It's happened several times. I go to show a home and the seller has left their net sheet laying on the kitchen counter, coffee table or even under a magnet on the refrigerator. A net sheet outlines how much the seller owes and how much they expect to get back at closing. Most net sheets have a "scenario" for a potential sales price. Hardly the type of information you want to leave hanging around with its pages turned open for the buyers agent and his buyer to accidentally see.
Luckily for this seller and my own moral conscious, this house didn't suit my buyers needs. But what if it had? It's not like I walked over and thumbed through the home owners personal information. It sat open to the net page for all to see. It's like walking into a house and me seeing another man come running out completely naked from one of the rooms (it's happened). I didn't mean to look at him naked. It just happened.
Maybe a loud gasp after seeing the payoff reading 0 with me quickly looking away will be appropriate next time.
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Haha. My eyes, my eyes....they burn. Nothing like accidentally seeing a naked guy. And good point about the seller's net sheet. Buyers will do whatever they can to get a deal. And that includes accidentally spotting a net sheet laying around.
I....just....don't....get...it. Oh well, sucks for the sellers that their agnet didn't advise them not to leave the net sheet hanging around.
I tell my sellers to get the CMA and everything else out of plain sight and I explain why. You would think this would be common sense!
Huge mistake on the part of the seller and their agent that coule come back and bite them pretty hard. I wouldn't go searching for it, but I would have no compunction using it if I saw it either.
Greg, It sounds like this seller wants to cut to the chase, and thinks this "inadvertent" (on purpose) oopsie is going to help get them an offer sooner.
Oh my that is NOT good. Yikes, yikes and yikes.
I am hoping that the seller just didn't want to loose that important piece of the CMA. I have often times seen paperwork laying around that shouldn't be out. I have also known agents to actually pick it up & look too. How about everyone passing it around on brokers tour?
Net sheet definitely counts as a valuable! Really, a guy came running out naked? I thought that kind of stuff only happened inthe movies...
Why don't I ever get to see naked men running out of the house?! I'm always at the wrong place, wrong time.
Oh boy...that is a big time goof up!!! I know we have often seen stuff laying around that folks really shouldn't have left...especially in a vacant home!
Hi Greg - Perhaps the listing agent has only been hired to provide limited services such that one of the excluded services is telling the seller not to leave out such information.
People are awesome!
Wow. It can be amazing how relaxed people get in their own homes - even though they know that strangers will be walking through!
I can't believe they did that...how crazy! If I was their agent and knew that had happened I would have not been very happy!