What’s the best way to explain in simple terms Intermediary to clients.

It’s the equivalent of you and your soon-to-be ex spouse using the same attorney in a divorce where you both claim no-fault and you’re both looking to get the kids, house, and all of the money.\n\nOr, just tell them that intermediary WITH appointments is great, because they both get their own agent and can both be advised and assisted without any possibility of the agent representing them breaking the law or their fiduciary duty. Intermediary WITHOUT appointments means they get -ZERO- representation, -ZERO- advice, and -ZERO- benefit because the agent legally can not advise either client, at which point they’re essentially just a very expensive file clerk. The only time I will ever do an intermediary w/out appointments is on a lease, and after I’ve thoroughly explained exactly what an intermediary is. However, even then I hate doing them because I feel like I’m somehow abusing the trust both of those clients have placed in me.

One for repairs, one changing the sales price due to appraisal, several for extending closing, and a few for monies that are going to be given by seller for living expenses to my buyer. Does one amendment override the other? I am asking because I hadn\'t ever dealt with suck a sticky mess. I had over 6 amendments, and I have no idea one would override the other, but per title it does. I have never heard this. Can someone please explain? If that is the case, how did the sales price and repair amendment not get X out? Any help is greatly appreciated.

This is definitely a question you should contact your broker and possibly an attorney about, because we don’t have the docs in front of us, and we don’t know the whole story. With that said, and going strictly off what you’ve stated, that’s incorrect- the only way you can “override” or void a previous amendment is by stating that the terms of a previous amendment are either amended or voided. As an extreme example, if you had 3 repairs that a buyer and seller agreed to, and for funsies or some form of self-loathing, you wanted to put each negotiated repair into a separate amendment, you could theoretically do that, and unless you inserted the words “This amendment voids all previous amendments” or “Repair xyz in the previous amendment effective 00/00/0000 is hereby struck/voided.” Then the previous 50 amendments that have been put into play are still valid and enforceable. \n\nAgain, if the title company is really pushing this, I would involve your broker, and get the opinion of the other agent too, because any changes to the contract or amendments could have seriously detrimental effects on both the buyer and seller, and unless you broker or an attorney tells you that everything should be changed, I wouldn’t do it. The title agent isn’t an attorney, and they are not always right, as much as they like to think they are.

I can save a search as a consumer that will do push notifications for new listings, but on the consumer side I cannot exclude subdivisions which is an important criteria for my search! When I do it through MLS, there is no option for push notifications! On the app for iOS if you try to setup a search with an excluded subdivision you get an error and the search will not run. On the desktop version through a browser, it will run a search with the excluded subdivisions but it just doesn't work since it apparently does not recognize the exclamation mark as an exclusion and as such it limits the search to show ONLY the subdivisions entered (that you wanted excluded!)

Set-up a saved search on MLS and for frequency of emails check ASAP. You should receive an email notice within 10-min of a property matching your criteria, going on the market or whatever status changes you request notifications for.

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