from Canada because you’ve accepted a new job here. It’s July and you start work on September 1. You visit my house on July 2, and then see it again a few weeks later. Then your realtor calls up mine and tells me you’re going to submit an offer by Friday, July 23. Well, that Friday comes and goes, as does the next and then the next. As home owners, we’ve given up on you. Then suddenly you make a low offer. It’s not low enough to piss us off, but it’s lower than we wanted. So, we begin to negotiate.
This is not a good time for you to take off to Mexico for a week.
Especially considering you want to close on the house by mid-September.
When it takes one and a half weeks to respond to a figure from the seller, well, that’s considered bad form. You’re supposed to respond within 2 days. Did your realtor forget to tell you that?
Of course, your bad form is a little more understandable when your realtor then takes off for 5 days in the middle of the negotation process. So now, what should have been wrapped up in July takes until the fourth week of August.
You the buyer have now given us just 3 weeks to find a house and avoid being homeless.
I wish you would have considered our timeline as well as your own. I wish you would have realized that when you get a house, someone else is losing one. I wish you would have applied the Golden Rule and considered how your actions would affect another.
Yep, we’d all be better off if we considered the Golden Rule more often.
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