Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: We were recently involved in a multiple-offer situation. The seller’s agent collected six bids at the 5 p.m. deadline on Tuesday. This agent presented the offers to the seller on Wednesday. We were then granted a multiple-counter offer, along with the other three top offers. Clearly, the [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: We are thinking about making an offer on a property, The seller’s agent is insisting we make the offer through him because we attended his open house. Can he do that? We are not comfortable with using the same agent. Will we lose out on [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: We were prepared to wait almost a week to make an offer on a property because the listing agent said offers would be reviewed Wednesday at 4 p.m..  The day before the offer deadline, the home was designated a pending sale on the Multiple Listing Service’s consumer [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: We were conducting our final “walk-through” of the home we are buying and noticed the repairs agreed upon were incomplete.  This was also surprise to our buyer’s agent.  Now the loan has funded and we are paying daily interest on the loan until the work is finished.  [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: I’m a homeowner and have been thinking this is a good time to trade up. While visiting open houses to get a feel of home values and neighborhoods, I’m amazed that often the hosting agent are just plain mean. I’m well dressed, smile and say “hello,” [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: We are caught in the middle of a dispute concerning the home we are purchasing. The issue is who is to be paid the buyer’s agent commission; the agent who first showed us the house or the agent who toured the property almost two weeks later. The [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q ~ We sold our house in August 1998. Before the sale, an inspection
of the bathroom floor revealed some water damage. The inspector
did not find structural damage. We replace the vinyl and wood under
the floor. Later the inspector cleared the bathroom and the buyer
signed off on [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: My grandparents are original owners of a home in a premium neighborhood. Because grandmother is in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, he is under tremendous family pressure to sell their home of 45 years and move her into some sort of care facility. He argues they don’t [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: It’s been over twenty years since we have sold a home.  We are experiencing a whole new process. During the Broker Only tour, we had over a dozen buyers sent by their agents, since then we have had unaccompanied buyers knock on our door expecting us to [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News

Q: We are in the process of getting our house ready for sale and our agent wants us to install some sort of attic ventilation. We don’t have A/C and the house can get very warm on hot days. His request seems odd since we only experience a [...]

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