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Self-Represented Qualified Buyer: Listing Agent Lowering Price on Target Home While Refusing to Show

Hey all, I live in Georgia and I'm looking to buy a home. My background is in Finance and Accounting so I feel comfortable shopping Self-Represented and have been researching the process and industry intensively. I'm Pre-Qualified and have the assets to purchase the home cash even if I wasn't, and I have been letting listing agents know.

Most of the listing agents I've worked with have been willing to show me whatever home I want. Theres one agent who has ignored my calls and texts about a property, but the list price of the home was just cut again.

As a fiduciary to the seller, the listing agent is currently acting in bad faith, correct? I understand very few people are buying homes and refusing to show a qualified buyer a home before cutting the price seems like a very cut-and-dry failure to uphold his fiduciary duty. I currently intend to give him until the end of the day to reach out to me for a tour before messaging him to remind him of this duty, and will request the contact of his broker and MLS service to ask them some questions.

Does this seem like the right course of action? I don't want to burn any bridges with this gentleman, but the home is also a very strong investment for my situation, so I would really like to make this work.

Any thoughts are appreciated, thank you!

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