A little background first. (sorry for the long story)
Realtor agent ‘A’ is a 65 yo woman that is a friend of my Mom, does not own a cell phone, divorced, and had a daughter my age that tragically died about 3 years ago.
Realtor agent ‘B’ is about 50 something, owns a cell phone, her husband works in my office, and she recently just sold the home of my boss.
They work in the same office and have known each other for years as realtor ‘B’ has been the office manager. I do not have any contract with either one of them.
The situation.
My wife and I are not in the market for a house. Let me restate that we are not and have not been actively looking for a house.
However, a unique house came on the market. It was distinctive enough that we thought we should take a look at it. So I gave agent ‘A’ a call so that we could view the house. We viewed the house two days in a row. The total time involvement for agent ‘A’ (and I am including travel time both ways for her, and the time to talk to the listing agent) is less than two hours total. Let me restate she has spent two hours of her life on this, that is it.
So if I buy the house agent ‘A’ has minimal time invested for a fairly good payday.
I decide that I will spread the wealth as it were and give realtor ‘B’ the shot at selling my house. She impresses me as hard working, competent, nice, a real go-getter. She does a market analysis of my house. Did I mention she actually owns a cell phone?
Time passes. (I am waiting for the owner to move out and/or drop the price, another story altogether)
Apparently agent ‘B’ says something to agent ‘A’ about me. Agent ‘A’ calls my mom. Mom calls me last night, tells me that agent ‘B’ better not be involved, and reminds me that agent ‘A’ tripped and hit her head in my Mom’s house this past week, is divorced, and that her daughter tragically died.
My questions:
Is it OK to use one realtor agent to buy a house for you and another to sell your existing home?
Do you have any suggestion for what to do now?
Do I owe anything to either agent?
My opinion:
Agent ‘A’ should be happy to get anything at all. She could have ZERO involvement if I should so choose. She has next to nothing in time involvement. However she somehow feels that she is ‘owed’ the whole deal. If she ahad been actively pursuing a house for us and had done research and showed us a bunch of homes then I would probably agree. But that isn’t the case and she is starting to piss me off.