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I’m a first-time homebuyer who signed a Buyer Agency Agreement contract with my realtor. I signed it while doing paperwork after deciding to put in a bid for a house (I lost the bid when I was outbid by another buyer).
Anyway, my realtor and I communicated via email mostly. When I found a house online I was interested in, I would email her the address and MLS#, and we would agree on a time to go look at it…usually the same day. I inquired about 5 houses this way.
The first two I didn’t like; the 3rd I lost a bid war (thats when I signed the papers), the fourth wasn’t “residential” and that disqualified my loan, and the 5th I didn’t get to look at because she said it was sold the day before.
I emailed her the info to the fifth house I wanted to look at on June 9th. On June 10th she emailed me back and she said the house went under contract (offer accepted) just the day before. I was very disappointed that I had missed it by a day.
Ten days later, on the evening of June 19th, I found this same house being advertised in the real estate section of craigslist. I called the agent that the house was listed under (I interrupted his supper) and when talking to him I found out that it was indeed available and it always was. The following Monday, June 22nd, I called him again and he verified verbally that the house was always available for sale. This past Friday, the 26th, I contacted him via email to ask, more specifically, if this house went under contract on the 9th of June, if only momentarily.
He answered back that the house never did go under contract and he has no idea how or why I was told that.

My realtor doesn’t know that I’ve been in contact with the agent of this house and that I’ve confirmed through him that what she had told me about it being under contract was untrue.
But I did ask her about it on Monday, June 22nd, to which she replied that it is indeed back on the market. I asked her what happened that it went “under contract” on the 9th, but is back on the market now. She stated that she would contact the agent and find out.
That was this past thursday, the 25th. On friday, the 26th, she emailed me and she said she still hasn’t heard from the agent as to why there was no sale on the house.

I basically caught her in a lie.

I haven’t told her what I know, but because of all this I’ve lost all trust in her and her performance. I want to simply break the Buyer Agency contract with her, but I read through it and for the closing date of the contract, the date wasn’t written, and its basically broken on the closing date when I find a house. Also, the contract isn’t with her, its with who she works for…the broker.
I don’t want the broker to assign me someone else from his stable, I want this contract null and void so I can go find a reputable realtor to work with.

I’m not sure how to go about attempting it, though. Do I contact the broker my realtor works for? Or do I talk with her directly, letting her know I found out the truth about the status of the house and that I don’t want to have her work for me anymore?

What would be the proper approach in this situation?

The house in question is only about 2/3 the price of what I’ve normally been looking for…maybe she didn’t want a smaller commission? I don’t know…doesn’t matter her reason, I want to break the contract and move onto someone else.

BTW, I still haven’t found a house (I decided to pass on the house in question because of basement issues) or another realtor yet.
Expert Realtor: I DID ask her…re-read the question. All I’ve gotten from her were elusive or irrelevent responses.
Finally I said:
“Regarding the *** * **** house, as you may or may not recall, on the 10th of this month you stated via email that it had gone under contract the day before. But I found out this weekend that it is still available. So, naturally, I’m curious as to why I was told the house was unavailable at that time, but it is available now. I think it’s a question that anyone in my position as a homebuyer would seek an answer to.”
She then said that she’d call the realtor and let me know. I haven’t heard from her since. I contacted the agent of the house myself 3 times. He’s not a hard guy to get ahold of.
Proudmom: thank you for the informative and insightful answer.
Expert Realtor: you and Proudmom said some of the same things, but in drastically different tones. I hope for your clients’ sake that your disposition here doesn’t reflect your real-world attitude.

I recently replaced my old desktop machine with a cheap Dell running XP Home edition. I am only using it for internet applications and have my other computer completely separate and protected so my personal files aren’t available online or be subject to being lost.

The new machine has all kinds of anti-spy, etc software that keeps bugging me with the pop-ups. What I am interested in, however, is getting the best software for cleaning up the hard drive when it get’s cluttered up.

I prefer to buy the software on a CD rather than downloading it. I also have the recovery disc from DELL for when everything else fails.

Anyway, what is the best and latest software on the market for cleaning up the hard drive clutter.? And, perhaps, for anti-spy and anti-virus protection

Thanks everyone.