Hello,
I have had a really bad feeling about what happened to me whilst signing for a flat recently and id like the opinion of the people on this board.
I instruced my agent to put an offer in on a property at x amount. So i went down to the office to give a deposit. whilst i was there my agent told me that the seller was not willing to sell for this price but another agent was going to call her and help me get a better price. I was then told that the agent was about to call and would i be willing to give some extra bonus if they secured a good deal. At this point i was in a dilema as i didnt want to say no and annoy the agent who was about to do my negotiation. SO i asked how much to which the reply was 8k i was very annoyed at being asked this at such a criticle point in the negotiation process but didnt want to annoy the agent about to negotiate on my behalf, so i agreed. the agent then told me that they had secured a price close to what i had
told her to offer in the first place. which pleased me. i was then told that she would call back again and try to gat a bit more off the pirce - and if she suceeded would i be prepared to give an extra 1% commision instead of the 8 k again i agreed (stupidly) because i wanted her to negotiate the lowest price and signed a piece of paper saying so.
anyway i now left feeling like i have been robbed and cheated - and its keeping me up at night. I feel that it the agents responsibility to negotiate the best price anyway and i really resent being asked for more money at such a critical stage in the negotiations. Sure i was foolish to agree and sign . i was wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience and how they handled it . Or what action i should take if any ?
Thanks in advance