Buyers Are Liars & Sellers Are Too!
The Truth About Buying or Selling Your Home
Chapter One: The Realtor
No Place for Barney Fife
Remember Barney Fife, self-appointed hero of Mayberry, North Carolina? He was a man of great ambition, a man whose keen entrepreneurial mind was as finely tuned as his agile physique. Barney once saw a great opportunity to make quick bucks in the field of real estate. He saw real estate sales as one big game of dominoes.
Barney's plan was intricate and could have worked. He would sell Mr. and Mrs. Clark the home of Mr. and Mrs. Morton, who in turn would buy the house owned by the Simmses, who would then purchase the home of Sheriff Taylor, who would buy the residence of Mr. Williams. Easy enough. The deal soured, however, when young Opie Taylor disclosed some of his home's deficiencies to Mr. and Mrs. Simms.
At first Andy and Barney tried to discount Opie's observations and downplayed the home's leaks and cracks almost to the point of denial. Yes, it's sad to say. But when placed in the role of a seller, even Andy Taylor, Mayberry's finest, was tem ... read full excerpt from Buyers Are Liars & Sellers Are Too!: The Truth about Buying or Selling Your Home ebook
