I showed a home this past week. If my buyer is interested, I am going to have to do some serious digging to make sure my client is protected. In fact, he currently doesn't know there might be a problem. I don't plan on whining about how much work it will take to untangle this particular issue. All I plan on doing is getting it resolved and saying, "Nothing to worry about. Taken care of." Agents (and attorneys and others in this type of role) do a lot of that kind of thankless work.
There are many reasons why Corey's cousin may have gone a different direction. Maybe Corey wasn't doing his job? It might be Corey is just a bad agent and perpetual victim. And perhaps Corey is just whining. I recognize there are two sides to every story and perhaps it was Corey's misstep that caused this issue.
Or perhaps it wasn't. My best guess is that Corey didn't educate his buyers well enough to fully let them understand what he does behind the scenes. Agents don't just open the door to pretty homes and the rest suddenly falls into place. Often, we are untangling legal issues our client will never know about so the buyer can enjoy their home or the seller can sell their home. Frankly, educating the public is a full-time job for agents and there is a fine line between the whining of, "You would never believe how much work it took to make sure there is clear title on that house," to the end result of, "Here are your keys." Unfortunately, the general public has a perception that they don't need representation even when they do. If nothing else, that was Corey's big mistake.
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