The listing for our house with this realator officially ends today. They have had it for six months with no offer. Shortly after extending our listing in January our real estate agent turned a bit snarky. After the first more than inappropriate email I made my mind up that we would wait out the listing and be done with them. As it stands no offers came in so I thought the end date would be the end of it. She emailed to say that we had a holdover clause so if we sold the house in the next 60 days after the listing ended.
What a holdover clause means is if we accept an offer within 60 days of the listing end from anyone this realtor introduced to our propery via a showing during the time our house was listed with them, they are entitled to the commission. Furthermore if we were to list with another realtor within that 60 days they are entitled to 50% of the commission. However and this is big, if we sell to someone that did not see our property while it was listed they are entitled to nothing. That means we can sell privately and they are still entitled to no commission. We have bought and sold houses before so am well aware of what this clause means.
The real estate agent is under the mistaken impression that they now have 60 days to present any offers. Hello! Our legal obligation ends at the end of the signed contract providing we honour the holdover clause. We are under no obligation to entertain any offers from their clients and for all intents and purposes until we say otherwise the house is officially off the market aka not for sale. I cannot believe she is pulling this type of attitude. If they wanted to present an offer it should have been presented BEFORE our contract ended or they should have asked for an extension of the contract. If she thinks we are going to be at her beck and call for another 60 days she is sadly mistaken. If she thinks she is going to bully us for a commission she is sadly wrong. She had her chance. Now that the house is off the market we will excerise one of several options but she will not be getting a commission!
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