Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you
by pandaman on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @12:31PM
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I am curious about the technical details. Your friend's wife walks into an open house, perhaps with a sign outside, there is an agent with cookies and leaflets inside and the agent tells her the house is off the market and he or she is just chilling there for no reason at all?
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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you
by dismantlethesun on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:30AM
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Yes they say the house was just sold or the owner has just gotten news that’s taken it off the market.
This isn’t really unusual when you are buying in a hot market. When I was getting my place it happened several times and the realtor would usually offer to give me an appointment at another place or just take my number so they’d call me if the current deal fell through.
I think the realtors don’t leave specifically for that reason: it serves as lead generation for their other properties.
Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you
by pandaman on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:51AM
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It would be extremely unusual especially in a hot market. When I shopped for a house in such a market (the house I got had ~20 offers) in roughly half of open houses I was not the only person looking. The ones where I was the only one looking were mostly unattended. If the house is under contract already it's showing in the MLS, and if it's being offered through MLS one can lose license for refusing to show it.