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How to handle this personal situation with agent?

I'm trying to sell my house. I signed on with an agent. I haven't owned my house long but the previous owners left the property full of junk. My agent said hey I'll have my teenage son help you load stuff into a dumpster. She brought him over and said she had to go elsewhere and would come back for him. She saw my side by side and suggested to her son he use that to load with junk and bring to the dumpster. I monitored him working while I also worked outside in different areas. At one point I went inside to tend to my baby. Shortly after that he comes in with three of my young kids, who are all hurt, because he had them on the side by side and ran it straight into a tree and they were ejected. One of them was bleeding from the mouth, one has a loose tooth, all are bruised and sore. I'm extremely thankful it wasn't even worse. They are all under the age of 8.

We look at it after he leaves and it is probably totaled. Frame damage that could only have been done if he was going extremely fast. We had someone lined up to buy it for 7,000$ and now it is probably nearly worthless.

Our thought is to get an estimate for repairs or get an estimate for the value of it as it is now and ask the agent to pay us. I was going to suggest if she can't write me a check right now that she can hand me the money after we close on a home that will make her tens of thousands of dollars in commission.

Is this reasonable? It is an awkward situation and I don't know how to handle it.

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