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Be careful with Mark Spain Cash Offer

For context we went through Open Door for a cash offer. They referred us to Mark Spain. I was not a fan of the relator who came to video the house but we we're just looking at cash offers. We had no interest in selling on the open market. I did not realize we were singing an exclusive right to sell listening agreement that would last the whole summer. My wife came in from work as I was filling out the dwelling information. The relator did not explain the paperwork to my wife, just asked her to sign, and she assumed I have already looked over it. The same goes for me, I assumed, he went over the information with my wife so I just initialed next to her name. I did not know an exclusive right to sell agreement was signed until we received the emailed copies later that afternoon.

The cash offers came in low and I was not a fan of the consistent poor communication of Mark Spain. They actually sent a photographer out at 10am without me knowing. I turned them away and had to inform them again we were only looking at cash offers. As we looked at houses online, we got more interested in selling our home on the open market. It looks like we cannot sell on the open market until August because of the exclusive right to sell.

I know I should of looked over everything carefully. I've looked at cash offers before but never had a company slide in an exclusive right to sell in the paperwork. Feels like a bait and switch.

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