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Net Listings Can Present Problems
Q. I want to net a specific amount for the sale of my land. However, I cannot find a decent real-estate agent who will take my listing. I know my land is not easy to sell and want to give the agent maximum incentive. Why can't I find any agent who will take my net listing?
- Henry J.
A. Most real-estate agents are aware of the pitfalls of net listings, which are illegal in some states. As a property seller, you should be grateful the agents you contacted wouldn't accept your net listing.
Problems can develop with net listings in several ways. If the agent obtains a low offer below your net price, he or she might be tempted to lose that offer and never deliver it to you because the agent would receive no sales commission. However, if the agent obtains a purchase offer substantially above your net price, you would feel the agent failed to inform you of the true value of your property and you would probably insist the agent adjust their sales commission.
Q. We listed our home for sale for six months with what turned out to be an awful real-estate agent. She came highly recommended by a friend who, I later discovered, is her niece. This eccentric agent hardly ever showed our home to prospective buyers. I learned from another realty agent friend that local agents avoid showing our agent's listings because she is so difficult.
Now my husband has located a buyer who is a friend from work. We showed our house to these people and they love it. Our listing expired, thankfully, last month. Do we owe any sales commission to the listing agent since we showed the house to our prospects during the listing period?
- Barb N.
A. No. Most real-estate listings contain a ``savings clause'' that allows the listing agent to receive a sales commission if the home is sold, after the listing expires, to a client registered by the agent with the seller during the listing term. If the listing agent did not register the buyer with you during the listing term, the agent is not entitled to a sales commission if you sell the home to your prospects.
Q. We thought we sold our home. In fact, we signed a contract to buy a larger home. But our home sale didn't close because our buyer backed out. As a result, we couldn't complete the purchase of the home we were buying. Our seller, a nasty homebuilder, refuses to refund our $5,000 deposit. Unfortunately, our home purchase was not contingent upon the sale of our old home. We talked to our attorney about getting our $5,000 back and she wrote a few letters, but the builder threatens to sue us for lost profits. How can we get our $5,000 refunded without running the risk of a lawsuit?
- Lowell P.
A. Sorry, I find it hard to be very sympathetic with a defaulting home buyer. If you could not afford to buy a new home without selling your old home, you should have made the home purchase contingent upon the sale of your former residence.
The ``nasty home builder'' kept his new house off the market at least several weeks, possibly missing a sale to another buyer. He is within his legal rights to sue you for lost profits if he can prove his damages. I suggest you settle by forfeiting the $5,000 deposit in return for the home builder's agreement not to sue you for lost profits. In the future, don't sign contracts you can't honor.
Q. My husband and I have been considering several different neighborhoods where we would like to buy a home. We have inspected about two dozen homes in these areas but are thoroughly confused about how much the homes are really worth. Should we hire a professional appraiser before making a purchase offer?
- Vickie P.
A. No. Obtaining a professional appraisal before you make a home purchase offer will not only take time but prove to be very costly. A better approach is to ask the realty agent to prepare a written ``comparative market analysis'' form showing recent sales prices of similar nearby homes, as well as the asking prices of comparable neighborhood homes now listed for sale.
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Bob Bruss' column appears Sundays in the Home/Real Estate section of The Times. Letters and comments should be sent to Bob Bruss, Seattle Times Newsroom, P.O. Box 70, Seattle, WA 98111.
