The listing broker for a one-bedroom Upper East Side apartment that was on the market for a year learns that the buyers she was courting had decided to have me represent them. When speaking to me, her tone is icy. After I present the offer, she tells me that the seller had accepted an offer the previous day, a Friday, and that lawyers were already working on the contract, an unlikely development so swiftly. Then, she reports early the next week that the seller felt morally bound to stick with the buyer with the lower offer. Was she lying and collecting a commission for both sides of the transaction?

Don't get him started.

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