Well...some of you may remember the post about the FOW being the realtor that showed us some houses one day.

Well....she has really done it now....and she may lose her job because of me. I don't really give a rats a$$ though. She brought it on herself.

Yesterday was a really hectic day for me. I had to run to eye doctors appts (2 seperate offices....twice the wait), go to the bank (long lines in the drivethrough), take our oldest daughter to the High School and help her find her locker, walk her schedule and meet her new counselor, stop by the pharmacy to get a valium for our 7 yr old daughter (we found out the hard way that she is claustraphobic) so we could make the 30 minute drive to the office for her MRI. Couldn't even get her in the room....and the valium had no affect on her whatsoever. This was the 2nd try....hopefully the 3rd time will be a charm.

Our dog Tucker (the size of a miniature pony now) has been terrorizing our cat. They run through the house all day barking and hissing and knocking things over.

I was TIRED when I got home....but had phone calls to return.

We made an offer on a house last Friday and the seller accepted the offer within 2 hours. We were thrilled.

Here is where it starts going downhill.

I called our broker to let him know that we had a house that we made an offer on and he said....I already know.

Apparently the seller was trying to refinance the house with him so that they could use the extra money for a down payment on another house in another state.

The house was NOT supposed to be listed on the market yet as the appraisel on the house hasn't been finished for their refinancing application.

Anyone wanna guess who THEIR R.E. Agent is?

You guessed it....the FOW. We didn't know she was the agent until after we made the offer.

She knew that the house wasn't supposed to be listed yet. Yet she let our agent show us the house and she passed the offer onto the seller and let them accept the offer that we made on it. All BEFORE they were able to get their financing. I know...the sellers should have known they were screwing themselves also.

NOW....the house is NOT going to appraise for our offering price. It WILL appraise for under. The seller asked if we could use the appraisel that they requested so that the closing costs will go down.

Here is where the OW thought she was being smart.

She calls MY agent and tells her that she needs to call us and tell us that we need to go to a different broker....and that we need to get a different appraisel because she thinks that it will appraise for more. That way we won't have to amend our offer.

We are using a newer (in R.E. for 5 years now) agent because we wanted someone that didn't have as many clients and had more time for us.

The FOW must really think I'm an idiot.

Why would I request another appraisel to try to RAISE the price of a house I'm trying to buy? I'd WOULD be a complete idiot to say....hey....I don't want to pay $135,000 for this house I want to pay $150,000.

So....being me....I decided to call the FOW....at work of course.

I know...I know....I shouldn't have. BUT....I couldn't help myself. I'm a straight forward person and don't like dealing with middle men. I had to get to the source of the trouble.

I was very nice about it.

I asked her why she wanted us to go to a different broker...her answer was because her clients were trying to use the same broker. I said....so...that shouldn't matter one way or the other. She doesn't know that I know WAY more about this situation than I should.

She listed the house because she knew it would sell fast even though she knew that she shouldn't have because her clients were trying to refinance it before they sell it for their part of a down payment on another house. Essentially she screwed her clients out of being able to refinance it because once the offer is made and accepted they can't do anything.

The broker called her last Friday morning at 9 a.m. and told her to take it off the market and she told him that she would have it off within a half hour. That same day at noon she let them accept an offer from us on the house. The sellers themselves again....should have known that they were screwing themselves.

When the appraiser contacted the broker and told him that she couldn't get the house to appraise for the asking price the (FOW) agent didn't agree with it. Even though the other appraisers that she had do drive by's have agreed with the original appraisel. She didn't know that we knew this so she asked OUR agent to ask us to request a new one. Not gonna happen.

I got absolutely nothing but skirting the issue with her...go figure huh.

So....I did what I felt needed to be done.

I called the owner of the office and told him what was going on.

I never once mentioned anything about my association with the FOW or that she was my H's FOW. It wasn't relevant to this situation.

I told him that she listed the house too early. That she knew that they were trying to refinance it before they listed it. I also told him that she wasn't looking out for the best interest of her clients and that she encouraged them to accept an offer by giving them the impression that they COULD refinance it before closing..which is not true...once the offer has been accepted they can do nothing. I informed him that she wasn't happy with the appraisel so she tried to get us to request another one on the chance that it would appraise for more and she was requesting that we as the buyer should go to a different broker since we happen to be going through the same broker as the seller.

Of course he was very confused by the whole thing and didn't understand her requests. I said....well...that makes 2 of us.

The thing is....he is MY agents boss as well. We stayed with the same company....just went with a different agent.

My agent was caught in the middle of all of this and I felt bad for her as she had never been in a situation like this...and none of this was her fault. I also felt bad for the broker because he had never had anything like this happen before either.

Nobody else knew what to do....so I had to do something.

I hope she gets fired.

I'm not the first person to complain about her business ethics.

Ah!!! The power of Karma!!!

I love this story!!!

You give us FBS' much hope...I'm still waiting for my moment with FOW (hope it's as juicy, if not juicier than yours <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Won't she just claim you're being vindictive because of the past history of her and your H?

In order to do that she will have to expose herself as the FOW of my H.

I know for a fact that she isn't going to do that.

Why would she be able to claim that anyway....she's the one screwing everyone over here.

I didn't call her boss because of WHO she is....I called because she isn't conducting business in a manner that she should be conducting it.

Believe me....no matter who it was....I would have called their boss.

Happy Birthday Miss Priss!

Thank you very much Morgaine!