When VA Tells You They Accepted Your Offer But Then They Want To Go Back On What They Accepted

When VA Tells You They Accepted Your Offer But Then They Want To Go Back On What They Accepted

Has anyone else witness this before. There is a foreclosed home listed at $140,000 for 139 days. So my client and I find a house that he loves and it’s in a great neighborhood. We did start the bid a little low. We were $10,000 under asking price and VA wasn’t paying the survey, title policy, and only 3% of closing cost. VA counter back at full price and only 3% closing cost.

The listing agent told me we could either accept or counter. I told him we were doing neither and that we have to keep looking for a house. So, two days pass and the agent calls me and tells me VA Asset Manager has decided to accept our offer. We just needed to put it in writing and sign everything. All of this was on a Thursday evening. By Monday morning (Presidents Day) we had all of the paperwork signed and sent to the listing agent. I also called him to tell him I’ve sent him the paperwork. I believe he took the day off so he was out of the office. I called him Tuesday to make sure he received the paperwork and he said he has to check and that he has been very busy.

So later that day he calls me and tells me VA asset manager must have made a decision too fast, because they can’t justify that price. So I’m absolutely disappointed to say the least and we have to start looking all over again. The listing agent said something to the effect that he needed to get them some comps. My client already told me he wasn’t going to pay any more than the survey, title, the remainder of the closing cost and nothing more than that.  I already knew any higher price wasn’t going to work for my client. So, I’m waiting and asking other agents if they have ever witness anything like this before. I call the listing agent again to get more clarity and he says to me, “Hope they are fine. They accepted everything. I sent them some more comps and It’s fine”. He said it like nothing ever happened. I went through all of that for nothing. It’s good I didn’t tell my client that entire stressful scenario. I needed my clarification first before I sent that energy in another direction.   

Long story short is what wasn’t going to be is now going to be. Soon to be contracted and sold!

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