Trying to buy a house. I don't think I've ever dealt with a shadier organization that the lot of shifty ass listing agents we've been dealing with.
Latest situation: we inform the listing agent I'll be doing a VA loan. He verbally acknowledges the exterior paint and siding will need to some repairs and touch ups for the VA appraisal, but to make and offer because we can get the deal done no problem. Make an offer, pay for an inspection, give our list of repairs including mostly shit like the exterior paint and siding that he already acknowledged would have to be done for the VA to be willing to close. Their counter offer is a bunch of petty shit we didn't ask them to do like tighten a ceiling fan and putting tip-prevention straps on the stove.... and a refusal to do any of the repairs the VA will require, like the fucking exterior paint and siding the listing agent acknowledged and seemed amenable to before we put in an offer and paid for the inspection.
And that's just the latest shenanigans. First, we were shown a house twice and encouraged to put in an offer and then told there was actually a cash buyer all along but negotiations had gotten messy, meaning they were just using our interest as a bargaining chip with a current buyer and sorta hiding the fact they were kinda verbally under contract.
Then we were told there were no offers on a house and we'd been the only people to see it. We got an offer in 3 hours later, still told there were no offers and nobody had else had even seen it. First thing the next morning the offer is rejected because the agent said they already had an offer on the house, meaning they had an offer all along, probably a personal friend or some shit, and just wanted to see our offer but didn't want to tell us so we could add in an escalation clause (which we would have).
Also had a house we offered full listing, most of closing... and they came back with weird demands, like asking for an additional month and a half to close "for personal reasons" and other stupid shit they could have easily disclosed before we wrote up an offer. The house wasn't that nice, so we just walked without a counter to avoid what seemed like drama, and several shit inspections later they finally seemed to have to take a lower offer than ours.
Don't know if it's just dumb luck, a string of incompetence or a bunch of criminal masterminds, but at this point my impression of the entire industry is pretty low (and I deal with lawyers all day).
