[Rick Lee]

My folks listed their main house for sale in April, but they spend all their time now at their beach house. One day my mom came back to the main house, having been gone for a few weeks, to mow the lawn. There was a dog near death in their bedroom. A realtor who had shown the house a week earlier, had left a door unlatched and the neighbor's dog got inside. The dog went upstairs but was afraid to come back down the stairs and so stayed there. Luckily, the toilet seat was up, so the dog was able to get water. But the carpets upstairs were trashed and the whole house stunk. My folks and their realtor know which realtor did this, but she's (the guilty realtor) saying no one can prove it and her firm is refusing to pay for anything. My folks are paying out of pocket now, as they were tired of having the house unshowable while everyone argued about it. They have a $1000 homeowner's insur. deductible, so it wasn't worth it to call them for a $1500 carpet replacement in the upstairs. So selling FSBO would have a benefit here in letting people into the house and always being there for it.