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Diggity, we put the offer in on a Friday - our realtor recommended the inspector, but the inspector couldn't do the inspection until Wednesday of the following week. The third offer came in on Friday, a week after we put our offer in. Our option period expired on Sunday. The odds are very slim that someone drove by, saw the house and just happened to call our realtor to represent them. She was obviously actively taking her other clients to it while our option was pending and our negotiations were underway. In short, there most likely wouldn't have been a third offer coming in at the last minute, if not for our Buyers Agent. That's why I'm very upset.

I'll check the link. Thank you.

We were meeting the agent a block up the street to view another home, passed the one in question, liked it and asked her to show it to us. She wasn't familiar with the property and couldn't get in touch with the listing agent that evening, but she sorted it out and we went back to see it the following day.

Back in June we found a house in Tanglewilde that we liked and had our agent put an offer in on it. At the time, our realtor told us that the seller's realtor said another offer had already come in on the home, but the seller had rejected that offer and accepted ours. We paid for an inspection and were negotiating based on the results of the inspection (HVAC was too small for the size of the home, not enough air registers, insulation was blown in over the tops of lighting fixtures [fire hazard], foundation concerns, etc...) While our option was pending, our realtor told us that the seller told them that a third offer had come in on the home. The seller was not very agreeable to crediting us for the repairs, and our realtor wasn't really negotiating with them the way we'd hoped - she seemed to be more concerned about staying on their good side than getting us the home. In the end, the seller said they wouldn't agree to the repairs and they were going to take the third offer. Our last communication on the home with our realtor was on June 9th. I was looking at another home on the same street today, looked at the recent sales on HAR and found the home we'd almost purchased. Was stunned by what I saw: our realtor is listed as the selling broker and the sales date is July 8th. She was apparently representing that other offer. Are the sales dates on HAR the closing dates? And is it a violation of ethics in Texas for an agent to represent two offers on the same home without disclosing that information to the (potential) buyers? Thank you.