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Originally Posted by 911Rob
Dari: not necessarily a story I'd be proud of?
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Oh, I'm not proud of it! But I'm not ashamed either. It happened and I find it mildly amusing. Actually we don't know whether it was a typo or if the salesman just did a dumb thing. My impression at the time was that the counter was delivered to my broker and not been prediscussed with the seller's broker. So when our broker read it he said, well.....o.k.
Dunno what the court would have said, given that it was in black & white on their offer. I guess the seller's broker didn't either so didn't fight it. "Gee Yeronner, we meant 3 "days" might not have been convincing. At any rate, at most, the seller was delayed for about a month and a half and as far as I know, maybe he took whatever loss that involved out of the commission he paid his broker - I know he was pissed at his broker, not at us. How I know this is because the seller managed a large restaurant that we frequented and we had spoken with him on numerous occasions before and after we bought his house (which we didn't know was his until well into the deal).
Uhh, yer not gonna tell me that real estate is never a cut-throat business, are ya?
Edit: I just now recall; before the meeting we paid a real estate lawyer for a consultation on what to do and he said, essentially, "they wrote the offer". I was going to let it go prior to that consultation.